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Oniw17

11-20-2007, 12:19 PM

Immortal Technique- the Prophecy

So you're the mother****er they call....Immortal Technique.
What the **** make you so special nigga?
Huh... what the **** do you do?

I calculate planet alignment like Mayan astronomy
Discovering atrocities worst than Aristotle
Subjecting children to sodomy
Your theory of the galaxy is primitive like telome
The truth about the universe stuck up like Aztec pottery
Unpredictable results like experimental psychology
I stomp the streets with emcee's beneath my feet in colonies
But presentation and spirit revolve around autonomy
Searching for monogamy
And cutting fake *****es out of my mind like a lobotomy
So obviously I'm not gonna be here to play games
Walked the top of the world and leave the arctic circle in flames
Battle the beast and false prophet predicted in the King James
I give a **** about your emcee name I don't admire you
Only by dental records will you be identifiable
Cause the future is not reliable
Remember when rap was not economically viable
Comparable to what mother****ers think of me
I might be nobody but wait till I'm together like a symphony
Resounding sound that will continue infinitely
Angel of death punishing all those who live in infamy
And shine so far away from you
You'll never get a glimpse of me
Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none
Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun
A victory against Immortal Technique will never be done
Just degrees of losing it every second your adding one
Some niggas dream of pushing kilos but I drop tons
With more facts and formulas and philosophical logic
Then a basement full of scientists puffing on chronic
Dipped in mycin potassium cyanide and liquid bubonic
And use it as a sonic one to find the spawn of the demonic
Screaming like onyx is of absolutely no consequence
The poison is dense enough to clog up your arteries
Mercy is not a part of me
I cause you bodily injury permanently be simply verbally murdering me
Is inconceivable cause of the unbelievable evil injected inside
The blood stream of my people
And redemption is not located under a church steeple
The feeble and the meek in soul just like the technique
Will inherit the earth, But the earth will be weak
Mother earth in her decrepit terminal illness physique
The year three thousand is bleak no happily ever after
Just death following the forth right disaster, a legacy of bastards
With plastic explosives your futures been eroded
Cause you forgot that when your free it's multiplied indefinitely
By the struggle that be the struggle I see
To socialistically united the third world countries
Expose hypocrisy in Americas democracy
Sloppily obsessed with stopping me cause I speak prophecy
Trample and dismantle your capitalist philosophy
The same way I stomp the conquering rap monopoly
And I'm not a ****ing prophet
But that's the ****ing prophecy

Oniw17

11-20-2007, 01:28 PM

Killah Priest-Happy
Happy (Yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah)
Happy, time to be Happy

[Killah Priest]
A homeless man smiles at me showing no teeth
A young man laying dead in the cold streets
He was a victim beaten bad by the police
And everyday another funeral there's more grief
And everyday I like to pray when I see the Sun
And if there ever was a Lost Tribe we the one
And every hood there's a project with us in it
The old man in the dust going nuts finished
Years before they use to say "You use to own business
Caught them on tax, I guess you're black, you gotta know you limit"
And everybody tried to be Happy someway
I think of dinners in the winter on a Sunday
And everybody's poor but we always pull through it
'Cause of Marvin's influence, we always played his music
My Pops said he was a ‘Trouble Man’ courtesy of Uncle Sam
Then I hit the streets then start hustling
But I could see my Grandma when she dressed for Church
Her style is hat, white dress with the matching purse
And I could hear her sing aloud with the choir marching in
With the face of joy, proud 'cause her heart's with him
And she could live everlasting and pure peace
No longer worried eyes, speaks to him before sleep
And I stood by the door when she came at me
She said, "You gotta endure and learn to be Happy"

[Chorus: Stori James 2X]
Stood right beside me, look deep inside me
She has inspired me to be +Happy+

[Killah Priest]
My friend wrote his mother: “Mama I'm doing better now
My last year of College, told you I wouldn't let you down
And how's things around the house? I know you're still fussing
I finally heard from Ralphie said "He had a deal coming"
He wrote me last week; told me him and Dad don't speak
They both be acting they’re kids if you ask me
But anyway, how come you never wrote me back?
This is like my fourth letter to you, I was hoping that...
You could send me something it's getting cold winter's coming
I know you're standing, laughing, saying, "I'm up or into something"
I love you mom sincerely yours”, as the nurse pause
From reading her his letter, body attached to a cord
Into a breathing pump, the stroke she had was too much
She's in the coma, been that way for a few months
And if her son knew believe he'll split in two
And go back to using drug before quitting school
But just smile 'cause your mother’s still here
Try to live and be proud, make a heart full of cheer
For your mama, tranquility, she's free
Give your heart space and liberty and then peace
The words are golden, emotion, devotion
Just hush, feel the touch for a moment
My life's a paradox, watched by crooked cops
But the law carries me just to be Happy

[Chorus: Stori James 2X]

Niamh

11-20-2007, 02:12 PM

Here are the lyrics to the best song of this year

Straight Lines by Silverchair

Breathing from a hole in my lung
I had no one
But faces in front of me
Racing through the void in my head
To find traces of a good luck academy
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh

Sparks ignite I’m training for thought
About no one
And nothing in particular
Watched the sick and suckered and drove
Resent nothing
There’s good will inside of me
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh

Wake me up low with a fever
Walking in a straight line
Set me on fire in the evening
Everything will be fine
Waking up strong in the morning
Walking in a straight line
Lately I’m a desperate believer
But walking in a straight line

Something I will never forget
I felt desperate
It stuck to the narrow way
Invisible to everyone else
I'm a sex change
And a damsel with no heroin
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh

Wake me up low with a fever
Walking in a straight line
Set me on fire in the evening
Everything will be fine
Waking up strong in the morning
Walking in a straight line
Lately I’m a desperate believer
But walking in a straight line

I don't need no time to say
There's no changing yesterday
If you keep talking and I keep walking in straight lines

Wake me up low with a fever
Walking in a straight line
Set me on fire in the evening
Everything will be fine
Waking up strong in the morning
Walking in a straight line
Lately I’m a desperate believer
But walking in a straight line

DeathAngel

11-20-2007, 05:40 PM

90s music,
love the Cranberries...

Cranberies
"Linger"
If you, if you could return, don't let it burn, don't let it fade.

I'm sure I'm not being rude, but it's just your attitude,
It's tearing me apart, It's ruining everything.

I swore, I swore I would be true, and honey, so did you.
So why were you holding her hand? Is that the way we stand?
Were you lying all the time? Was it just a game to you?

But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you.
You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha.
Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to,
Do you have to let it linger?

Oh, I thought the world of you.
I thought nothing could go wrong,
But I was wrong. I was wrong.
If you, if you could get by, trying not to lie,
Things wouldn't be so confused and I wouldn't feel so used,
But you always really knew, I just wanna be with you.

But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you.
You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha.
Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to,
Do you have to let it linger?

And I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you.
You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha.
Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to,
Do you have to let it linger?

NikolaiI

11-21-2007, 04:55 PM

From the Sun to the World - ELO

Listen to me sister, I got news from the governor,
and he's heard people shouting from the towers in the city
while their babies grow in test tubes over night

Run and fetch the priest cos there's a light on in the building
and there's sounds blowin out in the music of the night
and we should try to get the people out alive

Movin 'cross the ocean with the flag of death a'flyin
the demon butcher pointin out the message on the tide
and the demon light a'sailin at his side

Stormin down the airwaves comes the protest and the prayin
and the love that shone down from the sun to world
no longer could support the life it gave

Niamh

11-21-2007, 05:40 PM

For Death Angel. The Cranberries best lyrics

Zombie

Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin',
Heart is taking over.
When the vi'lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...

Bakiryu

11-21-2007, 05:47 PM

Thanks for the Kiz for sending me this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz5H3iVjAlw !

Gregory And The Hawk Boats And Birds Lyrics
If you be my star
I'll be your sky
you can hide underneath me and come out at night
when I turn jet black and you show off your light
I live to let you shine
I live to let you shine

but you can skyrocket away from me
and never come back if you find another galaxy
far from here with more room to fly
just leave me your stardust to remember you by

if you be my boat
I'll be your sea
a depth of pure blue just to probe curiosity
ebbing and flowing and pushed by a breeze
I live to make you free
I live to make you free

but you can set sail to the west if you want to
and past the horizon till I can't even see you
far from here where the beaches are wide
just leave me your wake to remember you by

if you be my star
I'll be your sky
you can hide underneath me and come out at night
when I turn jet black and you show off your light
I live to let you shine
I live to let you shine

but you can skyrocket away from me
and never come back if you find another galaxy
far from here with more room to fly
just leave me your stardust to remember you by
stardust to remember you by

white camellia

11-22-2007, 12:56 AM

we all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine,
yellow submarine
we all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine,
yellow submarine

...

thelastmelon

11-22-2007, 02:29 AM

Angel by Saybia

It's not the world that's out of order
It's me, it's me
Guess I ran along my borders
Just to see, just to see

If a friendly face would drop by and rescue me
But I lost my faith as I lost my way

It's not the street that's made of concrete
It's you, it's you
Guess I try to penetrate it with this point of view
I had never taken more than I give to you
I was led astray and I lost my way

Never felt so alone
Stripped naked and cut to the bone
Lost my faith in her on my own
With no queue by the door to my home

It's not the light that casts the shadow
It's doubt, it's doubt
As a melancholic sorrow came about, came about

I had never fought as hard though as I do for you
I'm not getting strong to prove I'm wrong

Never felt so alone
Stripped naked and cut to the bone
Lost my faith in her on my own
With no queue by the door to my home

And god sent an angel
An angel
She's an angel
An angel...

Never felt so alone
Stripped naked and cut to the bone
Lost my faith in her on my own
With no queue by the door to my home
God sent an angel
Sent an angel
She's an angel
An angel
She's an aaaa... an angel

It's not my life that's obsolete
It's youth, my youth
Guess it took a while for me to see the truth, see the truth
I got stuck in minor details so I missed the point
I got so much more than I bargained for...

NikolaiI

11-22-2007, 04:15 AM

Talking Heads - Pulled Up

Mommy, Daddy, come and look at me now
I'm a big man in a great big town
Years ago who would believe it's true
Goes to show what a little faith can do

I was complaining, I was down in the dumps
I feel so strong now 'cause you pulled me up!
Pull me up up up up up up up up

I slipped, and I got pulled
Pulled up, I tripped, and then you pulled,
you pulled me up
I slipped, and I got pulled,
Pulled up, I slipped, and then you pulled,
you pulled me up pull me up pull me up...
Pulled me up up up up up up up up

I drift away to another land
Sleeping dreaming such a simple thing
I think of things that I might be
I see my name go down in history

I was complaining, I was down in the dumps
I feel so string now 'cause you pulled me up!
Pull me up up up up up up up up
I slipped, and I got pulled,
pulled up, I tripped, and then you pulled,
you pulled me up
I tripped, and I got pulled
Pulled up, I slipped, and then you pulled
you pulled me up! Pulled me up up, Pulled me up...
Pulled me up up up up up up up up

I got up
'cause you pulled me up
I stood up
'cause you pulled me up
I got up
And that was because you pulled me up
I got up
In a little while you pulled me up
Pull me up up up up, up up up up!
Pull me up up up up up up up up!

I cast a shadow on the living-room wall
Dark and savage with a profile so sharp
Keep that wonderful food on the table
There's really no hurry I'll eat in a while

I was complaining, I was down in the dumps
I feel so strong now 'cause you pulled me up!
Pull me up up up up up up up up!
I slipped, and I got pulled
Pulled up, I tripped, and then you pulled,
you pulled me up
I slipped, and I got pulled
Pulled Up, I slipped,
And then you pulled, you pulled me up!
Pull me up...Pull me up...Watch out!
Pull me up up up up up up up up!
Pull me up up up up up up up up!
Pull me up up up up up up up up!

Lily Adams

12-15-2007, 05:45 PM

Among my favorite songs, here's one:

"U-URANUS" by Man or Astroman?:

--sound clip--
We are to explore Uranus. That's why we're here.

I know that.

We've got a job to do.
--/sound clip--

Uranus is a planet
We don't know much about
Uranus is a planet
Of that there is no doubt
Uranus is a planet
It's seventh from the sun
Uranus is a planet
It's not the well known one

Uranus is a planet
It looks a bluish green
Uranus is a planet
It barely can be seen
Uranus is a planet
It's very very cool
Uranus is a planet
It's very very old

Uranus is a planet
And you could not live there
Uranus is a planet
With hydrogen for air
Uranus is a planet
It's made of methane too
Uranus is a planet
And it begins with U

And yes, they do pronounce "Uranus" the incorrect way. :D

AngelofPhantoms

12-15-2007, 10:22 PM

From Les Miserables:

I Dreamed a Dream
Sung by: Fantine

I dreamed a dream
In time gone by,
When hopes were high
And life worth living-
I dreamed that love would never die!
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.

Then I was young and unafraid,
When dreams were made
And used
And wasted...
There was no ransom to be paid!
No song unsung,
No wine untasted,

But the tigers
Come at night!
With their voices soft as thunder!
As they tear your hope apart...
As they tear your dream
To shame...!

He slept a summer
By my side!
He filled my days with endless wonder!
He took my childhood
In his strides!
But he was gone when autumn came!

And still I dream he'll come to me!
That we'll live the years together!
But there are dreams that cannot be!
And there are storms we cannot weather!

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this h***
I'm living, so different now
From what it seemed!
Now life had killed the dream I dreamed...

Lily Adams

01-03-2008, 01:59 AM

The Words Get Stuck In My Throat by DEVO

If I had a tiny microphone
Hidden in my heart
It would amplify my love for you
But the words get stuck in my throat
The words get stuck in my throat

If I had a little viewmaster
Stuck inside my brain
It would snap the pictures all of you.
But the words get stuck in my throat
The words get stuck in my throat

If I had a telegraph
Tapping in my brain
It would tap the morse code "I love you."
But the words get stuck in my throat
The words get stuck in my throat

Hey, hey, hey
What'd I say?
Everyday!

The words get stuck in my throat (repeating)

It's so cool because it's sung by Booji Boy which makes it sound like Mickey Mouse singing to a Rugrats theme type of tune.

metal134

01-03-2008, 02:29 AM

Raining blood
From a lacerated sky
Bleeding its horror
Creating my structure
Now I shall reign in blood!

Mal Reynolds

01-05-2008, 06:10 AM

The Decemberists - On The Bus Mall

In matching blue rain coats
Our shoes were our showboats
We kicked around
From stairway to station
We made a sensation
With the gadabout crowd

And oh, what a bargain
We're two easy targets
For the old man at the off tracks
Who paid in palaver and crumpled old dollars
Which we squirelled away
In our rat-trap hotel by the freeway
And we slept in Sundays

Your parents were anxious
Your cool was contagious
At the old school
You left without leaving
A note for your grieving sweet mother
While your brother was so cruel

And here in the alleys
Your spirits will rally
As you learn quick to make a fast buck
In bathrooms and barrooms
On dumpsters and heirlooms we bit our tongues
Sucked our lips into our lungs because we were falling
Such was our calling.

And here in our hovel
We fuse like a family
But I will not mourn for you
So take off your make up
And pocket your pills away
We're kings among runaways
On the bus mall
We're down on the bus mall

Among all the urchins
And old chinese merchants
At the old town
We reigned at the pool hall
With one iron cue ball
And we never let the bastards get us down

And we laughed off the quick tricks
And the old men with limp dicks
On the colonnades at the waterfront park
As four in the morning
Came on cold and boring
We huddled close at the bus stop enclosure enfolding
Our hands tightly holding

And here in our hovel
We fuse like a family
But I will not mourn for you
So take off your make up
And pocket your pills away
We're kings among runaways
On the bus mall
We're down on the bus mall

LadyW

01-05-2008, 06:20 AM

Jimmy Eat World -23
I felt for sure last night
At once we said goodbye
No one else will know these lonely dreams
No one else will know that part of me
Im still driving away
And Im sorry every day
I wont always love these selfish things
I wont always live...
Stop it...

It was my turn to decide
I knew this was our time
No one else will have me like you do
No one else will have me, only you

Youll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
Im here and now Im ready
Holding on tight
Dont give away the end
The one thing that stays mine

Amazing still it seems
Ill be 23
I wont always love what Ill never have
I wont always live in my regrets

Youll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
Im here and now Im ready
Holding on tight
Dont give away the end
The one thing that stays mine

Youll sit alone forever
If you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
Im here and now Im ready
Holding on tight
Dont give away the end
The one thing that stays mine...

thelastmelon

01-05-2008, 06:35 AM

Sleeping with the lights on - Teitur

I've been haunted by this old ghost before
I want to hear your voice you know it's been so long
Like a dancing wave you balance on the shore
It would feel so good to see your face again

I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on

We both understand we've got no way back
Our love was strange in a strange land
We got broken wings we were bound to fall
Until the sun comes up you can hold my hand

I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on

Take it easy, take it slow
Let's just watch the tides they grow
The wind is coming from the side
We are sleeping in the light

Feel like waking up in your house some day
Or eating of your hand like a bird astray
But nothing's gonna change, we'll still be the same
We've said what's to say, nothing's buried nowhere

I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on

amalia1985

01-05-2008, 01:14 PM

"Ever felt away with me
Just once, that all I need,
Entwined in finding you one day
Ever felt away without me,
My love, it lies so deep,
Ever dream of me"

"Ever Dream"-NW

Weisinheimer

01-22-2008, 03:39 PM

Older ~They Might Be Giants

You're older than you've ever been
and now you're even older
and now you're even older
and now you're even older
You're older than you've ever been
and now you're even older
and now you're older still

Time is marching on
and time...
is still marching on

kilted exile

01-24-2008, 12:22 PM

Ok, I've been listening to the tragically hip a lot recently. A few of my favourites

Boots or Hearts
Well I think that there's a problem here
Her voice just don't sound right
But I left myself on her answering machine
Said, "I'm back in town tonight."
I feel I've stepped out of the wilderness
All squint-eyed and confused
But even babies raised by wolves
They know exactly when they've been used

Chorus
See when it starts to fall apart
It really falls apart
Like boots or hearts, Oh when they start
They really fall apart

Fingers and toes, fingers and toes
Forty things we share
Forty-one if you include
The fact that we don't care
Now you've blocked off most of main street
For your faith parade
Everyone in town now, they probably all agree
I'm lying in the bed I made

Chorus

well you won't even let me talk to you
We got some air to clear
well We'd probably only agree on one thing anyway
That's what the hell is happening here?
Fingers and toes, fingers and toes
Forty things we share
Forty-one if you include
The fact that we don't care

Chorus

Highway Girl
I'm going down to see my highway girl
She just came back from around the world
I'm gonna get me a gun, I'm gonna stand on
guard
In a little white booth in her front yard.
Throwing rocks at her window what could
she do
If you throw enough rocks one might break
through
Well she looked out her window when the
police came
To see a big tin man dancing in the rain.
Oh my little highway girl
Oh my little highway girl
She said, Don't you think babe you push a
bit too fast
I said, Slowing down don't make it last
And a memory's never gonna set you free
Go out and see that world and bring it home
to me.
Oh my little highway girl
Oh my little highway girl
Oh my little highway girl
Oh my little highway girl

My Music At Work
Everything is bleak. It's the middle of the night.
You're all alone and the dummies might be right.
You feel like a jerk.
My music at work.
My music at work.

Avoid trends and clichés. Don't try to be up to date.
And when the sunlight hits the olive-oil, don't hesitate.
The night's so long it hurts
My music at work.

In a symbol too far or the anatomy of a stain;
To determine where you are, in a sink full of Ganges, I'd remain
No matter what you heard
In my music at work.
My music at work.
My music at work.

I call it, 'Olga Waits; The Cloud That Entertains
The Dim Possibility of Showing Some Restraint.'
The rain came down berserk.
My music at work.
My music at work.

On a star beyond the chart or the dark side of a drop of rain.
Determining where you are, in a sink full of Ganges, I remain

No matter what you heard.
My music at work.
My music at work.
My music at work.

La-la-la-la-la-la.
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
La-la-la-la-la-la.
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

Everything is bleak. It's the middle of the night.
You're all alone and the dummies might be right.
Outside, the darkness lurks.
My music at work.
My music at work.

Hey fallen hummingbird, my music at work.
From the middle of the earth, my music at work.
Bound for bed without dessert, my music at work.
My music at work.
My music at work.

Kafka's Crow

01-24-2008, 01:20 PM

Here is one classic that will never die. I prefer the newer (2005) by Jane Birkin and Miossec, Pour en flirt avec toi:

Pour un flirt avec toi
Je ferais n'importe quoi
Pour un flirt avec toi
Je serais prêt à tout
Pour un simple rendez-vous
Pour un flirt avec toi

Pour un petit tour, un petit jour
Entre tes bras
Pour un petit tour, au petit jour
Entre tes draps

Je pourrais tout quitter
Quitte à faire démodé
Pour un flirt avec toi
Je pourrais me damner
Pour un seul baiser volé
Pour un flirt avec toi

Pour un petit tour, un petit jour
Entre tes bras
Pour un petit tour, au petit jour
Entre tes draps

Je ferais l'amoureux
Pour te câliner un peu
Pour un flirt avec toi
Je ferais des folies
Pour arriver dans ton lit
Pour un flirt avec toi

Pour un petit tour, un petit jour
Entre tes bras
Pour un petit tour, au petit jour
Entre tes draps

summermemory

01-24-2008, 06:22 PM

Switchfoot
Yesterdays

Flowers cut and brought inside
Black cars in a single line
Your family in suits and ties
And you're free

The ache I feel inside
Is where the life has left your eyes
I'm alone for our last goodbye
But you're free

I remember you like yesterday, yesterday
I still can't believe you're gone, oh...
I remember you like yesterday, yesterday
And until I'm with you, I'll carry on

Adrift on your ocean floor
I feel weightless, numb, and sore
A part of you in me is torn
And you're free

I woke from a dream last night
I dreamt that you were by my side
Reminding me I still had life
In me

I'll carry on

Every lament is a love song
Yesterday, yesterday
I still can't believe you're gone
So long my friend, so long

kiz_paws

02-01-2008, 07:10 PM

"The Fragile"
© Nine Inch Nails

she shines
in a world full of ugliness
she matters when everything is meaningless

fragile
she doesn't see her beauty
she tries to get away
sometimes
it's just that nothing seems worth saving
I can't watch her slip away

I won't let you fall apart

she reads the minds of all the people as they pass her by
hoping someone can see
if I could fix myseld I'd - but it's too late for me

I wont let you fall apart

we'll find the perfect place to go where we can run and hide
I'll build a wall and we can keep them on the other side
...but they keep waiting
...and picking...

it's something I have to do
I was there, too
before everyhting else
I was like you

Shurtugal

02-01-2008, 08:37 PM

i like that kiz paws! i like it alot!

"Far Away"

This time, This place
Misused, Mistakes
Too long, Too late
Who was I to make you wait
Just one chance
Just one breath
Just in case there's just one left
'Cause you know,
you know, you know

[CHORUS]
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I miss you
Been far away for far too long
I keep dreaming you'll be with me
and you'll never go
Stop breathing if
I don't see you anymore

On my knees, I'll ask
Last chance for one last dance
'Cause with you, I'd withstand
All of hell to hold your hand
I'd give it all
I'd give for us
Give anything but I won't give up
'Cause you know,
you know, you know

[CHORUS]

So far away
Been far away for far too long
So far away
Been far away for far too long
But you know, you know, you know

I wanted
I wanted you to stay
'Cause I needed
I need to hear you say
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I forgive you
For being away for far too long
So keep breathing
'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore
Believe it
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore
Believe it
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
Hold on to me and, never let me go

kiz_paws

02-01-2008, 09:20 PM

glad you enjoyed The Fragile, Shurtzie! ;) I enjoyed your lyrics a lot, but who are the singers? That was really nice to read. :thumbs_up

Tersely

02-01-2008, 09:23 PM

"You're right...I get it." By Chevelle.
Just that part.

Shurtugal

02-02-2008, 12:44 PM

kiz paws, nickleback sings it! sorry for not posting it before, was to lazy! :lol:

babyface123

03-03-2008, 02:03 PM

Here is a lyric from Nelly: Luven me
Ay yo ma, how you doin, it's ya son now
And I picked up the mic and put the drugs down
Now I'm tryin to do some things that'll make you proud
Instead of everytime I call it's to bail me out
Oh why didn't I listen to things you used to tell me
Knowin that everything that you said would never fail me
Like 'they got plans for ya
Ain't nothin I can do when them laws get they hands on ya'
But I ain't listenin, even payin attention
I'm just tryna get mine
Takin advantage, you would get two jobs at the same time
Ungrateful, complainin about Nike and Polo signs
But you always come through, and what do I do
I wreck both ya cars, stole money from ya drawers
Sold dope out ya yard, stayed into with them laws
Tryin to pay you back for all the stress that I caused
And always be there to give you whatever you want

[Hook]
(Don't stop ever lovin me)
Uh, uh, I said whatever you need
(Don't stop ever lovin me)
Uh, uh, I said you don't have to worry no more
(Don't stop ever lovin me)
Uh, uh, uh, 'cause ya son will be there for you
(Don't stop ever lovin me)
Uh, uh, uh

Now verse two, yeah that's for you boo
I send ya props 'cause you the only one that stuck through
When I'm upset and stressed you give me back rubs
When I'm depressed you give me head off in the bathtub, E-I!
On ya P's and Q's, on ya Q's and P's
You hear my beeper goin off and you just throw me my keys
Ain't even askin me yo is it coochie or G's
And for that reason now you can ask me for anything
Not a for real smoker but you choke with me
Not too hot about the drinkin but you toast with me
Livin at ya granny house you kept the dope for me
And wouldn't hesitate to go to court for me
Need money, my boo'll go and work the avenue
My boo'll **** you up if I ask her to
That's why I do the things I do
And I will always be there to give you whatever you want

[Hook]
(Don't stop ever lovin me)
Uh, uh, I said whatever you need
(Don't stop ever lovin me)
Uh, uh, I said I don't wanna lose you no
(Don't stop ever lovin me)
Uh, uh, uh, 'cause you're my boo and my only one
(Don't stop ever lovin me)
Uh, uh, uh

I'm doin this one here for Shaun Haynes, Lashando and J.D.
D Quick, Boo Gees and Fatty
My nigga Lil' Erv, Gino and Poochie
and everybody over on Euclid and Labade
Young Big Touch, Pooh and Big Baby
Rio, J.T. and Big Money
Herky Jerk, Wezz and Pea and Cody
J.E., K-Ug and Odie
Toe-Fa, M.J., and Cowlby
And all my soldiers down at Fair Ground on Monday
My Lunatic fam, Keyuan, Murphy Lee
City Spud, T-Love and Big Lee
Yellow Mack, Slow Down, Courtney B
The rest of my niggas up in the N.Y.C.
And without Trail, Cooter and Coach it just wouldn't be
And I will always be there to give you whatever you want

(Don't stop ever lovin me)
I said whatever you need
(Don't stop ever lovin me)
'Cause y'all my niggas for life you know
(Don't stop ever lovin me)
You can always smoke with me

Prole

03-03-2008, 02:08 PM

The lyrics in this song (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/daftpunk/aroundtheworld.html) always I always found very deep and meaningful.
My favourite lyrics from a song would be Hurt by NIN. Love it.

Mockingbird_z

03-04-2008, 03:42 PM

Sade Jezebel
Jezebel wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth
She probably had less than every one of us
But when she knew how to walk she knew
How to bring the house down
Can’t blame her for her beauty
She wins with her hands down

Jezebel, what a belle
Looks like a princess in her new dress
How did you get that
Do you really want to know, she said
It would seem she’s on her way
It’s more, more than just a dream
She put on her stockings and shoes
Had nothing to lose - she said it was worth it

Reach for the top
And the sun is gonna shine
Every winter was a war she said
I want to get what’s mine

Jezebel, Jezebel
Won’t try to deny where she came from
You can see it in her pride
And the raven in her eyes
Try show her a better way
She’ll say you don’t know what you’ve been missing
And by the time she blinks you know she won’t be listening

Reach for the top she said
And the sun is gonna shine
Every winter was a war she said
I want to get what’s mine

kiz_paws

03-04-2008, 10:36 PM

The lyrics in this song (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/daftpunk/aroundtheworld.html) always I always found very deep and meaningful.LOL! :lol:

My favourite lyrics from a song would be Hurt by NIN. Love it.Good choice. And I liked Johnny Cash's version, too, btw. :thumbs_up

My latest fave is Zero Sum (NIN, as usual):

Zero Sum

They're starting to open up the sky
They're starting to reach down through
And it feels like we're living in that split second
Of a car crash
And time is slowing down
And if we only had a little more time
And this time
Is all there is
Do you remember the time we
And all the times we
And should have
And were going to
I know
And i know you remember
How we could justify it all
And we knew better
In our hearts we knew better
And we told ourselves it didn't matter
And we chose to continue
And none of that matters anymore
In the hour of our twilight
And soon it will be all said and done
And we will all be back together as one
If we will continue at all

Shame on us
Doomed from the start
May god have mercy
On our dirty little hearts
Shame on us
For all we have done
And all we ever were
Just zeros and ones

And you never get away
And you never get to take the easy way
And all of this is a consequence
Brought on by our own hand
If you believe in that sort of thng
And did you ever really find
When you closed your eyes
Any place that was still
And at peace
And I guess I just wanted to tell you
As the lights start to fade
That you are the reason
That I am not afraid
And I guess I just wanted to mention
As the heavens will fall
We will be together soon
If we will be anything at all.

Shame on us
Doomed from the start
May god have mercy
On our dirty little hearts
Shame on us
For all we have done
And all we ever were
Just zeros and ones

Oniw17

03-10-2008, 10:06 PM

Cannibus- Poet Laureate II

Sampled Intro: same outro from Poet Laureate]
Uhh I dont understand how a writer could ever get writer's block, so called
My problem is having too much.. and being unable to get it down...

[Canibus]
Yo, why is the ripper so ill?
That would be a unpardonable breach of confidence for me to reveal!
He said one day all eyes would be on me
when they look up in the sky and see the neon 'C'
Rhymes inscribed on a nickel disk encased
in glass with an ion beam for longevity
For more then 10 centuries, impressions and memories
the first time-machine inventor will mention me
Canibus was a visionary indeed
he believed light could travel in multiples of c
The organic supercomputer that solved the mysteries
of Klein-Kaluza with 2 blue metric rulers
Liked Cool J, but thought Stephen Jay Gould was cooler
and he never liked to propagate rumors
Smoked Canary Island cigars
liked American luxury cars and beautiful Asian broads
He had a strong mind, he used to philosophize
about rhymes while he was pruning his Bonsai
He claimed that he had written the greatest rhyme of all time
but he would never take it out his archives
He wrote 2 songs per day
and was constantly was experimenting with his wordplay
In his youth he did a report on the Sloan Digital Sky survey
he got an F but he deserved an A
I followed his career from the first day
it seemed the lack of support contributed to his inert ways
I seen him put in 24 hour workdays
with deferred pay, undeterred by the word "shame"
Public humiliation was the worst pain
he was spinnin out of control like a class 5 hurricane
He said he wouldn't want another emcee to suffer the same
especially when there's nothing to gain
He was the illest alive but nobody would face it
he spit till his toungue was too torched to taste, it
properly funded corporations carbon-dated his latest creations
to extract the information
They found it utterly amazing
they claimed the body of his work was the same thing as a priceless painting
Never mattered to him, the art galleries hated him
cause Thomas Kinkade called, said he would take 10
Complete enigmas wrapped in puzzles encrypted in language
with sound but without shape or signature
Kept files in his garage, on MS-DOS
in a fire-proof pod, we thought it was odd
Outside there was a shed with an Oppenheimer lock
he apparently kept more wax then Madame Tussaud's
We were in total awe, cause it blew our minds
so many rhymes that were intricately designed
He WAS Poet Laureate of his time
and if you dont mind, I'd like to share some of his rhymes

[*beat switches*]

Alone in my room, looking thru the 32X telescope zoom
adjusting the focus of the moon
One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume
is nothing more then a subjective conclusion
What is the maximum field rate application?
the run away glaciation surrounding the ocean basin
affects the population fluctuation
on a continuous basis but that's just the basics
The juxtaposition of Canibus' position
the precision something no other has written
Way above and beyond what was intended
the unparalleled malleable enunciation of a sentence
You didnt go to college obviously
I can tell by your ungodly unintelligible terminology
A remarkable odyssey, the rhymes of modern speeds
when the brain orders the body not to breathe
Your competency is not up to speed, you not in my league
you couldnt possibly be hotter than me
Or oppositely you're minus 25 degrees, you'd squeeze
but the condensation makes rifle barrels freeze
Allow me to speak figuratively, nigga please
my intellectual properties are about the size of Greece
Your counselor advised you not to speak
my counselor advised me to keep rhymin until they stopped the beat
In the words of Joseph Heller, "I learned how to write better"
even though it sort of irked me
He said he didnt understand the process of the imagination
but he felt he was at its mercy
Which exploits my point perfectly and certainly reinforces
the reason why nobody's probably ever heard of me
Couldnt understand what I mean by ill
unless you try to translate what I print to film
This is the line of will, the circle of time
the cycle of eternity, the emergence of 1 mind
Academic phonetics render critics tounge-tied
Ive personified dry humor of cum-laude alumni
A wise man sees failure as progress
a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic
And loses his soul in the process
obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content
My style is masterful, multi-lateral
I could battle a fool and be naturally cruel
Words of scourn are a disasterous tool
from an existentialist view, I'm a better rapper then you
Grab the mic and rip your physical fabric in 2
my attitude is ****ed up but admirable
Different methods interpreted into different forms
from entirely different perceptions and seen from different norms
Not just spittin a poem there's much more involved
there's much more pieces of the puzzle for you to solve
48 orders of mechanical laws
and rays of creational cause, enhance the cadence of my bars
Maybe I am self-absorbed
but thats the effect, to find the cause you should ask my A&R
Today is what it is, but only because yesterday was what it was
permitting you heard of Beelzebub
A tale of demons and drugs, pissy drunk in the club
with the DJ doing the needle rub
Chances are you'll never see me son
yeah I know my names Canibus but I cant help you if you need a dub

[*beat switches*]

I came to holla at some big booty *****es
and listen to the speakers thump, where you get conceited from?
Im so nice on the mic, they wanna beat me up
its deep as ****, I aint seen it all but I've seen enough
Really unbelievable stuff
theres a lot of times where I wanna speak but I'm stuck
I should leave this rap **** alone
and kick my incredible rhymes in the privacy of my own home
My imagination is my own
the liberty to speak to freely, lyrically on the microphone
Wit a pen in my hand, I bring motion to the enneagram
and become "Cani-millenium man"
Engrave my back with the emperor's stamp
been spittin scientific rap since the 17th century began
Tryna' escape the wicked empire of Def Jam
and the land where lyrics are bland and heretics hang
Every warrior has an axe to bury
but he has to learn to discern between enemy and adversary
I said to myself, "Germaine this is insane
its suicide its controlled flight into terrain"
I fought to regain, control of the plain, but went up in a ball of flames
and got banned from the hip hop hall of fame
For 2 bars I kept hearin in my head
over and over again, it cost me everything

[*beat changes back to the original beat*]

Im convinced now that more then truth is at stake
Where people create language that pretends to communicate
Euphemisms are misundertood as mistakes
but its a bi-product of the ghetto music we make
From an extroverted point of view I think its too late
Hip Hop has never been the same since '88
Since it became a lucrative profession there's a misconception
that a movement in any direction is progression
Even though of the potency of it lessens
big money industries writing checks to suppress the question
And nobody gives a **** no more, no one goes to the book store
ever since the confluence of Moore's Law
But I stay in the lab, like Niels Bohr
and his son Aage, Edward Lorenz and Leo Szilard
Lyrically I took rap music and turned the knob
to the right full throttle and added panache
Why would I argue with my own conscience over the truth?
thats like me telling myself dont tell me what to do
Dialyses and analyses of battle emcees
sometimes I say things I myself can't believe
My lyrical is so skillfully elliptical
I can understand how it makes you miserable
You wonder why I never let you play your beats for me
or why I keep my studio enshrouded in secrecy
You wonder what's my infatuation with Alicia Keys
"Canibus why dont you speak to me?"
Yo, I meant it when I said no one can shine on a song that features me
thats why I said it so vehemently
You need to place the hate with respect
I'm probably the best yet, Poet Laureate!!!

[Sampled outro]
Generally I take.. I go with the given..
ya know with what comes to me .. over the celestial wireless ..
whenever it comes, you're lucky when you get it..

NickAdams

03-11-2008, 12:04 PM

The song is over thirty minutes long, so I've posted a small excerpt:

"There was a frail syrup
dripping off His lap danced lapel,
punctuated by her
Decrepit prowl
she washed down the hatching Gizzard
soft as a mane of needles
His orifice icicles hemorrhaged
By combing her torso to a pile
Perspired, the trophy shelves made room for his collapse
She was a mink handjob in sarcophagus heels"

Shurtugal

03-14-2008, 03:51 PM

"What Hurts The Most"
-Rascal Flatts

I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house
That don’t bother me
I can take a few tears now and then and just let them out
I’m not afraid to cry every once in a while
Even though going on with you gone still upsets me
There are days every now and again I pretend I’m ok
But that’s not what gets me

What hurts the most
Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was tryin’ to do

It’s hard to deal with the pain of losing you everywhere I go
But I’m doin’ It
It’s hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I’m alone
Still Harder
Getting up, getting dressed, livin’ with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade give away all the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken

What hurts the most
Is being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do

What hurts the most
Is being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do

Not seeing that loving you
That’s what I was trying to do

ajsa

03-14-2008, 08:56 PM

The Reason lyrics

I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
Thats why i need you to hear

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is You [x4]

I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you

so expressive.....

lucidnightmares

03-15-2008, 03:36 AM

this song is allways in my head, and if not my heart, especially the last repeating chorus i guess it`s called.

happiness by Elliott Smith

Activity's killing the actor
And a cop's standing out in the road
Turning traffic away
There was nothing she could do untill after
When his body'd been buried below
Way back in the day

Oh my
Nothing else could have been done
Made his life a lie so
He might
Never have to know anyone
Made his life the lie, you know

I told him that he shouldn't upset her
And that he'd only be making it worse
Involving somebody else
But I knew that he'd never forget her
While her memory worked in reverse
To keep her safe from herself

And oh my
Nothing else could have been done
She made her life a lie so
She might
Never have to know anyone
Made her life the lie, you know

What I used to be will pass away
And then you'll see
That all I wanta know is happiness
For you and me
What I used to be will pass away
And then you'll see
That all I wanta know is happiness
For you and me
What I used to be will pass away
And then you'll see
That all I wanta know is happiness
For you and me
All I wanta know is happiness
For you and me

asilef73

03-15-2008, 03:45 AM

i love elliott smith also but i think this is my favorite by him:

"Angel in the Snow"

I'd say you make a perfect
Angel in the snow
All crushed out on the way you are
Better stop before it goes to far
Don't you know that I love you
Sometimes I feel like only a cold still life
That fell down here to lay beside you

Don't you know that I love you
Sometimes I feel like only a cold still life
Only a frozen still life
That fell down here to lay beside you

Objectivist

04-01-2008, 01:33 PM

Pretty much the whole message conveyed in Lynard Skynard's "Simple Man", it really hits home with me and my personal experiences in life.

"...follow you're heart, and nothing else."

kilted exile

04-01-2008, 05:17 PM

I've had this song stuck in my head all day:

I Wont Get Grazed ~ Ocean Colour Scene

Im going away to see my own
And tread my earth
Ive got no ordinary gain
By to set my worth
I get enough and I get too late
And if I fall down on the road
Then I wont get grazed

I cannot let you take my time
Or till my earth
Youve had enough of life to see
That it shakes my nerve
All of these things I cant get straight
And if Im falling to the road
Then I wont get grazed

Ive had two of them or three
And I just get hurt
I watch me crawling down the road
Trying to guess my worth
I know not what Im trying to say
But if Im falling on this road
Then I wont get grazed

I watch you running down the road
So I get mine worked out
But you watch me falling on the run
And you have me called out
All of these things they get so strange
Just kill me falling on the road
But I wont get grazed (x4)

asilef73

04-27-2008, 02:08 PM

the good left undone - rise against

In fields where nothing grew but weeds,
I found a flower at my feet,
bending there in my direction,
I wrapped a hand around its stem,
and pulled until the roots gave in,
finding there what I've been missing,
and I know....

So I tell myself, I tell myself, it's wrong,
there's a point we pass from which we can't return,
I felt the cold rain of the coming storm,

All because of you,
I haven't slept in so long,
when I do I dream,
of drowning in the ocean,
longing for the shore,
where I can lay my head down,
I'll follow your voice,
all you have to do is,
shout it out!

Inside my hands these petals browned,
dried up fallen to the ground,
but it was already too late now,
I pushed my fingers through the earth,
returned this flower to the dirt,
so it could live, I walked away now,
but I know...

Not a day goes by when I don't feel this burn,
there's a point we pass from which we can't return,
I felt the cold rain of the coming storm...

All because of you,
I haven't slept in so long,
when I do I dream,
of drowning in the ocean,
longing for the shore,
where I can lay my head down,
I'll follow your voice,
all you have to do is ,
shout it out!

All because of you.
All because of you

All because of you,
I haven't slept in so long,
when I do I dream,
of drowning in the ocean,
longing for the shore,
where I can lay my head down,
inside these arms of yours

All because of you,
I believe in angels,
not the kind with wings,
no, not the kind with halos,
the kind that bring you home,
Where Love becomes a strange place,
I'll follow your voice,
all you have to do is,
SHOUT IT OUT!

naomi moon

05-02-2008, 03:07 PM

I love the lyrics of Stop and Stare - one republic

This town is colder now, I think it's sick of us
It's time to make our move, I'm shaking off the rust
I've got my heart set on anywhere but here
I'm staring down myself, counting up the years
Steady hands, just take the wheel...
And every glance is killing me
Time to make one last appeal... for the life I lead

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're 'here' not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can u see what I see

They're trying to come back, all my senses push
Un-tie the weight bags, I never thought I could...
Steady feet, don't fail me now
Gonna run till you can't walk
But something pulls my focus out
And I'm standing down...

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, you don't need

What u need, what u need...

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be
Oh, do u see what I see...

Sir Bartholomew

05-04-2008, 09:05 PM

Saint Etienne's Jack Lemmon

chorus goes like this:

i keep falling in love
but you're breaking my heart
i know that it's wrong
but where do i start
it's the end of the day
i'm here alone
and you're so far awar

Shalot

05-18-2008, 09:17 PM

When the Tigers Broke Free, Part 2

(Roger Waters)
And kind old King George sent Mother a note
When he heard that Father was gone.
It was, I recall, in the form of a scroll,
With gold leaf and all.
And I found it one day
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.
And my eyes still grow damp to remember
His Majesty signed with his own rubber stamp.
It was dark all around, there was frost in the ground
When the Tigers broke free.
And no one survived
From the Royal Fusiliers Company C.
They were all left behind,
Most of them dead, the rest of them dying.
And that's how the High Command
Took my daddy from me.

kevinthediltz

05-18-2008, 09:31 PM

One of my favorites is by Les Claypool. I cant remeber the name.

The man he stepped up to the microphone and he gave it a kiss, it was a big, wet, slippery kiss and he had sweat dripping off the end of his nose onto the windscreen and he looked out over the audience and said "god bless you, god bless you one and all" then he took a can of ronson lighter fluid and squirted it over the top of his head and proceeded to light himself on fire. as he stood there glowing he said, "remember this day."

TexJR

05-19-2008, 11:52 AM

Figured You Out-Nickelback

I like your pants around your feet
I like the dirt that's on your knees
And I like the way you still say please
While you're looking up at me
You're like my favourite damn disease

And I love the places that we go
And I love the people that you know
And I love the way you can't say no
Too many long lines in a row
I love the powder on your nose

Ooooh
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out

I like the freckles on your chest
And I like the way you like me best
And I like the way you're not impressed,
While you put me to the test
I like the wine stains on your dress

And I love the way you pass the check
And I love the good times that you wreck
And I love your lack of self respect
While you're passed out on the deck
I love my hands around your neck

And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out

I love your pants around your feet
And I love the dirt that's on your knees
And I like the way you still say please
While you're looking up at me
You're like my favourite damn disease

And I hate the places that we go
And I hate the people that you know
And I hate the way you can't say no
Too many long lines in a row
I hate the powder on your nose

And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out

Joyeuse

05-19-2008, 07:31 PM

I really like Billy Joel, he's so good at lyrics and music.This one's on the more obscure side compared to "Piano Man". It's a great song though.

Vienna

Slow down you crazy child,
you're so ambitious for a juvenile,
but then if you're so smart tell me why are you still so afraid?
Where's the fire? What's the hurry about you?
Better cool it off before you burn it out,
You've got so much to do and only so many hours in a day.
But you know that when the truth is told
that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through.
When will you realize
Vienna waits for you?
Slow down, you're doing fine
You can't be everything you want or be before your time
Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight, tonight
Too bad but it's the life you lead
You're so ahead of yourself that you've forgot what you need
Though you can see when you're wrong
you know you can't always see when you're right, you're right.
You've got your passion, you've got your pride.
But don'tcha know that only fools are satisfied?
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
Slow down you crazy child
and take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while.
It's all right, you can afford to lose a day or two.
When will you realize, Vienna waits for you?
And you know that when the truth is told
that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through.
Why don'tcha realize,
Vienna waits for you?
When will you realize,
Vienna waits for you?

By Billy Joel

TexJR

05-20-2008, 03:07 PM

Getting Away With Murder-Papa Roach

Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate
What creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishment
And you're the master
And I am waiting for disaster

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am
Getting away with murder
It isn't possible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is I'm getting away with murder
(Getting away, Getting away, Getting away)

I drink my drink and I don't even want to
I think my thoughts when I don't even need to
I never look back cause I don't even want to
And I don't need to
Because I'm getting away with murder

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am
Getting away with murder
It isn't possible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is I'm getting away with murder

(Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away, Getting away with murder)

Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate
What creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishment
And I'm the master
And I am craving this disaster

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am
Getting away with murder
It isn't possible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is I'm getting away with murder
(Getting away, Getting away, Getting away)

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am
Getting away with murder
It isn't possible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is I'm getting away with murder

Nossa

05-20-2008, 03:22 PM

May It Be - Enya

May it be an evening star
Shines down upon you
May it be when darkness falls
Your heart will be true
You walk a lonely road
Oh, how far you are from home

Mornie utúlië (darkness has come)
Believe and you will find your way
Mornie alantië (darkness has fallen)
A promise lives within you now

May it be shadows call
Will fly away
May it be your journey on
To light the day
When the night is overcome
You may rise to find the sun

Mornie utúlië (darkness has come)
Believe and you will find your way
Mornie alantië (darkness has fallen)
A promise lives within you now

Tiny Dancer

05-27-2008, 06:01 AM

ooooooh sexiest song EVER
Bob Dylan
Lay, Lady, Lay

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead

WOOOOH!

Tiny Dancer

05-27-2008, 06:04 AM

Here is an absolutely beautiful song
Sung by Art Garfunkel (LEGEND!)

Is it a kind of dream,
Floating out on the tide,
Following the river of death downstream?
Oh, is it a dream?
There's a fog along the horizon,
A strange glow in the sky,
And nobody seems to know where you go,
And what does it mean?
Oh, is it a dream?
Bright eyes,
Burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
Is it a kind of shadow,
Reaching into the night,
Wandering over the hills unseen,
Or is it a dream?
There's a high wind in the trees,
A cold sound in the air,
And nobody ever knows when you go,
And where do you start,
Oh, into the dark.
Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
bright eyes.
Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.

Sloan

05-29-2008, 12:02 AM

Oh, there are so many songs I need to post, but for now this will do.
"You Make Me Want to Be a Man" by Utada

I really want to tell you something
This is just the way I am
I really want to tell you something, but I can't
You make me want to be a man

Arguments that have no meaning
This is just the way I am
You really want to tell me something, but you can't
You make me want to be a man

The thunder and the rain called me when you came
We didn't need to say much to communicate
Now it's different
99% is misinterpreted

I really want to tell you something
This is just the way I am
I really want to tell you something, but I can't
You make me want to be a man

Arguments that have no meaning
This is just the way I am
You really want to tell me something, but you can't
You make me want to be a man

Every word you say finds a home in me
Nothing that anyone could ever say could hurt me like this
Baby please, don't light that cigarette
Don't light that cigarette

I really want to tell you something
This is just the way I am
I really want to tell you something, but I can't
You make me want to be a man

Arguments that have no meaning
This is just the way I am
You really want to tell me something, but you can't
You make me want to be a man

I really want to tell you something
This is just the way I am
I really want to tell you something, but I can't
You make me want to be a man

Arguments that have no meaning
This is just the way I am
You really want to tell me something, but you can't
You make me want to be a man

Scorpio Ascendant

06-03-2008, 08:32 PM

The palace guards are all sleeping
Their fires burn into the night
There's a threat of rain on the dark horizon
And all that's left is a quarter moon of light

He climbs up through the darkness
No weapon but his surprise
The greatest thief in the high Sahara
Enters the room where a sleeping princess lies

All your money, your pretty necklace
This is my work on such a night
There's a storm coming over the mountain
I'll be gone long before the morning

After the rain has fallen
After the tears have washed your eyes
You find that I've take nothing, that
Love can't replace in the blink of an eye

He was as gentle as the night wind
As no lover had been before
And the rings she wore for her bride groom
Slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor

Take me with you, take me with you
Before my lonely life is set
I've been promised to another
To a man I've never even met

After the rain has fallen
After the tears have washed your eyes
You'll find that I've take nothing, that
Love can't replace in the blink of an eye
After the thunder's spoken, and
After the lightning bolt's been hurled
After the dream is broken, there'll
Still be love in the world

She said take me to another life
Take me for a pirate's wife
Take me where the wind blows
Take me where the red wine flows
Take me to the danger
Take me to the life of crime
Take me to the stars
Take me to the moon while we still have time

After the rain has fallen
After the tears have washed your eyes
You'll find that I've taken nothing, that
Love can't replace in the blink of an eye

After the thunder's spoken, and
After the lightning bolt's been hurled
After the dream is broken, there'll
Still be love in the world
Still be love in the world

sting ROCKS!

Weisinheimer

06-13-2008, 07:42 AM

Assisi ~ Matthew Gair
This is such a beautiful song, especially the chorus. I could listen to this song forever.

I hang this cross around my neck
I have no faith but in respect
I hope it protects me when I play.
Cause I have been to Assissi
And I have seen the Polici
Beat a man for no other reason than they could.
But that man was good.

I have no time for racist men,
I do believe we are all the same,
And I would bridge the gaps if I could.
But some hate runs so very deep
It’s hard sometimes for me to keep
The belief that deep down everyman is good.

Chorus:
So listen to these words I sing,
I hope they shine, I hope they gleam
And let them, please let them,
Let them bleed into your soul,
Let them find a hole and fill it with something good.
I wish they would.

I have said some awful things.
About, behind, infront of my friends,
And I would take them all back if I could
So I’ll try to be a better soul,
And let my deeds burn through the cold
‘cause every man should have a heart of gold.

cipherdecoy

06-13-2008, 08:55 PM

Sir Bartholomew

06-13-2008, 09:01 PM

from the day i found myself by the honey cones:

As I look back on the day you left me
I felt that love had forsaken me
As time went by, tears began to dry
Now I see you never really cared
Life is wonderful when love is shared

The day that I lost you that's the day I found myself
[Repeat]

Your love controlled, but never consoled me
I was in love, but so unhappy
So many nights, I was in the cold
When you left, you opened up the door
To a world I'd never seen before

The day that I lost you that's the day I found myself
[Repeat]

[Interlude]

I found love with someone who needs me
I'm loving life the way it should be
I gave you love, you only used me
And when you left, you hurt yourself
I found identity with someone else

The day that I lost you that's the day I found myself
[Repeat]

Now don't you know that you only hurt yourself
I'm so glad you're gone 'cause you made me strong
Oh, bless the day you left
'Cause that's the day I found myself

The day that I lost you that's the day I found myself
You better believe it, now
[Fade]

thelastmelon

06-14-2008, 05:59 PM

It's not my favorite, but it sure is romantic. It's the song "If You Were A Sailboat" by Katie Melua:

If you were a cowboy I would trail you,
If you were a piece of wood I’d nail you to the floor.
If you were a sailboat I would sail you to the shore.
If you were a river I would swim you,
If you were a house I would live in you all my days.
If you were a preacher I’d begin to change my ways.

Sometimes I believe in fate,
But the chances we create,
Always seem to ring more true.
You took a chance on loving me,
I took a chance on loving you.

If I was in jail I know you’d spring me,
If I was a telephone you’d ring me all day long.
If I was in pain I know you’d sing me soothing songs.

Sometimes I believe in fate,
But the chances we create,
Always seem to ring more true.
You took a chance on loving me,
I took a chance on loving you.

If I was hungry you would feed me,
If I was in darkness you would lead me to the light.
If I was a book I know you’d read me every night.

If you were a cowboy I would trail you,
If you were a piece of wood I’d nail you to the floor.
If you were sailboat I would sail you to the shore.

If you were sailboat I would sail you to the shore.

If you were sailboat I would sail you to the shore.

Dori

06-14-2008, 06:54 PM

Er, I think this is my first post in this thread. My favorite lyrics for the time being are those from "Handlebars" by Flobots:

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it's good to be
ALIVE
and I'm a famous rapper
even when the paths're all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud to be an American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all grilled leavin lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Second goes to "We are Winning" by Flobots:

[Spoken]
Rival gangsters sit down to plan an after-school program
A religious fanatic posts footage of an interfaith service project
A group of teenage boys watches a video of a father playing catch with his son
An adult film star paints thumbnail portraits of elderly couples, fully clothed and smiling
A record executive records a demo of his apology
A policeman makes reverse 911 calls instructing residents to take to the streets
A patriot reports for duty
She's wearing an orange jumpsuit and holding a picket sign
She's ashamed of her birthplace
But retreat is not an option

Women and children
Frontline
Logon
Tune in
Stand and be counted
Wounded
Stationed
In the belly of the vulture
Watch your back
Theres no civilians
Women children
Frontline
Listen
Consider this a distant early warning
The fires imminent
Pollution gathering dust particles
Funneling through smokestacks
Airwaves
Bandwidth
Disinformation tube fed
Check the label
Delete the virus
Alert the masses

[spoken]
Butterfly wing crosswinds send black hawks toward hurricane survivors
Roses sprout from empty lots and sidewalk cracks
Pacifist guerrillas move undetected through concrete jungles
New forms are beginning to take shape
Once-occupied minds are activating
People are waking up
The insurgency is alive and well

Rise of the flobots
Portrait of the new american insurgent
Rattle and shake the foundation of the world order
Assembly line consent
Resist
Refuse
Inform
Create
Direct loved ones to the trenches
Suit up
Forge rubble into fortresses
Plaster
Cloth
Aluminum
Broken porcelain
Rusted platinum
Burn bloodstains from decompressed diamonds
Hammer the battlecry into braille-studded armor

[spoken]
We are building up a new world
Do not sit idly by
Do not remain neutral
Do not rely on this broadcast alone
We are only as strong as our signal
There is a war going on for your mind
If you are thinking you are winning
Resistance is victory
Defeat is impossible
Your weapons are already in hand
Reach within you and find the means by which to gain your freedom
Fight with tools
Your fate and that of everyone you know depends on it

formality hater

06-15-2008, 03:24 AM

I simply love the lyrics and like them best as Westlife's version!

"Desperado"

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
But I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your
best bet

Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get

Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you
home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some
people talkin'
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
(let sombody love you)
You better let somebody love you
before it's too late

tiny explorer

06-19-2008, 04:02 AM

:sick: hi there guys!!!feels good to be back!it has been almost 2 years since i last visited the forum!!haha check out the lyrics of this song... this is for those who had their hearts damaged...hmmm,who may this be?!!
check out!SOMEDAY
by:nina
(philippine artist)

Someday, you'll gonna realize
One day, you'll see this through my eyes
But then I won't even be there
I'll be happy somewhere
Even if I cared

I know you don't really see my worth
You think you're the last guy on earth
Well, I've got news for you
I know I'm not that strong
But it won't take long, won't take long

CHORUS
'Cause someday, someone's gonna love me
The way I wanted you to need me
Someday, someone's gonna take your place
One day, I'll forget about you
You'll see, I won't even miss you
Someday, someday

But now, I know you can tell
I'm down and I'm not doin' well
But one day, these tears
They will all run dry
I won't have to cry sweet goodbye

CHORUS
'Cause someday, someone's gonna love me
The way I wanted you to need me
Someday, someone's gonna take your place, Ooh
One day, I'll forget about you
You'll see, I won't even miss you
Someday, I know someone's gonna be there

Someday, someone's gonna love me
The way I wanted you to need me
Someday, someone's gonna take your place
One day, I'll forget about you
You'll see, I won't even miss you
Someday, someday

:sick:

Weisinheimer

08-02-2008, 12:17 PM

I'm really loving this song right now, though it makes me cry.

Radios in Heaven ~ Plain White T's

Your time has already come and I don't know why
The last thing that I had heard
you were doin' just fine
It seems like just yesterday
I was laughing with you
Playing games at Grandma's house
well you taught me well, didn't you?
I hope I'm just like you

Do they have radios in heaven?
I hope they do
'Cause they're playing my song on the radio
And I'm singing it to you

You left before I had a chance to say goodbye
But that's the way life usually is
it just passes you by
But you can't hold on to regrets and you can't look back
So I'll just be thankful for the times that I had with you
I hope I'm just like you

Do they have radios in heaven?
I hope they do
'Cause they're playing my song on the radio
And I'm singing it to you
If they don't have radios in heaven
here's what I'll do
I can bring my guitar when my time is up and I'll play it for you

Tell me can you hear me now
if not, then I can try to sing real loud
What's it like up on the other side of the clouds?
I hope I'm just like you
I hope I turn out to be as good as you

Dori

08-02-2008, 12:43 PM

Stand Up ~ Flobots (I particularly like the bold)
* * *
Stand up
We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up
We shall not be moved
Except by a woman dying from a loss of food
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

We still don't understand thunder and lightning
Flashback to when we didn't fund the dam
Didn't fund the damn levee
No wonder man
Now our whole damn city's torn asunder man
Underwater but we still don't understand
We see hurricane spills overrun the land
Through gaps you couldn't fill with a hundred tons of sand
No we still don't understand
We've seen planes in the windows of buildings
Crumbled in
We've seen flames sending chills through London
And we've sent planes to kill them
And some of them are children
But still we crumble under buildin
Underfunded but we still don't understand
Under God but we kill like the son of Sam
But if you feel like I feel about the son of man
We will overcome

So stand up (Stand up)
We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up (Stand up)
We shall not be moved
Except by a woman dying from a loss of food
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

I said put your hands up and I'll copy you
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
Except by a woman dying from a loss of food
Except by a freedom fighter bleeding on a cross for you

We shall not be moved
Except by a system thats rotting through
Neglecting the victims and ordering the cops to shoot
High treason now we need to prosecute

So stand up (Stand up)
We shall not be moved
And we wont fight a war over fossil fuel
Times like this that you want to plot a coup
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up (Stand up)
We shall not be moved
Unless we are taking a route we have no pursued
So if you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
I said put your hands up and I'll copy you
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
If you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up

Now shake, shake a Polaroid dream
Nightmare negatives develop on the screen
We sit back and wait for the government team
Criticize they but who the **** are we
The people want peace
But the leaders want war
Neighbors don't speak, peak through the front door
House representatives preach stay the course
Its time for a leap of faith
Once more
Put your hands up high if you haven't imagined
Hope that the pen strokes stronger than the cannon
Balls to the wall nose to the grindstone
My interrogation techniques leave ya mind blown
Places your bets, lets speak to the enemy
Don't let them pretend that we seek blood
And whose we anyway kimosabai
Mighty warlord wannabe street thug
A threat for a threat leaves the whole world terrified
Blow for blow never settles the score
Word for word its time to be clarified
We the people did not want war!

So stand up (Stand up)
We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up (Stand up)
We shall not be moved
Unless we are taking a route we have not pursued
So if you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

I said put your hands up and I'll copy you
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
If you've got a dream and a lot to do
Put your hands up

johann cruyff

08-02-2008, 01:43 PM

My favourite song, and some of the best lyrics in general, in my opinion:

Dogs - Pink Floyd

You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking.
And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye, and an easy smile
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.
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older
And in the end you'll pack up, fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer.
And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest that you've sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it's too late to loose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down, alone
Dragged down by the stone.
I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise
If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze?
Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone's expendable and no-one has a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
And everything's done under the sun
And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer.
Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a pat on the back
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone.

Chris Marie

03-10-2009, 01:33 AM

"Golden Slumbers" Once there was a way to get back homeward/once there was a way to get back home/Sleep pretty darling do not cry/And I will sing a lullaby/ Golden slumbers fill your eyes/ Smiles awake yoou when you rise." the Beatles

Oniw17

03-10-2009, 02:36 AM

I actually liked the chorus on this song and not just the lyrics, which is unusual.
Mistakes- Immortal Technique
It's hard to breath and hard to run when your lungs blacken
Coughing up blood like, what the **** happened?
Raising my wrist to cancer’s the answer homie,
But after drinking something it’s nothing like puffin a bogie
Now I could blame the same product placements in movies,
All the commercials, or scarface in a jacuzzi
But now I'm living it, damn I shoulda never took that first cigarette

I ****ed up, like your girl was riding on top of me,
I shoulda took her to trial, and never copped a plea,
But this aint a Christian nation, mother****er please
America never taught me to turn the other cheek
Cause I'm from Harlem, the north of Manhattan,
We knock niggas out, and make ‘em bounce like Ricky Hatton,
But wildin’ on the corner got me turned back from the Canadian border.

I knew she was a virgin when I first met her,
Rockin stockings, popping out of the catholic school sweater,
Mom told me she could do better than a criminal
Seventeen year old psychotic trying to be lyrical
I never meant to break her heart or **** up her life,
But I was careless instead of treating her right
I seen her again at some club, stripping,
And wondered if I could have made her life different

I joined the army looking for money to go to college
But they didn't pay me a quarter of what they ****ing promised
Extended my tour, treated me like a sucker
That's the reason offices get fragged, mother****er
Don't give me speeches on how you respect and you love me,
But no body armor in a lightly armored Humvee?
My family's lonely, and you want me to re-enlist for thirty grand homie?
No.

When I was young I got signed to a record label,
The deal looked so good when it was on the table
It paid for my cable, cribs, cars and jewelry, the studios, the women,
There's nothing they wouldn't do for me,
Except stop screwing me for publishing the royalties
How the **** are you my dog when there's no loyalty
Word to the street, I shoulda gone independent like Immortal Technique.

Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them,
Others try to block the memories and just delete them
But I keep them as a reminder they not killing me,
And I thank God for teaching me humility
Son remember when you fight to be free,
To see things how they are, and not how you like ‘em to be
Cause even when the world is falling on top of me,
Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy
Knowing what's wrong, doesn't imply that you right,
And its another when you suffer to apply it in life,
But I'm no rookie, and I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice, pussy

Also:Lupe Fiasco-Intruder Alert

She said that there was no love in her heart
Cause one day a rapist attacked her and broke
That all apart
She said there was no way to fix it
Or to cover her scars
Then one day a guy came along that
Probably could help her start
He was sincere made her believe it was safe
For her to trust again
Before long she was cool to giving hugs to him
Knew that it was right cause somethin was wrong
The alarms in her mind didn't tell her he didn't belong

There was no

[Chorus:]
Intruder [x4]
Alert [x4]

He said nobody else ever loved em (him)
Thats why he get high enough to go touch the heavens above em
Vividly remembers every pipe
Every needle that stuck em
Every alley he ever slept in
Every purse that he snuck in
Every level of hell he's been to
And the one that he's stuck in
The one he cant escape
Even tho it's of his own construction
Maybe you can relate
Maybe you one of those that just doesn't
Maybe he doesn't care
Loves to allow these demons to come in
With no

[Chorus:]
Intruder [x4]
Alert [x4]

Famine stricken his home
Land and no social standing
In the economic pecking order
Emergency relief
Distribution systems is in disorder
He's checking water making sure
It's safe enough for his
Daughter to float across in
The boat he built
Hopefully strong enough to support
Praying border patrols
Don't catch her
And process and deport her
Before she reach the shore
Of the land of the free
Where they feed u
Treat u like equals
Deceive you
Stamp u
And call you illegal

~Sophia~

03-10-2009, 02:47 AM

I don't have a favorite anything really but this version of this song ranks right up there for me.

Hallelujah – Written by Leonard Cohen, sung by KD Lang

I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
You don’t really care for music do ya
Well it goes like this
The fourth the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Well your faith was strong
But you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew ya
Well she tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and cut your hair
And from your lips she drew Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Baby I’ve been here before
I’ve seen this room and I’ve walked this floor
Used to live alone before I knew ya
But I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
Our love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
And it’s not a cry that you hear at night
It’s not someone who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

sprinks

03-10-2009, 07:32 AM

Marble House by The Knife, one of my favourite songs ever.

I cut your nails and comb your hair,
I carry you down the stairs.
I wanted to see right through from the other side,
I wanted to walk a trail with no end in sight.

The moment we believe that we have never met
Another kind of love it's easy to forget
When we are all alone then we do both agree,
We have a thing in common this was meant to be.

You close my eyes and soothe my ears
You heal my wounds and dry my tears.
On the inside of this marble house I grow
And the seeds I sow will grow up prisoners too.

The moment we believe that we have never met
Another kind of love it's easy to forget
When we are all alone then we do both agree,
We have a thing in common this was meant to be.

Now where's your shoulder
What is it's name
What's your scent
Say it again.
If it goes faster can you still follow me
It must be safe when it's on TV.

I raise my hands to heaven of curiosity,
I don't know what to ask for
What has it got for me?
The others say we're hiding,
It's as forward as can be.
Some things I do for money,
Some things I do for free.

jhonerliz

03-10-2009, 09:38 AM

I Can- Regine Velasquez, Mikey Cojuangco, Donna Cruz

Chorus:
Regine Velasquez:
I can live... I can love
I can reach the heavens above...
I can right what is wrong...
I can sing just any song...
I can dance... I can fly...
And touch the rainbow in the sky...
I can be your good friend...
I can love you... until the end

Mikee Cojuangco:
What took you so long to make me see...
How lucky I am cause I am free...
Free to do the things I wanna do...

Donna Cruz:
What took you so long to make me feel...
I can give love...
Love so real...
What took you so long to let me know...

Repeat Chorus

Mikee Cojuangco:
What took you so long to make me cry...
Donna Cruz:
So I would know the reason why...
Mikee Cojuangco:
(what took you so long...)
Regine Velasquez:
I'm so lucky I can smile... I didn't know this for a while...

Repeat Chorus

Donna, Mikee:
I can dance...
Regine Velasquez:
(I can dance)
Donna, Mikee:
I can fly...
Regine Velasquez:
(I can fly)
Donna, Mikee, and Regine:
And touch the rainbow in the sky...
I can be your good friend...
I can love you...
Until the end...

jekan blazer

03-10-2009, 11:49 AM

strawberry gashes

Turn her over
A candle is lit, I see through her
Blow it out and save all her ashes for me

Curse me sold her
The poison that runs it's course through her
Pale white skin with strawberry gashes all over all over

Watch me fault her
You're living like a disaster
She said kill me faster
with strawberry gashes all over

Called her over
and asked her if she was improving
She said "feels fine" it's wonderful wonderful here

Hex me told her
I dreamt of a devil that knew her
Pale white skin with strawberry gashes all over all over

Watch me fault her
You're living like a disaster
She said kill me faster
with strawberry gashes all over

I lay quiet
waiting for her voice to say
"Some things you lose and some things you just give away"

Scold me failed her
If only I'd held on tighter to her
Pale white skin that twisted and withered away from me away from me

Watch me lose her
It's almost like losing myself
Give her my soul
and let them take somebody else get away from me

Watch me fault her
You're living like a disaster
She said kill me faster
with strawberry gashes all over all over me

1n50mn14

03-10-2009, 12:50 PM

The Circle Game: Joni Mitchell

Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like, when youre older, must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and dawn
Were captive on the carousel of time
We cant return we con only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game.

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town
And they tell him,
Take your time, it wont be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and dawn
Were captive on the carousel of time
We cant return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur
Coming true
Therell be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through.
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
Were captive on the carousel of time
We cant return, we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

1n50mn14

03-10-2009, 12:50 PM

Drunk on the Moon: Tom Waits

Tight-slacked clad girls on the graveyard shift
neath the cement stroll
Catch the midnight drift
Cigar chewing charlie
In that newspaper nest
Grifting hot horse tips
On whos running the best

And Im blinded by the neon
Dont try and change my tune
cause I thought I heard a saxophone
Im drunk on the moon

And the moons a silver slipper
Its pouring champagne stars
Broadways like a serpent
Pulling shiny top-down cars
Laramer is teeming
With that undulating beat
And some bonneville is screaming
Its way wilder down the street

(chorus)

Hearts flutter and race
The moons on the wane
Tarts mutter their dream hopes
The night will ordain
Come schemers and dancers
Cherry delight
As a cleveland-bound greyhound
And it cuts throught the night

And Ive hocked all my yesterdays
Dont try and change my tune
cause I thought I heard a saxophone
Im drunk on the moon

Mathor

03-10-2009, 01:11 PM

drunk on the moon: Tom waits

tight-slacked clad girls on the graveyard shift
neath the cement stroll
catch the midnight drift
cigar chewing charlie
in that newspaper nest
grifting hot horse tips
on whos running the best

and im blinded by the neon
dont try and change my tune
cause i thought i heard a saxophone
im drunk on the moon

and the moons a silver slipper
its pouring champagne stars
broadways like a serpent
pulling shiny top-down cars
laramer is teeming
with that undulating beat
and some bonneville is screaming
its way wilder down the street

(chorus)

hearts flutter and race
the moons on the wane
tarts mutter their dream hopes
the night will ordain
come schemers and dancers
cherry delight
as a cleveland-bound greyhound
and it cuts throught the night

and ive hocked all my yesterdays
dont try and change my tune
cause i thought i heard a saxophone
im drunk on the moon

good song.

*Classic*Charm*

03-10-2009, 01:32 PM

Plea from a Cat Named Virtute- The Weakerthans

Why don't you ever wanna play?
I'm tired of this piece of string.
You sleep as much as I do now,
and you don't eat much of anything.
I don't know who you're talking to,
I made a search through every room,
but all I found was dust that moved
in shadows of the afternoon

And listen, about those bitter songs you sing;
they're not helping anything,
they won't make you strong.

So we should open up the house,
invite the Tabby two doors down.
You could ask your sister if,
she doesn't bring her basset hound.
Ask the things you shouldn't miss:
tape hiss and the modern man,
cold war and card catalogues
to come join us if they can.

Girly drinks and parlor games,
we'll pass around the easy lie
of absolutely no regrets,
and later maybe you could try.
To let your losses dangle off,
the sharp edge of a century.
We'll talk about the weather,
or how the weather use to be.

And I'll cater, with all the birds that I can kill,
let their tiny feathers fill disappointment.
Lie down, and lick the sorrow from your skin
Scratch the terror and begin to believe you're strong.

All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV,
frankly that thing doesn't really interest me.
I swear I'm going to bite you hard and taste your tinny blood
if you don't stop the self-defeating lies you've been repeating
since the day you brought me home.
I know you're strong.

kilted exile

03-10-2009, 04:50 PM

Nice choice classic

Some New Town - Slobberbone
Got in your car, you never turned around
And I hope you're happy in your new town
And I hope you live where nothing goes wrong
And the bars stay open all night long

Hope you live where everyone's happy, and I
Hope you live where nothing gets crappy, and I
Hope the sidewalks and the streets are clean, and I
Hope you've got good weather and everything, this is

Just a phone call from the place you once lived
Where we're still waiting for the sleet and rain to give
It's just a line from you're old town
Where we're still drinking to the times when you were around

Days were we gave you good times and more
Enough for you to break down and call this town yours, you gave us
Remedies for everything ****ty
Back when girls were pretty, yeah this is

Just a letter from this house you once blessed
Where I'm still waiting for the forwarding address
Just a note from the past we once shared
Where I'm still waiting on a present from the future to get me there

I know your new town is so far away
That I could maybe come and visit but could never stay
It's just me calling from a town so far
And I'm still waiting on directions to wherever you are

Times were I wouldn't hold your arm
For fear of letting go of the other one
Fears I had to kiss you
With my eyes closed I might miss you if you
Looked at me in some way I hadn't seen, if you
Took my words in some way I didn't mean
If your smile showed signs of some inner frown
Of thoughts of packing up and moving on to some new town

optimisticnad

03-10-2009, 06:17 PM

Not my favourite lyrics but I keep singing this today

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait with without you

that's all i know

Mathor

03-11-2009, 12:38 PM

this is a recent favorite of mine. from their new album, which is remarkably still available on their website for free..

nine inch nails - lights in the sky

She's mostly gone
Some other place
I'm getting by
In other ways
Everything they whispered in our ear
Is coming true
Try to justify the things
I used to do
Believe in you

Watching you drown
I'll follow you down
And I am here right beside you
The lights in the sky
Have finally arrived
I am staying right beside you

I tried to stay away
You know
Just in case
I've come to realize
We all have our place
Time has a way, you know
To make it clear
I have my role in this
I can't disappear
Or leave you here

Watching you drown
I'll follow you down
And I am here right beside you
The lights in the sky
Are waving goodbye
I am staying right beside you

hoope

03-11-2009, 12:43 PM

A New Day Has Come

A new day has come
A new day has come

I was waiting for so long
For a miracle to come
Everyone told me to be strong
Hold on and don't shed a tear

Through the darkness and good times
I knew I'd make it through
And the world thought I had it all
But I was waiting for you

Hush, love

I see a light in the sky
Oh, it's almost blinding me
I can't believe
I've been touched by an angel with love

Let the rain come down and wash away my tears
Let it fill my soul and drown my fears
Let it shatter the walls for a new, new son

A new day has come
A new day has come

Where it was dark now there's light
Where there was pain now there's joy
Where there was weakness, I found my strength
Oh, in the eyes of a boy

Hush, love

I see a light in the sky
Oh, it's almost blinding me
I can't believe
I've been touched by an angel with love

Let the rain come down and wash away my tears
Let it fill my soul and drown my fears
Let it shatter the walls for a new, new son

A new day has come

Let the rain come down and wash away my tears
Let it fill my soul and drown my fears
Let it shatter the walls for a new, new son

A new day has come

Ohhh, a light

Hush, now

I see a light in your eyes
Oh, in the eyes of the boy

I can't believe
I've been touched by an angel with love

I can't believe
I've been touched by an angel with love

Hush, now

Hush, now

Chris Marie

03-11-2009, 02:35 PM

The Ting-Tings' "That's not my name" is really good.

Chris Marie

03-11-2009, 02:36 PM

"They call me hell
They call me Stacey
They call me her
They call me Jane
That's not my name"

~Sophia~

03-11-2009, 03:04 PM

Eliza Gilkyson - TWISTED

I like the way the dark hangs off you
Like a cloud around the sun
The way nobody’s bought your heart
The one on one
You’re so beautiful
You don’t give a damn
You’re everything I’ve wanted in a man

I like your clever boy disguises
Your shady little grins
When you walk the ragged edges
Of the outside looking in
You’re an exotica
You’re in demand
You’re everything I’ve wanted in a man

I’m f*cked up, so twisted
You’re everything I’ve wanted in a man

I like the carnivore impression
That you leave under my skin
The secret we don’t mention
Though it’s closin in
You’ll never show your cards
Or fold your hand
You’re everything I’ve wanted in a man

I’m f*cked up, so twisted
You’re everything I’ve wanted in a man
(repeated 3 times)

maraki16

03-12-2009, 02:31 PM

from a song that i really like, i am too bored to write all the lyrics, i'll just give you a taste of it from the chorus:
snow patrol- set the fire to the third bar

i' m miles from where you are
i lay down on the cold ground
then i, i pray
that something picks me up, and,
sets me down in your warm arms.

QuietTime

03-12-2009, 03:18 PM

How you Live by Point of Grace

"Turn up the music
Let it all out
you want regret it
its not what you do
and its not where you've been
but its how you live"

librarius_qui

03-13-2009, 11:41 PM

It won't help much ... But lets try.

Mesmo que cantores sejam falsos como eu serão bonitas,
Even though the singers may be fake as I am they will be pretty
não importa são bonitas as canções
it doesn't matter, pretty'll be the songs
Mesmo miseráveis os poetas os seus versos serão bons
Even though being miserable the poets, their lines will be pretty fine
Mesmo porque as notas eram surdas, quando um deus sonso e ladrão
Even though the notes were "soundless things" when a mischievous and treacherous god
fez das tripas a primeira lira que animou todos os sons
made out from his limbs the first harp that gave all sounds their very life
E daí nasceram as baladas e os arroubos de bandidos como eu
cantando assim
And from this there came out all the singings and the many scoundrel characters like me
singing songs like this
"Você nasceu pra mim"
"você nasceu pra mim"
"You were born to be mine"
"you were born to be mine"

Mesmo que você feche os ouvidos e as janelas do vestido
Even though you close your ears and hide of your dress all the windows
minha musa vai cair em tentação
it doesn't matter, my muse will fall, will fall for you
Mesmo porque estou falando grego com sua imaginação
Even though my tongue to your imagination Greek speaks and whispers
Mesmo que você fuja de mim por labirintos e alçapões
Even though you run from me through deep hollows, dungeons and labirynths
saiba que os poetas, como os cegos, podem ver na escuridão
know you that the poets, like the blindmen are able to see in the dark deep
E eis que menos sábios do que antes os seus lábios ofegantes hão
de se entregar assim
And alas that less wise then before you panting lips will therefore
surrender to plea from me this
"Me leve até o fim"
"me leve até o fim"
"Take me to the last breath"
"do take me to the last breath"

Mesmo que os romances sejam falsos como o nosso são bonitas
Even though the romances may be fake as ours is they'll be pretty
não importa são bonitas as canções
it doesn't matter, really pretty'll be the songs
Mesmo sendo errados os amantes / seus amores
serão bons
Even being wrong the lovers even so/ pretty will their afairs
be

(I ... made quite a free translation. Tough thing, to translate Portuguese into English! The opposite is far easier!)

Zee.

03-13-2009, 11:44 PM

" I looked to the sky and opened my eyes then the weathermen
Symbol in the clouds just a memory of my friend
He stuck his head in the future where they sing his art
Where the wild card will be crowned the king of hearts "

" Please stop talking so loud and just let me sleep
I ain't in nobody's way they can just step over me "

" Be kind to me or treat me mean, i'll make the most of it i'm an extraordinary machine " [/SIZE]

Joreads

03-14-2009, 05:12 AM

Still feels like our first night together. (Mr Bryan Adams)

LostPrincess13

03-14-2009, 07:07 AM

Shakespeare in Love
by Layla Kaylif

He's fought and he's fallen
He's on his knees before he's on his feet
A sinister romantic
Oh, he's about to be and she's about to see

Teachin' torches to burn bright
She's hanging on the cheek of night
A snowy dove trooping with crows
He never saw true beauty till tonight

CHORUS:
She'll take him to the brink of deliverance
Show him that much
Oh, don't you know it
Oh, don't you know it
So he falls in love to feel that he's falling
She'll let him know his heart
Oh, don't you know it
Oh, don't you know it
That's Shakespeare in love

He's fought and he's fallen
He's on his knees before he's on his feet
A glittery romantic
Oh, he's about to be and she's about to see

His bounty's boundless like the sea
His love is endless, just as deep
The more he gives the more he has
`Cause both of them are truly infinite

CHORUS:
She'll take him to the brink of deliverance
Show him that much
Oh, don't you know it
Oh, don't you know it
So he falls in love to feel that he's falling
She'll let him know his heart
Oh, don't you know it
Oh, don't you know it
That's Shakespeare in love

That's Shakespeare in love

A sinister romantic
He's on his knees before he's on his feet

CHORUS:
She'll take him to the brink of deliverance
Show him that much
Oh, don't you know it
Oh, don't you know it
So he falls in love to feel that he's falling
She'll let him know his heart
Oh, don't you know it
Oh, don't you know it
That's Shakespeare in love

That's Shakespeare in love

Zee.

03-14-2009, 07:13 AM

I wanna love you and treat you right;
I wanna love you every day and every night:
We'll be together with a roof right over our heads;
We'll share the shelter of my single bed;
We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread.
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that I'm feelin'?
I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know now!
I got to know - got to know - got to know now!

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able,
So I throw my cards on your table!
I wanna love you - I wanna love and treat - love and treat you right;
I wanna love you every day and every night:
We'll be together, yeah! - with a roof right over our heads;
We'll share the shelter, yeah, oh now! - of my single bed;
We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread.

Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Is this love - is this love - is this love -
Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Wo-o-o-oah! Oh yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!
Yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able,
So I throw my cards on your table!
See: I wanna love ya, I wanna love and treat ya -
love and treat ya right.
I wanna love you every day and every night:
We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads!
We'll share the shelter of my single bed;
We'll share the same room, yeah! Jah provide the bread.
We'll share the shelter of my single bed

*Classic*Charm*

03-14-2009, 11:51 AM

What a great song, LJ.

Bob is a legend

Sapphire

03-21-2009, 10:03 AM

Wolfsheim - Leave no deed Undone

from the moment you wake up
you cannot feel free
there are so many things in this world
you can't see
just don't keep on leaving
your dreams behind
have a heart to see you'll get
trapped in your mind

it's like an impurity in your mind
furtive ruin that
hails from behind
get rid of the demon
that darkens your sun
go on... go on...
leave no deed undone!

you don't really depend
on material plight
and the way you live...
it is simply not right
you just have to get rid
of your own demands
fight against yourself
for a second chance

no escape
every further step you'll ever make
will drive you on to me
and I will set you free

sometimes it's so easy
just to be scared
no-one promised
your life would be fair
there's always a reason for you to run
away... with me... leave no deed undone

I especially like the "no-one promised your life would be fair", though I know that has been said many times before.

jekan blazer

03-23-2009, 04:06 PM

Zombie ~~~cranberries

Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin' heart
Is taken over.
When the vi'lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...

Niamh

03-23-2009, 04:08 PM

"Run by Snow Patrol"

I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all I've done

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Away from here

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

Slower slower
We don't have time for that
All I want is to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads

Have heart my dear
We're bound to be afraid
Even if it's just for a few days
Making up for all this mess

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/snowpatrol/run.html

jekan blazer

03-24-2009, 01:13 PM

"Land Of Confusion" by disturbed

I must have dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street

Now, did you read the news today?
They say the danger has gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
They're burning into the night

There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go around
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in

Oh, superman, where are you now?
When everything's gone wrong somehow?
The men of steel, these men of power
Are losing control by the hour

This is the time, this is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go around
Tell me why this is a land of confusion

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in

I remember long ago
When the sun was shining
And all the stars were bright all through the night
In the wake of this madness, as I held you tight
So long ago

I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know we'll never keep

There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go round
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?

Now, this is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for

This is the world we live in
And these are the names we're given
Stand up and let's start showing
Just where our lives are going to

Mathor

03-27-2009, 09:22 AM

" Be kind to me or treat me mean, i'll make the most of it i'm an extraordinary machine " [/SIZE]

if there was a better way than you know that it would find me! :)

who's sending letters through the mail
(stop it quit, calling my name)
whose empty chair is at the table?
(it's mine, I've left you alone)
who changed the locks?
Who took the pictures off the wall?
string me along like a beautiful love song

*Classic*Charm*

03-27-2009, 04:11 PM

who's sending letters through the mail
(stop it quit, calling my name)
whose empty chair is at the table?
(it's mine, I've left you alone)
who changed the locks?
Who took the pictures off the wall?
string me along like a beautiful love song

:D :D
I'm at the Water's Edge and I'm peering closer
This is where I will be, where you can find me
My shadow's kissing secrets
Your heart's in agony
I never meant to make you cry
Love, come back to me

Niamh

03-27-2009, 06:54 PM

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

K.M Roberston

03-27-2009, 07:04 PM

Brandy "True" lyrics

In your arms I feel right at home,
That's the feeling I ain't felt before.
If you're feeling the same way then let me know,
Cause there's nothing worse than being in love alone.

Is it true that I'm not the only one?
Is it true that you're just having fun with my heart?
I need an answer
Is it true
Is it true

You're my Angel that was sent to earth.
In your eyes I see my future.
I can't be without you so it's got to work.
Goodbyes not an option so don't say a word.

Is it true that I'm not the only one?
Is it true that you're just having fun with my heart?
I need an answer
Is it true
Is it true

I've never been a victim of love before
So I’m not sure what I should be looking for
But I know the signs are in my face
Hope it's not to late to change
Your mind and make you wanna stay

Is it true that I'm not the only one?
Is it true that you're just having fun with my heart?
I need an answer
Is it true
Is it true

Is it true that I'm not the only one?
Is it true that you're just having fun with my heart?
I need an answer
Is it true
Is it true

If you just can't tell me the truth
it wasn't real when you said I love you.

Niamh

03-28-2009, 11:47 AM

I think I've already lost you
I think you're already gone
I think I'm finally scared now
You think I'm weak - but I think you're wrong
I think you're already leaving
Feels like your hand is on the door
I thought this place was an empire
But now I'm relaxed - I can't be sure

I think you're so mean - I think we should try
I think I could need - this in my life
I think I'm just scared - I think too much
I know this is wrong it's a problem I'm dealing

If you're gone - maybe it's time to go home
There's an awful lot of breathing room
But I can hardly move
If you're gone - baby you need to come home
Cuz there's a little bit of something me
In everything in you

I bet you're hard to get over
I bet the room just won't shine
I bet my hands I can stay here
I bet you need - more than you mind

I think you're so mean - I think we should try
I think I could need - this in my life
I think I'm just scared - that I know too much
I can't relate and that's a problem I'm feeling

If you're gone - maybe it's time to go home
There's an awful lot of breathing room
But I can hardly move
If you're gone - baby you need to come home
Cuz there's a little bit of something me
In everything in you

I think you're so mean - I think we should try
I think I could need - this in my life
I think I'm just scared - do I talk too much
I know this is wrong it's a problem I'm dealing

If you're gone - maybe it's time to go home
There's an awful lot of breathing room
But I can hardly move
If you're gone - baby you need to come home
Cuz there's a little bit of something me
In everything in you

NikolaiI

03-28-2009, 01:21 PM

Fils Du Ciel - Les Rockets

Le dieux venus sur leur chars de feu
Les yeux brillants comme de diamants
Un corps sideral
Vetu de metal
Fils du ciel

Nous sommes les fils du ciel

Les matres du temps et de l'univers
Survolent les villes de notre terre
Vous, vous les verrez
D'un monde detraque
Fils du ciel

Nous sommes les fils du ciel

Nous sommes les fils de dieux
Venus purifier votre terre

papayahed

03-29-2009, 11:08 AM

The warden threw a party in the county jail.
The prison band was there and they began to wail.
The band was jumpin and the joint began to swing.
You shouldve heard those knocked out jailbirds sing.

Shalot

04-03-2009, 09:17 PM

I Burn Today ~ Frank Black

(I'm totally in love with this song right now)

I knew a girl
with sad blue eyes
put out the feast
I lost my psychic prize
I did forget
what the tarot maid did say
I burn today
I burn today
our house was filled
with many birds
she said to me I can understand their words
the land will shake, so run away

(chorus)
I burn today
I burn today
yesterday I will burn
for the times
I did not learn

she said have fun
its time has come
hold my heart strings
and have yourself a strum
no, nevermore
this song will we play
I burn today eh
I burn today
and as I drank
in old Paris
she lay her cards
just to see what she would see
down by the water you'll find your happy days

(chorus)

I ran so fast
into the north
no snow on me
and so he said thenceforth,
I let snow fall
on frozen yesterday
I burn today
I burn today
and if my head
is hanging down
I feel her arms
and her legs are all around
and we make love
beside the waterway

(chorus)

behold the rose
of Jericho
how many lives
I really do not know
though with the rain
I know it will return
today I burn
today I burn

weltanschauung

04-03-2009, 11:09 PM

inside of me today
there is no one
only asteroids and empty space
a waste

...they're looking through the windows at me...

get me out of this air-conditioned nightmare
rots your brain just like a catchy tune, yeah
you will hate life more than life hates you

happiness is your illness in an air-conditioned nightmare

...burn all your mementos of me...

walkin' on air
up from the wheelchair
i'll find the suicide
that i deserve

walkin' on sand
forgotten where i am
but it's so comfortable
here in the sun...

i only see rainbows
now that the bandages are gone
through my window, there

from the skyscrapers
down to the submarines

birds and fairies
sanctuaries
atop the rolling hills of hell

these words are sledgehammers
of truth
that pound the iron heart
of sin

bloody smiling
vandalizing
my wet dream is drying up...

where's my rainbow?
where's my halo?

there's my halo!

the air-conditioned nightmare - mr bungle

Chris Marie

04-03-2009, 11:32 PM

"Wish you were here" by Pink Floyd-that's a good one.

Chris Marie

04-03-2009, 11:34 PM

"the Summer of '69"by Bryan Adams-that's also a good one.

Chris Marie

04-03-2009, 11:35 PM

That's a cool quote by Blake.

NikolaiI

04-05-2009, 12:28 AM

Thank You, You're the Sister of my Soul
Jan Verner

I woke up this morning
remembering your name
was flickering on the screen
in my dream

There was something I forgot to tell you
after all what we've been through
and after all what we've seen

We take so much for granted
and forget aobut all the little simple things
in between

Thank you, 'cause you
are the sister of my soul
and I will never let you down.

You keep me going
You keep me singing
You keep me dancing
On the silver-screen of my soul

You keep me laughing
You keep me smiling and crying
You keep me doing what I was supposed to do

I never took you for granted
Never expected you to be someone else
Still I don't want to lose you
Thank you girl, 'cause you're
the sister of my soul
and I will never, ever let you down

You're so connected to the world
You'r so connected to your heart
You're so connected to life
and I say
It's you and your generation
Who's gonna turn this messed up world into something new
say it again,
it's you and your generation who's gonna turn this world into something new.

Thank you girl,
You're the sister of my soul,

Do you, do you, do you, do you
Do you want to dance tonight
Man and Woman Man and Woman's gonna make it right
Man and Woman Man and Woman's gonna make it right

You know, I'm gonna die tonight
I'm gonna fly away to a place
Where there's only peace and calm
But tomorrow I wake up again
Still I'll have the image of your face
Like a firefly on my mind
'cause you light up the corners
you keep me hoping and thinking
there's a silver lining to every cloud
I'm saying thank you girl,
you know,
you're the sister of my soul
and I will never let you down.

NikolaiI

04-10-2009, 11:08 PM

Deep Blue, by George Harrison

When sunshine is not enough
To make me feel bright
It's got me suffering in the darkness
That's so easy come by on the road-side
Of one loong life-time

It's got me deep blue
You know I'm deep blue

When you stand there, watch tired bodies
Full of sickness and pain
To show you just how helpless you really are
When you get down to the truth
It hurts me

It's got me deep blue
You know I'm deep blue

When I think of the life I'm living
Pray God help me; give me your light
So I can love you and understand
This repetition that keeps me here
Feeling deep blue

It's got me deep blue
You know I'm deep blue

MissScarlett

04-10-2009, 11:10 PM

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (From Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera"). They have very special meaning for me.

You were once
my one companion . . .
you were all
that mattered . . .
You were once
a friend and father -
then my world
was shattered . . .

Wishing you were
somehow here again . . .
wishing you were
somehow near . . .
Sometimes it seemed
if I just dreamed,
somehow you would
be here . . .

Wishing I could
hear your voice again . . .
knowing that I
never would . . .
Dreaming of you
won't help me to do
all that you dreamed
I could . . .

Passing bells
and sculpted angels,
cold and monumental,
seem, for you,
the wrong companions -
you were warm and gentle . . .

Too many years
fighting back tears . . .
Why can't the past
just die . . .?

Wishing you were
somehow here again . . .
knowing we must
say goodbye . . .
Try to forgive . . .
teach me to live . . .
give me the strength
to try . . .

No more memories,
no more silent tears . . .
No more gazing across
the wasted years . . .
Help me say
goodbye.

weltanschauung

04-12-2009, 12:06 PM

Wish I may
Wish I might
Have this I wish tonight
Are you satisfied?
Dig for gold
Dig for fame
You dig to make your name
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there's no one around

Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle's crumbled
And you're left with just a name

Where's your crown, King Nothing?
Where's your crown?

Hot and cold
Bought and Sold
A heart as hard as gold
Yeah! Are you satisfied?

Wish I might
Wish I may
You wish your life away
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things you chased

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there's no one around

Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle's crumbled
And you're left with just a name

Where's your crown, King Nothing?
Oh, where's your crown?

I wish I may
I wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight
I want that star
I want it now
I want it all and I don't care how

Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish
You may regret it
Careful what you wish
You just might get it

NikolaiI

04-14-2009, 03:01 AM

Agitata Infido Flatu, by Antonio Vivaldi

Weapons, slaughters, vengances, furies,
Straits, fears,
Go before us;
Turn,
Fight,
O warlike fates;
A thousand plagues,
A thousand deaths,
Bring them, you!

Driven by the faithless blast,
Long in wandering
Flight,
The sad swallow
Goes in grief,
Ignorant of good.
But with a breath of serene air
Quickly forgetful of such pain,
In the beloved
Sweet shelter
She laughs, no longer thirsting for joy.

Apocrypha75

05-23-2009, 06:36 AM

:D Hehe.

Maynard James Keanan has always stunned me with his poetry. Most of it similar in content to Trent's (any Tool and NIN fans must know what I'm talking about -- a very specific bad childhood experience revealed in the lyrics *coughpriestcough*)...much of the stuff way too vulgar to post here.
But hey, here's one that isn't:

Tool -- "The Patient"

A groan of tedium escapes me, startling the fearful.
Is this a test?
It has to be. Otherwise I can't go on.
Draining patience. Drain vitality.
This paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little old.

But I'm still right here, giving blood and keeping faith.
And I'm still right here.
But I'm still right here, giving blood and keeping faith.
And I'm still right here.

I'm gonna wait it out.

If there were no rewards to reap,
No loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.

I'm gonna wait it out.

If there were no desire to heal
The damaged and broken met along this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.

I still may.
And I still may.
Be patient.

I must keep reminding myself of this...

If there were no rewards to reap,
No loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.

And I still may.
And I still may.
And I still may.

I'm gonna wait it out.
I'm gonna wait it out.
Gonna wait it out.
Gonna wait it out.

Ooh, I'm a TOOL fan too. I think them just as strong lyrically as musically (which usually gets all the plaudits). I remember a particular excerpt from their song 'Eulogy':

Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice that was strong and loud and I
Swallowed his façade cuz I'm so
Eager to identify with
Someone above the crowd,
Someone who seemed to feel the same,
Someone prepared to lead the way, and
Someone who would die for me.

The singer is a great lyricist. I also think Bob Dylan's lyrics (poetry) is incredible.

Helga

05-27-2009, 05:18 PM

Jeff Buckley is a favourite of mine and most of his lyrics are great, I'm gonna post two of my favourite....

"Last Goodbye"

This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this and then i'll go
You gave me more to live for
More than you'll ever know

This is our last embrace
Must I dream and always see your face
Why can't we overcome this wall
Well, maybe it's just because i didn't know you at all

Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye

Did you say 'no, this can't happen to me,'
And did you rush to the phone to call
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
Saying maybe you didn't know him at all
You didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know

Well, the bells out in the church tower chime
Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
Offer signs that it's over... it's over

"Moodswing Whiskey"

Mood swing whiskey
Drank it all in the morning
Waiting for the dark to move in
Sitting in my step-sister's kitchen
Horseflies on the window sill
Eyes trained on the lemon king
And wishing it were a gun

I'm thinking of our wedding rings
Trapped inside the heater
Spring water on the floor of this
Sex starved room

The nightmare's fires burn
The waves of bliss
I tried to stop it with my hand
I was lost in the kiss
With you

Mood swing whiskey
Your bliss, the actress,
Bliss, the assassin
Bliss, the abyss

Did a crazy shot of whiskey
In about zero to sixty
All i could see was the beer

I face the future with a drink in my right
Eyes to the sparkling gloom
Body naked, afraid, and amazed

Say boost me up to your junkyard paradise
Boost me up to your junkyard paradise
With a sweet-*** photo of you

She cheated, and she lied, and you stole her
Stung my tongue just like
Sweat from her shoulder

Ooh, mood swing whiskey
Your love, the destroyer
Love, the destroyer
Love, love...

Yes mood swing whiskey has my brain
Only you can break this chain
Are you here in my bed again
Can you hear my love again [x4]

Run down the subway station babe
I'm packing my rod
All and present histories erased
I am a punishing god
Mood swing whiskey
Yeah the leaves are made of
Messy things again

And i said this is all the headless acrobats
Faces crushed in the circus dust
All for the law of gravity
And the price of admission

Beautiful loser warm hearts have let you down
Beautiful loser warm hearts have left you
Oh no, you...

I think of mankind in quotation marks
Ever since i took a drink from you
This is for all the headless acrobats
Faces crushed in the circus dust
All in the name of gravity
And the price of admission

Beautiful loser while eyes have let you now
Beautiful loser while eyes have let you now
Cause you're beautiful

I think of mankind in quotation marks
Ever since I took a drink of you

Lykren

09-03-2012, 11:04 AM

i can wait
i can wait
i can sit wondering what in world you think about
i don't think i'm ever gonna figure it out
after all the alchohol, the pretty words that devolve down
to slurs and drunken shouts
i don't think i'm ever gonna figure it out
it's like some wild last frontier
you never know what kind of fight's gonna appear
that once begun can't be won
started out losing already and go all ten rounds
i don't think i'm ever gonna figure it out
the tired hits that fall below
i can't connect, yeah yeah i know
i can wait
i can wait
i can sit wondering what in the world you think about
i don't think i'm ever gonna figure it out
i don't think i'm ever gonna figure it out
i don't think i'm ever gonna figure it out

Elliott Smith

SkyCetacean

10-02-2012, 09:44 PM

Chris Mosdell and Tim Jensen! =D

Gravity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFZpE_nlg4)
Been a long road to follow,
Been there and gone tomorrow
Without saying goodbye to yesterday.
Are the memories I hold
Still valid?
Or have the tears
Diluted them?
Maybe this time tomorrow
The rain will cease to follow
And the mist will fade into one more today.

Something somewhere out there keeps calling.
Am I going home?
Will I hear someone
Singing solace to the silent moon?
Zero gravity...What's it like?
Am I alone? Is someone there
Beyond these heavy aching feet?
Still the road keeps on telling me to go on.
Something is pulling me,
I feel the gravity of it all...

The Garden Of Everything (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rpf5ZPVaVk)
Here you are,
Daylight's star,
Made out of miracles.

Perfection
Of your own,
You Alone,
O so incredible.

Each atom
Sings to me
"Set me free
From chains of the physical."

O free me, O free me...

The mirror melts,
I'm somewhere else
Inside eternity.

Where you on
Outstretched wings
Sing within
The Garden of Everything

Where memories
Call to me,
Backward dreams
Or phantom reality?

Call to me, they call to me...

And so here we are,
Lovers of Lost Dimensions,
Burning supernovas of all sound and sight,
Every touch, a temptation...
And for every sense, a sensation.

Eyes of pure
Deep azure
Quite unbelievable.

The sun's daughter,
You've been made
Not to fade.
Quite inconceivable.

Each atom
Sings to me
"Set me free
From chains of the physical."

O free me O free me

A love like ours,
A starry flower
Through seasons and centuries.

As rivers reach the sea,
You reach me
With songs of your symmetry.

A small boat
Now will float
To far off coasts,
The Isle of Infinity.

Come with me. O come with me...

Here we'll see
Love's lost tree
Made out of miracles.

Emotions, crystal leaves
Cover me
And you in eternity.

Each atom
Sings to us
Through the blood
"Love is a miracle."

It sings softly, it sings softly...

And so here we are,
Lovers of Lost Dimensions,
Burning supernovas of all sound and sight,
Every touch, a temptation...
And for every sense, a sensation.

And so here we are,
Twin stars of brilliant brightness,
Lanterns lit by life for all the dark night.
And every day will return us
To arms of the ever eternal.

And so here we are,
So far from earthly orbits,
Burning supernovas of all sound and sight,
Where every day will return us
To arms of the ever eternal.

Here we are,
Lovers of lost dimensions,
Where every day will return us
To arms of the ever eternal.

The Singing Sea (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMt--cU6M8E)
The singing sea -
The talking trees
Are Silent in a noisy way.

The stars are bright
But give no light,
The world spins backward everyday.

A rainbow rat -
A checkered cat
Go tail in tail along the road.
The mouse is pleased,
The moon is cheese.
The sun is shining hot and cold.

A golden bird
Today I heard
Sitting upon a silver branch.
His little song was very long,
Which made me sad and start to laugh.

My sister he,
My brother she,
But there is only me in the family.
When I grow up
I'll go down
The river to the Singing Sea.

SkyCetacean

10-09-2012, 09:29 PM

I just found this song by Killah Priest recently, the lyrics are so fantastic... to quote him, "[he] say things that will make the picture and the paintings move."

Profits Of Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfL85k3Rcls)
[Killah Priest]
Even Kings die, thrones rust.
Skeleton bones turn to dust.
Memories are blown in the gust.
It's about how you live when you were here,
How you celebrated those years.
Were you a follower? Did you try elevating your peers?
Were you sincere when you gave the prophets your ears?
But soon as trouble come you disappear.
Listen here were you real?
Did you show love that people could feel?
Did you have jealousy but keep it concealed?
Did you smile at your man's face
But all awhile wanted to take your man's place?
Moving around like a snake.
I know you hate that term, don't call it that.
Seen that lately that's why the Priest been falling back.
Cause when the Revolution start
All those cliques that fall apart will soon be the devil's mark.
And none the adversary will have a heart,
The letter for Priest, my freedom of speech,
Y'all read 'em and weep.
The demons that keep you from the path just laugh
That's my ink pad looks like Stained Glass.
A collage of art, that show scenes from the Nazarene's past.

[Killah Priest]
From my connections with 60 Second,
The Art of War to in the city - signed to Geffen.
For five-percent lessons, Israelite tribal dressing
Disciple Armageddons, that Bible record
To Sunz of Man to damn near becoming one of the Clan,
Members I remember, in Brooklyn, GZA and Masta Killa
To my last chapters with the RZA.
Testimony stops, Old Dirty got knocked,
Came home and signed with the ROC.
Cocaine combined with rocks,
Rick James style, his nickname "Wild; Old Dirt Dog".
It hurt us all when his hearse disappeared in the fog
I stayed digital, never analog, original,
Always camouflaged, turn them cameras off.
Light those candles God, I'm the example,
Like I'm speaking from panels y'all.
The soul inside of me is fiery, society lied to me,
Instead you gotta die to be free.
My diaries of anxiety frighten me,
Light will squeeze through my crack buildings where my writing be.
Striking my page with hyphens and brighten my T's,
To my seeds - the uncivilized time has come,
Y'all better run, the time has begun.

[Killah Priest]
Yo, from total strangers to best friends,
To best friends to brothers,
From brothers to never calling him again.
Their coffins descend, one flies to a place of peace,
The other Lake of Fire, devils hauling you in
As one began one ends, the Earth still spin.
We're hurt, tears in our shirt, spirit must transcend,
What you think sleep is for?
A deeper cause - preparing us
For the other side till the Reaper calls.
Either or, we're breathing for try a reason
Arrived rich but we're leaving poor
Stand naked when you see the Lord
I stand protected when I see his war.
Till I exit and I'm free to soar
I'm embraced by space, though it's cloudy around me.
Its light weighs from a tree till they wither the brown leaves,
Bounty's of blessings, from my heavy mind, (Heavy Mental)
To every rhyme I said, looking from Masada, (View from Masada)
From the Church of Priest, the dark August, (Priesthood + Black August)
Till he showed you the art on his Offering. (The Offering)
Oops, I call it the gift, Behind the Stained Glass
It's a frame of my pad, I started this
Release the toxins, breathe out the oxygen.
Now see how shocking you fools if you think the Saint will lose
I say things that will make the picture and the paintings move
Now after this ink this jewel, look!

(60 Second Assassin talking)
What profits that man
Who would gain the whole world yet lose his soul?
What profits that man?
Somebody tell me.
What profits that man?
Somebody tell me.
What profits that man
Who would fear his enemy and think he didn't exist?
What profits that man?
Somebody tell me.
What profits that man?
Somebody tell me.
Somebody tell me.
If you can.
What profits that man
Who would gain the whole world but lose his soul?
What profits that man?
What profits that man?
What profits that man?
The way good and evil could never balance equal,
And no man, for no man could be both good and evil.
From strings that are attached to each other,
And that string tilt to one way or the other.
Even into one grain that'll strip us,
If you've done evil, then I guess you're missing it.
It'll be the over-taker, the architecture.
What I could build will kill.

Grit

05-12-2013, 03:33 PM

I've wanted to discuss some of favourite lyrics for awhile on here.

Someday Never Comes By Creedence Clearwater Revival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_CINAyjIr0

First thing I remember was askin' papa, "Why?",
for there were many things I didn't know
And daddy always smiled; took me by the hand, sayin',
"Someday you'll understand"
Well, I'm here to tell you now each and ev'ry mother's son
You better learn it fast; you better learn it young,
'cause someday never comes
Well, time and tears went by and I collected dust,
for there were many things I didn't know
When daddy went away, he said,
"Try to be a man and someday you'll understand"
Well, I'm here to tell you now each and ev'ry mother's son
You better learn it fast; you better learn it young,
'cause someday never comes
And then, one day in April, I wasn't even there,
for there were many things I didn't know
A son was born to me; mama held his hand, sayin',
"Someday you'll understand"
Well, I'm here to tell you now each and ev'ry mother's son
You better learn it fast; you better learn it young
'cause someday never comes, someday never comes
Think it was September, the year I went away,
for there were many things I didn't know
And I still see him standing, try'n' to be a man, I said,
"Someday you'll understand"
Well, I'm here to tell you now each and ev'ry mother's son
You better learn it fast; you better learn it young
'cause someday never comes, someday never comes

I think those lyrics are amazing. The song touches on the theme of age and wisdom. The father tells his son someday you'll understand, and it has a cyclical, full circle feeling to it. I really love this song.

When the Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA

"And I heard as it were the noise of thunder
One of the four beasts saying come and see and I saw
And behold a white horse"

There's a man going around taking names and he decides
Who to free and who to blame every body won't be treated
Quite the same there will be a golden ladder reaching down
When the man comes around

The hairs on your arm will stand up at the terror in each
Sip and each sup will you partake of that last offered cup
Or disappear into the potter's ground
When the man comes around

[CHORUS]

Hear the trumpets hear the pipers one hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to a big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
Its alpha and omegas kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
Till Armageddon no shalom no shalom

Then the father hen will call his chicken's home
The wise man will bow down before the throne and at his feet
They will cast the golden crowns
When the man comes around

Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the man comes around

This song is so emotionally stirring for me, and I think it's an incredible piece of song writing.

Big Iron by Marty Robbins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGmUsJvRv7U

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip
for the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around
He's an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip
big iron on his hip

In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead
He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty four
And the notches on his pistol numbered one an nineteen more
One and nineteen more

Now the stranger started talking made it plain to folks around
Was an Arizona ranger wouldn't be too long in town
He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red
After Texas Red

Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red
But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead
Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip
Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

The morning passed so quickly it was time for them to meet
It was twenty past eleven when they walked out in the street
Folks were watching from the windows every-body held their breath
They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death
About to meet his death

There was forty feet between them when they stopped to make their play
And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today
Texas Red had not cleared leather fore a bullet fairly ripped
And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round
There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground
Oh he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip

This song is so unbelievably awesome, I can't get enough. It's a story in song form and is very cowboy.

Adolescent09

05-13-2013, 05:14 AM

Too many to mention. Here are two of my favorites:

Mr. Bungle - Goodbye Sober Day

IMO, the most phenomenal part of this song is that it sounds like up to 4 different people are singing and yet they are all the same UNEDITED voice of Mike Patton. I view it as a drug/alcohol abuser's descent into madness. Parts of the song itself make me believe that it is the sound a brain would make as it is roasting alive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2bM4sgE1E

Your lips say one thing
But the drugs they think another
How can I massage
This inter-galactic ulcer?

Goodbye sober day

Hello milky way...

Pin my ear to the wisdom post
Hang me up and drain me dry
Mend my shipwrecked spirit
Lift the veil from my eyes

Goodbye sober day
The years grew wings and flew away

Ghosts of the past become barbarians
Of the future...
And I still pity you
Because what you said was true

Goodbye sober day
Hello milky way...

May your sun be blown out just like a candle
May your sea burn like tar
May your sky be rolled up like a scroll
May your blue moon drip with blood

What would they say
If you went up in smoke?
If I dug you up
And made soup of your bones?

Goodbye sober day
----------------------

Feist's version of "Now at Last"
(The song was originally performed by Blossom Dearie, but the Feist version blows Dearie's right out of the water IMHO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmqU6WNVK5Y

This song means more to me than the performer's sad recollection of her halcyon days of youth. It suggests a tainting of innocence, a way of life that will never return, a missed connection with a friend, a funereal tribute, and simply a change of season or lost love (in the most literal sense).

Now at last I know
What a fool I've been
For I've lost the last love
I shall ever win

And at last I see
How my heart was blind
To the joys before me
That I left behind

When the wind was fresh
On the hills
And the stars were new in the sky
And a lark was heard in the still
Where was I
Where was I

When the spring is cold
Where do robins go
What makes winters lonely
Now at last I know

When the wind was fresh
On the hills
And the stars were new in the sky
And a lark was heard in the still
Where was I
Where was I

When the spring is cold
Where do robins go
What makes winters lonely
Now at last I know

Darcy88

05-16-2013, 02:30 AM

Hurt by Nine Inch Nails

"Hurt"

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of ****
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end

You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

Blowin In The Wind by Bob Dylan

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

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

Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky ?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry ?
Yes, 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.

Suzanne by Leonard Cohen

"Suzanne"

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.

Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.

Creep by Radiohead

"Creep"

When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so ****ing special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice when I'm not around
You're so ****ing special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell I'm doing here?
I don't belong here

She's running out the door
She's running out
She runs runs runs

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so ****ing special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
I don't belong here

Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan

Early one mornin' the sun was shinin',
I was layin' in bed
Wond'rin' if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red.
Her folks they said our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like Mama's homemade dress
Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough.
And I was standin' on the side of the road
Rain fallin' on my shoes
Heading out for the East Coast
Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through,
Tangled up in blue.

She was married when we first met
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a jam, I guess,
But I used a little too much force.
We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out West
Split up on a dark sad night
Both agreeing it was best.
She turned around to look at me
As I was walkin' away
I heard her say over my shoulder,
"We'll meet again someday on the avenue,"
Tangled up in blue.

I had a job in the great north woods
Working as a cook for a spell
But I never did like it all that much And one day the ax just fell.
So I drifted down to New Orleans
Where I happened to be employed
Workin' for a while on a fishin' boat
Right outside of Delacroix.
But all the while I was alone
The past was close behind,
I seen a lot of women
But she never escaped my mind, and I just grew
Tangled up in blue.

She was workin' in a topless place
And I stopped in for a beer,
I just kept lookin' at the side of her face
In the spotlight so clear.
And later on as the crowd thinned out
I's just about to do the same,
She was standing there in back of my chair
Said to me, "Don't I know your name?"
I muttered somethin' underneath my breath,
She studied the lines on my face.
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe,
Tangled up in blue.

She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe
"I thought you'd never say hello," she said
"You look like the silent type."
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century.
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you,
Tangled up in blue.

I lived with them on Montague Street
In a basement down the stairs,
There was music in the cafes at night
And revolution in the air.
Then he started into dealing with slaves
And something inside of him died.
She had to sell everything she owned
And froze up inside.
And when finally the bottom fell out
I became withdrawn,
The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew,
Tangled up in blue.

So now I'm goin' back again,
I got to get to her somehow.
All the people we used to know
They're an illusion to me now.
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenter's wives.
Don't know how it all got started,
I don't know what they're doin' with their lives.
But me, I'm still on the road
Headin' for another joint
We always did feel the same,
We just saw it from a different point of view,
Tangled up in blue.

Grit

05-17-2013, 01:42 AM

Darcy88

05-17-2013, 02:56 AM

INSANE! Darcy, this was going to be my fourth song but I thought it was too many. It's wild that you posted it. You've obviously heard the Johnny Cash version right? Which one do you like better?

Agreed this song is so haunting, so sad. The perfect words to represent a life full of regret.

Cool. I actually prefer the Nine Inch Nails version. The Cash one is very well done, especially the peak at end, but I find the NIN to be even more powerfully emotive.

Darcy88

05-24-2013, 12:34 AM

Eddie Vedder Long Nights

Have no fear
For when I'm alone
I'll be better off
Than I was before

I've got this light
I'll be around to grow
Who I was before
I cannot recall

Long nights allow
Me to feel I'm falling
I am falling

The lights go out
Let me feel I'm falling
I am falling
safely to the ground

I'll take this soul
That's inside me now
Like a brand new friend
I'll forever know

I've got this life
And the will to show
I will always be
Better than before

Long nights allow
Me to feel I'm falling
I am falling

The lights go out
Let me feel I'm falling
I am falling
safely to the ground

Maria May

06-22-2013, 06:58 AM

My fave lyrics are from ''town without pity'' by Gene Pitney :)

When you're young and so in love as we,
And bewildered by the world we see,
Why do people hurt us so?
Only those in love would know,
What a town without pity can do.

If we stop to gaze upon a star,
People talk about how bad we are.
Ours is not an easy age,
We're like tigers in a cage.
What a town without pity can do.

The young have problems, many problems.
We need an understanding heart.
Why don't they help us, try to help us?
Before this clay and granite planet falls apart.

Take these eager lips and hold me fast.
I'm afraid this kind of joy can't last.
How can we keep love alive,
How can anything survive,
When these little minds tear you in two?
What a town without pity can do....

The Highwayman

07-10-2013, 11:36 AM

The Eagles- Take It To The Limit and Damien Rice's Elephant are two of many!

"Elephant"

This has got to die
This has got to stop
This has got to lie down
Someone else on top

You can keep me pinned
It's easier to tease
But you can't paint an elephant
Quite as good as she

And she may cry like a baby
And she may drive me Crazy
'Cause I am lately lonely

So why d'you have to lie?
I take it I'm your crutch
The pillow in your pillow case
It's easier to touch

And when you think you've sinned
Do you fall upon your knees?
And do you sit within your picture?
Do you still forget the breeze?

And she may rise, if I sing you down
And she may wisely cling to the ground
Cause I'm lately horny
So why would she take me horny?

What's the point of this song? Or even singing?
You've already gone, why am I clinging?
Well I could throw it out, and I could live without
And I could do it all for you
I could be strong
Tell me if you want me to lie
'Cause this has got to die

This has got to stop
This has got to lie down, down
With someone else on top

You can both keep me pinned
'Cause it's easier to tease
But you can't make me happy
Quite as good as me

Well you know that's a lie

"Take It To The Limit"

All alone at the end of the of the evening
And the bright lights have faded to blue
I was thinking 'bout a woman who might have
Loved me and I never knew
You know I've always been a dreamer
(spent my life running 'round)
And it's so hard to change
(Can't seem to settle down)
But the dreams I've seen lately
Keep on turning out and burning out
And turning out the same

So put me on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time

You can spend all your time making money
You can spend all your love making time
If it all fell to pieces tomorrow
Would you still be mine?

And when you're looking for your freedom
(Nobody seems to care)
And you can't find the door
(Can't find it anywhere)
When there's nothing to believe in
Still you're coming back, you're running back
You're coming back for more

So put me on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time

Take it to the limit
Take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time

Oedipus

09-17-2013, 08:17 AM

Two:

1. The Cure "Disintegration"

Oh I miss the kiss of treachery the shameless
Kiss of vanity the soft and the black and the
Velvety up tight against the side of me and
Mouth and eyes and heart all bleed and run in
Thickening streams of greed as bit by bit it
Starts the need to just let go my party piece
Oh I miss the kiss of treachery the aching kiss
Before I feed the stench of a love for a younger
Meat and the sound that it makes when it cuts
In deep the holding up on bended knees the
Addiction of duplicities as bit by bit it starts
The need to just let go my party piece

But I never said I would stay to the end so I
Leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
Screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy
Screaming me over and over and over I leave
You with photographs pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both us knew how the ending would
Be

So it's all come back round to breaking apart
Again breaking apart like I'm made up of glass
Again making it up behind my back again
Holding my breath for the fear of sleep again
Holding it up behind my head again cut in deep
To the heart of the bone again round and round
And round and it's coming apart again over and
Over and over

Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces
I'll Pull out my heart and I'll feed it to anyone
Crying for sympathy
Crocodile cry for the love of the crowd and the three cheers from everyone
Dropping through sky through the glass of the roof through the roof of your mouth
Through the mouth of your eye through the eye
Of the needle it's easier for me to get closer to
Heaven than ever feel whole again

I never said I would stay to the end I knew
I would leave you with babies and everything
Screaming like this in the hole of sincerity
Screaming me over and over and over I leave
You with photographs pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams when
Both of us knew how the end always is

How the end always is

2. The Triffids "Stolen Property"

There's someone standing in the rain like they have no place
to go
Maybe that someone is you, maybe someone you don't aim to know
Maybe lost possessions
Maybe stolen property
You just lie around waiting on a signal from heaven
Never had to heal any deep incision
Darling you are not moving any mountains
You are not seeing any visions
You are not freeing any people from prison
Just an aphorism for every occasion
As if the only thing that ever matters
is your place at the table
You never read the writing on the label
when you drank from the bottle
it said Keep Away From Children
This is stolen property, this is stolen property

Let her run away
Let her run, let her run away
She can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now
She don't belong any more, learn the hard way
She don't belong here anymore
Finders keepers, losers weepers
Finders keepers, losers weepers
This is stolen property, this is stolen property

Reach out in the darkness now she's not there
Reach out it's getting darker now she's not there
Reach out it's getting darker now
She don't belong anymore, learn this the hard way
She don't belong here any more
You stumble, sometimes fall
Pick yourself up! Hold yourself up to the light!
Duck your head ! Watch for the blade!
Can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now
This is stolen property
This is stolen property
This is stolen property
This is stolen property