favourite quotes from song lyrics

from Piledriver (by Stan Ridgway), a song about working road construction:

Now Bob don't light that match, you could explode...
I'll move some dirt while you block off the rooooooad!

Won't post the whole song, but here's an excerpt:

'You don't try to be liked, you don't mind.
You feel no sun,
You steal a gun
To kill time'

from 'Fear of a Blank Planet' by Porcupine Tree.

I believe this song to have too much meaning to express. The lyrics are amazing, but the way it is put together and presented with music and all is remarkable. It is the song that inspired me to pick up drumming, can someone gather meaning from it? I can't! :confused:

'Lost Symphonies'- Saosin

To install the notion that I divided by I
Replace the occasion to speak
I’m not the only lonely boy (lonely boy)

Until I decide to take my watch off, I’ll still believe that we
We're just a matter of time
Getting older every day, shout for shout’s sake
Siren siren, don’t do this dance in my ear
I’ve already lost him once
Do a deadly dance, all I’ve asked for so little
I’ve already lost him once

If I decide to sever the plates below
The shore would separate and find only seven placed again

Until I decide to take my watch off, I’ll still believe that we
Were just a matter of time
Getting older every day, shout for shout’s sake
Siren siren, don’t do this dance in my ear
I’ve already lost him once
Do a deadly dance, all I’ve asked for so little
I’ve already lost him once

Before commemorating (this anniversary)
I hope you still believe
Before commemorating (this anniversary)
Ten feet tall and I still have the right to say (x3)

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
Father and Son
Cat Stevens

I don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Bon Dylan
Ther'al be love and laughter and peace ever after tomorrow when the world is free. White cliffs of dover. WW2 song Vera Lynn
And I think of my Daddy, he wore these kind of shoes and after all this time I think I know him. I'd like to say I love ya but the time has passed away. What are the words I can say,what are the words I can say. Leon Russel

This is the end
Beautiful friend
The end
This is the end
My only friend, the end.

It hurts to set you free
But you will never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of night we tried to die.

This is the end!!

From Dr. Horrible's Sing along blog

It may not feel too classy
Begging just to eat
But you know who does that? Lassie
And she always gets a treat

So you wonder what your part is
Because you’re homeless and depressed
But home is where the heart is
So your real home’s in your chest

Everyone’s a hero in their own way
Everyone’s got villains they must face
They’re not as cool as mine
But folks you know it’s fine to know your place

Everyone’s a hero in their own way
In their own not-that-heroic way....

---Captain Hammer

Phil Ochs was one of my favorite singers from the 1960s. He wrote a protest song about social responsibility entitled Outside of a Small Circle of Friends


Look outside the window, there's a woman being grabbed
They've dragged her to the bushes and now she's being stabbed
Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain
But Monopoly is so much fun, I'd hate to blow the game
And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody
Outside of a small circle of friends.

... more ...

One of the best quotes I've heard recently among the bazillions of songs I've heard comes from Shinedown's second album, Us and Them in the song Heroes:

"You can put a man on trial, but you can't make the guilty pay/ You can cage an animal but you can't take away the rage."

They've got a hundred good quotes, but that particular one stands out to me.

When the night shows
the signals grow on radios
All the strange things
they come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction we cannot
even choose a side.

I took the old track
the hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
they were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
and as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain
was warm and soaked the crowd.

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

When the flood calls
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they'll
use up what we used to be.
--Peter Gabriel (1)


Also:

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
--Leonard Cohen...
and I'm seeing him in concert in two weeks! Exultation

Blood Tears by Blind Guardian: "And blood tears I cry
Endless grief remained inside"

In the park I saw a daddy
With a laughing little girl that he was swinging
and i stopped besides a sunday school
and listened to the song that they were singing
then I headed back for home
and somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing
and it echoed through the canyons
like the disappearing dreams of yesterday
On a sunday morning sidewalk
wishing lord that I was stoned
cos there's something in a sunday
that makes the body feel alone
and there's nothing short of dying
half as lonesome as the sound
on the sleeping city sidewalks
sunday morning coming down.
Kris Kristofferson

Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (X.O.)

"she appears composed/so she is, I suppose"

Scorpions: from 'China White': "The more love you give, the more you'll find."

love you my responsibility has found a place
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
- Belle and Sebastian, Piazza New York Catcher