And the bartender's practicing politics,
As the businessmen slowly get stoned,
They're all sharing a drink we call lonliness,
But it's better than drinking alone
And the bartender's practicing politics,
As the businessmen slowly get stoned,
They're all sharing a drink we call lonliness,
But it's better than drinking alone
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own device
And in the masters chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just cant kill the beast
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
And other wonderful lines from Kamelot's "Anthem" :
"And so another page is turned, I pray I understand what's happening, but if anything, I do know this, I'll be the best I can."
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
From Liar's Bar by the beautiful South
If I look rough I am rough
If I look sad I am
If I look broke I am broke
Just a broke down piece of man
I've turned over enough leaves
to fill an autumn
and if I had one final wish
I'd be your slave for a decade
if you could take me away from this
If you took me away from this
I'd be different you'd see
'Cause I didn't choose the drink
a drink just chose me
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
~
"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
~
And same does your life by
Please don't die on me
Wings won't take me
Eyes closed face me
So take a step
But don't look down
- Rise against, Ready to fall
It is not too late, to be wild for roundabouts - to be wild for life
Wolfsheim - It is not too late
There she was just-a walking down the street
Singing; Do-ah-diddy diddy-dum diddy-dee.
The simple ones are the best.
Off the top of my head, some Bob Dylan, since I have been listening to him a lot lately:
"The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin on like a bird that flew,
Tangled up in blue."
and
"A lone soldier on the cross, smoke pouring out of a box car door."
From 'Tangled up in Blue' and 'Idiot Wind.'
These are only of the top of my head, however...
From Pearl Jam's Black:
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, can't it be mine
(they might not be such great lyrics in type, but when you hear them sung with such drama, they're much better)
And Grateful Dead's Ripple:
Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,
If your cup is full may it be again,
Let it be known there is a fountain,
That was not made by the hands of men
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned somewhere on here before how much I like these lyrics -
and then for funniness I'm going with Sublime's Santeria:
Believe me when I say that I've got something for his punk (arse) (the lyrics are best appreciated when heard)
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
"Saiba que os poetas, como os cegos, podem ver na escuridão"
(it translates as "Know that poets, like blindmen, can see in the dark", but it definitely carries not the poetry of the original tongue ...)
Edu Lobo, e Chico Buarque,
the song is "Choro bandido", I call it "Canção do aqueu apaixonado", the "Song of the Achaean inlove"~
You open your eyes, look around
You feel the earth it wanders -
Out, from under your feet - the ground
Is not firm but soft and weak - like skin
Under the touch, cannot stop to falter
~ Sarah McLachlan, Back door Man
(actually, the whole song is wonderful, difficult to choose a few lines)
It is not too late, to be wild for roundabouts - to be wild for life
Wolfsheim - It is not too late
Been up all night staring at you
wondering what's on your mind
i've been this way with so many before
but this feels like the first time
-Schuyler Fisk and Joshua Radin, Paperweight
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
"Born from silence, silence, full of it
Perfect concert my best friend
So much to live for, so much to die for
If only my heart had a home."
Nightwish- "Dead Boy's Poem"
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
'Saying goodbye knowing this is the end' Chris Isaak - Life will go on
Can you imagine this? As human beings NO MATTER what we always always have hope but saying goodbye to someone KNOWING this is the end...waaaahhhh...
We can never know what to want, because living only one life we can neither compare it with our previous lives, nor perfect it in our lives to come'
Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Parce que c'est toi, parce que c'est moi
Don't wear your heart on your sleeve
When your remarks are off the cuff.
Riot Act, Elvis Costello