Favorite lyrics?

Post by **iQuestor** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:20 am

I sat there off the coast of Marseilles
My thoughts went like wind through my hands
How good it'd be to see you again...
How good it'd be to see you again.

Would you be rememberin' me?
I've asked that question time and again.
the answer came and haunted me so,
I would not want to think it again.

because you make it so hard to forget
and I havent stopped loving you yet

When I left the coast of Marseilles
I hadnt done what I'd come to do
spent all of the money I'd saved
still did not get over you
no, I still did not get over you.

Post by **Seareach** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:33 am

awh....that's beautiful iQuestor!

Post by **The Laughing Man** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:55 am

- Both Sides, Now
Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons evrywhere
Ive looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on evryone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way

Ive looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its cloud illusions I recall
I really dont know clouds at all

Moons and junes and ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As evry fairy tale comes real
Ive looked at love that way

But now its just another show
You leave em laughing when you go
And if you care, dont let them know
Dont give yourself away

Ive looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
Its loves illusions I recall
I really dont know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say I love you right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
Ive looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say Ive changed
Well somethings lost, but somethings gained
In living evry day

Ive looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
Its lifes illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all

Ive looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its lifes illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all

Post by **lucimay** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:28 am

you hit it every time you come around oh esmeric one...

was lookin for this joni song while you were postin that one!

I have to come and see you--
Maybe once or twice a year--
I think nothing would suit me better
(right now)
Than some downtown atmosphere ...
In the dance halls and the galleries
Or betting in the otb
Synchronized--like magic
Good friends you and me

The sun goes down in jersey
Rises over little italy--
We could talk it up til the block gets up
Swapping stories
Sitting around in some all night zoo
Watching it run like a movie
Synchronized--like magic
Good friends you and me

No hearts of gold
No nerves of steel
No blame for what we can
and cannot feel

But now its cloak and dagger
Walk on eggshells and analyze
Every particle of difference
Gets like mountains in our eyes
You say, youre unscrupulous!
You say, youre naive!
Synchronized--like magic
Good friends you and me

No hearts of gold
No nerves of steel
No blame for what we can
and cannot feel

Sometimes change comes at you
Like a broadside accident
There is chaos to the order
Random things you cant prevent
There could be trouble around the corner
There could be beauty down the street
Synchronized--like magic
Good friends you and me

No hearts of gold
No nerves of steel
No blame for what we can
and cannot feel
No nerves of steel
No hearts of gold
No blame for what we can
and cant control

Good friends you and me
Good friends you and me

Post by **Mithyaat Vam** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:55 pm

You don't know what love is
Until you've learned the meaning of the blues
Until you've loved a love you've had to lose
You don't know what love is

You don't know how lips hurt
Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost
Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost
You don't know what love is

Do you know how a lost heart feels
The thought of reminiscing
And how lips that taste of tears
Lose their taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn
For love that can not live yet never dies
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
You don't know what love is

You don't know how hearts burn
For love that can not live yet never dies
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
You don't know what love is.....what love is....

Post by **balon!** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:24 am

"Home"

Well here I am at my front door
And oh what an odor is rising
It seems I've stood on this porch at lesser times
Now I've been down the road
You know the one you've dreamed about
And that's surprises you
And I'm sure you'll chalk it up to sell out crime
Home
What do you do when opportunity knocks
When success stalks and along comes fame
Do you open the door or watch in horror
Through the peep hole as they all go away
Lottery or poverty, you're a commodity so what's it gonna be
I'm moving on, I'm moving on
Home
I'm going home ,I'm going home
Sitting in that same spot
There with the other lot whining
And you know this must be just a mirage
Ain't no doubt I ain't got the clout that's defined by you
But oil stains are all you're gonna find in my garage
Hey whatcha' gonna do when the fun stops
When the boat rocks and the crew gets old
Make up your mind it's about time
Because at this time you're staying,
Home.

Post by **lucimay** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:18 am

The Difficult Kind

I think I was wrong
I think you were right
All my angry words
Will keep me up at night
Through the old screen door
I still hear you say
Honey won't you stop
Treating me that way

If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then I'd no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
Cause babe I've changed

Tell it to me slow
Tell me with your eyes
If anyone should know
How to let it slide
I swear I can see you
Coming up the drive
There ain't nothing like regret
To remind you you're alive

If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then I'd no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
Cause babe I've changed

I crossed the canyon a thousand times
But never noticed what was mine
What you'll remember of me tonight
Well, it almost makes me cry
Yeah, it almost makes me cry

Oh ballbreaking moon and ridiculing stars
The older I get, the closer you are
Don't you have somewhere that you need to be
Instead of hanging here making a fool of me

If you could only see
What love has made of me
Then I'd no longer be in your mind
The difficult kind
But you won't see the change in me
If you could only see
What love has made of me
But I'll forever be in your mind
The difficult kind
But you won't see, no you won't see
The good in me
But babe I've changed
Cause babe I've changed

~Sheryl Crow

Post by **Seareach** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:21 am

Me and Mrs Jones, we got a thing going on
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong to let it go now

We meet ev'ry day at the same cafe
Six-thirty I know she'll be there
Holding hands, making all kinds of plans
While the jukebox plays our favorite song

Me and Mrs, Mrs Jones, Mrs Jones, Mrs Jones
We got a thing going on
We both know that it's wrong
But it's much too strong to let it go now

We gotta be extra careful
That we don't build our hopes too high
Cause she's got her own obligations and so do I
Me, me and Mrs, Mrs Jones, Mrs Jones, Mrs Jones

Well, it's time for us to be leaving
And it hurts so much, it hurts so much inside
And now she'll go her way, I'll go mine
But tomorrow we'll meet at the same place, the same time
Me and Mrs Jones, Mrs Jones, Mrs Jones

Post by **The Laughing Man** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:32 am

Spoiler

Waymore's Blues

(Waylon Jennings - Curtis Buck)

Well, I woke up this mornin' it was drizzlin' rain
Around the curve come a passenger train
Heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan
Jimmy he's dead, he's been a long time gone.
Been a long time gone, a long time gone.

If you wanna get to heaven, gotta D-I-E
You gotta put on your coat and T-I-E
Wanna get the rabbit out of the L-O-G
You gotta make a cold motion like D-O-G
Like D-O-G, like D-O-G, yeah.

Well, I got a good woman, what's the matter with me?
What makes me wanna love every woman I see?
I was triflin' when I met her now I'm triflin' again
And every woman she sees looks like the place I came in.
Looks like the place I came in place I came in.

I got my name painted on my shirt
I ain't no ordinary dude
I don't have to work
I don't have to work...

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:59 pm

Anyone ever heard THIS one? A Sad abd beautiful song by a brilliant lyricist. Note the rhyming of canyon with companion...and doin' it with ruin it.

Three Martini Lunch
by Graham Parker

I live near Hollywood out in the Canyon
It's a good life if you're winnin' it's a killer if you're not
My wife up and left last night, couldn't stand another fight
The studio boss fired me, my future's been shot by

Chorus
The Three Martini Lunch
Things will get better soon, I gotta hunch
The three martini lunch, wasting another afternoon
Punching a hole in my life

I came from the backwoods my prospects seemed real good
For actor or director the future looked bright
But I ran in with a bad crowd and since then it's just been down
Alone in the Canyon my only companion

Chorus

I know what they're saying yeah I'll never get back again
I pushed my luck this time and I'm on the skids
But I know what I'm doing I just can't stop doing it
Me and my companion, hell bent to ruin it

Chorus

Coda
Wasting another afternoon
Punching a hole in my life
Wasting another afternoon
Punching a hole in my life

Post by **lucimay** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:22 am

Wond'ring aloud
how we feel today.
Last night sipped the sunset
my hands in her hair.
We are our own saviours
as we start both our hearts beating life
into each other.
Wond'ring aloud
will the years treat us well.
As she floats in the kitchen,
I'm tasting the smell
of toast as the butter runs.
Then she comes, spilling crumbs on the bed
and I shake my head.
And it's only the giving
that makes you what you are.

Post by **balon!** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:39 am

Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head by Gorillaz

(Talking)
Once upon a time at the foot of a great mountain, there was a town where the people known as Happyfolk lived.(Chorus in background humming)Their very existence a mystery to the rest of the world, obscured as it was by great clouds. Here they played out their peaceful lives, innocent of the litany of excess and violence that was growing in the world below. To live in harmony with the spirit of the mountain called Monkey was enough. (Chorus stops humming) Then one day Strangefolk arrived in the town. They came in camouflaged, hidden behind dark glasses, and no one noticed them; they only saw shadows. You see, without the truth of the eyes, the Happyfolk were blind.

(Singing)
Falling out of aeroplanes and hiding out in holes
Waiting for the sunset to come, people going home
Jump out from behind them, and shoot them in the head
Now everybody dancing the dance of the dead
The dance of the dead
The dance of the dead.

(Talking)
(Chorus humming in background) In time, the Strangefolk found their way into the higher reaches of the mountain, and it was there that they found the caves of unimaginable sincerity and beauty. By chance, they stumbled upon the place where all good souls come to rest. (Chorus stops humming) The Strangefolk, they coveted the jewels in these caves above all things, and soon they began to mine the mountain, it's rich seam fueling the chaos of their own world. Meanwhile, down in the town, the Happyfolk slept restlessly, their dreams invaded by shadowy figures digging away at their souls. Every day, people would wake and stare at the mountain. Why was it bringing darkness into their lives? (Chorus humming in background) And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear, bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful for, they knew that soon the Monkey would stir from its deep sleep. (Chorus stops humming) Then there came a sound. Distant first, it grew into castrophany so immense it could be heard far away in space (echoes). There were no screams. There was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken. There was only fire. And then, nothing.

(Singing)
Oh, little town in U.S.A
The time has come to see
Oh nothing you believe you are
But where were you when it all came down on me
Did you call me now?

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:17 pm

Husker Du - She Floated Away

With her grandmother's face and her father's brown eyes
Her own force of will to her mother's surprise
A whole look about her that says that she may
She lifted her arms and she floated away

She floated away, she floated away
She lifted her arms and she floated away
She don't give a damn what the other girls say
She lifted her arms and she floated away

"Let me talk to you mother," she tried to confess
"Go ahead honey and wear the white dress
Don't let traditions go stand in your way"
She lifted her arms and she floated away

Well a man has two reasons for things that he does
The first one is pride and the second one is love
All understandings must come by this way
She lifted her arms and she floated away.

That is my FAVORITE Husker Du song!

Post by **lucimay** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:58 am

Lysistrata, open up the bedroom door
What is the matter, ain't you in love with me no more?
I enlisted in the army today,
One more time before I march away
Make me feel like a big strong man
You say you don't care about my pride,
You love me too much just to let me die,
And you won't let me come inside
unless I don't go to war no more

Lysistrata, little boys like to have their fun,
And you know I gotta put on my colors and get my gun
Every able bodied man that I know,
every patriot is packed to go
Won't you give me a last goodbye
I'll be sent off to a distant land,
to spill my blood upon some foreign sand,
And I may die by an enemy's hand
And then I won't go to war no more

Send the boys all back to the farm
Tell the troops it was a false alarm,
'Cause if I die I want to be in your arms,
And so I won't go to war, no I won't go to war,
said I won't go to war no more

(Todd Rundgren's version of Aristophanes' play)

Post by **danlo** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:36 am

This is all basically one song , so...

I CAN´T FEEL NOTHING (Part 1)

Stand near me baby
Trying to find myself
I'm looking out the window
Seeing no one else
I can't remember
Whether it's night or day
My mind is burning
And it don't feel right

No, I can't feel nothing
I can't feel nothing, no

Thinking of oceans
Birds in the sky
A feeling's coming
But it just ain't right
Skys fly to next stars
Winking at the night
The orange worlds are sinking
My love's (?) burning bright

I can't feel nothing
(4 times)

AS THE MOON SPEAKS (To The Waves Of The Sea)

Listen, jump on a moonbeam and ride
Ride it, glide it all the way

*As the moon speaks
To the waves of the sea
An open ocean relic
Of the times that used to be
Many years have passed
Since your vision came to me
And I think of you only
As the moon speaks to the sea

ASTRAL LADY

Astral lady, girl (how) I love you
Gonna get you making time (Gone, I catch you making time)
Silk is ultra (Silky sultress) high above all
That is out of time (line?)

AS THE MOON SPEAKS (Return)

*(repeat)

Memories have only open space to give
And as I think to the past
There's nothing left to see
So future man open your arms to me
Let me hear the wisdom
As the moon speaks to the sea

I CAN'T FEEL NOTHlNG (Part 2)

I can't feel nothing
(4 times)
Lalalalala
(4 times)

Ah, here it comes
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
You know I can't feel nothing
Ah you push me all the time
You know, you know
You know I can't
Oh, you're looking really fine
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
But it's kinda groovin' (Bodies kind of groovy)
Ah, you're grooving all the time
Ah, you're looking good
Ah, you're looking so fine
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah

-Captain Beyond '73

Post by **Plissken** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:59 pm

I really should get out of the 'Tank more often...

I love this one more the older it gets - it just gets more and more prophetic!

CHRISTIAN MILITIA
(Sullivan/Morrow) 1983

There's a witch hunt coming, screaming out on it's rebirth
There's a crusade coming, Hellfires back here on earth
See the light in their eyes shine, listen to their words like swords
The Christian militia is marching now

There's a witch hunt coming, born out of all the American fears
There's a new purge coming, an inquisition for all of us here
Hold onto your sanity as best you can
While some Hitler claims to speak for the Son of Man
The Christian militia is marching now

Hatred makes the adrenaline flow
Stir up the fire watch it grow
Everybody loves a righteous cause
Old lives forgotten in holy wars
Everything forgotten in holy wars

There's a nightmare coming, shut up your doors close your mind
There's a nightmare coming - Born Again, born again blind
The girls show the way, then show us their legs
With American showbiz razzmatazz
With sex in one hand and a gun in the other, Christ returns
The right-wing respectable clampdown clan
Find their figure head in a holy man

Here come the Christians an hysterical mob
Worshipping the Devil in the name of God
Worshipping the Devil in the name of God

Post by **Plissken** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:01 pm

And on the softer side:

Elvis Costello - Indoor Fireworks

We play these parlour games
We play at make believe
When we get to the part where I say that I'm going to leave
Everybody loves a happy ending but we don't even try
We go straight past pretending
To the part where everybody loves to cry

[Chorus:]
Indoor fireworks
Can still burn your fingers
Indoor fireworks
We swore we were safe as houses
They're not so spectacular
They don't burn up in the sky
But they can dazzle or delight
Or bring a tear
When the smoke gets in your eyes

You were the spice of life
The gin in my vermouth
And though the sparks would fly
I thought our love was fireproof
Sometimes we'd fight in public darling
With very little cause
But different kinds of sparks would fly
When we got on our own behind closed doors

[Chorus]

It's time to tell the truth
These things have to be faced
My fuse is burning out
And all that powder's gone to waste
Don't think for a moment dear that we'll ever be through
I'll build a bonfire of my dreams
And burn a broken effigy of me and you

Post by **Esmer** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:57 am

"Running Up That Hill"

It
doesn't
hurt me Do
you want to feel
how it feels Do you
want to know, know that
it doesn't hurt me Do you
want to hear about the deal
I'm making You It's you and me
And if I only couldI'd make a deal
with God And I'd get him to swap our
places Be running up that road Be running
up that hill Be running up that building Say if
I only could oh...You don't want to hurt me But
see how deep the bullet lies Unaware I'm tearing
you asunder Oh there is thunder in our hearts Is
there so much hate for the ones we love Tell me
we both matter don't we You It's you and me It's
you and me, you won't be unhappy And if I only
could I'd make a deal with god And I'd get him to
swap our places Be running up that road Be running
up that hill Be running up that building If I only could...
You It's you and me It's you and me, you won't be unhappy
Come on baby, come on darling Let me steal this moment from
you now Come on angel, come on, come on darling Let's exchange
the experience, oh...And if I only could I'd make a deal with God And
I'd get him to swap our places Be running up that road Be running up that
hill With no problems...And if I only could Be running up that hill With no problems.

Hounds of Love Written by Kate Bush

Post by **stonemaybe** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:12 am

from 'freak scene' by Dinosaur Jr

Sometimes I don't thrill you
Sometimes I think I'll kill you
Just don't let me fuck up, will you
Cos when I need a friend, it's still you

Oh, what a mess!

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:12 pm

Bob Mould : New #1

you, yeah, you always haul my ball and chain right
to there, the place where i get lost inside of
you, yeah, i see your face and hear your voice right
through that which seems so hopeless and confusing
sometimes i try too hard to separate the
good times from sadness that we've had together
balancing, i need to keep it all in some perspective
calm me down, i need you more than you will ever comprehend
i don't want this to end / i can't lose one more friend
i go through my regrets and i return the compliments and
hope i find that innocence, i've got to be here no matter what happens
slow down, you say that time will tell the story, it
goes around, but no one else could know what's here
between us, i sense this tension that i know so
well, but the calm i feel is being with you, near you constantly
i can't wash this away / it's here to stay
i need to cleanse my soul, these thoughts will make me lose control
so if i lose control, don't leave me, you've got to be here, no matter what happens
trust me, i'm here for you with good intentions
trust in me, despite some times when i don't trust
myself, in myself, in my head, in my own confusion
my confusion gets the best of me, my illusions set me free
free to dream about what i really need to set me
free, is it you, is it me, what can i do to set you
free, to be real, to be with me when i need you
are you listening, are you listening to me
forgive me when i lose control (sometimes i forget myself)
forgive me for the thoughts i have (sometimes i think just like you)
maybe i can't trust myself (i know that i can trust in you)
but i can't keep it to myself (i feel just like you)

Kevin's Watch

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Favorite lyrics?