Favorite lyrics?

[Endymion9]

I've been listening to that one and Right Down the Line a lot lately, Kat. Great tune.

[stonemaybe]

My, brother, knows, Karl Marx,
He met him eating mushrooms in the peoples park,
He said 'What do you think about my manifesto?'
'I like a manifesto, put it to the test-o.'

Took it straight down to meet the anarchist's party.
I met a groovy guy, he was arty farty,
He said 'I know a little latin man a cus man a kai'
I said 'I don't know what it means' he said 'neither do I'

Eat natural foods, bathe twice daily,
Fill your nostrils up with gravy.
Don't drink tea and don't drink coffee.
Cover your chin in yorkshire toffee.

Dancing in the disco, bumper to bumber,
Wait a minute, where's me jumper, ( x4 )

Dancing at the disco, bumper to bumber,
Wait a minute, where's me jumper ? ( x5 )
Oh no.
Dancing at the disco, go, go, go.
Dancing at the disco, oh no, oh no, oh no.
Dancing at the disco, go, go, go.
Dancing at the disco, oh no, oh no.
It's alright to say things can only get better,
You haven't lost your brand new sweater.
I know I had it on when I had my tea,
And I'm sure I had it on in the lavatory.
Oh no.
Dancing in the disco, go, go, go.
Dancing in the disco, oh no, oh no.
Dancing in the disco, bumper to bumper,
Wait a minute, where's me jumper ? ( x5 )
It's alright to say things can only get better,
You haven't lost your brand new sweater.
Pure new wool, and perfect stitches,
Not the type of jumper that makes you itches
Oh no.
Dancing in the disco, go, go, go.
Dancing in the disco, oh no, oh no.
And my mother, will be so, so angry.
And my brother, will be so, so angry.
And my girlfriend, will be so, so angry.
And my dog, will be so, so angry.
Cos I was dancing at the disco, bumper to bumper.
Wait a minute, where's me jumper ( x5 )
Oh no !

The Sultans of Ping FC 'Where's Me Jumper'

[Seareach]

...and now it's time for a bit of Buffy The Musical!


Buffy:Every single night the same arrangement
I go out and fight the fight.
Still I always feel the strangest strangement
Nothing here is real, nothing here is right.
I've been making shows of trading blows
just hoping no one knows
That i've been going through the motions
walking through the part.
Nothing seems to penetrate my heart

I was always brave and kind of rightous,
Now I find I'm wavering.
Crawl out of your grave you'll find this fight,
just doesn't mean a thing.

Vamp: She ain't got that swing

Buffy: Thanks for noticing!

Vamps/Demon: She does pretty well with things from hell
but lately we can tell she's been going through the motions.
Faking it somehow.
She's not even half the girl she....ow

Buffy: Will I stay this way forever?
Sleep walk through my life's endeavor.

Hot Guy: How can i repay you...?

Buffy: whatever!
I don't want to be...
going through the motions,
loosing all my drive
I can't even see, if this is really me
and i just want to be....
Alive!

[Krazy Kat]

I've been listening to that one and Right Down the Line a lot lately, Kat. Great tune.

I had a listen to RDTL on the Utube=(title/HD AUDIO-BIOGRAPHY), which has superb high definition picture/painting stills.

Odd thing is - @1min3sec, there's a picture of a guy and a girl in a rowing-boat. I would've posted the picture but Windows Media Player won't capture it because it's a wav.file, not a dvd. Interesting thing is that hitting pause as the picture changes to the next picture just as the bottom of the frame cuts the horizon will give the illusion that the rain soaked road has become a river.
Well, I guess you'd have to be pretty bored to check it out.
And besides, why am I telling you this?
Very strange...

A long time ago I borrowed a book from the library. Paintings of fantasy/surrealism. The only pic I can remember from that book was of a guy laying in a rowing boat fast asleep. He was in a classical pose, head flung back deep in a dream with one arm hanging over the side, his hand rested in the grass. The boat was in the woods and it had been there a long time. It was so weather beaten most of it had rotted away and had sunk into the earth.
The reason I remembered that picture was that it had always had a haunting effect on me - so much so in fact that I've often tried to translate the picture into a short story. I could just never tell who the man was, where he was going, or why he had fallen into an enchanted sleep. Until now...

...It's like his eyes have opened, the dream is over, and he has returned home to his woman where he belongs.

sorry if this doesn't make much sense, I just felt compelled to tell someone about it.

[Seareach]

Long time since I listened to some of this album...coz I only ever listen to it when I'm like "this". ... <sigh>

But this one goes out to someone near and dear to me. Thanks, honey, for telling me to "Shut the f**k up." Topped off a good old 10 minute "conversation" with you...

THE TRIAL

The Trial Lyrics by Pink Floyd
Good morning, Worm your honor.
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature;
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!

I always said he'd come to no good
In the end your honor.
If they'd let me have my way I could
Have flayed him into shape.
But my hands were tied,
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder.
Let me hammer him today?

Crazy,
Toys in the attic I am crazy,
Truly gone fishing.
They must have taken my marbles away.
Crazy, toys in the attic he is crazy.

You little shit you're in it now,
I hope they throw away the key.
You should have talked to me more often
Than you did, but no! You had to go
Your own way, have you broken any
Homes up lately?
Just five minutes, Worm your honor,
Him and Me, alone.

Baaaaaaaaaabe!
Come to mother baby, let me hold you
In my arms.
M'lud I never wanted him to
Get in any trouble.
Why'd he ever have to leave me?
Worm, your honor, let me take him home.

Crazy,
Over the rainbow, I am crazy,
Bars in the window.
There must have been a door there in the wall
When I came in.
Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy.

The evidence before the court is
Incontrovertible, there's no need for
The jury to retire.
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
Of someone more deserving
Of the full penalties of law.
The way you made them suffer,
Your exquisite wife and mother,
Fills me with the urge to defecate!

Since, my friend, you have revealed your
Deepest fear,
I sentence you to be exposed before
Your peers.
Tear down the wall!

[Seareach]

See her come down, through the clouds
I feel like a fool
I aint got nothing left to give
Nothing to lose

So come on Love, draw your swords
Shoot me to the ground
You are mine, I am yours
Lets not fuck around

Cause you are, the only one
Cause you are, the only one

I see them snakes come through the ground
They choke me to the bone
They tie me to their wooden chair
Here are all my songs

So come on Love, draw your swords
Shoot me to the ground
You are mine, I am yours
Lets not fuck around

Cause you are, the only one
Cause you are, the only one

The only

Cause you are, the only one
Cause you are, the only one

The only one
The only one
The only one
The only one

So come on Love, draw your swords
Shoot me to the ground
You are mine, I am yours
Lets not fuck around

The only

[Cagliostro]

Manchild - Eels

And every time you crave for me i'm here
And anything you hunger for i'll share
And i will be quietly standing by
While slowly i am dying inside

Hold me in your arms
And let me be the one
Who can feel like i am a child in love

Every time i talk to you you're down
And every time you need a laugh i'm around
And when you forget i'm here i'm not
It isn't really me that you forgot

Hold me in your arms
And let me be the one
Who can feel like i am a child in love

Whisper now and tell me how
You'll watch me and tell me
Somehow i'm gonna be alright

[Lord Zombiac]

they’re gonna steal my diamonds and murder all my friends
they wanna throw me to the wolves they want my will to bend
they poison their own fountain there’s fire on the mountain for them
they’re gonna steal my diamonds i hear them hone their knives
they’re gonna cut my heart out and feed it to their wives
they tamper with their fortune they take too many portions of lives
but i know the secrets i know the art
i memorized the map by heart
i talk to the forest stars hear what i say
i’ll take the diamonds and go away
they pay the devil but he lost the key
i can make hell bow down to me
they can be pompous but i talked to god
and heaven is where all treasures are
they’re gonna steal my diamonds i hear their clashing swords
they try to catch a leprechaun to lead them to his hoard
they burn their own village
they purchase their own pillage o lord
they’re gonna steal my diamonds and murder all my friends
they always kill the prophets their ways will never mend
they poison their own fountain
there’s fire on the mountain for them
but i know the secrets i know the art
i memorized the map by heart
i talk to the forest stars hear what i say
i’ll take the diamonds and go away
they pay the devil but he lost the key
i can make hell bow down to me
they can be pompous but i talked to god
and heaven is where all treasures are

[Lord Zombiac]

I'm afraid the mod on this forum misunderstood my post. These are not my favorite lyrics, these are my lyrics for my music. I should perhaps post further lyrics under "hall of gifts."

[lucimay]

the weakerthans - sun in an empty room

Now that the furniture's returning to its goodwill home
With dishes and last week's paper
Rumors and elections,
Crosswords, our unending wars
The black on our fingers smeared the ink on every door pulled shut
Now that the last month's rent is scheming with the damage deposit

Take this moment to decide (sun in an empty room)
If we meant it, if we tried (sun in an empty room)
Or felt around for far too much (sun in an empty room)
For things that accidentally touched (sun in an empty room)

Hands that we nearly hold with pennies for the GST
The shoulders we lean our shoulders into on the subway, mutter an apology
The shins that we kick beneath the table, that reflexive cry
The faces we meet one awkward beat too long and terrified

Know the things we need to say (sun in an empty room)
We'd said already anyways (sun in an empty room)
By parallelograms of light (sun in an empty room)
On walls that we repainted white (sun in an empty room)

Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room
Sun in an empty room

Take eight minutes and divide (sun in an empty room)
By ninety million lonely miles (sun in an empty room)
Watch the shadow cross the floor (sun in an empty room)
We don't live here anymore (sun in an empty room)

[dANdeLION]

I'm afraid the mod on this forum misunderstood my post.

I didn't misunderstand; you didn't describe. And yes, the Hall of Gifts would be the proper place for your poetry.

[Seareach]

Angus & Julia Stone - Hold On

And I'm waiting for the day
I know you've got your part
And I'm waiting for the day
I know you'll have the heart

And I'm hoping that you'll say
That you loved me all this time
But it turns out just the same
And you break apart the things I had

Hold on, what did you say that for?
Hold on, what did you say that for?
Hold on, what do you take me for?
Hold on, what do you take me for?

And I'm waiting for the day
Inside my mother's clothing store
And I'm waiting for the day
What am I waiting for?

Hold on, what did you say that for?
Hold on, what did you say that for?
Hold on, what do you take me for?
Hold on, what did you say that for?

[lorin]

Like a Rock
Bob Seger

Stood there boldly
Sweatin' in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
I'd never felt that strong
Like a rock

I was eighteen
Didn't have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock

My hands were steady
My eyes were clear and bright
My walk had purpose
My steps were quick and light
And I held firmly
To what I felt was right
Like a rock

Like a rock, I was strong as I could be
Like a rock, nothin' ever got to me
Like a rock, I was something to see
Like a rock

And I stood arrow straight
Unencumbered by the weight
Of all these hustlers and their schemes
I stood proud, I stood tall
High above it all
I still believed in my dreams

Twenty years now
Where'd they go?
twenty years
I don't know
sit and I wonder sometimes
Where they've gone

And sometimes late at night
When I'm bathed in the firelight
The moon comes callin' a ghostly white
And I recall
recall

Like a rock. standin' arrow straight
Like a rock, chargin' from the gate
Like a rock, carryin' the weight
Like a rock

Like a rock, the sun upon my skin
Like a rock, hard against the wind
Like a rock, I see myself again
Like a rock

[Cagliostro]

Shriekback - Faded Flowers

This is the sound of poisons
The sickness no one knows
No one is crying for us this time
Our shapes are blurring under miracles of snow
Weave a circle round him three times
You have to plan your moves at these times
Our hearts are breaking
One more song to go

Chorus
These eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
These hands I kiss
Tragic as anything
These eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
All splash and hiss
Beyond my measuring

Only the anacrucis
The main event remains
Shameful and naked, out there in the
Great cold outdoors
We have to learn these things again
Bathe in this incandescent glow
The leap to something I don't know
There is no doubt upon us when
The greasy men come back again

Chorus
These eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
These hands I kiss
Tragic as anything
These eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
All splash and hiss
Beyond my measuring
These faded flowers
Precious as memory
A veil of cloud
Correct as energy
We had some good machines
But they don't work no more
I loved you once
Don't love you anymore

[Cail]

Iron Maiden - Dream of Mirrors

Don't know why I feel this way, have I dreamt this time, this place?
Something vivid comes again into my mind
And I think I've seen your face, seen this room, been in this place
Something vivid comes again into my mind


All my hopes and expectations, looking for an explanation
Have I found my destination? I just can't take no more


The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true


Think I've heard your voice before, think I've said these words before
Something makes me feel I just might lose my mind
Am I still inside my dream? is this a new reality
Something makes me feel that I have lost my mind


All my hopes and expectations, looking for an explanation
Coming to the realization that I can't see for sure



I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, please save me from myself

The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true


I get up put on the light, dreading the oncoming night
Scared to fall asleep and dream the dream again
Nothing that I contemplate, nothing that I can compare
To letting loose the demons deep inside my head


Dread to think what might be stirring, that my dream is reoccurring
Got to keep away from drifting, saving me from myself



I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself

Lost in a dream of mirrors, lost in a paradox
Lost and time is spinning, lost a nightmare I retrace
Lost a hell that I revisit, lost another time and place
Lost a parallel existence, lost a nightmare I retrace



I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself


I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself
I only dream in black and white, I only dream cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white, to save me from myself

The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true

[Krazy Kat]

From the King Crimson recording, Discipline



Elephant Talk

Talk, it's only talk
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers,
Articulate announcements
It's only talk

Talk, it's only talk
Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, boulderdash, ballyhoo
It's only talk
Back talk

Talk talk talk, it's only talk
Comments, cliches, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat,
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
It's only talk
Cheap talk

Talk, talk, it's only talk
Debates, discussions
These are words with a D this time
Dialogue, dualogue, diatribe,
Dissention, declamation
Double talk, double talk

Talk, talk, it's all talk
Too much talk
Small talk
Talk that trash
Expressions, editorials, expugnations, exclamations, enfadulations
It's all talk
Elephant talk, elephant talk, elephant talk

[StevieG]

I think I might have posted these lyrics in the past... Paul Kelly is an Aussie icon, and he's doing an "A-Z" tour of his songs over 4 nights! Friggin awesome!

Every Fucking City

We argued on the channel train to Paris
The vin rouge helped us make it sweet again
But by the time that we got down to Lyon
Everything I said was wrong and you cursed me in the rain
We split up for a while in Barcelona
We met up six days later in Madrid
I was hoping that the break would make things go a little better for us
And for a little while it almost did
Now I'm in a bar in Copenhagen
And i'm trying hard to forget your name
And I'm staring at the label on a bottle of cerveza
And every fucking city feels the same

You said to call you when I got to London
A French girl told me that you'd left a note
I said to her 'I like your accent' and she thought I sounded funny
So we ended up drinking in Soho
Foolishly I followed you to Dublin
Like a ghost I walked the streets of Temple Bar
And all the bright young things were throwing up their Guinness in the gutters
And once I thought I saw you from afar
Now I'm in a nightclub in Helsinki
And they're playing La Vida Loca once again
And I can't believe I'm dancing to this crap but I'm a chance here
And every fucking city sounds the same

At a cafe in the port of Amsterdam
An E-mail from you said you'd gone to Rome
For a minute I thought maybe but my funds were running low
And anyway it sounded like you weren't alone
So I headed north until I got to Hamburg
A chilly city suits a troubled soul
And on the Reeperbahn I paid a woman far too much
To kick me out before I'd even reached my goal
Now I'm in a restaurant in Stockholm
And the waiter here wants me to know his name
And I can order sandwiches in seven different languages
But every fucking city looks the same
Arriverderci, au revoir, aufwiedersen, hasta la vista baby
Yeah, every fucking city's just the same

[Endymion9]

Might have some of these wrong, as had to get them from listening. But they are close anyway.

"Devil in You"
The Watson Twins


At Penny's the times when we would run wild
And the pressure of all these things been getting me down
But I know myself better than I used to
And I have some type of respect for the things that I do
Don't you think that you should come more now
Put the cloth in the car before it tears you down

Well the devil in you tried to tell me what to do I don't think so
Well the devil in you tried to tell me what to do I don't think so

At Penny's the time for me to disappear
To pack my bags and all my reckless fear
Well the wheels can drive me past the edge of town
Take the reins from this driving horse that runs wild

Well the devil in you tried to tell me what to do I don't think so
Well the devil in you tried to tell me what to do I don't think so

She'll be running wild
She'll be running wild
You'll be coming round

Well the devil in you tried to tell me what to do I don't think so
Well the devil in you tried to tell me what to do I don't think so
Well the devil...
Well the devil in you tried to tell me what to do I don't think so

[Cagliostro]

Jill Sobule - Angel/Asshole

You are the angel
I am the asshole
I am the one that caused a trillion tears
And no one wants to hear
But I feel bad

I waited for the right time
Whatever is the right time
To tell someone that you don't love them the same
And I know it sounds so lame
But I feel bad

All our friends
Take your side
They don't understand my crime
And I'm serving my time
As you grow more beautiful

You are the good one
I am the bad guy
I'm not the one the poets write in blood for
I'm not worthy of a song
But I feel bad

I've been dumped
Kicked to the curb
Oh yes it hurts
But it always passes
Then you grow
And then you'll know
That you're better off alone

Without the asshole
You are the angel
Believe me when I say
I feel so bad

Oh believe me when I say
I feel bad

[Orlion]

After the turn of the century
In the clear blue skies over Germany
Came a roar and a thunder men had never heard
Like the screaming sound of a big war bird

Up in the sky, a man in a plane,
Baron Von Rictophen was his name
Eighty men tried and eighty men died
Now they're buried together on the countryside


Chorus:
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score
Eighty men died trying to end that spree
Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany

In the nick of time, a hero arose,
A funny looking dog with a big black nose
He flew into the sky, to seek revenge,
But the Baron shot him down- "Curses, foiled again!"

Chorus

Now Snoopy had sworn that he'd get that man,
So he asked the Great Pumpkin for a new battle plan
He challenged the German to a real dogfight
While the Baron was laughing, he got him in his sight

The Bloody Red Baron was in a fix,
He tried everything but he'd run out of tricks
Snoopy fired once, then he fired twice
And that Bloody Red Baron went spinning out of sight

Chorus