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Departments => Music => Topic started by: Fellfrosch on July 23, 2003, 07:10:00 PM
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Just a random assortment of any song lyrics that you happen to find funny, profound, interesting, well-formed, or anything else. You need not provide context or even an artist, unless you want to. I'll start with that old classic...
25 or 6 to 4
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"If you walk without rhythm, you won't attract the worm".
Nicked from dune, its in.... cant remember the name now. The one with christohper walker(?) in the suit dancing.
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Its that Fatboy Slim song, and it's Walken.
They Might Be Giants- "Four of Two"
-"I lay my head down on the sidewalk so in case she was coming I would have a better view/but no one was there so I streched out and closed my eyes for a second or two/It was four minutes of two.
At once I awoke to a futuristic world with flying cars and gigantic metal bugs/I grown a beard, it was long and white.
But I knew that the girl would be coming very soon for though everything had changed there was still that clock, and it still said four of two!"
Long winded, yes. Good song, very.
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ick, Chicago.
/me counteracts the bad vibe.
"It's 1 o'clock and time for lunch. Dum de dum de dum dum."
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From the smash hit play "People Are Wrong" with John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants
-"Damn, rewind, where is this thing going?
Damn, rewind, we all want to know!"
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The Most Venerable Beatles, "A Day in the Life:"
And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all.
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
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"I think of the states across this great nation.
I think of the laws made in Washington D.C.
I think of the ones I consider my favorites.
I think of the people who are working for me.
Some civil servants are just like my loved ones;
they work so hard and they try to be strong.
I'm a lucky guy to live in my building.
They all need buildings to help them along.
It's over there, it's over there!
My buidling has every convenience.
It's gonna make life easy for me.
It's gonna be easy to get things done.
I'm gonna relax, along with my loved ones..."
The Talking Heads, from Don't Worry About the Government.
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All from MC Frontalot tracks, which I've been listening to a lot recently. In almost every track of his, I find one rhyme that is just really clever or tight.
"The MC humble conduit to nerdcore flow"
"I can travel in this manner over water to wherever.
If the bonds hold tight, let's take a hike to honalulu
and you'll be whistlin' the praises of the float bridge too."
"I shall not Front a little cos I'm Frontalot.
Climbed Mount Sinai, got high at the top.
Blew a cloud straight up, and the voice that I heard
it said "You were born to front." I said "word""
"yo, the monker is MC Frontalot,
got a +1 bag of Nerdcore Hip-Hop"
All of the track "Special Delivery"
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Waiting in the front yard
Sittin' on a log
Single shot rifle and a one-eyed dog
Yon come my kin in the pale moonlight
Louisiana Saturday Night
By Alabama
Poetry in motion, man.
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What do you get when somebody decides to write a musical about the use of gunboat diplomacy in the westernization of Japan? You get a very weird musical. But when the somebody who decides to write happens to be Stephen Sondheim, you get one of the most finely crafted works of art I've ever seen. This is a quick selection in which the British show up and demand trading rights, portrayed in a pastiche of Gilbert and Sullivan. These rhymes and meters work so perfectly it's like singing a crossword puzzle.
"Hello, I come with letters from her majesty Victoria
who, learning how you're trading now, sang "Hallelujah Gloria,"
and sent me to convey to you her positive euphoria
as well as little gifts from Britain's various emporia.
"These letters do contain a few proposals to your Emperor,
which if, of course, you won't endorse, will put her in a temper, or
more happily, should you agree, will serve to make her placider--
at least 'til I am followed by a permanent ambassador.
"Her majesty considers the arrangements to be tentative,
until we ship a proper diplomatic representative.
We don't foresee that you will be the least bit argumentative,
so please ignore the Man of War we brought as a preventative."
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Bwahahaha. I love those lyrics :D Gooooo british diplomancy! :P
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"These angels wings still kick up dust." - Peter Gabriel
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"...and like a sinner before the gates of heaven, I'll come crawling on back to you."--Jim Steinman, sung my Meat Loaf.
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"At slow speed we all seem focused, in motion we seem wrong. In summer we can taste the rain."
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When everything is gone, there's nothing there to fear.
This world cannot bring me down, because I'm already here.
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When everything is gone, there's nothing there to fear.
This world cannot bring me down, because I'm already here.
I, too, dig the southern rock band of 3 Doors Down. I should have checked for them at the music store today.
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She thinks she's Edith Head or Helen Gurley Brown or someother cultural figure we don't know a lot about.
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She thinks she's Edith Head or Helen Gurley Brown or someother cultural figure we don't know a lot about.
I think thats from "Edison Museum" by TMBG, right? Am I right?
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Right on the band, wrong about the title. The song is actually "She Thinks She's Edith Head" which starts to make a vauge sort of sense if you think about it. (ha! I funny!.... I'll shut up now)
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"This song is dedicated to my one true love. The Ladies."
-TMBG's S-E-X-X-Y from Severe Tire Damage
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She gave me nothin', now it's all I got.
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i never thought you'd be a junkie because heroin is so passe.
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Te llore todo un rio, ahora llorame un mar.
(I cried you a river, now cry me a sea.)
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"would it be ugly with you if we wrote a reminder of things you'd forget to do today otherwise? Using a green magic marker, if it's all right, on the back of your head?"
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What's the difference--die a schoolboy, die a policeman, die a spy?
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Every day should be a good day to die.
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Cookie day! Cookie day! It's a wonderful cookie day!
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David Duchovny, I want you to love me.
To kiss and to hug me;
Debrief and debug me.
David Duchovny, I know you could love me:
I'm sweet and I'm cuddly--
I'm gonna kill Scully!
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Oh yeah, he's a trooper.... a garet trooper.
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"I was talking to my friend Tommy, he's almost 6.3 years old. I said 'is it just me or has Power Rangers gone to s*** this year?' Tommy said, 'I know.'"
"All the teachers running around, looking for the children but they can't be found cuz their down at the pond playing hockey with the monkey."
(two different songs)
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I want a girl with a smooth liquidation. I want a girl with good dividends.
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Thats from Cake's "Short Skirt, Long Jacket." Thats a good one Homsar.
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"Here you come knockin' on my door
Tell me what you got on your mind?
I guess those college boys all
Went home for the summertime"
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Some day, there'll be a cure for pain. That's the day I throw my drugs away.
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And if you live by the rules how it's over then I guess that that makes sense
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If I should fall from grace with God
If I should fall from grace with God
Where no doctor can relieve me
If I'm buried 'neath the sod
But the angels won't receive me
Let me go, boys
Let me go, boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry
This land was always ours
Was the proud land of our fathers
It belongs to us and them
Not to any of the others
Let them go, boys
Let them go, boys
Let them go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry
Bury me at sea
Where no murdered ghost can haunt me
If I rock upon the waves
Then no corpse can lie upon me
It's coming up three, boys
Keeps coming up three, boys
Let them go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry
If I should fall from grace with God
Where no doctor can relieve me
If I'm buried 'neath the sod
But the angels won't receive me
Let me go, boys
Let me go, boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry
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ok, it's a couple days late, but
I wanna say
"land ho," "arg" and "vast" and "Batton down the hatches!"
I wanna have
a pegleg, hook for an arm, and two eye patches
I'll run you through then make you walk the plank, or
I'll tie you to a two-ton anchor
I'll be a pirate
I'll show no fear
I wanna be a buccaneer
(followed by dialog "What's a buccaneer?" "Too much to pay for corn!")
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Well it's not as though he's fat. No there's more to it than that.
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When you're a celebrity
It's adios reality
You can act just like a fool
And people think you're cool
Just 'cause you're on TV
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and on that note
fame is a cancer, and ego its seed
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My Farewell Email Reads
"Farewell to Thee"
I Pass Through Your World With Ease
Like Wind Blowing Through The Trees
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Wouldn't it be great if no one ever got offended?
Wouldn't it be great to freely speak your mind?
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Why do we dream when our thoughts mean nothing?
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Who'll buy the carbon paper now?
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I'm pissed off but I'm too polite,
When people break in the McDonald's line.
Mom and Dad you made me so uptight,
Gonna cuss on the mic tonight.
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"I should get
Life in Prison
For how I treated my parents
From third grade until last week"
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I thought the punishment for how you treated your parents was that you got kids of your own....
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It's from a song called "Unworthy". It's really fun.
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We only shoot when shot at. We give away what we don't need. We live for fun and freedom. We stamp out fear and greed. To create you must destroy. Smash the glass and cry, "Too much joy!"
A great idea when we were smashed: Turning anger into cash.
This from a band that compared their tours to a "hip good humor truck that all the kids come out to meet."
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Stacy's mom has got it goin' on....
Since your daddy walked out, she could use the company.
Ok, yeah, it's kinda sick in a Graduate sort of way. But I dig the song.
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"We're going to get nasty letters saying 'Where's MY water buffalo? I want a water buffalo.'"
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That is not from a song. That's from an episode. The song said things like "Everyone has a water buffalo, yours is fast, but mine is slow. Oh where'd we get them? I don't know. Oh everyone has a water buffaloooooo! I took my buffalo to the store, got his head stuck in a door."
Okay, I know, I don't have any kids so there is no excuse.
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It's in the mp3. Therefore song. Deal.
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Intra-song dialogue counts as part of the song (it's called recitativo), but I don't suppose it could technically count as lyrics....
But while we're on the subject of dialogue, here's an excerpt from My Fair Lady, from a song that's almost universally performed as speech instead of song. (My apologies in advance. I just thought we could use some extraordinarily well-phrased misogyny. http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/myfairlady/ahymntohim.htm)
Women are irrational, that's all there is to that!
There heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags!
They're nothing but exasperating, irritating,
vacillating, calculating, agitating,
Maddening and infuriating hags!
Why is thinking something women never do?
Why is logic never even tried?
Straight'ning up their hair is all they ever do.
Why don't they straighten up the mess that's inside?
(In the interest of parity, I offer the following retort from A Little Night Music.)
Men are stupid, men are vain.
Love's disgusting, love's insane.
A humiliating business.
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I insist you fix that link, just for appearance's sake.
As for mine, you could technically argue it's not part of the song, as it's in between the bits about Water Buffalos and the bit about Baby Kangaroos ("Yours is pink, but min is blue"). But it's all the same tune and part of "Silly Songs with Larry" so I'm counting it. Even if it's not lyrics, it works better here than cool quotes, imo.
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Perhaps.
"When I close my eyes
I am at the center of the sun
And I cannot be hurt
By anything this wicked world has done."
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"I am," I said
To no one there
An no one heard at all
Not even the chair
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ok, no. Those are not cool lyrics. Those lyrics essentially define why I have NEVER been able to listen to Neil Diamond. What? Was he EXPECTING the chair to answer?
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Don't worry. I didn't think they were cool. I thought they hilarious.
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I find myself growing more and more inclined to enjoy Neil Diamond. I guess you really do turn into your parents.
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no, YOU turn into your parents. I still can't listen to the easy listening crap my mom likes. On the ohter hand, I've always liked the folk music my dad listens to.
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The day I willingly listen to Barbara Streisand, just go ahead and kill me. But we're getting off track, so how about some more lyrics:
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
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okay, sorry
"Ain't no mountain high enough!"
/me ducks
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"This really blew my mind: the fact that me, an over-fared long-haired leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie."
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Look at that boy with seventeen fingers up. How do you do that kid?
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Sundown, red skies. Nobody's been around.
Sundown, blue eyes. I kinda like this part of town.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, California
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I'm just a little black raincloud, hovering under the honey tree.
I'm just a little black raincloud; pay no attention to little me.
Everyone know that a raincloud never eats honey, no not a nip.
I'm just floating around, over the ground, wondering where I will drip.
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ok, who can identify the father here...
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Oh oh! Me and my Bochilism! If you can't tell, I've learned a new word today.
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Um, Saint? This from the man who posted lyrics to a VeggieTales song? PCTCB
Fathers: Fell, Saint
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BLACK! BLACK I TELL YOU!
(hey, I never said there was anything wrong with it)
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everywhere there's lots of piggies, living piggy lives
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This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy went somewhere else,
and this little piggy went screaming all the way home.
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that last piggy met you, didn't he?
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Jackie bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime.
His sister had another one--he paid it for a lime.
He put the lime in the coconut, he drank 'em both up.
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Fat Charlie the Archangel files for divorce. He says "Well this will eat up a year of my life, and then there's all that weight to be lost."
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"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it's just me."
(Guess what my husband just started downloading episodes of...)
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Fell continues to ooze with patriarchy (mine sounds like it, but it's actually a Beatles song of the White Album) while HoM starts going for Sting? (is that right?)
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Paul Simon
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ok, fine, be that way.
Now that you mention it, I can hear the song again and yeah, that's definitely Paul's voice.
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Is Paul telling you to do things? To burn things, maybe?
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The muppets did a version of "The Lime and the Coconut," but the original is a hippie drug song. Besides, if I were using the muppet version I would have started: "Froggy bought a coconut."
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DON'T THROW FACTS AT ME!
And the only voices telling me to do things are the ones in my head. That's why I got this job. I used to be self employed... and then the voices started telling me to kill my boss.
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Okay Saint, what are you taking, and why aren't you sharing?
"I always thought he was a simple-minded okie
Well, little did I know he was the king of Karieokie!"
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Everything's up to date in Kansas City. They've gone about as far as they can go.
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Great song, HoM!
"Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire. It's all over the evening news. All about the fire and your life on the evening news."
Paul's just got so many.
"And I could say ooooooooooooooooooh, and everyone would know what I was talking about. I mean everybody would know exactly what I was talking about. Talkin' 'bout diamonds on the souls of your shoes."
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Oh, and I was reminded of this one on the radio today:
"Pardon me while I burst into flames."
And where's that last quote from, Fell? It's triggering some very faint, vague memories, but I can't quite place it.
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Soy un perdedor. I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me.
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I love all animals but they don't love me back
I tend to put them in a state of full attack
You'd think I'd pet a kitten and it would rub against me
but that doesn't ever happen;
I must be made of sweetmeat.
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It's from Oklahoma. I don't know why it came to mind, but it did.
I love my job.
He loves his job.
Pull that lever.
Sister--start the engine!
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"Piggies" is still in my head
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can take them out to dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives
To eat their bacon!
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"I wonder what it's like to be a superhero.
I wonder where i'd go
If i could fly around downtown--yeah
From some other planet,
I get this funky high on yellow sun
Boy i bet my friends will all be...
Stunned, they're stunned"
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I'm not detracting from the coolness of your lyrics, MoD. Just commenting that I always found that last little bit with the word "stunned" to be awkward in that song. I always cringed a little when I heard it.
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I think the song is supposed to be jarring in places. "Get me some" and "Don't make me want to change my . . . tone" always stand out to me.
Fuzzy helped me with this one:
I'm dreaming of a green christmas.
Cause I'm allergic to the snow.
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They got little legs and they stand so low
You got to pick 'em up just to say hello.
Short people got no reason to live.
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Stick shifts and safety belts, bucket seats have all got to go.
When I'm driving in my car, it makes my baby seem so far.
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Paranoia, paranoia, everybody's coming to get me
Just say you never met me
I'm runnin' undergroud with the moles, diggin' holes.
I hear the voices in my head,
I swear to god it sounds like they're snoring.
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Acute schizophrenia paranoia blues.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia
I've got it.
You've got it
We can't luse
Acute Schizophreia blues.
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I am not your rolling wheels, I am the highway.
I am not your carpet ride, I am the sky.
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I'll be back when the day is new, and I'll have more ideas for you. And you'll have things you want to talk about! I. Will. Too.
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If your mem'ry serves you well
We were goin' to meet again and wait
So I'm goin' to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late
No man alive will come to you
With another tale to tell
And you know that we shall meet again
If your mem'ry serves you well
This wheel's on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode !
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I'm right now listening to New Radicals - You've go the music in you, and actually paying attention to the lyrics. This song could have been written about my life.
Wake up kids
We've got the dreamers disease
Age fourteen
They got you down on your knees
So polite
You're busy still saying please
Frenemies
Who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night
We smash their mercedes-benz
First we run
And then we laugh 'til we cry
But when the night is falling
And you cannot find the light
If you feel your dream is dying
Hold tight"
"Four a.m. we ran the miracle mile
We're flat broke
But hey we do it in style
The bad rich
God's flying in for your trial
But when the night is falling
And you cannot find a friend
You feel your tree is breaking
Just bend"
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Water is all right in tea, for fish and things that swim in rivers.
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Arnold in my mind,
Arnold on the sea.
Arnold, Arnold, Arnold!
Who do we want?
ARnold!
Who did we get?
Arnold!
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Now my empty cup is as sweet as the punch.
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Let's get together and call ourselves an institution.
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Double entendre lyrics!!
I was listening to "Freak of the Week" today.
"Will you make me a promise
Stop it before we begin
Would you hold onto my hand
If I ever lose it again?"
*Detaches her hand*
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You're the cutest thing that I ever did see. I really like your peaches, want to shake your tree.
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That ain't workin',
That's the way to do it.
Money for nothin', and the chicks for free.
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And maybe you should sleep
And maybe you jsut need a friend
As clumsy as you've been
There's no one laughing.
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Promise me son, not to do the things I've done.
Walk away from trouble when you can.
It don't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek
I hope you're old enough to understand
Son, you don't have to fight to be a man.
I promised ya Dad I wouldn't do the things you done.
I walked away from trouble if I could.
Please don't think I'm weak, I didn't turn the other cheek.
Now I'm old enough to understand
Sometimes you've got to fight when you're a man.
The Coward of the County has been going through my head all morning! I hadn't heard it in a while, and now it won't leave!
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Do you like our piggy?
He's not a very nice pig but he's a BIG PIG!
(ok, yeah, this is another one of those spoken lines before the song actually starts, but they'd started the intro music, and it's part fo the track, so I'm including it)
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"Why'd I have to break in?
I only wanted to talk."
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"We've all gone crazy lately
My friends out there rolling round the basement floor"
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I propose a toast to my self control
See it crawling helpless on the floor.
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I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt nice to get out of the rain
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It's hard to be a man when there's a gun in your hand.
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I could give you a star
You can bive me one too
That way, we'd be even.
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Ah! I was just thinking of that song, Saint!
Let the handcuffs slip off your wrists
I'll let you be my chaperone
At the halfway home
I'm a full grown man
But I'm not afraid to cry
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I want this song played at my funeral
Pacing the Cage
Sunset is an angel weeping
Holding out a bloody sword
No matter how I squint I cannot
Make out what it's pointing toward
Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long
The days drip slowly on the page
And you catch yourself
Pacing the cage
I've proved who I am so many times,
The magnetic strip's worn thin
And each time I was someone else
And everyone was taken in.
Powers chatter in high places
Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
Set me to pacing the cage.
I never knew what you all wanted
So I gave you everything.
All that I could pillage
All the spells that I could sing
It's as if the thing were written
In the constitution of the age
Sooner or later you'll wind up
Pacing the cage
Sometimes the best map will not guide you
You can't see what's round the bend.
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend.
Today these eyes scan bleached-out land,
For the coming of the outbound stage
Pacing the cage...
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The history of the world, my sweet,
(Save a lot of graves, do a lot of relatives favors.)
Is who gets eaten and who gets to eat!
(Everybody shaves, so there should be plenty of flavors.)
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stick shifts
and safety belts
and bucket seats
have all got to go
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So Cake is the first band to have the same song mentioned twice, independently, on this thread. Does this make them the winners?
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I dunno, it's not the same song, but Paul Simon's "Graceland" album has been quoted from three times. I was kind of thinking of him as the winner.
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Yeah, I like Paul. He's the winner.
Of course, now that we've introduced a competitive element into the thread, people will start quoting lyrics to usurp Mr. Simon.
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My room is comfortably small
with rubber lining the walls
and there's someone always calling my name
He calls when I'm alone
and he calls when I'm not home
and he calls when I'm stuck out in the rain
I'm insane.
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The kid makes a good point: TMBG was quoted a LOT early on. But all of them by Gemm and me.
Mostly Gemm.
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Hey, whatever. It was on my mind. And don't even say it, I know what you're thinking.
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Actually we're not, but we know it's what you want us to think.
Anyway...
Gonna get in the car, drive away.
Drive so far, no one's gonna find me.
Put me foot on the gas, accelerate.
Drive so fast, no one's gonna catch me.
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All she saw was a silhouette of a gun
Far away on the other side.
He was shot six times by a man on the run
And she couldn't find how to push through
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I don't care, I'm not crazy. So get out of my head you foul beasted tooth monster!
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Woke up, got out of bed,
dragged a comb across my head.
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
and looking up,
I noticed I was late.
Found my coat, and grabbed my hat,
made the bus in seconds flat.
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
and somebody spoke
and I went into a dream.
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Otters never cry,
Cuz they always got the water in their eye.
But, baby, when I die
I
Wanna be an otter.
Otters sure can swim.
Got an otter and I named it Tim.
I sure do admire him.
I wanna be an otter.
Otters may not work,
but that doesn't make the otter a jerk.
I wanna be Tim Otter quirk.
I wanna be an otter.
You might think it's dumb
to wanna be an otter bum.
But if you don't then you're welcome to come
and be an otter.
Otters might not fly,
But they don't need to get high.
and, baby, when I die
I
wanna be an otter.
I said that when I die,
you know that when I die,
Baby when I die,
I
Wanna be
an
otter
(insert clapping)
The end.
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In a big country dreams stay with you like a lover's voice.
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"I wanted to be all you need"
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"Turkey for me
Turkey for you
Let's eat turkey
In a big brown shoe!"
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And when you come, when all the flowers are dying,
And I am dead--as dead I well may be.
You'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an ave there for me.
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave shall warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend, and tell me that you love me--
And I will sleep in peace until you come to me.
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Christmas time is here by golly,
disapproval would be folly
Deck the halls with hunks of holly;
Fill the cup, and don't say when.
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
mix the punch- drag out the Dickens.
Even though the prospect sickens,
brother, here we go again.
Relations sparing no expensil
send some useless old utensil,
or a matching pen and pencil -
(Just the thing I need. How nice.)
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Isn't that Dr. Demento? And don't you just love him?
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It's Tom Lehrer, though it has probably been played by Dr. Demento. I don't think he's written many songs of his own- a lot of the songs attributed to him were done by other ppl, just played on his show.
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For those of you with women woes...
Don't know that I will, but until I can find me
A girl that'll stay and won't play games behind me
I'll be what I am...a solitary man.
*****
I love Neil Diamond('s music.) Mostly early Neil.
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Every christmas card I write.
Every christmas card I write.
Has been stolen.
Has been stolen.
Every christmas card I write has been stolen.
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Right. That's sort of what I meant. It's like calling all tissues Kleenex.
And I'm less excited that you know that song after taking that quiz.
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MoD, is that a song? If not then what are you referring to?
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No that's not a song. I'm referring to the song that fuzzy quoted which I recognized, and which she got from an internet quiz.
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That song is also on Dr. Demento's Christmas CD, which is, unfortunately, pretty lame. There's a couple of good songs, and a lot that are far more obnoxious than funny. It does have the McKenzie Brother's Twelve Days of Christmas though - and something by Cheech & Chong called "Santa Claus and his Old Lady" that is absolutely hilarious.
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I'm offended that you think I got it from that stupid quiz. I've loved Tom Lehrer since freshman year when Ashley introduced me to him!
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I liked him first!
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Of course you did- you're older than us!
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How did she fall in love?
Tired and shaken up
Could it be hanging around's enough?
No one was fooling when they told about the sense in sensibility in moving on.
All that I see is that we live in life
Did you fail when you found that you paid the price?
Hope it wasn't lost in an honest truth
so, the past doesn't break all that we'd been through
Every little thing what you did was right
but, who knows what you did on that day you cried endlessly
Oh you cried endlessly
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Sorry fuzzy. I apologize.
HoM, I think some of the songs improve in quality if you happened to first listen to them when you were 10.
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Okay, that was redundant. . . .
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Probably. Or in the case of Cheech and Chong, if you were high when you listened to them.
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"A Christmas Tree . . . A Christmas Tree"
Yeah.
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Field full of tires that is always on fire,
To light my way home.
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Thats right I'm crazy (crazy)
Thats right I'm crazy (crazy)
Thats right I'm crazy (crazy)
But its alright (its alright)
Because I love you
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When I was young it seemed that life was so wonderful, beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, responsible, practical,
and they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, respectable, a vegetable.
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I've got a secret I've been hiding under my skin.
My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM.
So if you see me acting strangely, don't be surprised.
I'm just a man who needed someone and somewhere to hide, to keep me alive.
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At Wanamaker's and Saks and Klein's
A lesson I've been taught
You can't get alterations on a dress you haven't bought.
At any vegetable market from Borneo to Nome
You mustn't squeeze a melon till you get the melon home.
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she don't like the jokes I make
she don't like the drugs I take
she don't like the friends I got
she don't like my friends a lot
she don't like the clothes I wear
she don't like the way I stare
she don't like the tales I tell
she don't like the way I smell
but ooh-oh (oh)
the games we play
she's too good for me
she's too good for me
would she prefer if I washed myself more often than I do
would she prefer it if I took her to the opera too
I could distort myself to be the perfect man
she might prefer me as I am
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They should never give a licence to a man who drives a sleigh and plays with elves.
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"Mom says a hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hipp is a vegetarian."
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There were vampire fangs as the angels sang
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I've got the brains, you've got the looks
Let's make lots of money
You've got the brawn, I've got the brains
Let's make lots of money
You can tell I'm educated, I studied at the Sorbonne
Doctored in mathematics, I could have been a don
I can program a computer, choose the perfect time
If you've got the inclination, I have got the crime
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Hide the women and children,
Hide the groceries too.
The Great Nations of Europe are coming for you.
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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and feelin' good was easy 'nuff when he sang the blues. And feelin' good was good enough for me.
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Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee...
thanks, now the song is in my head
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If we all work together, we can get more songs stuck in more people's heads
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Women & Men have crossed the ocean / They now begin to pour / Out from the boat and up the shore / Two by two they enter the jungle / and soon they number more / Three by three as well as four by four / soon the stream of people gets wider / then it becomes a river / river becomes an ocean / carrying ships that bear / Women & Men
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Where was I? I forgot / the point that I was making / I said if I was smart that I would / save up for a piece of string / and a rock to wind the string around. / Everybody wants a rock / to wind a piece of string around. / Throw the crib doorwide / let the people crawl inside. / Someone in this town / is trying to burn their playhouse down. / They want to stop the ones who want / a rock to wind a string around. / but everybody wants a rock / to wind a piece of string around. / If I were a carpenter I'd / hammer on my piglet. I'd / collect the seven dollars and I'd / buy a big prosthetic forehead / and wear it on my real head / Everybody wants prosthetic / foreheads on their real heads.
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I had opinions that didn't matter,
I had a brain that felt like pancake batter.
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You can get the rape emphatic.
You can get the rape polite.
You can get the rape with Indians:
A very charming sight.
You can get the rape on horseback;
They'll all say it's new and gay.
So you see the sort of rape
Depends on what you pay.
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We'll turn the dust to soil
Turn the rust of hate back into passion
It's not water into wine but it's here
And it's happening
Massive but passive
To bring the peace back
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Mediocre Preidents' Song
We are the mediocre presidents!
You won't find our faces on dollars or on cents
There's Taylor, there's Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes
There's William Henry Harrison, "I died in thirty days"
We are the adequate, forgettable,
Occasionally regrettable
Caretaker presidents of the USA!
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Wow, where have I heard that before. Its from somewhere and its on the tip of my eyelash. Where?!
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The Simpsons
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I've been thinking about it
Now I understand what he said!
Heh, to follow-up on you SE I quote a TMBG song. Haha.
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Superman never made any money saving the world from Solomon Grundy
-Crash Test Dummies
Superman never made any money, but try to tell that to DC
-Ookla the Mok
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You cannot go against nature, because when you do go against nature, it's part of nature too.
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"The world looks mighty good to me
'cause Tootsie Rolls are all I see."
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If you feel a bit under the weather,
If you feel al ittle bit peeved,
Take granny's stand-by potion
For any old cough or weeze.
It 's a cure for hepatitis.
It's a cure for chronic insomnia.
It's a cure for tonsilitis and for water on the knee.
Tea in the morning, tea in the evening, tea at supper time.
You get tea when it's raining, tea when it's snowing, tea when the weather's fine.
You get tea as a midday stimulent
You get tea with your afternoon tea.
For any old ailment or disease for heaven's sake have a cuppa tea.
Whatever the situation
Whatever the race or creed
Tea knows no segregation,
No class or pedigree
It knows no motivation,
no sect or organization.
It knows no one religion
or political belief
Have a cuppa tea
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Rosie Lea.
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I'm just sitting here waiting for the train
Tomorrow I'll be waiting here again.
While the pirate in me is lost somewhere at sea.
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Papa was a rolling stone.
Wherever he laid his hat was his home.
And when he died,
All he left us was alone.
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Don't take any wooden nickles when you sell your soul.
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when do we leave?
I don't know, but I'm not bringing a box of bananas.
Oh, should I?
Yeah.
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We came. We saw. We conquered and crumbled.
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We were at the beach / everyone had matching towels. / somebody went under a dock / and there they saw a rock / it wasn't a rock / it was a rock LOBSTER!
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I never meant half of the things i said to you
So you know, there's a half that might be true
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Instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Say you realize that life moves fast
It's hard to make the good times last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
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The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one, he said.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, but still they come.
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Let me tell you 'bout the Proto-Culture
If you don't know the culture, then here's the whole structure.
We've had enough of the lackluster, trust us,
We've got the kind of games you can't rent at Blockbuster.
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And if you remain callous and obdurate, I
Will perish as he did, and you will know why.
Though I probably shall not exclaim as I die:
Willow, Tit Willow, Tit Willow
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I'm going to stay where they sleep all day,
Where they hung the jerk that invented work,
In the big rock candy mountain.
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The good guys and the bad guys, well they never work past noon around here
The sit side by side in teh cantinas, talk to señoritas, and drink warm beer.
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Can you hear what I'm saying? Can you see the parts that I'm playing? Holy man, rocker man, come on queenie. Joker man, spider man, blue-eyed meanie.
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I'm 99 for a moment
Dying for just another moment
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are
15… there's still time for you
22… I feel her too
33… you’re on your way
Every Day's a new Day
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I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping.
While my guitar gently weeps.
(did I do this one already?)
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don't know, but on a similar but unrelated note:
I was listening to mp3s last night. I have every Beatles song ever on mp3, so it's rarely surprising when they come up frequently on my playlist. i heard "Glass Onion" and then "Flying" (off Magical Mystery Tour). When Strawberry Fields started, I found it remarkable that three in a row came up, but then was disturbed because the vocals sounded weird. it was only about 2 minutes into the song when I realized I was listening to a cover by Peter Gabriel.
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It's a tune I stole from a bathroom wall
and it's the words I hear the birds sing.
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At
my tiny flat
there's just my cat
a bed and a chair
still,
I'll stick it 'til
I'm on a bill
all over Times Square
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Suggestion Diabolique
This angel always the brightest,
Oh surely will fall out of the nest,
Conscious of the falsification
And the harnessing of our reality.
There'll be no return,
No rapprochement, (coming together)
No conciliation,
Wisdom without art.
Constantly evil thing, curious,
Somber, obscure, dark, and luminous,
Vitriolic, stringent, prophetic.
He penetrated
The wheels of modern society
That hated so so much,
Hated with all his strength.
The angel would never submit
For his eyes were wide open and lit.
We brought oil where there was a fire
In this way were bound to the devil.
There'll be no return,
No rapprochement,
No conciliation,
Wisdom without art.
The tumbler stayed standing up,
All of his life he flinched not,
The tumbler stayed standing up.
Surpassing all the art,
Surpassing cinema,
Surpassing life itself.
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(since I'm playing the part of grumpy grammar police today...)
She was underwhelmed, if that's a word
I know it's not, 'cause I looked it up
That's one of those skills that I learned in my school
I was overwhelmed, and I'm sure of that one
'cause I learned it back in grade school
When I was young
She said, "You is funny"
I said, "You are funny"
She said, "Thank you"
and I said, "Nevermind"
She rolled her eyes
Her beautiful eyes
The point is not the grammar
It's the feeling
That is certainly in my heart
But not in hers
We were talkin' about people that eat meat
I felt like an ass 'cause I was one
She said, "It's okay," but I felt like
I just ate my young
She is obviously a person with a cause
I told her that I don't smoke or drink
She told me to loosen up on her way to the L.C.
She skips her classes and gets good grades
I go to my courses rain or shine
She's passin' her classes while I attend mine
She wrote out a story about her life
I think it included something about me
I'm not sure of that but I'm sure of one thing
Her spelling's atrocious
She told me to read between the lines
And tell her exactly what I got out of it
I told her affection had two F's
Especially when you're dealing with me
I usually notice all the little things
One time I was proud of it, she says it's annoying
She cursed me up and down and rolled her R's, her beautiful R's
She says I'm caught up in triviality
All I really wanna know is what she thinks of me
I think my love for her makes me miss the point
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I dreamed that world was crumbling down,
We sat on my back porch and watched it.
In my head I heard a sound
Like strangers dancing,
and oh, how I want you to know me.
Oh, how I want you to know me.
Oh, how I wish I was somebody else.
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Saddle up the horses and wear your Sunday best.
Sing your Sacred Harp, you be holier than the rest.
Fill up the room with a grand and a thunderous song,
Let it rattle out the windows, let it spill out on the lawn.
As you shout, shout your praises to the man who kissed the Lord,
To the back stabbing brother that betrayed all of this world
Your Judas!
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I can get a job,
I can pay the phone bills,
I can cut the lawn,
Cut my hair,
Cut out my cholesterol,
I can work overtime,
I can work in a mine,
I can do it all for you,
But I don't want to.
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Who sings that song, fuzzy? I want to pave my path to hell with (a.k.a. download) it. ;)
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It's by Sloan, and it's called Underwhelmed
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Flip a coin. What shall we talk about?
Heads I tell the truth
and tails, I lie.
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1)When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you's scream, I'd fight away all of your fears...
2) Baby, baby, baby, when all of your love is gone,
who will save me, from all I'm up against
out in this world
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better watch out, my diamonds are restless
feels like i got a midget hanging from my necklace
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/me gasps.
An Intelligent, on topic post! From each of you! May I recommend, dear newbies, that this be a guide for future posts. Do that, and all is forgiven.
Just to be on topic myself:
I just freeze every time you see through me, and it's over to you.
Electric Blue.
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of course I'am capable of on topic posts. quite capable in fact, especially when the topic involves religious studies or paleoanatomy, or food and cooking.... and to stay on topicand the judge said son, whats your alibi
and i spoke not a word, though it meant my life
i'd been in the arms of my best friends wife
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/me adjusts glasses and goes into editor mode
I am or I'm, not I'am. You've just apostrophed two separate words.
[/rant]
Can't help it. Sometimes I just can't suffer these things in silence.
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sorry but i dont speak english well and treas la feile! but i will attempt toimprove my grammer.
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eh, don't worry about. Just watch how some of the people here spell and you'll realize that there are people who can type, and many who can't. Those who can are obsessive about correcting, and you simply can't stop it. THey're not being mean or telling you to straighten up, just correcting. It's in their blood. Don't take offense.
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oh i dont take offense, actually i have the same problem when someone says something that isnt true, unintentionally or not, just a lil OCD...
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The correct term would be OC, because having an obsessive complusive trait is not the same as having a psychological disorder, as those with OCD have.
Oops. I guess that means that I am one of those people.
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actually i have been diagnosed with ocd but ussually i'm too add to followthrough with my correction and- OOH! look a bird!
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http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980410
I now dub thee, Fuzzy the Ferret!
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Ferret!? Dude I'm so not a ferret I mean given the chance i might eat a ferret. but I would never be a ferret, more like a brain damaged feline... although i do see where you're going with the comic strip.
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A brain damaged feline...sounds like a ferret to me.
Nevertheless, I hereby banish all non-lyric conversation from this thread. Take it outside, and no running by the pool.
I've used this lyric before, but it's become the mantra for my current job:
I had opinions that didn't matter.
I had a brain that felt like pancake batter.
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mmm... dough based goods....
oh i know you make my heart ache
but baby ya know i love you like a fat kid loves cake.
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There's got to be a heaven.
Cuz I've already done my time in hell.
and another:
I want another first kiss.
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It must be raining cause a man ain't suppose to cry...
But I look up and I don't see a cloud.
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and when they nail my pimpled bum to the cross
I'll tell them i found jesus that should throw them off
He goes by the name jesus(hay-soos) and steals hubcaps from cars
oh jesus can i borrow your crowbar
to pry these GD nails out they're beginning to hurt
crusified and all i got was this lousy t-shirt
"I cant believe it's not butter" I'll sing as I'm flogged
yhea thats what i would do if i were god.
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I'm very tempted to edit some of those words. Be advised that there are some things we don't say on this forum, TFO.
And how much did you pay for the piece of guitar that he ruthlessly smashed at the end of the show?
And how much will he pay for another guitar that he'll ruthlessly smash at the end of the next show?
And how long will the workers keep making him new ones?
As long as their soda cans are red, white, and blue ones.
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"If you love someboday better set them on fire"
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I'm sorry for the language, i thought it was okay because it was part of a song, I'll think twice next time and edit my previous post
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The fact that it was part of a song is the only thing that kept me from editing it, so you were mostly right. Just be careful in the future, and we'll all be a big happy family.
Up where the smoke is all billowed and curled,
Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world.
Where there's hardly no day, nor hardly no night
There's things half in shadow and halfway in light.
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Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you.
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In memorium to my dying Lincoln CD
I love the world and if I have to sue for custody, I will sue for custody.
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dude, that's too bad. Do you at least have a copy of "They" (collecting that album, the self title, Misc T, and a number of bonus tracks)?
Stand on your own head for a change.
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Yeah, I think I'm going to get that tonight, if the place I think has it, has it.
Put a rock in the coffee in your coffee mug. Which one of us is the one we can't trust?
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So make a move and plead the fifth 'cause ya can't plead the first.
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he was standin there all bent and gray and old
and when I looked at him and my blood ran cold
I walked up to him and said "HOW DO YOU DO!?"
"MY NAME IS SUE! NOW YOU GONNA DIE!"
A boy named sue, by johnny cash
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Anybody with a brain will tell you that you cannot win
but just ask the brainless wonder living underneath my skin
I'll tell you anything but what is true.
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eah dy oh, en oh whyn naken
eah dy oh, en ul gragagge
nemurle, karekanes.
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She had a smile that curved
She had a smile that swerved
She had a smile that swerved all over the road.
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With a face like summer and hair like fire
Could you be the one to let in?
Cause I know that's where it begins
So young in years probably end in tears
But , I don't mind
Cause happiness is so hard to find
And I can still recall the sun going in
North wind came along today
And blew my dreams away
And when she lies in the sun
She don't cover her skin
From sun that's too strong to come in
I know that's where it begins
And I know that's where it begins
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I'm gonna fight em off,
a seven nation army couldn't hold me back
They're gonna rip it off,
Taking their time right behind my back
And I'm talking to myself at night
Because I can't forget
Back and forth through my mind
Behind a cigarette
And a message coming from my eyes
Says leave it alone
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Happy Death Day to you.
I know you're flying in the blue.
We'll be together real soon now, baby, don't you worry.
Papa's got a brand new body bag for you.
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field mice, head lice, spiders in the kitchen. Don't think twice 'bout whatever keeps you itchin'. Ice water, flyswatter, gonna get you through the day
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I kew a man, his brain so small
He couldn't think of nothing at all.
He's not the same as you and me.
He doesn't dig poetry. He's so unhip that
When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas,
whoever he was.
The man ain't got no culture,
But it's alright, ma,
everybody must get soned.
Simon and Garfunkel, "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)"
a song I find delightfully ironic because on the one hand, it's talking about what awful things the contemporary culture is doing to the youth, and spends half a verse making fun of Bob Dylan. But on the other, the whole tune smacks of a Bob Dylan tune in the vein of "Like a Rolling Stone" "Stuck inside of Mobile Witht he Memphis Blues Again." heh.
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Sticks and stones
blood and bones,
Go lock your door,
I'm strong I'm sure,
I'm big and tall,
you're not, you're small,
Cause 13 years of fighting tears are over,
are over,
Cause I'm Jack, the giant killer,
I'm Jack, the giant killer.
Don't make believe
Don't move, don't breathe,
Don't laugh at me,
Do you see me,
I'll knock you down
I'll break your crown
Yesterday I was afraid but that's over,
yeah that's over.
Cause I'm Jack, the giant killer,
I'm Jack, the giant killer.
Daddy says there's nothing here,
Daddy tells me not to fear,
but Daddy's not what he appears,
There be giants here,
There be giants here.
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But their response it didn't thrill us
They locked the doors and tried to kill us
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But their response it didn't thrill us
They locked the doors and tried to kill us
...and we escaped from bad gas...
and met Jar Jar and Boss Nass...
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and Jar-Jar spat out a warning
in the words that he was forming
and Jar-Jar said Yousa gonna hate me and Lucas's gonna get some calls,
and fans will brawl,
amid the sounds of Gungans.
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"Coffee Pickles! way outsell the dill."
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Beat on the brat
Beat on the brat
Beat on the brat with a baseball bat
Oh yeah, oh yeah, uh-oh.
What can you do?
What can you do?
With a brat like that always on your back
What can you do? (lose?)
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The roads you didn't take go through rocky ground--don't they?
The choices that you make aren't all that grim.
The things I'll never see still will be around--won't they?
The man I'll never be...who remembers him?
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Hear that lonesome whippoorwill,
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by.
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry.
Did you ever see a robin weep,
When leaves began to die?
That means he's lost the will to live,
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky.
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
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I put on a fake smile / and start the evening show
the public is laughing / I guess by now they know
So climb from your high horse / and pull this freak show down
Dear Madam Barnum, I resign as clown
You said I was the master of all i surveyed / but now I'm sweeping up
the last line in your circus parade
Children are clapping / as I fall to the floor
My heart torn and broken / and they just scream for more
I'f I'm not the sole fool / who pulls his trousers down
Then dear Madam Barnum, I resign as clown.
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He said "Which is the hippies and which is the dogs?"
I said, "Beats the hell outta me, Roy."
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I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you cry
I think I thought I saw you try
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Don't just stand there... say nice things to me.
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You're treading that line again, TFO...
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sorry, I'll replace it with something else.
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I'm gonna read all that Shakespeare that they assigned me in school, and then I'll win at Othello.
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When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
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Heh, that brings to mind one of the few amusing events that happened in english over the years. You know how classes and teachers spend ages for the HSC reading a whole lot of illiteration and symbolism etc. into texts. Well, they'd been doing this to this poet and his poetry. Then they managed to get him to come in and talk to them about it. So, they prepared a whole heap of questions about symbolism etc. and when he came, asked him about them.
He told them they were talking rubbish. his answer was something like "I just wrote the poem, this other stuff is a whole lot of crap".
Kinda sums up the educational system don't it?
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I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.
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And I find it kind of funny,
I find it kind of sad,
The dreams in which I'm dying
are the best I've ever had.
I find it hard to tell you,
I find it hard to take,
when people run in circles,
it's a very, very...
Mad World....
Mad World...
-Mad World, Gary Jules (as heard in Donnie Darko)
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"trust in my self-rightiouss suicide"
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"welcome to my territory
just like a scary story
you are not free to roam
this is my home
welcome to my scary scary territory"
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I broke my promise not to write another song about you.
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rembember how you gave me poo, well I went and made lemonade out it
pass me the sugar and things will soon be well
now take look at what you've built, now are you ptoud of your decetful quilt?
sorry, the song didnt ryhme without it so I thought it would be okay to put the little star things, but it's edited
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Thanks
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ok, i think I speak for many time waster's when I point out that TMJ has the right idea of weekends with this one:
I'm gonna stay at home tonight / I really dig this book / Ain't gonna answer teh phone at all tonight /I'll teach myself how to cook
Stay at home -- stay at home / lots of invitations if I wanted 'em / Lots of cool clothes too / Nightclubs, discotheques -- got nothing for me / Why pay to be bored? Baby this is free
Friday night / All my neighbors are out / turn the stereo on if I want to / Turn it up real loud
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Some girls are bigger than others
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"I love you, you love me. I love you, so lets make a family tree."
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She's cool like a soda can sittin' on ice,
always orders sushi, only eats the rice
-Train, Save the Day
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'Got fifteen hundred bass-drum-luggin bug eyed monkeys all arriving at the station.
Old man on the back porch
And that old man is me.
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"I want something good to die for,
to make it beautiful to live"
~Queens of the Stoneage
I can Go with the Flow
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You better stop using me up.
You better stop, 'cause I've had enough,
And I'm ready to forget the reasons that keep me here.
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One light, One mind, flashing in the dark,
Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts...
-Green Day, Minority
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I saw your face in a war coloured sky.
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All I've got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth. The rest is up to you
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she looked around
at the flames eating bodies on the ground
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All I've got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth. The rest is up to you
Anything having a red guitar in the lyrics must be U2. Am I right?
Here's mine:
She was physically forgotten but then she slipped into my pocket with my car keys
She said you've taken me for granted because I please you
Wearing these diamonds...
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yeah, that's Bono's additional verse to "All Along the Watchtower." Bob obviously wrote it, Jimi made it amazing, and U2 just kinda added it in and when Bono forgets lyrics he adds in his own.
From the duet he did with Bob on "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." :
Bono: "You know I make up lyrics when I sing Bob's songs? He says he doesn't mind."
Bob: "Yeah. I do it too."
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"Hey look Gonzo! Jimmy's Buffet!"
"No Rizzo, that's Jimmy Buffet. He's recording in there. C'mon, let's see him."
"Nah. I saw a door down there that said 'Meatloaf'"
(later)
"Hey Rizzo, was there any of that meatloaf left?"
"Nah, there was some big guy in there. I guess he ate it all."
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"I'm a hungery spider, you're a beautiful butterfly"
-
"You've crossed into our territory
Take caution there's traps concealed everywhere.
We know you're here we'll take our time
We like to slit throats and it's not such a crime."
-
Sometimes good guys don't wear white
~ Minor Threat in "Sometimes Good Guys don't Wear White"
Mod: The white collar worker, or the digger in the ditch
man who's to say whos the better man
~ " " in " "
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I was there when the bear ate his hair and thought it was a candy.
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Gah, curse you Dave Matthews.
I'd like to say that I spent WAY too many hours analyzing that song in my head trying to find a deeper meaning to that line.
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Well, its really rather easy. The bear symbolizes the universe and the candy, us. When eaten the universe makes what it will of us, and in the end we really are just protein.
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carbs, sir metaphor mixer. Candy tends to have carbs, not protein.
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"It's 3am," she said. "Who are you, Matchbox 20?"
She said, "Are you getting rest?" Sarcastic, I said "Plenty."
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They say no one person can do it all but you want to in your head
But you can't be Shakespeare and you can't be Joyce
So what is left instead
You're stuck with yourself.
...
As you pass through fire try to remember its name. When you pass through fire licking at your lips you cannot remain the same. And if the builing's burning move towards that door but don't put the flames out
There's a bt of magic in everything
and then some loss to even things out.
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Starry starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Nameless heads on frameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met:
The ragged men with ragged clothes.
A silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lies crushed and broken on the virgin sand.
-
Would you lie just to prove a point?
And would you lie about lies you've told?
You're so pretty when I dress you in your fables.
-
Here's hoping you don't become a robot
CLANG! CLANG!
Too late.
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Speak softly, drive a Sherman tank
Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank
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She feeds me love and tenderness and macaroons.
-
Speak softly, drive a Sherman tank
Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank
That seems familiar to me. Modest Mouse?
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If the winter won't turn me
Then the summer can't burn me
And the rain will never
Fall upon a restless soul
Nothing is alone...
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Onion, you are obseessed with that song. I think it's time for a re-education program...
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That seems familiar to me. Modest Mouse?
They Might Be Giants. "Do you sing like Olive Oyl on purpose? You guys must be into the Eurythmics."
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They Might Be Giants. "Do you sing like Olive Oyl on purpose? You guys must be into the Eurythmics."
Huh, Modest Mouse has a line like that in one of their songs. Whatever, still a funny line.
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I'm one card short of a full deck
I'm not quite the shilling
One wave short of a shipwreck
I'm not my usual top billing
I'm coming down with a fever
I'm really out to sea
This kettle is boiling over
I think I'm a banana tree
Oh dear
-
Glistening white, triangular tooth
open a can of tomato juice.
I've got a fang.
-
A silence that speaks so much louder than words of promises broken.
-
"you think I'm a miracle man again, here I go with my mystical plan again"
-
The flowers smell sweeter the closer you are to the grave.
-
My girl says she loves Prince Nez, but I really don't care.
-
I've waited too long to have you
Hide in the back of me
I've cheated so long I wonder
How you keep track of me
You could never be strong
You can only be free
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me
-
Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat
An' cov'rin' the crossroads I'm standing at,
Or maybe it's the weather or something like that,
But mama, you been on my mind.
-
If the price of peace if violence, we're not gona buy it.
-
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.
~ Bob Dylan
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How many roads must a man walk down, before his journey is complete, given that he wants to walk 27 miles, and each road that he walks is 4000 feet.
Please round your answer to the nearest tenth, and show all your work on a separate sheet.
The answer my friend, is 17.4. The answer is 17.4 roads.
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The answer should be 35.6 roads. I guess you can't expect singers to do math.
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Either that or I quoted wrong. I'll have to hear the song again to see if they have it right or not.
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When you were young and your heart was an open book,
You used to say live and let live.
But if this everchanging world in which we live in
Makes you give it a cry...
Say live and let die.
Yes, they say "in" both times in that sentence. I'm sorry.
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and the widow was at the funeral
and they had quite a catfight
and they fell into the hall where the casket was resting
and the preacher just left in the middle of the service
cause death was one thing but women made him nervous
and he ran to his car and he drove round the corner
-Soul Asylum, String of Pearls
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You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
Just wondering if the "Strange as angels" had anything to do with S E
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Black, you're looking for that sun
You're looking for that light
Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way
Big green monkey, everyone's a junkie
-Our Lady Peace
(or if he is sending out monkeys to get everyone high?)
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yes, that would be the reference.
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Wonderful. I'm a big fan of the Cure. I know this is a lyrics post but I was just wondering what you think of their new stuff. I'm not nearly as fond of it.
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most fans of any band say the same thing. They say it about RUsh, the Kinks, U2, the Rolling Stones, Matthew Sweet, They Might Be Giants... anyone who's been around a while. Of course bands change over time. Generally though, I find that bands get better with time because they mature and expand upon themselves.
I listen to music much differently than most people though. I listen to music like I watch movies and read books.
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and to bring it back on topic:
Muskrat ramblin, ramblin along
big fat tail, draggin the ground....
So I bought me a trap and a pound of ham
Said "Gonna get you sam"
The Muskrat ramble is gone.
-
She had a history of killing herself
I had a habit of dying
I think she gave me something to live for
I guess I helped her pass the time
-
you're a bedtime story
One that keeps the curtains closed.
-
You're getting your kicks right at the source
You're getting your guidence from the Force
Where do you get love?
Down below or somewhere above?
-
I wish the real world would just stop hassling me.
-
Run to the place
That hides the pain
You have inside
Cover my chain
It hides the strain
Only to glide
-Glide Stone Temple Pilots
-
I always thought that I would love to live by the sea; to travel the world alone and live more simply. I have no idea what's happened to that dream, cause there's really nothing left here to stop me.
-
Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend who looked like the girlfriend that I had in February of last year.
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
where no one notices the contrast of white on white
in between the moon and you
the angels get a better view
of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
-Round Here, Counting Crows
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Fat Charlie the Archangel files for divorce.
He says, "Well this'll eat up a year of my life.
And then there's all that weight to be lost."
-
"Are you dead or are you sleeping? God I sure hope you are dead."
~Modest Mouse in "Satin in a Coffin"
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Because the world is round, it turns me on.
Because the sun is high, it blows my mind.
-
pray your gods who ask you for your blood
for they are strong and angry jealous ones
or lay upon my altar now your love
I fear my time is short
there are armies moving close
be quick my love
- Toad the Wet Sprocket, Pray Your Gods
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So you think that your life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy.
And then your wife seems to think you're part of the furniture. Oh, it's peculiar. She used to be so nice.
-
In the event of something happening to me,
There is something I would like you all to see.
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew:
Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide,
Mr. Jones.
-
They Will Hang Geordie With A Gold Rope
It Is A Rare Privilege
He Stole Six Red Deers In The Park Of The King
Selling Them For Money
"Gabry-Ponte Georgie"
-
I don't have any answers
I've just got an attitude.
-
Workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can.
Will you be a lousy scab,
Or will you be a man?
-
She knew which fork to use, but she couldn't dance,
So he hipped her to the funk, in exchange for the finance.
-
We barely remember what came before this precious moment,
Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside...
This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
- Parabol(a), Tool
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And his head spins around like the excorcist
And I find it ever so hard to resist.
--- Poe, "Can't Talk to a Psycho Like a Normal Human Being"
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"Why are there so many songs about rainbows
and what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions
and rainbows have nothing to hide"
The Rainbow Connection, Me First and the Gimme Gimmies (I don't know the origional artist)
-
you may think I can but no I dont walk on water
-
That would be Jim Henson/Kermit the Frog. All remakes I've ever heard done were considerably inferior to the original. It's on the original Muppet Movie soundtrack.
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"Love is expensive and free."
--Fastball
-
Don't get a nose bleed
don't get upset
we can't be naked and famous just yet.
-
There's one thing I won't do for you,
I'm not going to Salt Lake City.
I won't live in Hello Kitty.
I wish I knew who sang the song. I just heard it on the radio.
-
I found my mind in a brown paper bag but then,
I tripped on a cloud and fell eight miles high,
I tore my mind on a jagged sky,
I just dropped in to see what condition my candition was in,
-
Monday has come around again.
I'm in the same old place;
the same old faces always watchin' me.
Who knows how long I'll have to stay?
Could be a hundred years of sweat and tears
at the rate that I get paid.
-
And he who made kittens put snakes in their grasp.
He's a love of life, but a player of fortunes.
-
Fate, up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
Fate
--Echo and the Bunnymen
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Blood on her skin,
Dripping with sin,
Do it again,
Living Dead Girl.
~Living Dead Girl chorus by Rob Zombie~
-
That song gets stuck in my head so incredibly often.
-
Here George Penny will be coming into town
With a wagonload of peaches, not a one of them is sound.
Gotta get his money, or he gotta get a check.
Pay him for a bushel, but you'll never get a peck.
-
knee-deep in the hoopla, sinknig in your face
but nobody goes to that kind of place.
-
My whole brain was out of tune.
My whole brain was out of tune.
I don't know how to tune a brain. Do you?
I took it to a brain shop
they siad they'd have to rebuild the whole head
I said, "well, do what you gotta do"
When I got my brain back, it didn't work right
Didn't have as many good ideas
Haven't really had a good idea since I got it fixed.
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Oh yes they call him the Streak;
He likes to show off his physique.
If there's an audience to be found, he'll be streaking around,
Inviting public critique.
Oh yes they call him the Streak;
He likes to turn the other cheek.
He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes,
Yes, you could call him unique.
-
Look at that lady dancinground with no clothes.
She'll give you all her body, that's if you've got the dough.
She'll let you see most anything but there's one thing that she'll never wshow.
-
He said to her:
"Girl you're going to be a star,
you could go so very far,
especially dressed the way you are."
-
Maybe that 'looney' knows what it's all about
He's got something to say, but he can't get it out.
He's uncoordinated, so we shut him out.
-
Wear it out (the way a three-year-old would do)
Melt it down (you're gonna have to eventually anyway)
The fire trucks are coming up around the bend
-
In a dream
You were sitting there waiting by the phone for me
But I never got the opportunity
To experience
The experience once again
-
I have stood here before
inside the pouring rain
with the world turning circles
running round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping
that you'll end this reign
but it's my destiny
to be the king of pain
- King of Pain, The Police
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Brother recollected when he and Tom and Billy Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Caroll County picture show.
And wasnt I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
I'll have another piece of apple pie; you know it don't seem right.
Saw him at the sawmill yesterday up on Choctaw Ridge.
And now you tell me Billy Joe has jumped off the Tallahatchee bridge.
(If I thought I could get away with it I'd post the entire song. I consider "Ode to Billy Joe" a masterwork of story-based songs.)
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Don't stop, fight the revolution
just know that there's always a solution
fight back, even if it kicks you
but dont break cuz there's no one here to fix you
you say that I am getting crazy
looks like your vision's getting hazy
this point of view is what has stirred me
you cant slow me down because im making my journey
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Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night
People so busy, makes me feel dizzy
Taxi light shines so bright
But I don't need no friends
As long as I gaze on waterloo sunset
I am in paradise
....
Its amazing just how much a perfect sunset, or sunrise can wipe away the stress of everyday life, you just slide into that perfect moment...
-
Those that know me well know I have a streak of meloncholy just as wide as the Mississippi I was born by running just beneath the surface of my demeanor. I remember standing at a payphone in Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico half drunk on my fifth coke spiked with rum, calling a girl I knew I shouldnt, and talking for hours. Smelling the salt air mixed with rotting vegitation outside the base bowling alley. This song sums up how that felt.
New Slang,... The Shins.
New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries.
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony.
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall,
Never should have called
But my head's to the wall and i'm lonely.
-
The scaffold is high, and eternity nears;
She stands in the crowd and sheds not a tear.
But sometimes at night, when the cold wind moans,
In a long black veil she cries all over my bones.
-
is that the Mick Jagger rendition? :)
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Why yes it is.
-
he gets real gravelly and it sounds good
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I've walked these streets
In the mad house asylum, they can be,
Where a wild-eyed misfit prophet
On a traffic island stopped,
And he raved of saving me.
-
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me,
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating.
-
Go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart
to see if it was safe outside,
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly
and asked me if I needed a ride.
-
She believes that life is made up of all that you're used to;
And the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days.
She thinks that happiness is mat that sits in her doorway.
Outside, it starts raining.
-
"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief. "There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief. Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
-
I'm a winner, I'm a sinner. Do you want my autograph?
-
I got kicked in the head backstage at the Stonepony
where I swore to the guy
that the guy that took his beer
wasn't me!
-
"You might win / You might lose
But, hey, at least you get to / Beat people up"
-
Somebody invented a gun that shots flowers.
Somebody invented a gun that shots flowers.
Somebody invented a gun that shots flowers.
Somebody invented a gun that shots flowers.
Somebody invented a gun that shots flowers.
Somebody invented a gun that shots flowers.
But.
It's.
Not.
As.
Cool.
As.
The part of the show.
At the Catalyst.
Where the guy goes.
AHH!
TMBG in Santa Cruz at the Catalyst.
-
weather turning towards a storm
broken down road continue on coexistance
imitating paradise unlike any seen moist
has been dancing crazy overcast ash grey
wording constantly pushing pulling pushes away
drew back a rusty knife guilt ladle pour
it understand i burn inside how to get out
of here how do you get out of this
natures revenge nature cage craving wonder
the worth of it scream at the top of your lungs
so many times tried not to wonder
-
And I said you shouldn't make facts out of opinions
He said that I was right
You're right I knew that I was
And I'd hate to see anybody thank you
Modest Mouse, This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds
-
What happened to her plan?
She was gonna be an actress--she was gonna be a star.
She was gonna shake her a** on the hood of White Snake's car.
-
Im taking a walk on the yellow brick road.
I only walk where the bricks are made of gold.
My mind and body are the only things that Ive sold.
I needed the money cause Im getting old.
Right? Thats the way it goes isnt it? Yea..
~Minor Threat - Chashing In
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got a few no fucking whacked house of cards dealing smack
crimson scolding driving told im never holding one thing
back credit full of nothing slither here one thing back
licking dogs no hook no song feeling high fantasize wonder
why suck them dry choppy waves take a dive
-
We took Benny the potato to the wizard in a wagon--
We did it!
-
I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
'Cause you're evil
And you lie
And if you should die
I may feel slightly sad
(But I won't cry)
~ The Smiths - Unhappy Birthday
-
Well Portland, Oregan and slow gin fiz
If that ain't love then tell me what is
Uh-Huuuuuh
-
Is she thinkin' of you? No, she just thought she knew me.
But she's lookin' at you? Nah, man, she's lookin' through me.
And now I realise I got no shape or size to the Girl with the World in her Eyes.
So I keep Bouncin'
-
Why don't you let him be?
He's gone - we know.
Give his mother & father peace.
Your vulturous candor, your casual slander,
will murder his memory.
-
Like a scream but sort of silent
living off my nightmares
Voices repeating me
'Feeling threatened?
We reflect your hopes and fears.'
Voices discussing me
'Others steal your thoughts
they're not confined
within your mind.'
-
Took a little nap where the roots all twist,
Squeezed a rotten peach in my fist:
And dreamed about you, woman.
-
Ghosts of 'lectricity howl through the bones of her face
-
God speed all the bakers at dawn may they all cut their thumbs,
And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away.
-
White on white translucent black capes
Back on the rack
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
Bela Logosi's dead
Undead undead undead
-
Bahaus ROCKS.
-
I cant seem to face up to the facts
Im tense and nervous and i
Cant relax
I cant sleep ;cause my beds on fire
Dont touch me Im a real live wire
Psycho killer
Qu-est que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho killer
Qu-est que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
You start a conversation you cant even finish it.
Youre talkin a lot, but youre not sayin anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?
Psycho killer,
Qu-est que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho killer
Qu-est que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
(* spoken interlude in french *)
Psycho killer,
Qu-est que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho killer,
Qu-est que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh....
-
Yeah... Ha Ha!
Finally someone let me out of my cage
Now, time for me is nothing cos I'm counting no age
Now I couldn't be there
Now you shouldn't be scared
I'm good at repairs
And I'm under each snare
Intangible
Bet you didn't think so I command you to
Panoramic view
Look I'll make it all manageable
Pick and choose
Sit and lose
All you different crews
Chicks and dudes
Who you think is really kickin' tunes?
Picture you gettin' down in a picture tube
Like you lit the fuse
You think it's fictional
Mystical? Maybe
Spiritual
Hearable
What appears in you is a clearer view cos you're too crazy
Lifeless
To know the definition for what life is
Priceless
For you because I put you on the hype shirt
You like it?
Gunsmokin' righteous with one token
Psychic among those
Possess you with one go
-
Del is awesome, even if that is like the least interesting thing he's ever done Compare it to these:
Let me tell you bout the protoculture,
If you don't know the culture, here's the whole structure,
we've had enough of the lacklusture, trust us,
we got the kind of games you can't rent at blockbuster.
Or:
Original Minstrils, my Central Processing Unit is in tune with my heart for this art,
Not artificial, cos that makes it hard to miss you.
...
We got espers that less us bless with fresh ****,
undetected by Yes-Men questin' for five fleetin' nanoseconds of fame, protectin' the brain, from conspriacies against the cosmos.
...
I insert the code for the catclysm, ever since I got the vision to use my magnatism, in this modern metropolis they try to lock us up, under preposterous laws that's not for us.
Of course, Dan the Automater was even better on that album, but still.
-
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box;
They tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe
-
You'll never know what you're going to find when you open up your letterbox tomorrow.
'Cause the little bird never tells me anything I wanna know. She's my best friend; she's a sparrow. . . .
-
I've learned to feel what I cannot see
But with you I lose that vision
I don't know how to dream your dream
So I'm all caught up in superstition
I want to reach out and pull you to me;
Who says I should let a wild one go free?
-
Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile
If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile
When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for awhile
There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for awhile
-
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
And they'd rather give you a song then diamonds or gold
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's each night begins a new day
And if you don't understand him and he don't die young
He'll probly just ride away
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountian moringin's
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
And them that don't know him won't like him
And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
He ain't wrong he's just different
but his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
-
He had white horses, and ladies by the score
all dressed in satin, and waiting by the door
ooo what a lucky man he was
White lace and feathers, they made up his bed
a gold covered mattress, on which he was bled
oooo what a lucky man he was
He went to fight wars, for his country and his king
of his honor, and his glory, the people would sing
oooo what a lucky man he was
A bullet had found him, his blood ran as he cried
no money could save him, so he laid down and he died
ooo what a lucky man he was
- Lucky Man, Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Your own personal jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone whos there
Feeling unknown
And youre all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
Ill make you a believer
Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know Im a forgiver
Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith
Your own personal jesus...
Feeling unknown
And youre all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
Ill make you a believer
I will deliver
You know Im a forgiver
Reach out and touch faith
Your own personal jesus
Reach out and touch faith
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Time is a piece of wax, falling on a termite
Who's choking on the splinters.
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Why does it feel like night today?
Something in here's not right today.
Why am I so uptight today?
Paranoia's all I got left
I don't know what stressed me first
Or how the pressure was fed
But I know just what it feels like
To have a voice in the back of my head
It's like a face that I hold inside
A face that awakes when I close my eyes
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It's the new mother nature taking over,
It's the new splendid lady come to call.
It's the new mother nature taking over--
She's getting us all.
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It was 5:45 on a Friday, I was waitin' on a train goin' my way,
I stood packed on a platform in Brooklyn, where everybody's pushin' and nobody's lookin'.
So I got crushed in the rush for the subway, by the little old men tryin' to shove me.
Well, I noticed her when I glanced sideways, and felt continents shifting inside me.
I was dressed in my best polyester, and I could tell that the plastic impressed her, 'cos she smiled as she eased up beside me, and said she had things to confide, see:
Her dad ran away with Samantha, the middle aged exotic dancer, so she returned to her savior, and here's the advice that he gave her:
Reese's Pieces, Swedish Fish, oodles of Skittles and Red Licorice, Marshmallow mints and a Chocolate kiss, and it melts in your mouth like this:
Take off your contacts, and look at the screen.
Take off your makeup, and look at the scene.
If you shed your restrictions, then you'll understand me,
Take your prescrption of Sugar and Candy, oh yeah.
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I still take the trash out--
Does that make me too normal for you?
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Sara spelled without an H was getting bored
On a Pevey amp in 1984
While Zac without a C tried out his new guitar
Playing Sara's favorite song
Ahhhhh..Zak and Sara
Often Sara would have spells where she lost time
She saw the future, she heard voices from inside
Voices she would soon learn to deny
'Cause at home they got her slapped
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You drive me crazy with that boogie-oogie-oogie-oogie.
You drive me crazy with that boogie
boogie
boogie
it's like, deep, man. or somethin'
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We take all kinds of pills
That give us all kinds of thrills
But the biggest thrill you'll ever know
Is the thrill that'll getcha
When you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone.
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2am and I'm still awake writing this song--
If i get it all down on paper it's no longer
Inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.
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Sleep comes with a knife, fork, and a spoon
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But I can still croon
and make the girls swoon
Isn't that the way life's supposed to be?
And now it's time to say
what I forgot to say
Baby, baby, baby
C'mon what's wrong?
It's a radiation vibe I'm groovin on
Don't it make you wanna get some sun
shine on?
man, between "Radiation Vibe" and "Stacy's Mom" I'm officially putting Fountains of Wayne into the same quality category as Jimmy Eat World. Something about those indy bands with guys names in their band name.
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And the world don't stop every time that you fall.
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
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Who'll buy the carbon paper now?
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And 8! 8! I forgot what 8 is for.
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and I don't understand why I sleep all day
and I start to complain that there's no rain
and all I can do is read a book to stay awake
and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape
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He was born in the summer of his twenty-seventh year,
Going home to a place he'd never been before.
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It hasn't been my day for a couple years.
What's a couple more?
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Well I just got out of the county prison, doing 90 days for non-support.
Tried to find me an executive postion, but no matter I smooth I talked, they would listen to the fact that I'm a genius,
The man say they got all that they can use.
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Will I ever find a bassist and a drummer
to help me play my original songs?
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Just like the white-winged dove sings a song that sounds like she's singing: "ooh, baby, ooh--I said ooh."
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argh. For me that line went right up there with "I am I cried to no one there and no body heard, not even the chair" in level of annoying stupidity.
She sings a song. WELL OF COURSE it sounds like she's singing. What ELSE did you expect it to sound like?
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You're misreading it: the point isn't that the song sounds like she's singing, it's that it sounds like she's singing "ooh baby ooh." Besides, critique of lyrics is not allowed here, especially when Stevie Nicks is involved.
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yeah, se... No.
is it just that you can't handle the idea that i can like Stevie Nick's singing but that her lyrics are totally insipid at times?
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I don't have to take this from the guy who posted "You drive me crazy with that boogie-oogie-oogie."
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but you will anyway.
besides, boogie oogie oogie oogie driving someone crazy is a bit more of a sensical lyric than repeating that a dove is singing and sounds like it's singing.
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No, sorry. Both are equal in terms of silliness.
I agree there should be no lyrics bashing. That could be a separate thread all together and I would likely contribute heavily.
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So let it be written, so let it be done. All bashing of lyrics shall be done in a separate thread.
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What if you post lyrics that bash other lyrics? Or themselves?
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I lost my heart in Texas,
Northern lights affect us,
I keep it underneath my hat.
Aurora Borealis, shining down in Dallas.
Can you picture that?
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Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
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Adelaide on a plane,
far from the united states of LA...
...where the air is clear
there's better beer
in Adelaide
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I just wanna be a page in Jeannie's Diary
One single page.
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Two very different lyrics from very different songs from bands that aren't so different:
"So deal me in.
I'll pick my cards up off the floor.
I'll see your lucky coin and raise a pack of lies
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Is it true it's always happy hour here?
And if it is, I'd like to stay a while.
Well as cliche as it may sound I'd like to raise another round,
and if your bottle's empty help yourself to mine.
Thank you for your time. Here's to life!"
lyric 2:
"That's the kind of guy I am --
The kind of guy who needs a girl
Who hates guys like me.
That's the kind of world of this is --
The kind of world that spins
To spite guys like me."
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I call you up
You pick up
You call my bluff
On the cards of love
You hold too close
Your hands to your chest
I can't read your eyes
But I confess
It's lonely far from you
Even when you're right by me
It's only why I wait for you
Take my hand
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When all of the stars
Have faded away
Try not to worry,
You'll see them some day,
So take what you need,
And be on your way,
And stop crying your heart out.
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The mirror on the wall
shows an image dark and small
but I'm not sure at all
It's my reflection
I'm blinded by the light
of God and truth and light
and I wander in the night
without direction
Song 2
In the long red, red valley
people die here too long
In the long red, red valley
we only sing this valley song
Anyone seen Moses?
Get him off the mountain
Take away those tablets of stone
It's a wise, wise prophet
Who keeps his own counsel
Got to leave the other man's wife alone
Song 3
How long can you hold your breath
While you hold mine?
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If you go, remember one good thing that I almost did
I learned your name without words
I used my eyes, not my hands.
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I make these records, my fans they can't wait;
They write me letters, and tell me I'm great.
So I got this office, gold records on the wall.
Leave me a message, maybe I'll call.
Lucky I ain't changed after all I've been through.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
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I'm going where the sun keeps shining
Through the pouring rain;
Going where the weather suits my clothes.
Banking off the northeast wind,
Sailing on a summer breeze;
Skipping over the ocean like a stone.
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You're the one for me fatty. You're the one I really, really love
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I've got this shrink - I swear he's Elvis, I think.
He wears the coolest suede shoes when I come in with the blues.
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Psychic changes are born in your heart
Entertain
A nervous breakthrough that makes us the same
Bless your heart girl
Kill the pressure it's raining on
Salty cheeks
When you hear the beloved song
I am with you
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This thread is plenty long. Time for a new one, people.
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I'll be hanging at the checkout
checking out your girlfriend,
figuring how she's gonna
fit all that butt into that
underwear.