...and dropping a barbell he points to the sky/ The sun's not yellow, it's chicken. |
yes, it's no use saying that you don't know nothing
It's still gonna get you if don't do something
Sitting on a fence that's a dangerous course
Oh, you could even catch a bullet from the peace-keeping force Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest
Oh yeah, once upon a time in the west
by Dire Straits off "Communique" |
Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy ya,,, |
Another that I like is from Janis Ian's "At Seventeen":
The small town eyes will gape at you
In dull surprise
When payment due
Exceeds accounts received
At seventeen |
Every gambler knows the secret to surviving,
Is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
Cause every hand's a winner, and every hand's a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep. |
Best rock lyric -- one line: from One of These Nights, Eagles
I've been searching for the daughter of the devil himself, I've been searching for an angel in white. I been waiting for a woman that's a little of both, and I can feel her but she's nowhere in sight.
Best rock lyrics -- single song: The Pretender, by Jackson Browne
I'm going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway
Gonna pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
I'll go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and do it again
Amen.
Say it again
Amen.
I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring
Were they only the fitful dreams
Of some greater awakening?
I've been aware of the time going by
They say in the end it's the wink of an eye
When the morning light comes streaming in
You'll get up and do it again
Amen.
Caught between the longing for love
And the struggle for the legal tender
Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring
And the junk man pounds his fender.
Where the veterans dream of the fight
Fast asleep at the traffic light
And the children solemnly wait
For the ice cream vendor
Out into the cool of the evening
Strolls the Pretender
He knows that all his hopes and dreams
Begin and end there
Ah the laughter of the lovers
As they run through the night
Leaving nothing for the others
But to choose off and fight
And tear at the world with all their might
While the ships bearing their dreams
Sail out of sight
I'm gonna find myself a girl
Who can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams
And then we'll put our dark glasses on
And we'll make love until our strength is gone
And when the morning light comes streaming in
We'll get up and do it again
Get it up again
I'm gonna be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
where true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender.
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender.
Say a prayer for the pretender
Are you there for the pretender?
Say a prayer for the pretender
Are you there for the pretender?
Are you prepared for the pretender?
Best song: Stand By Me
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid
Oh I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
So darlin' darlin' stand by me
Oh stand by me
Oh stand, stand by me, stand by me
If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
Or the mountain should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry
No I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
And darlin' darlin' stand by me
Oh stand by me
Whoa stand now, stand by me, stand by me
[Music]
Darlin' darlin' stand by me
Oh stand by me
Oh stand now, stand by me, stand by me
Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me
Oh stand by me
Whoa stand now, oh stand, stand by me
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I turned 21 in prison doin life without parole.. Mamma Tried, Merle Haggard
Maybe not my favorite but a good example alot being said in just a few words. |
I wish that, for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you. |
Creedence "Fortuante Son" - really the whole song but these two lines in particular:
But when the taxman come to the door,
Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale
Been there, overcame that! |
I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.-Johnny Cash
When you got nothin , you got nothin to lose.- Dylan
Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest places if ya look at it right.- The Grateful Dead |
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Ooooo hoooo ooooo!
lord have mercy,
I had 3 dounts and 2 cups of coffee,
but that didn't stop my appetite.
I had already eaten a box of cookies late last night,
I had 10 pancakes , plenty of syrup and butter and two slices of ham,
3 eggs, home fries, 4 biscuits all smothered in jam,
2 glasses of milk and a cheese cake.
I thought I didn't want anymore,
but I just had about 12 of those mints in the bowl by the door.
That is why, that is why, you're overweight....
Eddie Harris - 'That Is Why You're Overweight'
Atlantic SD 1683, 1976 |
"McArthur's Park is melting in the rain.
I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it,
And I'll never have that recipe agaiiiin - Oh Nooooooo!" |
" ...because sometimes the signs from Heaven are vague"
Is my favourite recent lyric - from the last song on The Fiery Furnaces debut CD - 'Gallowbird's Bark'.
That line sticks with me, in the face of all the craziness in the world, where so many people believe they are in possession of the 'absolute truth'.
Cheers. |
Jeez, someone out there actually knows The United States of America.
Take a good look at my face
You'll see my smile looks out of place
If you look closer it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears |
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In 69 I was 17 and I called the road my own, I don't know where that road turned off but it's the road I'm on. |
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain and all the children are insane waiting for the summer rain.
The End- The Doors |
"Idiot wind. Blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breath"
Bob Dylan - "Idiot Wind" from Blood on the Tracks |
Ani DeFranco's anti-gun song, "To the Teeth" when she's talking about who we should really be opening-fire upon:
open fire on each weapons manufacturer
while he's giving head
to some republican senator
And here's the whole song, for your reading pleasure.....dedicated today to Michael Moore!!
"To The Teeth"
the sun is settin on the century
and we are armed to the teeth
we are all working together now
to make our lives mercifully brief
schoolkids keep trying to teach us
what guns are all about
confuse liberty with weaponry
and watch your kids act it out
every year now like Christmas
some boy gets the mildfed suburban blues
reaches for the available arsenal
and saunters off to make the news
and women in the middle
are learning what poor women have always known
that the edge is closer than you think
when your men bring the guns home
look at where the profits are
that's how you'll find the source
of the big lie that you and i
both know so well
it the time it takes this cultural
death wish to run its course
they're gonna make a pretty penny
and then they're all going to hell
he said the chickens all come home to roost
yeah, Malcolm forecasted this flood
are we really gonna sleep through another century
while the rich profit off our blood?
true, it may take some doing
to see this undoing done
but in my humble opinion
here's what i suggest we do:
open fire on Hollywood
open fire on MTV
open fire on NBC
and CBS and ABC
open fire on the NRA
and all the lies they told us
along the way
open fire on each weapons manufacturer
while he's giving head
to some republican senator
and if i hear one more time
about fool's rights
to his tools of rage
I'm gonna take all my friends
and i'm gonna move to Canada
and we're gonna die of old age
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A few one liners that come to mind:
"The door is open but the ride 'aint free" - Springsteen Thunder Road
"The piano has been drinking, not me" - Tom Waits |
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interesting and sophisticated
refusing to be celebrated
it's a monumental big screen kiss
it's so deep it's meaningless. t hip
is it rainin in new york
down fifth avenue
or on broadway after dark
love the lights, don't you b ferry
the delivery is half the appeal......... |
From Paul Weller's wildwood album
"like mercury gliding,
a silver teardrop that falls,
and I can't catch her,
through my fingers she's gone"
... from "Foot of the Mountain".
"We used to meet each others eyes,
and that's all we'd have to say,
now we don't talk that much at all,
the further our eyes seem to stray"
...... from "all the pictures on the wall" |
baby,don't you give me
your words of sweet whiskey
something, is crawling
over me quickly
SEE, I'VE LIED TOO
LAUGHED AT AND CRIED TO
but I'm no longer
twisted and tied to
The slacker-Red light NYC ska, baby |
"If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them they know - not me"
Cat Stevens from "Father and Son"
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"Starry starry night, paint your palatte blue and grey;
Look out on a summer's day, with eyes that know the darkness of my soul............but I could have told you, Vincent, This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you."
Don McLean
American Pie |
`Cause you were bred for humanity and sold to society
One day you'll wake up in the Present Day
A million generations removed from expectations
Of being who you really want to be.
Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day. |
"She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went". |
So I open the door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go f**k myself
You know you just can't win
"Lost For Words"
Pink Floyd |
I won't get to get what I'm after Till the day I die
The Seeker by The Who |
dont fool yer self girl its goin right up yer poop shute/zappa,broken hearts are for assholes. |
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IMO, the best come from old blues tunes. Like this one...
...when I first saw you I thought you was the One,
but when I checked a little closer I found yo bread ain't quite done
Don't know right off-hand who wrote it but I've heard Albert King sing it a hundred times. |
The Garden of Earthly Delights:
Poisonous gardens, lethal and sweet ,
Venomous blossoms
Choleric fruit, deadly to eat.
Violet nightshades, innocent bloom,
Omnivorous orchids,
Cautiously wait, hungrily loom.
You will find them in her eyes,
In her eyes, In her eyes.
Petrified willows, twisted and brown
Carrion swallows,
Wait in the wet darkening ground.
Withering shadows, quietly grow,
Potently breeding
Into a spectacular glow
You will find them in her eyes,
In her eyes, In her eyes.
Lemonous petals, dissident play,
Tasting of ergot
Dancing by night, dying by day.
Blackening mushrooms drink in the rain,
Sinister nightblooms
Wilt with the dawn's welcoming pain.
You will find them in her eyes,
In her eyes, In her eyes.
The United states Of America, 1968 Columbia Records |
"I was kinda nervous when she bent down to tie the laces of my sho-o-oe. Tangled Up In Blue." Bob Dylan |
My two favorites are: Chuck Berry's As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybelline in a Coupe de Ville and Smokey Robinson's Oooh, Baby Baby |
They say politics is a last refuge,
so many scoundrels claim.
Steal a little and they'll throw you in jail,
steal a lot and they'll make you a king.
Bob Dylan-1983
I stated my favorite earlier, but I really needed to add that. His voice goes through my head like a knife, but he has to be one of the finest poets/lyricists ever, bar none. |
"do you want my blood? Do you want my tears? What do you want? What do want from me? if I promised you the answer would you go? Pink Floyd "what do you want"
"one man's fun is another's Hell" Metallica "sad but true" |
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. From Won't Get Fooled Again, The Who. |
Justice isn't blind, it just looks the other way...from the Boomtown Rats song "ELEPHANT'S GRAVEYARD" |
"your the type of woman who feels right at home in hell, stick me with a pitch fork just to hear me yell, I'm talking to you woman and I'm serious as a heart attack, if you don't stop cheating on me, I'm going to turn those blue eyes black"
JOHNNY WINTERS |
"I've got somethin' to give ya'
That the mailman can't deliver
I can't phone it in
I can't mail it in
I can't send it in
Even by my closest friend
I'm bringin' it to ya'
Personally, personally, personally, yeah yeah"
Written by P. Kelly. Best version by Karla Bonoff |
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"One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain." - Bob Marley, Trenchtown Rock
"One way or another, this darkness got to give."- The Grateful Dead, New Speedway Boogie
"It's been a month since I had a toke or a dime to make the call."- Little Feat, Cold, Cold, Cold |
She was a spent piece of used jet trash, kept her mouth shut most of the time, made good bloody marys, and had a Chihuahua named 'Carlos' that was practically blind.
Tom Waits "Franks Wild Years"
The sun's going down like a big bald head. It's Sharkey's night. It's Sharkey's night tonight. And the manager said, Mr. Sharkey? He's not at his desk right now would you like to leave a message.
Laurie Anderson "Sharkey's Day"
Marco |
"Living in a half-way-house on a one-way-street" - Ricky Lee Jones
"His mind is not for rent - to any God or Government" - Rush "Tom Sawyer"
"Waiting in our boats to set sail" - Blind Faith "Sea of Joy" |
His wife was a spent piece of used jet trash, kept her mouth shut most of the time, made good bloody marys, and had a Chihuahua named 'Carlos' that was practically blind.
Tom Waits "Franks Wild Years"
The sun's going down like a big bald head. It's Sharkey's night. It's Sharkey's night tonight. And the manager said, Mr. Sharkey? He's not at his desk right now would you like to leave a message.
Laurie Anderson "Sharkey's Day"
Marco |
You know there ain't no Devil, there's only God when he's drunk--Tom Waits |
My old man, you'll find him in the garbage can. If there's a bottle of gin there, he'll stay in there, my old man |
Thedautch-
Great lyric, wrong writer. Jackson Browne wrote "These Days".
Eddie |
What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your own song
You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be
Enjoy,
TIC |
Sting...when you find your servent is your master, you'll be wrapped around my finger. |
Savatage: 'I've wasted my time 'till time wasted me'.
David Lee Roth: 'I don't know where I'm goin' but I can't wait to get there'
'Now take the traveller and the tourist
the essential difference is
the traveller don't knows where he is goin'
and the tourist don't know where he is
Small world 'till they lose your luggage'
And finally, from Queensryche:
'I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
It's neve worth the pain that you feel'.
But I'm a real happy guy :) |
