Song Lyrics

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 3:16 pm

Now you've done it...

*goes off and fires up Radiohead albums*

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 3:53 pm

Pink Floyd - Hey You

Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey you, dont help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight.

Hey you, out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?
Hey you, with you ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out
Would you touch me?
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I'm coming home.

But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.

Hey you, standing in the road
always doing what you're told,
Can you help me?
Hey you, out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
can you help me?
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 4:06 pm

Pink Floyd - Paranoid Eyes

button your lip don't let the shield slip
take a fresh grip on your bullet proof mask
and if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
you can hide hide hide
behind paranoid eyes

you put on your brave face and slip over the road for a jar
fixing your grin as you casually lean on the bar
laughing too loud at the rest of the world
with the boys in the crowd
you hide hide hide
behind petrified eyes

you believed in their stories of fame fortune and glory
now you're lost in a haze of alchohol soft middle age
the pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high
and you hide hide hide
behind brown and mild eyes

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 4:15 pm

a happy song...

Every Grain Of Sand - Bob Dylan

In the time of my confession,
in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet
flood every newborn seed
There's a dyin' voice within me
reaching out somewhere,
Toiling in the danger and in
the morals of despair.

Don't have the inclination to
look back on any mistake,
Like Cain,
I now behold this chain of events
that I must break.
In the fury of the moment
I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles,
in every grain of sand.

Oh, the flowers of indulgence
and the weeds of yesteryear,
Like criminals,
they have choked the breath
of conscience and good cheer.
The sun beat down upon the steps
of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness
and the memory of decay.

I gaze into the doorway of
temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way
I always hear my name.
Then onward in my journey
I come to understand
That every hair is numbered
like every grain of sand.

I have gone from rags to riches
in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer's dream,
in the chill of a wintry light,
In the bitter dance of loneliness
fading into space,
In the broken mirror of innocence
on each forgotten face.

I hear the ancient footsteps like
the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there,
other times it's only me.
I am hanging in the balance
of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling,
like every grain of sand.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 4:26 pm

Re: a happy song...

@Kam - touche!- brilliant!

okay...

Something Inside So Strong - Labi Siffre

The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run
You can deny me
You can decide to turn your face away
No matter 'cause there's

Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone... oh no
There's something inside so strong
Something inside so strong

The more you refuse to hear my voice
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jericho
Your lies will come tumbling
Deny my place in time
You squander wealth that's mine
My light will shine so brightly it will blind you
Because there's

Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone... oh no
There's something inside so strong
Something inside so strong

Brothers and sisters
When they insist we're just not good enough
Well, we know better
Just look 'em in the eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
because there's

Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone... oh no
There's something inside so strong
Something inside so strong

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 4:40 pm

Ooh, I love that song. Except when it's on a car advert. Or being covered by Rik Waller. Or being crooned by a drunk guy outside my house at 2 on a Sunday morning. Great song

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 2:00 am

*cough* bump *cough*

Highly Evolved

I'm feelin happy
So highly evolved
My times a riddle that'll never be solved
Dreamin for somethin
Reachin for somethin
Just waitin for the sun to carry me in

If you feel low
You can buy love
From a payphone
I don't feel low

My brother Bill
He work for the market
Life is an arrow now and he is the target
Dreamin for somethin
Reachin for somethin
Just waitin for the sun to carry me in

If you feel low
You can buy love
From a payphone
I don't feel love

Highly evolved

I don't feel low
Highly evolved

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 3:03 am

You bought the album then, Tammy?

Do you realize?? - The Flaming Lips

Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face
Do you realize we're floating in space
Do you realize that happiness makes you cry
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do you realize, oh, do you realize that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face
Do you realize?

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 11:55 am

Find this recently, and I love it.

Frosty by Legendary pink dots.

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He always looked behind him,
scared somebody would jump him.
Put him on the ground so he'd come around to the sound of people laughing.
'Cos the whole world loved to mock him.
Sun and moon both pointed at him.
Kids would crick their necks to get a better view.
Well, it really did his mind in,
and we wanted to protect him.
So we placed his face in a smash-proof case and placed it in the fridge.

They giggled in the corners,
whispered lies across the borders.
They derided him and chided him 'til he carried out their orders.
So he dashed into the limelight,
played at Hamlet for a fortnight.
Waved his arms and screamed demands for some respect.
But they just could not excuse him,
it was really too amusing.
So he packed his sack and scrambled back to safety in the fridge.

And I swear I saw his spirit
skim the sky with nothing near it.
Piled armour-plated roller skates, white feather train to steer it.
Scared somebody would look up,
gesticulate and throw up.
Send him flitting, flitting scarred behind a cloud.
But for him, there's no escaping,
no hole big enough to hide in.
Best just to stay nicely out the way in safety in the fridge.

In the village bells were tolling,
in the town the dogs were howling.
It was Armageddon, tanks crashed head-on, planet Earth was drowning.
Then the Devil sent a shower,
Europe died in half an hour.
And a demon wind just finished off the rest.
But our friend, he took a teabreak,
idly munching on a fish-cake.
Quite oblivious and ignorant but cosy in the fridge.

It's so cold there, in the fridge. It's so icy, frosty.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 11:57 am

Legendary Pink Dots, eh? My brother likes their music. I find them a bit too strange for my liking.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 12:00 pm

Strange? whatever could you be talking about?

I dont understand at all...

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 12:02 pm

Originally posted by Dottie
Strange? whatever could you be talking about? I dont understand at all...

Did they have any official hits in the billboard charts?

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 12:07 pm

What is this "billboard" you're talking about?

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 12:10 pm

Originally posted by Dottie
What is this "billboard" you're talking about?

Ah yes. To like eclectic music means-billboard does not comprehend. You know, I have a feeling you have a very similar liking to music as my brother. I like some of the stuff that my brother likes, like Apoptygma and the Cure, but there are other things hes into that I dont like a whole lot. Hes kind of a person who likes goth and that sort of music. Ever heard of a company called Projekt?

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 12:10 pm

"Evil Walks" AC/DC

Black shadow hangin' over your shoulder
Black mark up against your name
Your green eyes couldn't get any colder
There's bad poison runnin' through your veins

CHORUS:
Evil walks behind you
Evil sleeps beside you
Evil talks arouse you
Evil walks behind you

Black widow weavin' evil notions
Dark secrets bein' spun in your web
Good men goin' down in your ocean
They can't swim 'cause they're tied to your bed

CHORUS

You just cry wolf
I sometimes wonder where you park your broom
Oh black widow

C'mon weave your web
Down in your ocean
You got 'em tied to your bed
With your dark, dark secrets
And your green, green eyes
You black widow

CHORUS

Evil walks so bad

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 12:11 pm

@Tyb: Im not sure about the spam density in this thread, ill answer in the bar.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Thu Aug 01, 2002 10:57 pm

I think a lot of this song is the way I felt during sophomore year of high school:

Vanishing point

"Grow up children, don't you suffer
At the hands of one another.
If you like a sleeping demon
Listen can you hear him weeping?
Tears of joy and tears of sorrow
He buys love to sell tomorrow.

My life ain't no holiday
I've been through the Point of No Return.
I've seen what a man can do,
I've seen all the hate of a woman, too.

Feel your heartbeat lose the rhythm,
He can't touch the world we live in.
Life is short but love is strong,
There lies a hope that I have found.
And if you try you'll find it, too
Remember why I'm telling you.

My life ain't no holiday
I've been through the Point of No Return.
I've seen what a man can do,
I've seen all the hate of a woman, too.

And they gave him away.
Let him whistle downwind.
By the look on his face,
He never gave in."
-New Order

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 1:02 am

Listening to this song right now

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, movin' around mysteriously.
"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his hands
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you understand.
I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops."
And so Patty calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night.

Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin' around.
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda **** was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that.
In Paterson that's just the way things go.
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat.

Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin' around
He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates."
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not dead"
So they took him to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty men.

Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't the guy!"
Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him, lookin' for somebody to blame.
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin' that night?"
"Don't forget that you are white."

Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure."
Cops said, "A poor boy like you could use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to your friend Bello
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow.
You'll be doin' society a favor.
That sonofa***** is brave and gettin' braver.
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim."

Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that much.
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail.
But then they took him to the jailhouse
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.

All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy ******.
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
And though they could not produce the gun,
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed.

Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
The crime was murder "one," guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game.

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
That's the story of the Hurricane,
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Hurricane-Bob Dylan

EDIT-Due to bad words not picked up by the filter

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 8:50 pm

Just found this tape in my old stuff again

The road goes on Forever

Joe Ely

Sherry was a waitress
At the only joint in town
She had a reputation
As a girl who'd been around
Down on mainstreet after midnight
A brand new pack of cigs
Fresh one hanging from her lips
A beer between her legs
She'd ride down to the river
Meet with all her friends
The road goes on forever
And the party never ends

Sonny was a loner
Different from the rest
He was going in the navy
But he couldn't pass the test
So he hung around town
Sold a little pot
The law caught wind of Sonny
One day he got caught
But he was back in business
When they let him free again
The road goes on forever
The party never ends

Now Sonn'y's playing 8-ball
at the joint where Sheey works
When a drunken out of towner
Put his hand up Sherry's skirt
Sonny took his pool cue
Laid the drunk out on the floor
Stuck a dollar in the tip jar
And walked on out the door
She's running right behind him
Reaching for his hand
The road goes on forever
The party never ends

They jumped into his pickup
Sonny jammed 'er down in gear
Sonny looked at Sherry
Said let's get on out of here
The stars were high above them
the moon was in the east
The sun was setting on them
When they reached Miami beach
They got a motel by the water
and a quart of Bombay Gin
The road goes on forever
The party never ends

They soon ran out of money
But Sonny knew a man
Who knew some Cuban refugees
That dealt in contraband
Sonny met the Cubans
In a house just off the route
With a briefcase full of money
And a pistol in his boot
The cards were on the table
When the law came busting in
The road goes on forever
The party never ends

The Cubans grabbed the goodies
Sonny grabbed the jack
He broke the bathroom window
And climbed on out the back
Sherry drove the pickup
through the alley on the side
When a lawman tackled Sonny
And was reading him his rights
She stepped into the alley
With a single shot 410
The road goes on forever
the party never ends

They left the lawman lying
They made their getaway
The got back to the motel
Just before the break of day
Sonny gave her all the money
And he blew her a little kiss
If they asked you how this happened
Say I forced you into this
She watched him as his tail lights
dissappeared around the bend
the road goes on forever
The party never ends

Now it's mainstreet after midnight
Just like it was before
21 months later
At the local grocery store
Sherry buys a paper
and a cold six pack of beer
the headlines read that Sonny
Is going to the chair
She pulls back onto mainstreet
In her new mercedes benz
The road goes on forever
But the party never ends

Bloodmist · Post by **Bloodmist** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 11:33 pm

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Backwoods

Someone spilled blood many years ago
someone spilled blood but do you know
that from the backwoods
where the Chuck Berrys grow
come your long tall
daddies of a rock and roll

Take me to your backwoods now
take me to your backwoods now

Spinning' down from the clouds
like a tornado
spinnin' out of control
like a psychedelic soul
with a rhythm hittin' harder
than Larry Holmes
come your long tall
daddies of rock and roll

Take me to your backwoods now
take me to your backwoods now

Mr. Uplift Mofo - my man Bo Diddley
hit sippin' a bottle of nickle ripple
play the lickity split finger licking licks
for all you wicked city slick chicks

and all you nitty gritty hick
we'll make your nipples ripple
make you wanna dip your dipple
make you wanna soak your hickory stick
because my man has a grip on it
and I do mean on it
which brings to mind
a very sinister minister kind of guy
a man named Little Richard
born to make them *****es stir
that's right he'll make the sweet substance drip
from the middle of your hillbilly lips
and like the farmer milk his cow
the Howling Wolf will howl
and since times does allow
you all can

Take me to your backwoods now
Take me to your backwoods now
Take me to your backwoods now