Song Lyrics

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 1:50 pm

The Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen

Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 1:54 pm

Originally posted by Kameleon
OK, I'm trying to remember the name of the song Kermit did on TOTP...he was sitting on a set of stairs, crooning away, but I can't seem to find any mention of it on Google or anywhere...it wasn't the above song was it?

oo, i didn't see this, but i believe it was Robin, kermit's nephew, singing 'Halfway Down The Stairs'

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 6:18 pm

Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word

Seems like only yesterday
I left my mind behind
Down in the Gypsy Cafe
With a friend of a friend of mine
She sat with a baby heavy on her knee
Yet spoke of life most free from slavery
With eyes that showed no trace of misery
A phrase in connection first with she I heard
That love is just a four-letter word

Outside a rambling store-front window
Cats meowed to the break of day
Me, I kept my mouth shut, too
To you I had no words to say
My experience was limited and underfed
You were talking while I hid
To the one who was the father of your kid
You probably didn't think I did, but I heard
You say that love is just a four-letter word

I said goodbye unnoticed
Pushed towards things in my own games
Drifting in and out of lifetimes
Unmentionable by name
Searching for my double, looking for
Complete evaporation to the core
Though I tried and failed at finding any door
I must have thought that there was nothing more
Absurd than that love is just a four-letter word

Though I never knew just what you meant
When you were speaking to your man
I can only think in terms of me
And now I understand
After waking enough times to think I see
The Holy Kiss that's supposed to last eternity
Blow up in smoke, its destiny
Falls on strangers, travels free
Yes, I know now, traps are only set by me
And I do not really need to be
Assured that love is just a four-letter word

Bob Dylan

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 6:26 pm

I seem to be having another sixties moment....

Don't Think Twice It's All Right

It ain't no use in calling out my name, Girl
Like you never did before
Ain't no use in calling out my name, Girl
I can't hear for you any more
When the rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason why I'm traveling on
Don't think twice, it's all right

Walking down that long lonesome road, Girl
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
Good-bye is too good a word, Girl
So I'll just say Fare thee well
We'll in saying you treated me unkind
You could've done better, but I don't mind
You just sort of wasted my precious time
Don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in turning on your light, Babe
That light I never knowed
And it ain't no use in turning on your light, Babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there were something you would do or say
Make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talking anyway
Don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, Babe
It don't matter any how
Ain't no use to sit and wonder why, Babe
If you don't know by now
I'm a thinking and a wounded all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child, I'm told
I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul
Don't think twice, it's all right

Bob Dylan

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:18 pm

Excellent Song...

Awesome choice, BS.

I think I'll put my Powerslave CD in now - that put me in the mood.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:29 pm

This is not an 80's song! Thats right. Tybaltus actually posts lyrics to a non-80's song!

Seriously though, this is an awesome song, but the lyrics can mean something when you really think about it. They can be interpreted in many ways. So interpret them as you will, but whenever I listen to it, it sort of makes me think of unity. An issue we should address more in society today.

Eclipse by Apoptygma Berzerk

As we dwell inside the safe zones that we've made
Where nothing but earthly pleasures seem to matter
The only light we see is from the screens
No will to feel or explore the forgotten dimensions

Some day we'll catch a glimpse of eternity
As the world stands still, for a moment
And I guess we will be making history
When we all join hands just to watch the sky
(For a moment...)

Our selfish lives have made us all go blind
One day we'll awake by a bright light on the horizon
In one second every eye will see the same
And this blinding light will draw all our attention

Some day we'll catch a glimpse of eternity
As the world stands still, for a moment
For the very first time and it's meant to be
We'll forget about ourselves and share the moment
(For a moment...)

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:31 pm

In honor of Chanaks post count

Iron Maiden

The Number of the Beast

I left alone my mind was blank
I needed time to get the memories from my mind

What did I see can I believe that what I saw
that night was real and not just fantasy

Just what I saw in my old dreams were they
reflections of my warped mind staring back at me

Cos in my dreams it's always there the evil face that twists my mind
and brings me to despair

The night was black was no use holding back
Cos I just had to see was someone watching me
In the mist dark figures move and twist
was all this for real or some kind of hell
666 the Number of the Beast
Hell and fire was spawned to be released

Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised
as they start to cry hands held to the sky
In the night the fires burning bright
the ritual has begun Satan's work is done
666 the Number of the Beast
Sacrifice is going on tonight

This can't go on I must inform the law
Can this still be real or some crazy dream
but I feel drawn towards the evil chanting hordes
they seem to mesmerise me...can't avoid their eyes
666 the Number of the Beast
666 the one for you and me

I'm coming back I will return
And I'll possess your body and I'll make you burn
I have the fire I have the force
I have the power to make my evil take its course

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 6:06 am

Originally posted by Robnark
oo, i didn't see this, but i believe it was Robin, kermit's nephew, singing 'Halfway Down The Stairs'

Hmm...I think this could well be it, but I looked up the lyrics and I remember the song being longer...oh well I guess I'll just have to keep looking for the performance

Thanks though

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 1:00 pm

My Dying Bride 6. For You

I will be here for you
All I want is you
When I see your face
All the Angels are shamed

Lay with me beauty
Feel me close to you
Take my hand to you
Touch you softly. Your warm skin

Cover me with you
Over me under you
Pull me in to you
As one we lay entwined

All I ever wanted
I have, I need never wish again
You are heaven sent

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 1:49 pm

And one - My Story

So you should have seen me years ago
Time was never on my side you know
The stars shine even brighter
Just before they die
And scars could tell a story
All the sense to light

I open doors I open minds
Telling stories telling lies
This is my story
Fearing the feelings of you

I feel no regrets for gone by days
'cause they're like a summer bird
That leaves or stays
So how you will understand I had to lie
Some stars shine even brighter
Just before they die

I open doors I open minds
Telling stories telling lies
This is my story
Fearing the feelings of you

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 6:45 pm

Sorry this is a long one - but I couldn't bear to only pick one track from this, my favourite of prog rock concept albums...so here's the whole thing.

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

21st CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN including Mirrors
Cat's foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door.
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Blood rack barbed wire
Polititians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Death seed blind man's greed
Poets' starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.

I TALK TO THE WIND
Said the straight man to the late man
Where have you been
I've been here and I've been there
And I've been in between.

I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear.

I'm on the outside looking inside
What do I see
Much confusion, disillusion
All around me.

You don't possess me
Don't impress me
Just upset my mind
Can't instruct me or conduct me
Just use up my time

I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear.

EPITAPH including March for no Reason and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams.
Upon the instruments if death
The sunlight brightly gleams.
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
As silence drowns the screams.

Between the iron gates of fate,
The seeds of time were sown,
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known;
Knowledge is a deadly friend
When no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.

Confusion will be my epitaph.
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
and laugh.
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying.

MOONCHILD including The Dream and The Illusion
Call her moonchild
Dancing in the shallows of a river
Lovely moonchild
Dreaming in the shadow
of the willow.

Talking to the trees of the
cobweb strange
Sleeping on the steps of a fountain
Waving silver wands to the
night-birds song
Waiting for the sun on the mountain.

She's a moonchild
Gathering the flowers in a garden.
Lovely moonchild
Drifting on the echoes of the hours.

Sailing on the wind
in a milk white gown
Dropping circle stones on a sun dial
Playing hide and seek
with the ghosts of dawn
Waiting for a smile from a sun child.

THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING including The Return of the Fire Witch and The Dance of the Puppets
The rusted chains of prison moons
Are shattered by the sun.
I walk a road, horizons change
The tournament's begun.
The purple piper plays his tune,
The choir softly sing;
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue,
For the court of the crimson king.

The keeper of the city keys
Put shutters on the dreams.
I wait outside the pilgrim's door
With insufficient schemes.
The black queen chants
the funeral march,
The cracked brass bells will ring;
To summon back the fire witch
To the court of the crimson king.

The gardener plants an evergreen
Whilst trampling on a flower.
I chase the wind of a prism ship
To taste the sweet and sour.
The pattern juggler lifts his hand;
The orchestra begin.
As slowly turns the grinding wheel
In the court of the crimson king.

On soft gray mornings widows cry
The wise men share a joke;
I run to grasp divining signs
To satisfy the hoax.
The yellow jester does not play
But gentle pulls the strings
And smiles as the puppets dance
In the court of the crimson king.

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 8:32 pm

Iron Maiden

Stranger In A Strange Land
Smith

Was many years ago that I left home and came this way,
I was a young man full of hopes and dreams,
But now it seems to me that all is lost and nothing gained,
Sometimes things ain't what they seem,
No brave new world, no brave new world,
No brave new world, no brave new world.

Night and day I scan horizon, sea and sky,
My spirit wanders endlessly,
Until the day will dawn and friends from home discover why,
Hear me calling, rescue me,
Set me free, set me free,
Lost in this place and leave no trace.

Chorus:
Stranger in a strange land,
Land of ice and snow,
Trapped here in this prison, yeah!
Lost and far from home.

One hundred years have gone and men again they came that way,
To find the answer to the mystery,
They found his body lying where it fell on that day,
Preserved in time for all to see,
No brave new world, no brave new world,
Lost in this place, and leave no trace.

Chorus:
Stranger in a strange land,
Land of ice and snow,
Trapped here in this prison, yeah!
Lost and far from home.

The Z · Post by **The Z** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 8:34 pm

"Drops Of Jupiter" - Train

Now that she's back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair, hey, hey
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's time to change, hey, hey
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June, hey, hey

Tell me did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated

Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star
One without a permanent scar
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there

Now that she's back from that soul vacation
Tracing her way through the constellation, hey, hey
She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo
Reminds me that there's room to grow, hey, hey

Now that she's back in the atmosphere
I'm afraid that she might think of me as plain ol' Jane
Told a story about a man who is too afraid to fly so he never did land

Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back to the Milky Way
And tell me, did Venus blow your mind
Was it everything you wanted to find
And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there

Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken
Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you're wrong
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance five-hour phone conversation
The best soy latte that you ever had . . . and me

Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back toward the Milky Way

[Repeat 1st Chorus]

Lintelyg · Post by **Lintelyg** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 7:39 pm

The Brews by NOFX

One of my personal favs....

Friday night we'll be drinkin' Manashevitz
Goin' out to terrorize goyem
Stompin' shagitz, screwin' shicksas
As long as we're home by Saturday mornin'
Cause hey we're the Brews
Sportin' anti swastika tattoos
Oi Oi we're the boys
Orthodox, hesidic, O.G. Ois
Orthopedic Dr. Martins good for
Waffle making, kickin' through the shin
Reputation, gained through intimidation
Pacifism no longer tradition
Cause hey we're the Brews
Sportin' anti swastika tattoos
Oi Oi we're the Brews
The fairfax ghetto boys skinhead hebrews
We got the might, psycho mashuganas
We can't lose a fight, as we are the chosen ones
Chutspah, we battle then we feast
We celebrate, we'll separate our milkplates from our meat

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 1:28 pm

Manowar

HAIL AND KILL

Brothers I am calling from the valley of the kings
with nothing to atone
A dark march lies ahead together we will ride like
thunder from the sky
May your sword stay wet like a young girl in her
prime
Hold your hammers high
Blood and death are waiting like a raven in the sky
I was born to die
Hear me while I live
As I look into your eyes
None shall hear a lie
Power and dominion are taken by the will
By diving right hail and kill
Hail Hail Hail and Kill,Hail and Kill
Hail Hail Hail and Kill,Hail and Kill
My father was a wolf
I'm a kinsman of the slain
Sworn to rise again
I will bring salvation, punishment and pain
The hammer of hate is our faith
Power and dominion are taken by the will
By diving right hail and kill
Hail Hail Hail and Kill,Hail and Kill
Hail Hail Hail and Kill,Hail and Kill
Rip their flesh
Burn their hearts
Stab them in the eyes
Rape their women as they cry
Kill their servants
Burn their homes
Till there's no blood left to spill
Hail and Kill
Power and dominion are taken by the will
By diving right hail and kill
Hail Hail Hail and Kill,Hail and Kill

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 2:30 pm

Hurrah for Tom Lehrer!

I know a guy who memorised and sang The Chemical Elements Song in a school concert once...but I will refrain from posting the lyrics to it.

On Second thoughts, no I won't -

The Chemical Elements Song

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.

[spoken]

Isn't that interesting?
I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's gonna be a short quiz next period.

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, (inhale)
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper,
Tungsten, tin and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 2:49 pm

I was gonna post that song as well, but I thought it'd be a little too much torture and it's not my favourite, either

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sun Oct 27, 2002 9:25 am

Biko - Peter Gabriel

A song about the South African anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko, who "sustained head injury during interrogation" and died from brain damage.

"Biko"

September '77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

When I try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

And the eyes of the world are
watching now
watching now

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Sun Oct 27, 2002 4:22 pm

In reply to CE

Labi Siffre - Something Inside So Strong

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
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, something inside so strong

The more you refuse to hear my voice (ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh)
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jericho (ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh)
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
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, something inside so strong

Brothers and sisters, when they insist we're just not good enough
Well we know better, just look him in his eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway, we're gonna do it anyway
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, oh no
There's something inside so strong

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, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, something inside so strong
(Oh oh oh) oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, something inside so strong
Oh oh-oh-oh-oh, something inside so strong

Scayde · Post by **Scayde** » Sun Oct 27, 2002 7:02 pm

I am reminded of one by Kenny Wayne Shepherd I love...

“Last Goodbye”...Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Long before your rusted chains,
Busted walls and barbed wire cage
Tried to hold me down

Time was just a fist of change
Tossed in the water just in case
You ever came around

I could lose myself
I could curse like hell
But I’ve lost the will
To even try
If you ever doubt
Listen to the sound...no lies
This is my last goodbye

Pardon me if I appear
To see beyond the now and here
To try to save myself

I’m not the kind to pin the blame
But I can’t take more of the same
Living on your shelf

I could lose myself
I could curse like hell
But I’ve lost the will
To even try
If you ever doubt
Listen to the sound...no lies
This is my last goodbye

Door closes another one opens
I feel the cold wind blowing
Over me

Long gone but not forgotten
I might be lost I might be finally free
I’m finally free...

Long before your rusted chains,
Busted walls and barbed wire cage
Tried to hold me down

Time was just a fist of change
Tossed in the water just in case
You ever came around

I could lose myself
I could curse like hell
But I’ve lost the will
To even try
If you ever doubt
Listen to the sound...no lies
This is my last goodbye

This is my last goodbye...
Yes it is