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favorite lyrics?

 
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limt, 4 lines:


I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra
I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova
I could walk like Brando right into the sun
Then dance just like a Casanova
 
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oh come on... gotta include the song title and artist so we can check out the song!
 
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Right, right, sorry

'Springsteen, It's hard to be a Saint in the City
 
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I looked at my watch,
I looked at my wrist,
I punched myself,
In my face with my fist.


Bob Dylan, "Million Dollar Bash"
 
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Not necessarily a favourite but when it comes to lyrics those national navel gazing dittys come tops.
(P.S the music's usually crap)

WORDS AND MUSIC: Billy Bragg (2002)

Billy: vocal, electric guitar
Note:
Formerly known as Millennium Song

Take Down The Union Jack


<<<

Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset
And put it in the attic with the emperors old clothes
When did it fall apart? Sometime in the 80s
When the Great and the Good gave way to the greedy and the mean
Britain isn�t cool you know, its really not that great
It's not a proper country, it doesn�t even have a patron saint
It's just an economic union that�s passed its sell-by date

Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset
And ask our Scottish neighbours if independence looks any good
�Cos they just might understand how to take an abstract notion
Of personal identity and turn it into nationhood
Is this the 19th century that I�m watching on tv?
The dear old Queen of England handing out those MBEs
Member of the British Empire - that doesn�t sound too good to me

Gilbert and George are taking the piss aren�t they?
Gilbert and George are taking the piss.
What could be more British than here�s a picture of my bum?
Gilbert and George are taking the piss

Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset
And pile all those history books, but don�t throw them away
They just might have some clues about what it really means
To be an Anglo hyphen Saxon in England.co.uk
[ August 31, 2004: Message edited by: Helen Thomas ]
 
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hey, hey, hey!

Four lines only, missy!
 
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OK. Pick the last four.
 
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God save the queen her fascist regime
It made you a moron a potential h bomb !
God save the queen she ain�t no human being
There is no future in england�s dreaming


Reminds me of my days hanging at CBGBs.

It is of course, God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols.
[ August 31, 2004: Message edited by: Thomas Paul ]
 
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I spent the evening thinking about all the blood that flowed away.
Across the ocean to the second chance I wonder how it go on when it reached the promised land.
I've looked at the ocean tried hard to imagine The way you felt the day you sailed from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia.

When you go will you send back a letter from America?
Take a look up the railtrack from Miami to Canada.


from The Proclaimers (4 full stops 4 lines)
 
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And why do you sing Hallelujah
If it means nothing to ya?
-- Damien Rice, Delicate

I dreamt about you last night,
And I fell out of bed twice
-- The Smiths, Reel Around the Fountain

It's always funny until someone gets hurt...
And then it's just hilarious
-- Faith No More, Ricochet

Interesting link : Misheard lyrics - includes link to Def Leppard's "Pour some sugar on me" covered by boy band Townsend. Warning, may induce laughter and or nausea.
 
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And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
 
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Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
And then one day you find
.... gun



Mine is pretty close to yours ...

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death


Band : Pink Flyod
Song : Time
[ September 01, 2004: Message edited by: K Varun ]
 
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John Martyn, may you never*

May you never lose your temper, if you get hit in a bar room fight
May you never lose your woman overnight

May you never lay your head down, without a hand to hold
May you never make your bed out in the cold


*father to son
 
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OK, heres a complete BB King song. I like it because it seems to sum up the blues so completely:

"Nobody loves me but my mumma,
Nobody loves me but my mumma,
Nobody loves me but my mumma,
And she could be jivin' too."
 
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We wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish you a Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year!


 
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The best lyrics have got to be from the greatest rock-poets of all - U2 (alright, apart from Dylan, but he's not really rock):

Pride


Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride



Spanish Eyes


Dazzled by lights that shine in your eyes
I'm standing in the shadows
And wait for the night



Silver And Gold


Mister, I ain't got nothing
But it's more than you got

Chains no longer bind me
Not the shackles at my feet
Outside are the prisoners
Inside the free


One


One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it



Who cannot be moved by the heart-felt crisis of faith that Bono sings about in Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For


You broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believed it
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

 
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From your favorite Christmas Poo:


Santa Claus is on his way
He's loaded goodies on his sleigh
To drop them off on Christmas Day
And I'll say
Hi-De-Ho!

 
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:

Reminds me of my days hanging at CBGBs.



This statement triggered the most wonderful moment of cognitive dissonance. Just picture it.
 
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Fill me with drugs... and then f*ck me for hours.

Trackname: Fill me...
Artist: Drugface
Style of music: Hardcore (Electronic music)
 
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That's deep, James...
 
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" I see you standing there...
you think you're so cool...
why dont you just..
.....FUCK OFF!!! "
- Great song to listen to when you're pissed off with someone, "So easy" - Guns'n'Roses
 
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Originally posted by Joseph George:
That's deep, James...



Heh, I could PM you a link to a sample of that track if you're interested
 
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Enya, "Once You Had Gold":

Now you can see Spring becomes Autumn
Leaves become gold, falling from few
Ever and always, always and ever
No one can promise a dream come true


If I could have more than four lines, I'd choose Julie Gold's "From a Distance", from one of my Bette Midler CDs. Unfortunately, most of the lines are too controversial for this forum when taken out of context. Maybe the following:

From a distance, there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace
It's the voice of every man
 
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For me it has to be

...
"Boom goes London, boom Paris
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono
There'll be Italian shoes for me."
...

"Political Science", Randy Newman

Of course, the trouble with good lyrics is that they are not really meaningless drivel!
 
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Its a pity nobody want to quote a lyirics from a love song!..
Are you guys running out of love or getting old.
 
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Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
This statement triggered the most wonderful moment of cognitive dissonance. Just picture it.


I'll bet Iggy Pop never spit at you.
 
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:

I'll bet Iggy Pop never spit at you.




No, but I had a beer with Trent Raznor, had a conversation about fighting vs. weightlifting with Henry Rollins, and was part of a personal security detail for Bono. Did IP's spit actually hit?
 
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Later on when the crowd thinned out
I was just about to do the same...

-Bob Dylan

Steal your face
Right off your head

- Dead

Counting stars by candlelight

- Dead

Nothin; left to do but smile, smile, smile

- Dead

I had a job in the great northwoods
Working as a cook for a spell
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the axe just fell

- Bob Dylan

The band is just fantastic
That is really what we think
Oh, by the way..
Which one's Pink?

- Pink Floyd

The secret of life is enjoying the passing of time
Any fool can do it
There ain't nothing to it

- James Taylor


stop me before I quote again...
 
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Smelly cat, smelly cat
What are they feeding you?
Smelly cat, smelly cat
It's not your fault

By Phoebe Buffay (Friends )

Dushy
 
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We are islands to each other,
each one's life a novel no one else has read.
Even joined in bonds of love,
we're linked to one another by such slender threads


Rush, "Entre Nous"
 
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somebody likes his Tangled up in Blue
 
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I woke up dis mornin, an' got my self a beer.
Yeah, woke up dis mornin, an' got my self a beer.
Da future's uncertain and da end is always near.


-- The Doors, "Roadhouse Blues."
 
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And I'll do anything I got to do
Cut my hair and shine my shoes
And keep on singin' the blues
If I can stay here in Johnny's garden

Johnny's Garden - Crosby, Stills & Nash
 
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