favorite lyric LINES in a song

[LarryD]

THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN THE 'FAVORITE LYRICS' THREAD

what are the most memorable one-liners in a song? these are ones that i keep saying in my head over and over and over ...


"we be to rap what key be to lock" -- butterfly (in digable planet's "rebirth of slick")


"fucked so many ho's i'm in the hall of fame" -- kid rock (in kid rock & eminem's "fuck off")

"if your ass is a chinese restaurant I'll have the poo-poo platter" -- jimmy pop ali (opening to bloodhound gang's "i wish i was queer so i could get chicks")

"life's short and hard like a body-building elf " -- jimmy pop ali (in bloodhound gang's "lift your head up high and blow your brains out")

"so what if I'm not the smartest peanut in the turd" -- jimmy pop ali (in bloodhound gang's "three point one four")

"i was lonelier than kunta kente at a merle haggard concert that night I strolled on into uncle limpy's hump palace lookin' for love." -- jimmy pop ali (in bloodhound gang's "a lapdance is so much better when the stripper is crying")

[gutter]

Take a look to the sky just before you die. It's the last time you will

-Metallica - Fade to Black

Got some death to do.

-Metallica - Sanitarium

I am the ambassador, I'll kick your assitor

-Vandals - Eurobarge

What do you mean I don't support your system, I go to court when I have to.

-Megadeth - Peace sells

[bunkyboy]

Prince,"Gett Off"

"-In my paisley crib
Whatcha want 2 eat? "Ribs"
Ha, toy, I don't serve ribs...
U better be happy that dress is still on
I heard the rip when u sat down

Honey them hips is gone
That's alright, I clock 'em that way
Remind me of something James used to say...

"I like 'em fat"
"I like 'em proud"
"Ya gotta have a mother for me"

Now move your big ass 'round this way
So I can work on that zipper, baby
Tonight your a star
And I'm the big dipper"

[bunkyboy]

"Sign O the Times mess with your mind
Hurry before it's 2 late
Let's fall in love, get married, have a baby
We'll call him Nate... if it's a boy"

or..

"Built like she was
She had the nerve 2 ask me
If I planned 2 do her any harm

So, look here
I put her on the back of my bike
And-a we went riding
Down by old man Johnson's farm

I said now, overcast days never turned me on
But something about the clouds and her mixed

She wasn't 2 bright
But I could tell when she kissed me
She knew how 2 get her kicks"...

Everybody join in now...

She wore a Raspberry Beret...

[magnus]

Originally posted by LarryD



"we be to rap what key be to lock" -- butterfly (in digable planet's "rebirth of slick")



Good call. I dunno if I'd quote so much BHG though :D



Stop the bus
I wanna be lonely
when seconds pass slowly and years go flying by
You gotta stop the bus
I get off here
enough's enough
and I'm leaving this factory
-Ben Folds Five, Jackson Cannery

[LarryD]

Originally posted by magnus ver magnusson
Good call. I dunno if I'd quote so much BHG though :D


that's just where i started. they're lyrically driven. i'll add PLENTY to this.

[BearBryant]

Originally posted by magnus ver magnusson


Good call.



Someone write this down. Mag and I actually agree on something.

[magnus]

"blah blah blah...skip over all your posts, except for not really, of course." :D Step two in recovery from dealing with me apparently is redemption.

[mathmajors]

'You can spend all your time makin' money.
You can spend all your love makin' time.'

[lex]

what? no one's quoted trent reznor yet? how can y'all be remiss??? nine inch nails has some memorable ones...

so does monster magnet, i can't...i just can't...

twiggy, you do it. :p

[meatpile]

B-Boys

"yeah you mother fuckers! I'm all that! People be lookin at me and they be sayin 'how can he be so skinny and live so FAT', you know why? cuz I'm THE MAESTRO! yeah!"

[WYDD]

When masturbation's lost it's fun
You're fucking breaking

Greenday

[Elric]

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling, Revolution calling...

Queensryche (oldie but goodie)

[wossa]

Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg,
Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg;
The way you squeeze my lemon,
I..I'm gonna fall right out of bed.

Led Zeppelin "The Lemon Song" - Most definitely the best rock/"blues" song ever. Plant, Page and John Paul Jones at their best.

[needawindow]

Hurray for a child
That makes it through
If there's any way
Because the answer lies in you
-Creed,Whats this life for

Let it be known there is a fountain,
That was not made by the hands of men.
-Dead,Ripple


She was a fast machine
She kept her motor clean
She was the best damn woman I had ever seen
-ACDC,You shook me all night long

[Savio]

"I walk along the hillside, underneath the sunshine....I'm feathered by the moonlight." Adam Duritz

[lex]

these lines i like. from live, "dolphins cry"

"oh yeah, we meet again
it's like we never left
time in between was just a dream
did we leave this place?
this crazy fog surrounds me
you wrap your legs around me
all I can do to try and breathe
let me breathe so that I
so we can go together!"

[Y2Buddy]

It's so fuckin' good, I had to put the whole song. It's a sing-a-long, and don't forget the air guitar sounds.

When you get up in the morning and the light is hurt your head
The first thing you do when you get up out of bed
Is hit that street a-runnin' and try to meet the masses
And go get yourself some cheap sunglasses
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

I spot a little thing and I followed her all night
In a funky pair of levis and her sweater's kind of tight
She had a west coast strut that was as sweet as molases
But what really knocked me out was her cheap sunglasses
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

Now go out and get yourself some thick black frames
With the glass so dark thay won't even know your name
And the choice is up to you cause they come in two classes
Rhinestone shades and cheap sunglasses
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

[Superfluous_Nut]

shit adds up at the bottom

--tool, "bottom"


So let it build, let it explode
Leaving blood and shattered bone
Or bite your tongue ‘til you’ve forgotten what to say
And take another step back, until you find you’ve walked away

--sebadoh, "beauty of the ride"


Is something missing in my touch, a tension tugging at my smile?
If there’s a right thing to say, I’m sure I missed it by a mile

--sebadoh, "too pure"


( whole song: )
she tattooed her failures on her arms which ran wrists to shoulderblades
she wore them above her charm bracelet given to her on her birthday
a silver wrist bound carousel given to her by her father
so bright back then but tarnished since, she used to be the favorite daughter

that no longer applies
expiration date went by
you used to be so pretty

knuckles crack from faulty swings leaving memories of him
imprinted in the purple yellow browns that only recently began
to fade back to the colors you are really supposed to be
in sickened ways you guiltily found them to be so pretty

your long face wears long sleeves
to hide what's underneath
everyone just thinks your clumsy

the blue backed cards could only be used for flimsy construction
after he took the royalty and lined his spokes with them
ferris wheels of noble men spray out the perfect rhythm
the dirt hill jumps were always best he found out by the prison

that's where your real father lives
he didn't go down with his ship
that's just what your mother told you

--pond, "spokes"

[lex]

wow! me thinks me will download. thanx, nut. :D

[celyn]

your prision is walking through this world all alone...........




Desperado..... Eagles

[Y2Buddy]

Originally posted by celyn
your prision is walking through this world all alone...........

Desperado..... Eagles

.......don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds boy, she'll beat you if she's able, y'know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet......

[gutter]

....well it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table. But you always want the one thing you can't get....

[lex]

desperado, why don't you come to your senses,
come down from your fences- open the gates.
it may be rainin, but there's a rainbow above you.
you'd better let somebody love you,
LET SOMEBODY LOVE YOU!!!!!!
you'd better let somebody love you,
before it's too late.
:p

[Y2Buddy]

desperado.....

[Superfluous_Nut]

Originally posted by lex
wow! me thinks me will download. thanx, nut. :D

Which one? If you d/l'd it, what did you think?

[jazzredcat]

Oldies but goodies:
She got the gold mine, I got the shaft.
Take this job and shove it!

[lex]

this one:

pond, "spokes" :D

just got home. i'll tellya later.

:pif the cigar store indians sang those lyrics, woulda been better...

this song style, those lyrics... "she makes me come undone" by the cigar store indians.

[Puttingood]

Cause everybody's gotta have somebody to look down on
Who they can feel better than at anytime be pleased
Someone doing something dirty decent folks can frown on
You can't find nobody else then help yourself to me

Eggheads cussin' rednecks cussin' hippies for the hair
Others laugh at straights who laugh at freaks who laugh at squares
Some folks hate the whites who hate the blacks who hate the Klan
Most of us hate anything we don't understand

[wossa]

"She just loves my big ten inch...


record of my favorite blues."

Aerosmith - Big Ten Inch Record

[hero]

girl you look fine,
I like that waistline,

let me hit that from behind,
which wall you want to climb

My style is genuine,
I love you long time

"Biggie Smalls"

[SandMan]

It was on one of Prince's early albulms, yea back in the vinyl days... He said and I quote "I sincerely want to fuck the taste out of your mouth"

[Y2Buddy]

"I guess I'll have to spank my monkey"


I Got the Six
ZZTop

[TW1GGY]

Look at that donkey butt and dem big ol' legs I ain't too proud beg--- Donkey Butt-12 gague

All Day I Dream About Sex.... A.D.I.D.A.S-korn

give me my money back you bitch, I want my money back and don't forget my black t-shirt .-Song for the Dumped-Ben folds five

I wanna grow up.... wanna be.. a rock and roll star-Marilyn Manson-Lunchbox

I a bastard... at least I admit it.... at least I admit it... Slipknot-my plague

Raise your hand your a sinner- Drowning Pool

Fuck you Die!!!!! Pennywise

Bury me an Angel god I need some inspration- White zombie-Devil Man

You can suck my dick and fucking like it!!!! ******- kOrN

Just because I hate you don't mean we can't fuck tonight, just because I hate you don't mean I can't love you right. Motion overload-Sea of me (this is a friends band. )

Bitch!!! You know you done fucked up right?!?!?? ICP-Bitches

and the best line of all time:::

I wish I could sleep
but I can't lay on my back
'cause their's a knife
for everyday that I've know you---- Marilyn Manson-speed of Pain

[lex]

sheeeiiit! i knew you'd come through, twiggy! damn skippy. go wash your hands, man. me too.

korn kicks ass! did you use the alt key to type korn? cant really type an inverted R. or can you?

those up there left me numb! too raw... :D

[McFly41]

ANyone ever heard of a group called Junkyard? They have a song called "Hands Off" that is about a cheating girlfriend.
Can't find the tape, but one line goes...
"But Baby, you gave him head...God Damn!"

Chorus: "Get your hands off my throat, cuz I can't breathe"

That song always made me laugh!

[slydevl]

I aint talking bout no two bit, penny ante, weekend warrior
Im talking bout drinking

Talking bout when you got two Buds left and want nothing to eat
You just gotta keep drinking

Talking bout when you get home at three but dont make it til four
Cuz you cant find the door

Wake up to the morning light burn a hole in my brain
cuz the sun's so bright

reach out for the first thing i can find its a half drunk bottle of some cheap wine

Stand up and I drink it down and start my day off
spinning around

Junkyard - Blooze



Shit. If I knew it was gonna be that kind of party I would have stuck my dick in the mashed potatoes

Beasties



Buns up and kneelin, I was a wheelin and a dealin

Aerosmith

[slydevl]

Holy shit McFly that is weird. I love Junkyard and was wondering if anyone else had heard of them.

Well not really weird to the casual observer seeing as how I posted this two days later. But I didn't read NcFly's post until after I posted my lyrics so it was weird to me

[mathmajors]

This is the end. My only friend, the end.

[gutter]

Hey Sly, I had all of Junkyard's albums. Both of em.

"Baby, you gave him head"

[slydevl]

Their first album was such a success they said their record company really pressured them to churn out the second one. The company also said they had to write another song like Hands Off which turned out to be Clean the Dirt. Anyway they werent too happy with the songs for the second album but the company forced them to release it anyway. They named the album Sixes, Sevens, and Nines because thats what they thought the songs were on a scale of 1 to 10.

[wossa]

"Gunter glieben glauchen globen"


Rock of Ages - Def Leppard

I just love the way that song starts.

Anybody know what it means??

[McFly41]

That was just on VH1 last week, WU. I don't remember what it meant, but it's Mutt Lange. He recorded a bunch of corny replacements for 1-2-3-4. Stuff like reading off of a menu, silly crap.
Joe Elliot heard it and said it had to be on the record. DAMN, I wish I could remember what they said it meant?

I originally got into Junkyard before Hollywood became a popular single. The lead singer grew up in Des Moines and they played the Iowa jam one year.

[cltbuilder]

I could...
wash my car in the rain,
change my new guitar strings,
mow the yard just the same
as I did yesterday.
I don't need to waste my time
crying over you.
I got better things to do.
Check the air in my tires
straighten my stereo wires
count the stars in the sky
or just get on with my life
I don't need to waste my time
crying over you,
I got better things to do.
~Terri Clark

Maybe we'll never be seen together
at night on a crowded street.
I may never reach across your body
to kill the light when you're asleep.
Maybe I'll never watch you dressing.
I won't sound too familiar on the phone.
But I can touch your hand accidentally,
and take that moment home.
Cause that's as close as I'll get to loving you.
~Aaron Tippin

I got something to say
I killed a baby today.
~Misfits

[gridfaniker]

Lots of people talkin', few of the know
The soul of a woman was created below


Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?

[Superfluous_Nut]

Wooden Jesus, where are you from?
Korea or Canada or maybe Taiwan
I didn't know it was the Holyland
But I could tell from the minute the check left my hand

--Temple of the Dog, "Wooden Jesus"

[cltbuilder]

Sometimes, it's hard to be a woman.
Giving all your love to just one man.
You'll have bad times,
He'll have good times
Doing things that you don't understand.
But if you love him,
You'll forgive him.
Even though he's hard to understand.
And if you love him,
Oh, be proud of him.
Cause after all,
He's just a man.
~Tammy Wynette

[cltbuilder]

Needed to make me weak to help you feel stronger
I know you bitches think I'm somewhere dying inside.
Poor kina, she went home, she couldn't take it no longer,
But I'm right here, I'm right here. I'm right here.
I hope your hell is filled with magazines
and on every page you see there'll be a picture of me
And under every picture there's a caption that reads,
Not bad for a girl from the gutter like me


Girl from the Gutter
~Kina


She would have been big had it not been for Macy Gray.
Much better voice and lyrics.

[chuckrichey]

"whatta ya mean i don't support the system,i go to court when i have too!!"---megadeth,peace sells:cool:

[Shrapnel]

Every morning at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six, weighed 245
Kinda' broad at the shoulders and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew you didn't give no lip
To Big John

[Superfluous_Nut]

Funny thing about weekends when you're unemployed.
They don't quite mean so much, except you get to hang out with all your working friends.

-- primus, spaghetti western

[Piper]

One of the reasons I listen to Phish is the great insight into life's mysteries I find in them. I'm convinced that the road to world peace can be found in them Such lyrics as

"What would you do if you ate my daddies shoes?"

and

"The tires are the things on the car that make contact with the road."

I wonder if I can smuggle a copy of my Portland Fall 95 show into Sharon and Arafat's briefcase?

[lex]

"o babe, you are the one i love,
you are the one i'm thinking of
so many words i need to say to you -
you'll hear them all at the end of the day."

simple and niiiice.... i like these lines!
:mushy:

[lex]

"you want her
you need her
and yet you cant believe her
when she says her love is dead
she no longer needs you.

and in her eyes you see nothing.
no sign of love behind the tears
cried for no one.
a love that should have lasted years." :(

cried for no one

[mathmajors]

"I met a girl who sang the blues, and I asked her for some happy news. But she just smiled and turned away...."

[plutosgirl]

Originally posted by mathmajors
"I met a girl who sang the blues, and I asked her for some happy news. But she just smiled and turned away...."

Glad you bumped this Math- I forget to read back on stuff before I was here.:)

I went down to the sacred store where I'd heard the music years before, but the man there said the music woudn't play.....

[mathmajors]

and in the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried and the poets dreamed...

[Village Idiot]

"you're my blue sky, you're my sunny day
dont you know you make me high
when you turn your love my way
turn your love my way....yeah...yeah" (Alman Bros.)

"gonna find me a hole in the wall
gonna crawl inside and die"
"gonna ride me a southbound
til the train, it run outta track" (Marshall Tucker)

"baby hair, with a womans eyes
I can feel you watchin'...in the night" (Hall&Oats)

"you've got your nucleo boots
and your drip dry glove"
"lifes the same
living in stereo"
"lifes the same
shakin' like trem-alo"
"its so easy
to fly through a window" (The Cars)

"I think I'm gonna be sad
I think its today, yeah
the girl thats drivin' me mad
is goin' away....yeah" (The Beatles)

[The Brain]

"I love you like a fat kid loves cake." - 50cent 21 Questions

[lex]

"then there was music and wonderful roses
they tell me in sweet fragrant meadows of dawn and you

there was love all around
but i never heard it singing
no i never heard it at all...
till there was you." :p

[hasbeen99]

"There is so much to see
If we keep looking up."
'Blue Skies' -- Point of Grace


"I've made mistakes enough
To last me a lifetime."
'Always Have, Always Will' -- Avalon


"Got a secret no one knows
Locked away where no one goes
Deep inside your heart
It's tearing you apart.

Have the pain in all you do
Still those shackles binding you
Heavier than stone
You are not alone."
'I Am the Way' -- Mark Schultz


"We are pressed, but not crushed
Persecuted, not abandoned
Struck down, but not destroyed.
We are blessed beyond the curse
For His promise will endure
That His joy is gonna be our strength."
'Yes, Lord' -- (unknown)


"And I will live for all my days
To raise the banner of truth and life."
'I Found Jesus' -- Delirious


"Mountains bow down and the seas will roar
At the sound of your name.

I sing for joy at the work of your hands.
Forever I love you forever I'll stand.

Nothing compares to the promise I have in you."
'Shout to the Lord' -- Darlene Zschech


"Step inside, walk this way
You and me, Babe,
HEY HEY!"
'Pour Some Sugar On Me' -- Def Leppard

[plutosgirl]

Oh bye bye, bye bye
I ain't got time to watch you cry
Cause I've been drinking seven hours now
Sympathy is a waste of my high
~ The Avett Brothers

I opened up my eyes to see
A land of sunny rocks and funny trees
Guess I'm on the moon again,
A heavy Earth exchange
A lighter breeze....
~ Widespread Panic

Long may you run, long may you run
Although these changes have come
with your chrome heart shining, in the sun
long may you run...
~ Neil Young

[FreakOnA_Leash]

I'd kill myself for you, I'd kill you for myself
Pantera

Feeling like a freak on a leash, feeling like I have no release. How many times have I felt diseased. Nothing in my life is free.
Korn

Its just one of those days
When you don't wanna wake up
Everything is fucked
Everybody sux
You don't really know why
But want justify
Rippin' someone's head off
Limp Bizkit

[NightMystic]

"Six inches forward and five inches back,
I've got an ANGRY INCH, an ANGRY INCH!"

-Hedwig-

[William89]

"Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things"
INCUBUS - Favorite Things

"When they turn the pages of history
when these days have passed long ago,
will they read of us with sadness
for the seeds that we let grow?"
RUSH - A Farewell To Kings

""Just when I thought that I was better, I realized that I don't know what better was"
HOOBASTANK - Better

"Boom na da mmm dum na ema
Da boom na da mmm dum na ema"
KORN - Freak On A Leash

[twinks]

I can't believe you're leavin'
Cuz me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream
Think it's that girl
And I think there are pieces of me you've never seen
Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen
~Tori Amos-- "Tear in your hand"


So you can make me cum
That doesn't make you Jesus.
~Tori Amos-- "Precious Things"

Somebody ought to take you in
Try to make you love again
Try to make you like the way they feel
When they're under your skin.
~Matchbox 20-- "Hand Me Down"

While you were sleeping
I was listening to the radio
And wondering what you're dreaming
When suddenly it came to mind
That I didn't care.
~Matchbox 20-- "Rest Stop"

[Halton49]

Twinks, "Hand Me Down" by Matchbox 20 is a great song, bought the CD almost for that song alone.

My favorite line, from the Eagles "Desperado"

"Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table, but you only want the ones you can't get"

PS to Hasbeen99, keep up the good work!

[gladhatter]

Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us..
Why don't we do it in the road?

-The Beatles

[articulatekitten]

Jeez, there's just too much cool shit on TBR to keep up! This is the first time I've ever visited the Music forum, & this thread is Too Cool! Lots of awesome responses.

Just a few of my faves:

Because the world is round, it turns me on...because the wind is high, it blows my mind... The Beatles

She dances while his father plays guitar/She's suddenly beautiful/We all want something beautiful/I wish I was beautiful... Counting Crows

When I think of heaven/Deliver me in a black-winged bird/I think of flying down into a sea of pins and feathers/and all other instruments of faith and sex and God/in the belly of a black-winged bird... Counting Crows

This is serious business---sex and violence and rock and roll... John Mellencamp

oh, you're a beautiful, a beautiful fucked-up man, you're setting up your razor wire shrine... Sarah McLachlan

What I wouldn't give to find a soulmate/Someone else to catch this drift... Alanis Morissette

'Cause the joke that you laid in the bed that was me/And I'm not gonna fade/As soon as you close your eyes and you know it/And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it... Alanis Morissette

She'll change so suddenly/She's just like mercury/Yeah, but she's all right with me... Counting Crows

[Broncokev]

Sorry for the long post but I couldn't pickout just one line.



Better Than Ezra - A lifetime

Allie woke up 8AM
Graduation day.
Got into a car,
And crashed along the way.

When we arrived late to the wake,
Stole the urn while they
Looked away,
And drove to the beach
'Cause I knew you'd want it
That way.

And you were standing
On the hood of the car
Singing out loud
When the sun came up.

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that REM song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

It felt like a lifetime

And you move like water
I could drown in you.
And I fell so deep once,
Till you pulled me through

You would tell me
"No one is allowed to be so proud
They never reach out
When they're giving up."

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that REM song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

Are you sitting in the lights?
Or combing your hair again,
And talking in rhymes?
Are you sitting in the lights?

When I got home, heard the phone,
Your parents had arrived.
And your dad set his jaw
Your mom just smiled and sighed.

But they left soon
And I went to my room.
Played that disc that you'd given me,
And I shut my eyes
Swear I could hear the sea.

When we were standing
On the hood of your car
Singing out loud when the sun came up.

And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that REM song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes,
Three and a half minutes,

Felt like a lifetime.




Better Than Ezra - Beatiful Mistake


PHOTO STILLS
IN YOUR WALLET WITH THE UNPAID BILLS
AND YOU SHOW IT LIKE IT MEANS SOMETHING
YOU COULD NEVER KNOW THE PAIN IT BRINGS

AND HERE YOU ARE
STANDING IN OUR DRIVE
(WHEN ABSENCE SUITS YOU BEST)
LETTERS AND YOUR CARDS
WITH NO RETURN ADDRESS

CHORUS:
NOW YOU COME AROUND
NOW YOU COME AROUND
YOUR FAMILIAR SOUNDS
WE ARE YOUR BEAUTIFUL,
WE ARE YOUR BEAUTIFUL MISTAKE.

WAITING FOR THIS DAY
WELL I MEMORIZED THE THINGS I'D SAY
HOW YOU BROKE HER WHEN YOU DISAPPEARED
HOW I HEAR HER SAY,

"YOU'D MAKE YOUR FATHER PROUD."
IT ECHOES THROUGH THE YEARS
AS IF I COULD FORGET ALL A MOTHER'S TEARS

CHORUS:

BRIDGE:
NO, DON'T SAY A WORD
LEAVE WHILE YOU STILL CAN
PUT OUT YOUR LIGHT

NOW I GUESS YOU'RE GOING
A FIGURE THROUGH THE DOOR
AND YOUR TAILLIGHTS FADED
LIKE TWENTY YEARS BEFORE

[hasbeen99]

"I caught a glimpse of your splendor in the corner of my eye.
The most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
It was like a flash of lightning reflected off the sky, and I know I'll never be the same.

When I climb down the mountain and get back to my life, I won't settle for ordinary things.
Gonna follow You forever, for all of my days.
I won't rest 'till I see you again."
'Show Me Your Glory' -- Third Day



"I get so clumsy, I get so foolish.
I can be so stupid, and then I feel so useless.
But You're saying you love me, and You still wanna hold me.
And that you wanna be near me, 'cause your making me holy..."
'Clumsy' -- Chris Rice

[gridfaniker]

Lotsa people talkin', few of them know, soul of a woman was created below
-- Zeppelin, Dazed and Confused


If she gets unruly, thinks she don't wan do
Take my 32-20 now and cut her half in two
-- Robert Johnson, 32-20 Blues


She was number nine, ninety-nine on the critical list
And I fell in love with the dirty little bitch
-- AC-DC, She's Got the Jack


Mother did it need to be so high?
Pink Floyd, Mother


In their eyes there’s something lacking, What they need’s a damn good whacking.
-- Beatles, Piggies


America, where are you now,
Don't you care about your sons and daughters
--Steppenwolf, Monster


I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead
--The Band, The Weight

I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow
--Little Feat, Willin'

[Ignatowski]

I thought that they were angels
But much to my surorise
They climbed aboard their starship
They headed for the skies

Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me- STYX


I packed up my car and I got some gas
Told everybody they could kiss my ass

I'm going to Party Town- Glen Frey

[HardHarry]

This thread is a sonofabitch. I could spend weeks posting stuff.

Grace (J. Buckley/G. Lucas) Tablature

there's the moon asking to stay
long enough for the clouds to fly me away
well it's my time coming, i'm not afraid to die
my fading voice sings of love,
but she cries to the clicking of time
oh, time

wait in the fire...

and she weeps on my arm
walking to the bright lights in sorrow
oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow
oh my love

and the rain is falling and i believe
my time has come
it reminds me of the pain
i might leave
leave behind

wait in the fire...

and i feel them drown my name
so easy to know and forget with this kiss
i'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow


I couldnt pick out one line. It's too good.


And two excerpts from Mojo Pin - Jeff Buckley:

precious, precious silver and gold
and pearls in oyster's flesh
drop down we two to serve and pray to love
born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
ageless, ageless and i'm there in your arms

the welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
well it's you i've waited my life to see
it's you i've searched so hard for


And from the incomparable Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley alternate verses

well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me do you
but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah


And I couldnt leave out :

Lover, you should have come over - Jeff Buckley:

lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in
burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him
my body turns and yearns for a sleep that won't ever come

it's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
it's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her
it's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
it's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

well maybe i'm just too young
to keep good love from going wrong

oh... lover, you should've come over
'cause it's not too late


And lots of random Elliott (R.I.P.) shit:

i'll fake it through the day
with some help from johnny walker red
send the poison rain down the drain
to put bad thoughts in my head

- Miss Misery

Drink up baby....

People you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
They push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

- Between the Bars

i may not seem quite right
but i'm not fucked, not quite

- Bled White

i'm going out sleepwalking
where mute memories start talking
the boss that couldn't help but hurt you
and the pretty thing he made desert you

- 2:45 am

all spit and spite you're up all night and down every day
a tired man with only hours to go just waiting to be taken away
getting in to the back of a car for candy from some stranger
watching the parade with pinpoint eyes full of smoldering anger

- Ballad of Big Nothing

got a broken heart and your name on my cast

- no name #5

say yes

i'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl
who's still around the morning after
we broke up a month ago and i grew up i didn't know
i'd be around the morning after
it's always been wait and see
a happy day and then you pay
and feel like shit the morning after
but now i feel changed around and instead falling down
i'm standing up the morning after
situations get fucked up and turned around sooner or later
and i could be another fool or an exception to the rule
you tell me the morning after
crooked spin can't come to rest
i'm damaged bad at best
she'll decide what she wants
i'll probably be the last to know
no one says until it shows and you see how it is
they want you or they don't
say yes
i'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl
who's still around the morning after


I'd post something from the white lady loves you more, (pretty) ugly before, or a distorted reality is a necessity to be free, but it upsets me too much.

How can I forget this:

won't you tell your dad get off my back?
tell him what we said 'bout "paint It black,"
rock and roll is here to stay,
come inside now it's ok,
qnd i'll shake you,
ooo ooo.

won't you tell me what you're thinking of?
would you be an outlaw for my love?


That's Alex fucking Chilton, of Big Star. The song is "thirteen".

Last,

...and now it's time to
KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

MC fucking 5.

Werd.

[York1]

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,

[York1]

Last night you told her, you could never hold her.
'Cause a cowboy's just gotta be free.
Her heart was breakin', yours was achin',
But you saddled up to follow your dreams.
Coffee on your campfire, wind through the barbed wire,
You huddle close to the flames.
Though she's far behind you, the night wind reminds you.
It just keeps on whisperin' her name.
You can make a run for the border,
Try to hide up the hole in the wall.
But don't you know your arms are achin' to hold her.
And cowboy even though you're ridin' tall...
Cowboy you're riding for a fall..
Midnight the moons up, hands around your tin cup.
The frost settles in on the sage.
The nights gettin' colder, well, man you're gettin' older.
T'night you're feelin' you're age.
Well, why don't you turn back, just saddle up and backtrack.
You know you'll never find a love quite like hers.
And tell me, on a cold lonesome evenin', what the hell goods your
freedom?
Don't you think it's time you hung up your spurs?
You can make a run for the border, try to hide up the hole in the wall.
But don't you know your arms are achin' to hold her.
And cowboy even though you're ridin' tall...You're ridin' for a fall.
Cowboy, you're Riding For A Fall...

[York1]

You can take the boy out of Bandera

Not the other way around

I don't know but man it's true

Those bright lights will get you down

I'm gonna stay on the old concrete

Cause them city girls they smell so sweet

I don't know what the hell they see

But they like my brother and me

[lex]

"...and in her eyes you see nothing. no sign of love behind the tears cried for no one...a love that could have lasted years...." ~beatles

"you know how long i've loved you, you know i always will...will i wait a lonely lifetime, if you want me to, i will.

...love you forever and forever, love you with all my heart. love you whenever we're together, love you when we're apart. and then at last i found you. your song will fill the air. sing it loud so i can hear you. make it easy to be near you. for the things you do endear you to me, oh you know i will. i will!" ~beatles

[bigNINERdaddy]

I woke up this mornin, tastin' Jim Beam
Holdin' the answer to some ol' boys dream
I got a bad reputation, yes I'm a live wire
I like my whiskey on ice, and my women on fire
Hank Jr.

Fuck a bitch, fuck a bitch, fuck a bitch!
Kid Rock

Tryin' like the devil to find the Lord
Workin' like a ****** for my room and board
coal burnin' stove, no natural gas
If that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass
DAC

No I don't know the name of the band, but they're good
Aren't they? Would you like to dance?
Yeh, I like this song too, it reminds me of you
Pretty baby, do you think there's a chance....
George Strait

[bigNINERdaddy]

She wore red dresses with her black shining hair
She had my baby and caused me to care
Then coldly she left me to suffer and cry
She wore red dresses and told such sweet lies

I never knew him but he took her away
And on my knees like a madman for vengeance I prayed
While the pain and the anger destroyed my weak mind
She wore red dresses and left the wounded behind

I searched til I found them, then I cursed at the sight
Of their sleeping shadows in the cold neon light
In the dark morning silence I placed the gun to her head
She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead

Dwight Yoakam

May be the best damn country song ever written (or maybe not:D )

[Village Idiot]

Originally posted by plutosgirl
Long may you run, long may you run
Although these changes have come
with your chrome heart shining, in the sun
long may you run...
~ Neil Young
That is one good album (nobody calls them albums anymore though). You gots good taste lady.

[Wild Thing]

Hold On
I'm feeling like I'm headed for a
Breakdown
I don't know why

I'm not crazy I'm just a little unwell
I know right now you can't tell
But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me
I'm not crazy I'm just a little impaired
I know right now you don't care
But soon enought you're gonna think of me
And how I used to be


'Unwell' -- Matchbox 20

[HardHarry]

I can't believe MatchboxTwenty lyrics are on the same pages with some of these other artists. :shudders:

I know I'm a complete snob when it comes to music, but some of that stuff is just garbage. It pains me that people put stock in it. Even the Korn lyrics are better than that, and they're awful too. :(

Because the world is round, it turns me on...because the wind is high, it blows my mind... The Beatles

Lexy & Kitten - you both seem to be big Beatles fans (very cool - I love them too). Have either of you heard Elliott SMith's version of Because? It's the credits song for American Beauty if you own that movie. I like the original a lot, but his aint bad either. ;)

[lex]

thanx, hardharry. i think we are all from that era, that is why. the fav four rocks! ask reb. he knows. :p

nope. havent heard smith, but now that you mentioned it, yeah. i wondered about who did that...i did see american beauty.

[Reznor]

Don't talk of words that never were
The end is all that's ever true
There's nothing you can ever say
Nothing you can ever do...

Still every night I burn
Every night I scream your name

The Cure - "Burn"



And when the day arrives
I'll become the sky
And I'll become the sea

And the sea will come to kiss me
For I am going
Home

Nothing can stop me now

NIN - "La Mer"



If she says come inside, I'll come inside for her
If she says give it all, i'll give everything to her
I am justified
I am purified
I am sanctified
inside you...

NIN - "Sanctified"




Fuck the middle east
There's too many problems
Just kill them all and have a ball
And end thier fucking crisis

S.O.D. - "Fuck the Middle East"

[hasbeen99]

"How can I find hope in dying, with promises unseen..."
MercyMe -- Crazy

[hasbeen99]

"I love you more than the sun and the stars that I taught how to shine
you are mine and you shine for Me, too.
I love you yesterday and today and tomorrow
I'll say it again and again and again
I love you more."
Matthew West -- More

[Powerbait]

"I tried to drink you off my mind, I just got wasted"
-Jawbreaker's "Sea Foam Green"

"One night doesn't mean the rest of my life"
-"I'm a Loner Dottie, A Rebel" by The Get Up Kids

"If I can just get drunk enough I'm sure I'll have a ball"
-Digger's Nightlife

"The only good boss is one that's dead"
-"Superpowers Enable Me to Blend in with Machinery" by D4

For the best in lyrical one liners, see Jawbreaker. Blake is the best lyricist in Rock & Roll history.

[Powerbait]

Originally posted by twinks
I can't believe you're leavin'
Cuz me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream
Think it's that girl
And I think there are pieces of me you've never seen
Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen
~Tori Amos-- "Tear in your hand"


So you can make me cum
That doesn't make you Jesus.
~Tori Amos-- "Precious Things"



My girlfriend loves TA. She has some intersting lyrics to say the least.