TheLizard Posted October 6, 2007 Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 "Last To Die"- Bruce Springsteen We took the highway till the road went black We marked Truth Or Consequences on our map A voice drifted up from the radio We saw the voice from long ago Who'll be the last to die for a mistake The last to die for a mistake Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break Who'll be the last to die for a mistake The kids asleep in the backseat We're just countin' the miles you and me We don't measure the blood we've drawn anymore We just stack the bodies outside the door Who'll be the last to die for a mistake The last to die for a mistake Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break Who'll be the last to die for a mistake The wise men were all fools What to do The sun sets in flames as the city burns Another day gone down as the night turns And I hold you here in my heart As things fall apart A downtown window flushed with light Faces of the dead at five (faces of the dead at five) A martyr's silent eyes Petition the drivers as we pass by Who'll be the last to die for a mistake The last to die for a mistake Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break Who'll be the last to die Who'll be the last to die for a mistake The last to die for a mistake Darlin' your tyrants and kings form the same fate Strung up at your city gates And you're the last to die for a mistake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Rilo Kiley~Wires and Waves there are twelve hours there's a day between us and you called to say you're sorry in your own way there are oceans and waves and wires between us and you called to say you're getting older and sometimes planes they smash up in the sky and sometimes lonely hearts they just get lonelier how did you survive all those fires and floods? how did you survive your insufferable friends? it was the plow that broke the western plains and its just my heart gets rejected by my veins and sometimes planes they smash up in the sky and sometimes lonely hearts they just get lonelier and lonelier and lonelier and lonelier and lonelier and lonelier and lonelier and lonelier and sometimes planes they smash up in the sky and sometimes lonely hearts they just get lonelier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better When you find strange hands in your sweater When your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book Chapter One we didn't really get along Chapter Two I think I fell in love with you You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book The way you walk The way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh In four or five paragraphs All your compliments and your cutting remarks Are captured here in my quotation marks And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book Don't tell me you don't know the difference Between a lover and a fighter With my pen and my electric typewriter Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Helpless ~ Mr. Neil Young There is a town in North Ontario With dream comfort memory to spare And in my mind I still need a place to go All my changes were there Blue, blue windows behind the stars Yellow moon on the rise Big birds flying across the skies Throwing shadows on our eyes (leave us...) Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless (They can't hear me) Helpless, helpless, helpless (The chains are locked and tied across the doors) Helpless, helpless, helpless (They sing with me somehow) Blue, blue windows behind the stars Yellow moon on the rise Big birds flying across the skies Throwing shadows on our eyes (leave us...) Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless Helpless, helpless, helpless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Runaway Train - Soul Asylum Call you up in the middle of the night Like a firefly without a light You were there like a slow torch burning I was a key that could use a little turning So tired that I couldn't even sleep So many secrets I couldn't keep Promised myself I wouldn't weep One more promise I couldn't keep It seems no one can help me now I'm in too deep There's no way out This time I have really led myself astray Runaway train never going back Wrong way on a one way track Seems like I should be getting somewhere Somehow I'm neither here no there Can you help me remember how to smile Make it somehow all seem worthwhile How on earth did I get so jaded Life's mystery seems so faded I can go where no one else can go I know what no one else knows Here I am just drownin' in the rain With a ticket for a runaway train Everything is cut and dry Day and night, earth and sky Somehow I just don't believe it Runaway train never going back Wrong way on a one way track Seems like I should be getting somewhere Somehow I'm neither here no there Bought a ticket for a runaway train Like a madman laughin' at the rain Little out of touch, little insane Just easier than dealing with the pain Runaway train never comin' back Runaway train tearin' up the track Runaway train burnin' in my veins Runaway but it always seems the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Sitting On A Fence -- The Rolling Stones Since I was young I've been very hard to please And I don't know wrong from right But there is one thing I could never understand Some of the sick things that a girl does to a man, so I'm just sitting on a fence You can say I got no sense Trying to make up my mind Really is too horrifying So I'm sitting on a fence All of my friends at school grew up and settled down And they mortgaged up their lives One thing is not said too much, but I think it's true They just get married cause there's nothing else to do, so I'm just sitting on a fence You can say I got no sense Trying to make up my mind Really is too horrifying So I'm sitting on a fence The day can come when you get old and sick and tired of life You just never realize Maybe the choice you made wasn't really right But you go out and you don't come back at night, so I'm just sitting on a fence You can say I got no sense Trying to make up my mind Really is too horrifying So I'm sitting on a fence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Hello In There-John Prine We had an apartment in the city, Me and Loretta liked living there. It'd been years since the kids had grown, A life of their own and left us alone. John and Linda live in Omaha, And Joe is somewhere on the road. We lost Davy in the Korean war, And still don't know what for, don't matter anymore. Ya know old trees just grow stronger, And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day. Old people just grow lonesome Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello." Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more, She sits and stares through the back door screen. And all the news just repeats itself Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen. Someday I'll go and call up Rudy, We worked together at the factory. But what could I say if asks "What's new?" Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do. Ya know old trees just grow stronger, And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day. Old people just grow lonesome Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello." So if you're walking down the street sometime And spot some hollow ancient eyes, Please don't just pass 'em by and stare As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Path ~ Apocalyptica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 You think you're sooooo smart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 not really... but I think I'm sooooo funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Is bad enough... still worthy of a or two... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 The Medication Is Wearing Off ~ Eels See this watch she gave me? Well it still ticks away The days i'm claiming back for me The medication's wearing off Gonna hurt not a little, a lot Keep on tickin' you're not lickin' me Step on a crack break your mother's heart Red light green light black Suicide e-mail do not delete Plug it back in the jack Start to be what they want you to be And you see yourself as they see you Sunrise on the corner of Sunset and alvarado I think what the hell do I do now Watch the day disintegrate So i can stay up late and wait See this watch she gave me? Well it still ticks away... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted October 28, 2007 Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 "Online" ~ Brad Paisley I work down at the pizza pit And I drive an old Hyundai I still live with my mom and dad I'm 5'3 and overweight I'm a Sci-Fi fantastic Mild asthmatic Never been to 2nd base But there's a whole nother me That you need to see Go check out MySpace 'cause online I'm down in Hollywood I'm 6'5 and I look damn good I drive a Maserati I'm a black belt in Karate And I love a good glass of wine It turns girls on that I'm mysterious I tell 'em I don't want nothing serious 'cause even on a slow day I can have a three way Chat with two women at one time I'm so much cooler online So much cooler online I get home, I kiss my mom And she fixes me a snack I head down to my basement bedroom And fire up the Mac In real life the only time I Ever even been to L.A. Was when I got the chance with the marching band To play tuba in the Rose Parade. Online I live in Malibu I posed for Calvin Kline, I've been in GQ I'm single and I'm rich And I got a set of six pack abs that'll blow your mind It turns girls on that I'm mysterious I tell 'em I don't want nothing serious 'cause even on a slow day I can have a three way Chat with two women at one time I'm so much cooler online Yeah I'm cooler online When you got my kinda stats, it's hard to get a date Let alone a real girlfriend But I grow another foot And I lose a bunch of weight everytime I log in Online I'm out in Hollywood I'm 6'5 and I look damn good Even on a slow day, I can have a three way Chat with two women at one time I'm so much cooler online Yeah I'm cooler online I'm so much cooler online Yeah I'm cooler online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 I'm so bummed I can't get You Tube at work anymore...I would love to hear that song. The lyrics are funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Hi Jenny!...yeah hubby said he heard it on the radio the other day....so I had to look up the lyrics.....I just caught the end of it when it was on the radio, so I'll have to see if it's on youtube...that sucks that you cant youtube anymore Jenny, I'd be lost without it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted October 31, 2007 Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 MY RAINBOW RACE - Melanie One blue sky above us, One ocean, lapping all our shores. One earth so green and round, Who could ask for more? And because I love you I'll give it one more try To show my rainbow race It's too soon to die. Some folks want to be like an ostrich; Bury their heads in the sand Some hope for plastic dreams To unclench all those greedy hands. Some want to take the easy way: Poisons, bombs! They think we need 'em. Don't they know you can't kill all the unbelievers. There's no shortcut to freedom One blue sky above us, One ocean, lapping all our shores. One earth so green and round, Who could ask for more? And because I love you I'll give it one more try. To show my rainbow race It's too soon to die. Go tell, go tell all the little children! Go tell mothers and fathers, too: Now's our last chance to learn to share What's been given to me and you One blue sky above us, One ocean, lapping all our shores. One earth so green and round, Who could ask for more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 "Double Glazing" - Casper Hauser Link to Song for those unfamiliar Is it sad to say, about the day she went away. Joan of Arc its not to be. She stayed in a home, communicates by telephone, rings her daughter twice a day. Never quite saw eye to eye, years were spent in asking why? now she's not here, Strange to find that in the end, she found her strengths, she found her friends, said Frank was here. "Frank" was really Steve, a patient man and proud to be, a working man till 83. He really loved the war, and now im breaking down his door, Joan is screaming out to me. Steve is down and I'm too late, I should have broke that double-glazing. Paramedics take him out, they try and help him in the garden. What should I do? What should I do? What should I do? Stay and look at you? Not found a way to say, the proper thing, in a proper way, well, Next time round it will be me Saying my goodbyes, to living people occupied with Living on ,but not with me. A year ago today, Sal said, The LGI gave her a bed. Joan told me on Christmas Day She'd never see our house again. What should I do? What should I do? What should I do? Stay and look at you? "Frank" was really Steve, a patient man and proud to be, a working man till 83. He really loved the war, and now im breaking down his door, Joan is screaming out to me. Steve is down and I'm too late, I should have broke that double-glazing. Paramedics take him out, they try and help him in the garden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 "...the sun shines, But I don't..." - Farewell & Goodnight The Smashing Pumpkins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 My face is finished, my body's gone. And I can't help but think standin' up here in all this applause and gazin' down at all the young and the beautiful. With their questioning eyes. That I must above all things love myself. I saw a girl in the crowd, I ran over I shouted out, I asked if I could take her out, But she said that she didn't want to. I changed the sheets on my bed, I combed the hairs across my head, I sucked in my gut and still she said That she just didn't want to. I read her Eliot, read her Yeats, I tried my best to stay up late, I fixed the hinges on her gate, But still she just never wanted to. I bought her a dozen snow-white doves, I did her dishes in rubber gloves, I called her Honeybee, I called her Love, But she just still didn't want to. She just never wants to. I sent her every type of flower, I played her guitar by the hour, I patted her revolting little chihuahua, But still she just didn't want to. I wrote a song with a hundred lines, I picked a bunch of dandelions, I walked her through the trembling pines, But she just even then didn't want to. She just never wants to. I thought I'd try another tack, I drank a litre of cognac, I threw her down upon her back, But she just laughed and said that she just didn't want to. I thought I'd have another go, I called her mah little O, I felt like Marcel Marceau must feel when she said that she just never wanted to. She just didn't want to. ... (I omitted the title and last line out of self-censorship ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 Maybe she's taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 maybe... it's the sad tale of a rockstar who is a bit past his (physical) prime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 I know the song you mean. Another great lyric from the genius that is Nick Cave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 I do like Grinderman, but not as much as the Bad Seeds... Here are some of my favourite lyrics concieved by Nick Cave... Love Letter - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds I hold this letter in my hand, A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer, I hope it does as I have planned, Losing her again is more than I can bear, I kiss the cold, white envelope, I press my lips against her name, Two hundred words, we live in hope, The sky hangs heavy with rain Love letter, love letter, Go get her, go get her, Love letter, love letter, Go tell her, go tell her A wicked wind whips up the hill, A handful of hopeful words, I love her and I always will, The sky is ready to burst, Said something I did not mean to say, Said something I did not mean to say, Said something I did not mean to say It all came out the wrong way Love letter love letter, Go get her, go get her, Love letter, love letter, Go tell her, go tell her, Rain your kisses down upon me, Rain your kisses down in storms, And for all who'll come before me, In your slowly fading forms, I'm going out of my mind, Will leave me standing in, The rain with a letter and a prayer, Whispered on the wind Come back to me, Come back to me, Oh baby, please come back to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 Adam Ant~Goody Two Shoes with the heartbreak open so much you can't hide put on a little make-up, make-up make sure they get your good, side good side if the words unspoken get stuck in your throat send a treasure token, token write it on a pound note, pound note goody two, goody two, goody goody two shoes goody two, goody two, goody goody two shoes don't drink don't smoke - what do you do? you don't drink don't smoke - what do you do? subtle innuendos follow there must be something inside we don't follow fashion that would be a joke you know we're gonna set them, set them so everyone can take note, take note when they saw you kneeling crying words that you mean opening their eyeballs, eyeballs pretending that you're Al Green, Al Green goody two, goody two, goody goody two shoes goody two, goody two, goody goody two shoes don't drink don't smoke - what do you do? you don't drink don't smoke - what do you do? subtle innuendos follow must be something inside no one's gonna tell me what's wrong or what's right or tell me who to eat with, sleep with or that I've won the big fight, big fight look out or they'll tell you you're a "Superstar" two weeks and you're an all time legend I think the games have gone much too far if the words unspoken get stuck in your throat send a treasure token, token write it on a pound note, pound note don't drink don't smoke - what do you do? you don't drink don't smoke - what do you do? subtle innuendos follow must be something inside (he's hiding) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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