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What are your favourite SONG LYRICS?

Genghis Kush

Active member
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

B.Dylan


"Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying

As pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying

Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you'd just be one more
Person crying

So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing

As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you've got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it

Advertising signs they con
You into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you

You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you

A question in your eyes is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to

For them that must bow down to authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something they invest in

While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone living in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him

Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To tell fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony

While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes must get lonely

My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
Graveyards, false goals (gods), I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?

And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYajHZ4QUVM
 
G

ganjygav

I was messing around the other day but I been thinking hard. This song is it.

Cat Stevens – How Can I Tell You Lyrics
How can I tell you
That I love you,
I love you
But I can't think of right words to say

I long to tell you
That I'm always thinking of you...
I'm always thinking of you,
But my words just blow away,
Just blow away

It always ends up to one thing, honey
And I can't think of right words to say

Wherever I am girl,
I'm always walking with you
I'm always walking with you,
But I look and you're not there

Whoever I'm with,
I'm always, always talking to you
I'm always talking to you,
And I'm sad that you can't hear,
Sad that you can't hear

It always ends up to one thing, honey,
When I look and you're not there

I need to know you,
Need to feel my arms around you
Feel my arms around you,
Like a sea around a shore

Each night and day I pray,
In hope that I might find you,
In hope that I might find you,
Because heart's can do no more
Can do no more

It always ends up to one thing, honey,
Still I kneel upon the floor

How can I tell you
That I love you,
I love you
But I can't think of right words to say

I long to tell you
That I'm always thinking of you
I'm always thinking of you....

It always ends up to one thing, honey
And I can't think of right words to say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRHN7nUg26M
 

Grojak

Active member
I love John Prine and can say nothing wrong about the original but I heard this today and it's beautiful!!

Sam Stone (John Prine)
Performed by Swamp Dog

Sam Stone came home,
To the wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knees.
But the morhpine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a purple heart and a monkey on his back.

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.

Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And soon he took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold roared through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.

Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon,
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair.
Well, he played his last request,
While the room smelled just like death,
With an overdose hovering in the air.
But life had lost it's fun,
There was nothing to be done,
But trade his house that he bought on the GI bill,
For a flag-draped casket on a local hero's hill.

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWD2Re6SsUU
 

MrBungle

Active member
The Beatles – Rocky Raccoon Lyrics

Now somewhere in the Black mining Hills of Dakota
There lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon,
And one day his woman ran off with another guy,
Hit young Rocky in the eye.
Rocky didn't like that
He said, "I'm gonna get that boy".
So one day he walked into town
Booked himself a room in the local saloon.

Rocky Raccoon checked into his room,
Only to find Gideon's Bible.
Rocky had come, equipped with a gun,
To shoot off the legs of his rival.
His rival it seems, had broken his dreams,
By stealing the girl of his fancy.
Her name was Magill, and she called herself Lil,
But everyone knew her as Nancy.
Now she and her man, who called himself Dan,
Were in the next room at the hoe down.
Rocky burst in, and grinning a grin,
He said, "Danny boy, this is a showdown".
But Daniel was hot, he drew first and shot,
And Rocky collapsed in the corner.

Now the doctor came in, stinking of gin,
And proceeded to lie on the table.
He said, "Rocky, you met your match".
And Rocky said, "Doc, it's only a scratch.
And I'll be better, I'll be better, Doc, as soon as I am able".

Now Rocky Raccoon, he fell back in his room,
Only to find Gideon's Bible.
Gideon checked out, and he left it, no doubt,
To help with good Rocky's revival.
___________________________

Songwriters: LENNON, JOHN / MCCARTNEY, PAUL
Rocky Raccoon lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=334276&page=9

(couldn't find the original on youtube, so I felt this one was a good stand in)
 

Shmavis

Being-in-the-world
905 by The Who from the album Who Are You

905 by The Who from the album Who Are You

Mother was an incubator
Father was the contents
of a test tube in the ice box
In the factory of birth

My name is 905,
And I've just become alive
I'm the newest populator
Of the planet we call Earth

In suspended animation
My childhood passed me by
If I speak without emotion
Then you know the reason why

Knowledge of the universe
Was fed into my mind
As my adolescent body
Left its puberty behind

And everything I know is what I need to know
And everything I do's been done before
Every sentence in my head
Someone else has said
At each end of my life is an open door

Automatically defrosted
When manhood came on time
I became a man
I left the "ice school" behind

Now I'm to begin
The life that I'm assigned
A life that's been used before
A thousand times

I have a feeling deep inside
That somethin' is missing
It's a feeling in my soul
And I can't help wishing

That one day I'll discover
That we're living a lie
And I'll tell the whole world
The reasons why

Well, until then, all I know is what I need to know
And everything I do's been done before
Every idea in my head
Someone else has said
At each end of my life is an open door


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2ZOhWAaGVs


(905 was almost my username here — RIP Ox...)
 

HOPS5K

Lover of Life
Veteran
One of my new favorites that makes me feel great

Goo Goo Dolls - Over and Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqxDA7SXRa8

Picking up the pieces out they left you in again
Love is all you want but you’re never gonna feel the same
It’s hard to be yourself when everyone around is changing
Open up your eyes and you’ll never lose yourself again

And we go over and over and over again
Are ya lost in the past thinking what might have been
You’re here and you’re now started over and then
Take it over and over and over again

Turn it up
Turn it up

Old enough to know and young enough to live again
Stare into the mirror but no one that you know is there (that you know is there)
Shaking like its cold and no one’s there to take your hand
I will give you mine and shiver ‘till you’re warm again

So don’t you look down

And we go over and over and over again
Are ya lost in the past thinking what might have been
You’re here and you’re now started over and then
Take it over and over and over again

Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up

Turn it on, turn it up, turn it over and we’ll start again
Turn it up, turn it over, turn it up
Turn it on, turn it up, turn it over and we’ll start again
Turn it up, turn it over, turn it up
[x2]

Turn it on, turn it up, turn it over and we’ll start again
Turn it up, turn it over, turn it up
Turn it on, turn it up, turn it over and we’ll start again

Turn it up
Turn it up
Turn it up (up up up)
And we’ll start again

Turn it up
And we’ll start again
[x3]
 

MrBungle

Active member
Riders On The Storm
The Doors
Produced By The Doors, Bruce Botnick
Album L.A. Woman
___________________

[Chorus 1]
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm

[Chorus 2]
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm

[Verse 1]
There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If you give this man a ride
Sweet family will die
Killer on the road
Girl you gotta love your man
Girl you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man

[Chorus 1]
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm

[Chorus 2]
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan

[Chorus 1]
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-af9Q-zvQ
 

Shmavis

Being-in-the-world
Best enjoyed with a drink...

Best enjoyed with a drink...

Daddy Needs A Drink by Drive-By Truckers from the album Brighter Than Creation's Dark:

Daddy needs a drink to deal with all the beauty
To deal with all the madness, to keep from blowing up
Daddy needs a drink to calm down his badness
To execute his gladness on the fullness of his cup
Daddy needs a drink to keep the wheels from rubbing
To compensate for nothing or nothing going on

Daddy needs a drink, so Mama fix one quick
Pour it nice and strong with your cleaning outfit on
Daddy needs a drink, so Mama fix one quick
Pour it nice and strong with your cleaning outfit on

Daddy needs a drink to hem in all his demons
To hear through baby's screaming or the TV set turned on
Ain't nothing on the radio like the wave my transmitter's on
Put that drinking jacket on and enjoy a little fog


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_GdEjMv1Ms
 

GoatCheese

Active member
Veteran
A song to listen to when you're late on this months rent.
One of these days - Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48PJGVf4xqk

Bump-Bump-Bump- Bump-Bump-Bump ... Bump-Bump-Bump- Bump- Bump-Bump-Bump- Bump- Bump-Bump-Bump- Bump...

Bump-Bump-Bump- Bump-Bump-Bump ... Bump-Bump-Bump- Bump- Bump-Bump-Bump- Bump- Bump-Bump-Bump- Bump...
"One of these days i'm going to cut you into little pieces!"

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Nice sing-a-long too, cause the lyrics are quite short, ay.
:biggrin:
 

Genghis Kush

Active member
The Weight
The Band

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead
Just need to find a place where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand and, "No", was all he said
Take a load off Fannie
Take a load for free
Take a load off Anny
And you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
I picked up my bag and I went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side
And I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on, would you go downtown"
And she said, "Well, I gotta go but my friend can stick around"
And take a load off Anny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Anny
And you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Go down, Miss Moses, there ain't nothin' that you can say
'Cause just ol' Luke and Luke's waitin' on the Judgment Day
"Well, now Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won't you stay an' keep Anna Lee company?"
Take a load off Anny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Anny
And you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rags, if you'll take Jack, my dog"
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man"
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can?"
Take a load off Anny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Anny
And you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a Cannonball, now, to take me down the line
My, my bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Anny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
Take a load off Anny
Take a load for free
Take a load off Anny
And you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)

Songwriters: Robbie Robertson
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3-YTffo
 

corky1968

Active member
Veteran
Solsbury Hill

by Peter Gabriel

Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing, stretching every nerve
I had to listen had no choice
I did not believe the information
I just had to trust imagination
My heart going boom, boom, boom
Son, he said, grab your things I've come to take you home

To keep in silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Though my life was in a rut
Till I thought of what I'd say
And which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom, boom, boom
Son, he said, grab your things I've come to take you home

When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
So I will show another me
Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
My heart going boom, boom, boom
Hey, I said, you can keep my things they've come to take me home

Come back home
Come back home
Come back home


Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
 

Skinny Leaf

Active member
Veteran
Rush-Passage to Bangkok

Rush-Passage to Bangkok

Our first stop is in Bogotà
To check Columbian fields
The natives smile and pass along
A sample of their yield

Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams
Golden Acapulco nights
Then Morocco, and the East
Fly by morning light

We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best

Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon
We burn the midnight oil
The fragrance of Afghanistan
Rewards a long day's toil

Pulling into Kathmandu
Smoke rings fill the air
Perfumed by a Nepal night
The Express gets you there

We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best

We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best

Yes, we're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best



Read more: Rush - A Passage To Bangkok Lyrics | MetroLyrics
 

geneva_sativa

Well-known member
Went to see the captain, strangest I could find,
Laid my proposition down, laid it on the line.
I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels,
But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools.
Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.
Saw your first ship sink and drown, from rockin' of the boat,
And all that could not sink or swim was just left there to float.
I won't leave you drifting down, but woh it makes me wild,
With thirty years upon my head to have you call me child.
Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.
The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before.
Time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more.
Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.
Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought, when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.
It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

Hunter/Garcia

https://youtu.be/6iZ49s7eH5g
 

geneva_sativa

Well-known member
Long distance runner, what you standin' there for?
Get up, get out, get out of the door
Your playin' cold music on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core.
There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town
Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down.
Fire! fire on the mountain!
Almost ablaze still you don't feel the heat
It takes all you got just to stay on the beat.
You say it's a livin', we all gotta eat
But you're here alone, there's no one to compete.
If mercy's a business, i wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true.
Fire! fire on the mountain!
Long distance runner, what you holdin' out for?
Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door.
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had. why you want to give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake.
Fire! fire on the mountain!

Songwriters: MICKEY HART, ROBERT HUNTER
 
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huligun

Professor Organic Psychology
Veteran
Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb ?
Mother do you think they'll like this song ?
Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls ?
Ooooh, mother should I build a wall ?

Mother should I run for president ?
Mother should I trust the government ?
Mother will they put me in the firing line ?
Oooh is it just a waste of time ?

Hush now baby, baby don't you cry.
Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true.
Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you.
Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing.
She won't let you fly but she might let you sing.
Mama will keep baby cosy and warm.

Ooooh Babe,
Ooooh Babe,
Ooooh Babe,
Of course Mama's gonna help build the wall !

Mother do you think she's good enough,
for me?
Mother do you think she's dangerous,
to me?
Mama will they tear little boy apart?
Oooh,
mother will she break my heart?

Hush now baby, baby don't you cry.
Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.
Mama won't let anyone dirty get through.
Mama's gonna wait up until you get in.
Mama will always find out where you've been.
Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean.

Ooooh Babe,
Ooooh Babe,
Ooooh Babe,
You'll always be a baby to me!

Mother, did it need to be so high?

Read more: Roger Waters - Mother Lyrics | MetroLyrics
 

huligun

Professor Organic Psychology
Veteran
Our first stop is in Bogotà
To check Columbian fields
The natives smile and pass along
A sample of their yield

Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams
Golden Acapulco nights
Then Morocco, and the East
Fly by morning light

We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best

Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon
We burn the midnight oil
The fragrance of Afghanistan
Rewards a long day's toil

Pulling into Kathmandu
Smoke rings fill the air
Perfumed by a Nepal night
The Express gets you there

We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best

We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best

Yes, we're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best



Read more: Rush - A Passage To Bangkok Lyrics | MetroLyrics

For anyone not around in the day of Thai Stick this song shows how good it was. It compares all the countries that made smokes. In those days you called weed by the country it come from and not some brand name.
 
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