Greatest song lyrics of all time....

[BunnysBastatrds 1,921]

Bob Seager- Against The Wind

 

"I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then!"

[patweisers44 697]

As I have said in other threads, the J. Buckley version of Hallelujah might be the best song ever.

 

Another great song:

 

One - U2

 

Is it getting better

Or do you feel the same

Will it make it easier on you now

You got someone to blame

You say...

 

One love

One life

When it's one need

In the night

One love

We get to share it

Leaves you baby if you

Don't care for it

 

Did I disappoint you

Or leave a bad taste in your mouth

You act like you never had love

And you want me to go without

Well it's...

 

Too late

Tonight

To drag the past out into the light

We're one, but we're not the same

We get to

Carry each other

Carry each other

One...

 

Have you come here for forgiveness

Have you come to raise the dead

Have you come here to play Jesus

To the lepers in your head

 

Did I ask too much

More than a lot

You gave me nothing

Now it's all I got

We're one

But we're not the same

Well we

Hurt each other

Then we do it again

You say

Love is a temple

Love a higher law

Love is a temple

Love the higher law

You ask me to enter

But then you make me crawl

And I can't be holding on

To what you got

When all you got is hurt

 

One love

One blood

One life

You got to do what you should

One life

With each other

Sisters

Brothers

One life

But we're not the same

We get to

Carry each other

Carry each other

 

One...life

 

One

 

 

Honorable mention to: Devil's Right Hand - Steve Earle and Sympathy for the Devil - Stones, among others

[The Moz 69]

Title: Guns N' Roses - Rocket Queen lyrics

 

Artist: Guns N' Roses Lyrics

 

If I say I don't need anyone

I can say these things to you

'Cause

I can turn on any one

Just like I turned on you

I've got a tongue like a razor

A sweet switchblade knife

And I can do you favors

But then you'll do whatever I like

 

Chorus:

 

Here I am

And you're a Rocket Queen

I might be a little young

But honey I ain't naive

Here I am

And you're a Rocket Queen oh yeah

I might be too much

But honey you're a bit obscene

 

I've seen everything imaginable

Pass before these eyes

I've had everything that's tangible

Honey you'd be surprised

I'm a sexual innuendo

In this burned out paradise

If you turn me on to anything

You better turn me on tonight

 

 

 

/thread

[dain11279 928]

I like the way your sparkling earrings lay,

against your skin, it's so brown

and I wanna sleep with you

in the desert tonight

with a billion stars all around

'cause I gotta peaceful easy feeling

and I know you won't let me down

'cause I'm already standing on the

ground

And I found out a long time ago

what a woman can do to your soul

Ah, but she can't take you anyway

You don't already know how to go

and I gotta peaceful, easy feeling

and I know you won't let me down

'cause I'm already standing on the ground

I get this feeling I may know you

as a lover and a friend

but this voice keeps whispering

in my other ear, tells me

I may never see you again

'cause I get a peaceful, easy feeling

and I know you won't let me down

'cause I'm already standing on the ground

'cause I'm already standing...

on the ground

oooo, oooo

[The Next Generation 10]

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today...

 

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace...

 

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

 

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world...

 

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one

 

And I don't think anything else comes close, lyrics-wise...

[TD Ryan2 314]

Remember when I moved in you

and the holy dove was moving too,

And every breath we drew was hallelujah?

 

yup. good one.

 

2 from Springsteen immediately came to mind for me.

One about work.

One about marriage.

 

Here in northeast Ohio

Back in eighteen-o-three

James and Dan Heaton

Found the ore that was linin' Yellow Creek

They built a blast furnace

Here along the shore

And they made the cannonballs

That helped the Union win the war

 

Here in Youngstown

Here in Youngstown

My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

 

Well my daddy worked the furnaces

Kept 'em hotter than hell

I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer

A job that'd suit the devil as well

Taconite coke and limestone

Fed my children and make my pay

Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God

Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

 

Here in Youngstown

Here in Youngstown

Sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

 

Well my daddy come on the Ohio works

When he come home from World War Two

Now the yard's just scrap and rubble

He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do."

These mills they built the tanks and bombs

That won this country's wars

We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam

Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for

 

Here in Youngstown

Here in Youngstown

My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

 

From the Monongahela valley

To the Mesabi iron range

To the coal mines of Appalachia

The story's always the same

Seven hundred tons of metal a day

Now sir you tell me the world's changed

Once I made you rich enough

Rich enough to forget my name

 

And Youngstown

And Youngstown

My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

 

When I die I don't want no part of heaven

I would not do heaven's work well

I pray the devil comes and takes me

To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell

 

We said wed walk together baby come what may

That come the twilight should we lose our way

If as were walkin a hand should slip free

Ill wait for you

And should I fall behind

Wait for me

 

We swore wed travel darlin side by side

Wed help each other stay in stride

But each lovers steps fall so differently

But Ill wait for you

And if I should fall behind

Wait for me

 

Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true

But you and I know what this world can do

So lets make our steps clear that the other may see

And Ill wait for you

If I should fall behind

Wait for me

 

Now theres a beautiful river in the valley ahead

There neath the oaks bough soon we will be wed

Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees

Ill wait for you

And should I fall behind

Wait for me

Darlin Ill wait for you

Should I fall behind

Wait for me

[Bert 1,092]

Well, I don't believe that heaven waits,

For only those who congregate.

I like to think of God as love:

He's down below, He's up above.

He's watching people everywhere.

He knows who does and doesn't care.

And I'm an ordinary man,

Sometimes I wonder who I am.

 

~Don Williams

 

 

Now, it all comes down to numbers

Now Im glad that I have quit

Folks these days just dont do nothin

Simply for the love of it

 

~Don Henley

 

Before you judge me take a look at you

Can't you find something better to do

Point the finger, slow to understand

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand

 

~Metallica

 

Hurtin' me now don't mean a thing.

Since lovin' you, I don't feel no pain.

My mind ain't nothin' but a total blank.

I think I'll just stay here and drink, yeah.

 

~Merle Haggard

[remote controller 133]

number nine......number nine.....number nine.....number nine

[dolfan06 1]

Beyonce, Halo

 

Remember those walls I built?

Baby they're tumblin down

They didn't even put up a fight

They didn't even make a sound

 

[kutulu 1,551]

He say one and one and one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

is three

[CantTouchThis 23]

Down in a hole

Losing my soul

I'd like to fly

But my wings have been so denied

 

I have just been posting what i am listening too( NO, i do not really think MOP has the best lyrics ever, though i think it is one of the best metal songs of all time). However, i do think this song has amazing lyrics, AIC has some lyrics for sure.

[Lionsjunkie 1]

Not the greatest evah but a good one from Michael Franti & Spearhead

 

It never makes no sense

It never makes no sense

Fire, fire, fire, light up your lighter

Fire, fire, fire

Armegedon is a deadly day

Armegedon is a deadly way

They're coming for you everyday

WHile senators on a holiday

The army recruiters in the parking lot

Hustling kids, they're juggling pot

"Listen young man, listen to my plan

Gonna make you money, gonna make you a man.

(bomb, bomb)

Here's what you get, an M16 and a kevlar vest

You might come home with one less leg but this thing will surely keep a bullet out your chest

So come on, come on, sign up, come on

This one's nothing like Vietnam

Except for the bullets, except for the bombs

Except for the youth that's gone"

 

So we keep it on, til you're coming home

higher and higher

Fire, fire, fire, light up your lighter

Fire, fire, fire

So we keep it on, til you're coming home

higher and higher

Fire, fire, fire, light up your lighter

Fire, fire, fire

 

Tell me president tell me if you will

How many people does a smart bomb kill?

How many of them do you think we got?

The general says we never miss shot

And we never ever ever keep a body count

We're killing so efficiently we can't keep count

In the afghan hills the rebels still fighting

Opium fields keep on providing

The best heroin that money can buy and

No body knows where Osama bin hiding

The press conferences keep on lying

Like we don't know

 

So we keep it on, til you're coming home

higher and higher

Fire, fire, fire, light up your lighter

Fire, fire, fire

So we keep it on, til you're coming home

higher and higher

Fire, fire, fire, light up your lighter

Fire, fire, fire

So Mr engine, engine, number 9

Machine guns on a New York transit line

The war for oil is a war for the beast

the War on terror is a war on peace

Telling you they're gona protect you

Telling you that they support the troops and

Don't let 'em fool you with their milk and honey

No, they only want your money

One step forward and 2 step back

One step forward and 2 step back

Why do veterans get no respect

PTSD and a broken back

Take a look at where you money's gone (seen)

Take a look at what they spent it on

No excuses, no illusions

Light up your lighter, bring 'em home

 

So we keep it on, til you're coming home

higher and higher

Fire, fire, fire, light up your lighter

Fire, fire, fireSo we keep it on, til you're coming home

higher and higher

Fire, fire, fire, light up your lighter

Fire, fire, fire

 

So we keep it on, til you're coming home

higher and higher

Fire, fire, fire, light up your lighter

Fire, fire, fire

So we keep it on, til you're coming home

higher and higher

Fire, fire, fire, light up your lighter

Fire, fire, fire

[ZeroTolerance 582]

Down in a hole

Losing my soul

I'd like to fly

But my wings have been so denied

 

I have just been posting what i am listening too( NO, i do not really think MOP has the best lyrics ever, though i think it is one of the best metal songs of all time). However, i do think this song has amazing lyrics, AIC has some lyrics for sure.

Owe...Oh yeah...

Owe...Oh yeah...

Owe

 

You insult me in my home

You're forgiven this time

Things go well, you're eyes dilate

You shake, and I'm high

Look in my eyes deep and watch

The clouds change with time

20 hours won't print

My picture milk carton size

Carton size, carton size, carton size

 

Call me up congratulations

Ain't the real why

There's no pressures besides brilliance

Let's say by day 9

Endless corporate ignorance lets

Me control time

By the way, by the way (echo)

 

Once again you see an in

Discolored skin gives you away

So afraid you kindly gurgle out a date

For me

 

Owe...Oh yeah...

Owe...Oh yeah...

Owe

 

Now the body of one soul I adore

Wants to die

You have always told me you'd

Not live past 25

I say stay long enough to repay

all who caused strife

 

Once again you see an in

Discolored skin gives you away

So afraid you kindly gurgle out a date

For me

 

Once again you see an in

Discolored skin gives you away

So afraid you kindly gurgle out a date

For me

 

Owe...Oh yeah...

Owe...Oh yeah

 

(I bear true and an existing witness to this barrel of monkeys. A self-proclaimed immoral success, perfected by each whereof; individually deadly, and equally so and spread about the surrendered troops, for even thousands of miles cannot tear apart their communication, or the lack thereof. Vultures, liars, thieves: each proclaim their innocence in no suggestion or rhyme, your weapon is contained in the wrecking of keeping the desired effect. The breaking of the spirit thwarts the whole being.)

 

Your weapon is guilt

Your weapon is guilt

Your weapon is guilt

Guilt

[ZeroTolerance 582]

And one more to wrap things up:

 

What's coming through is alive

What's holding up is a mirror

What's singing songs is a snake ... It is

Looking to turn this piss to wine

 

They're both totally void of hate

And killing me just the same now

 

The snake behind me hisses

What my damage could have been

My blood before me begs me

Open up my heart again

 

And I feel this coming over like a storm again ... Now

Considerately

 

Ven-o-mous voice tempts me

Drains me, bleeds me

Leaves me cracked and empty

Drags me down like some sweet gravity

 

The snake behind me hisses

What my damage could have been

My blood before me begs me

Open up my heart again

 

And I feel this coming over like a storm again ... Now

And I feel this coming over like a storm again ... Now

 

I am too, connected to you

To slip away or fade away

Days away, I still feel you

Touching me, changing me

 

And ... Considerately killing me

Considerately killing me

And ... Considerately killing me

Considerately killing me

And

 

Without the skin peeled

Beneath the storm

Under these tears now

The walls came down

 

As the snake is drowned

As I look in his eyes

My fear begins to fade

Recalling all of the times

I could have cried then

I should have cried then

 

And as the walls come down

And as I look in your eyes

My fear begins to fade

Recalling all of the times

I have died and will die

It's all right

 

I don't mind

I don't mind

I don't miiiiiiind!

 

I am too--- connected to you

To slip away or fade away

Days away, I still feel you

Touching me, changing me

 

And ... Considerately killing me

Considerately killing me

And ... Considerately killing me

[lambert58 56]

Buffalo Springfield

 

 

There's something happening here

What it is ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over there

Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn

Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Young people speaking their minds

Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat

A thousand people in the street

Singing songs and carrying signs

Mostly say, hooray for our side

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep

Into your life it will creep

It starts when you're always afraid

You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Stop, now, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Stop, children, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

 

 

And of course this Classic from Alice Cooper

 

Man's got his woman to take his seed

He's got the power - oh

She's got the need

She spends her life through pleasing up her man

She feeds him dinner or anything she can

 

She cries alone at night too often

He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

 

Man makes your hair gray

He's your life's mistake

All you're really lookin' for is an even break

 

He lies right at you

You know you hate this game

He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain

 

She cries alone at night too often

He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

 

Black eyes all of the time

Don't spend a dime

Clean up this grime

And you there down on your knees begging me please come

Watch me bleed

 

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

Only women bleed

[kutulu 1,551]

"Blow it out your ass, motorcycle man! I am fhe Devil,

Do you understand?

Just what will you give me for your titties and beer?

I suppose you noticed this little contract here, . ''

YER GODDAM RIGHT, YOU SON-OF-A-WH0RE,

THAT'S ABOUT THE ONLY REASON

I LEARNED WRITIN' FOR . . .

GIMME THAT PAPER ... BET YER ASS

I'LL SIGN . . . 'CAUSE I NEED A BEER, 'N IT'S TITTY-

SQUEEZIN' TIME!

 

~F. Zappa, Titties And Beer

[Giants Fan 85]

[Giants Fan 85]

New York's alright ..... IF YOU LIKE SAXAPHONES!

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

As I have said in other threads, the J. Buckley version of Hallelujah might be the best song ever.

 

Another great song:

 

One - U2

 

Is it getting better

Or do you feel the same

Will it make it easier on you now

You got someone to blame

You say...

 

One love

One life

When it's one need

In the night

One love

We get to share it

Leaves you baby if you

Don't care for it

 

Did I disappoint you

Or leave a bad taste in your mouth

You act like you never had love

And you want me to go without

Well it's...

 

Too late

Tonight

To drag the past out into the light

We're one, but we're not the same

We get to

Carry each other

Carry each other

One...

 

Have you come here for forgiveness

Have you come to raise the dead

Have you come here to play Jesus

To the lepers in your head

 

Did I ask too much

More than a lot

You gave me nothing

Now it's all I got

We're one

But we're not the same

Well we

Hurt each other

Then we do it again

You say

Love is a temple

Love a higher law

Love is a temple

Love the higher law

You ask me to enter

But then you make me crawl

And I can't be holding on

To what you got

When all you got is hurt

 

One love

One blood

One life

You got to do what you should

One life

With each other

Sisters

Brothers

One life

But we're not the same

We get to

Carry each other

Carry each other

 

One...life

 

One

Honorable mention to: Devil's Right Hand - Steve Earle and Sympathy for the Devil - Stones, among others

 

Dude, we have the same music taste. I posted Hallelujah lyrics earlier, and one is one of the best songs ever. You should check out the cover by the Cowboy Junkies. Its pretty faithful to the original, but Margo's voice just works there.

 

And since you bring up Steve Earle, I gotta post these lyrics...

 

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore

Same as my daddy and his daddy before

You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here

He only came to town about twice a year

He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line

Everybody knew that he made moonshine

Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad

He headed up the holler with everything he had

It's before my time but I've been told

He never came back from Copperhead Road

 

Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge

Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge

Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side

Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside

Well him and my uncle tore that engine down

I still remember that rumblin' sound

 

Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night

Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right

He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load

You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road

 

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday

They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway

I done two tours of duty in Vietnam

And I came home with a brand new plan

I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico

I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road

Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air

I wake up screamin' like I'm back over there

I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know

You better stay away from Copperhead Road

 

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road

[patweisers44 697]

Dude, we have the same music taste.

And since you bring up Steve Earle, I gotta post these lyrics...

[ZeroTolerance 582]

I took a drive today.

Time to emancipate.

I guess it was the beatings, made me wise.

But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize

I couldn't breathe, holding me down.

Hand on my face, pushed to the ground.

Enmity gauged, united by fear.

Forced to endure what I could not forgive.

 

I seem to look away.

Wounds in the mirror waved.

It wasn't my surface most defiled.

Head at your feet, fool to your crown.

Fist on my plate, swallowed it down.

Enmity gauged, united by fear.

Tried to endure what I could not forgive.

 

Saw things...

Saw things...

Saw things...

Saw things...

Clearer...

Clearer...

Once you were in my rear view mirror.

 

I gather speed from you, fucking with me.

Once and for all, I'm far away.

I hardly believe, finally the shades are raised.

Hey, yeah.

 

Saw things so much clearer.

Once you, once you...

Rear view mirror.

Saw things so much clearer.

Once you, once you...

Rear view mirror.

Saw things so much clearer.

Once you, once you...

Rear view mirror.

 

Saw things so much clearer.

Once you...

Oh yeah...

[jets24 6]

Another one of my favorites...

 

I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead;

I just need some 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.

 

 

(Chorus:)

Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free;

Take a load off Fanny, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.

 

I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide;

When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side.

I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on, let's go downtown."

She said, "I gotta go, but m'friend can stick around."

 

(Chorus)

 

Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say

It's just ol' Luke, and Luke's waitin' on the Judgement Day.

"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"

He said, "Do me a favor, son, woncha stay an' keep Anna Lee company?"

 

(Chorus)

 

Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me in the fog.

He said, "I will fix your rack, 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."

 

(Chorus)

 

Catch a cannon ball now, t'take me down the line

My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time.

To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one.

Who sent me here with her regards for everyone.

[DonS 3,067]

She was gettin bombed,

And I was gettin blown away,

And she took it in her hand,

And this is what she had to say:

A pearl necklace.

She wanna pearl necklace.

She wanna pearl necklace.

 

 

[Giants Fan 85]

I read the news today oh, boy

About a lucky man who made the grade

And though the news was rather sad

Well, i just had to laugh

I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car

He didn't notice that the lights had changed

A crowd of people stood and stared

They'd seen his face before

Nobody was really sure if he was from the house of lords

 

I saw a film today oh, boy

The english army had just won the war

A crowd of people turned away

But i just had to look

Having read the book

I love to turn you on.

 

Woke up, got out of bed

Dragged a comb across my head

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup

And looking up, i noticed i was late

Found my coat and grabbed my hat

Made the bus in seconds flat

Found my way upstairs and had a smoke

Somebody spoke and i went into a dream

Ah

 

I read the news today oh, boy

Four thousand holes in blackburn, lancashire

And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the albert hall

I'd love to turn you on

[SUXBNME 1,340]

Giants Fan ought to appreciate this one...

 

The greyhound's rocking out tonight

To maximum rockabilly

When two punks chose to risk the subway

For a tube to Picadilly

The Zephrys stir fast gangs for glory

Another dumb casualty

Having fun

In South West six

When a hidden flick knife flicks

Kiss me deadly tonight

 

Another battle was won and lost

Down The Bishops End last night

Spotlights pick the kids in triumph

With a thousand scarves in flight, see how they run

Spring from the terraces in black and white

Young and old into the fight

Having fun

In South West six

With Violence for a fix

Kiss me deadly tonight

 

Seven o'clock they stand in rank

For the thirteen bus uptown

And later in a downstairs room

She pulls her lover down

In ecstacy but they can't make a sound

In case her mother might come down

Having fun

In South West six

Discovers teenage sex

Kiss me deadly tonight

 

The snooker hall is empty

Cos they're all out playing pool

Hustling down the Fulham Road

Doing deals with Mr.Cool

We're all out on the waterfront now instead of being at school

Too old now even to dig pinball

Having fun

In South West six

Having fun

When a hidden flick knife flicks

With violence for a fix

Discovers teenage sex

Tried shooting up for kicks

Kiss me deadly

Kiss me deadly

Kiss me deadly

Kiss me

Kiss me tonight

 

[Giants Fan 85]

Billy Idol to me was like the gateway drug. I liked Devo, Duran Duran, etc. Billy idol led to Generation X which led to Soixsie and the Banshees, which led to FEAR, DOA, the Subhumans, etc.

[SUXBNME 1,340]

Billy Idol to me was like the gateway drug. I liked Devo, Duran Duran, etc. Billy idol led to Generation X which led to Soixsie and the Banshees, which led to FEAR, DOA, the Subhumans, etc.

Damn good anaolgy

 

Here's something that you might not have heard yet...

Steve Stevens doing "Flamenco"

(Billy's gutarist)

[Giants Fan 85]

Meh.

 

So anyway .... more about ME!

 

Looking back on the mid-80's ... I remember the Meat Puppets used to play Tucson all the time. Black Flag .... when I went to NY I fit right in ... I was even more hardcore than these kids in NY. Nobody bothered them. People used to mess with me on a regular basis because I had a mohawk and there was a skull on the back of my jacket.

 

However ..... I don't think punk was ever really about LYRICS ...... I mean the thread is greatest lyrics after all. Great song, appreciate the shout out .... but the lyrics ... nostalgic .... but kindah meh.

 

Circle Jerks, Toxic Reasons, T.S.O.L. ....etc .... played Tucson.

 

Phoenix .... was the poser scene.

[Giants Fan 85]

The Vandals

[kutulu 1,551]

There is unrest in the forest,

there is trouble with the trees

For the maples want more sunlight

and the oaks ignore their pleas

 

The trouble with the maples,

and they're quite convinced they're right,

They say the oaks are just too lofty,

and they grab up all the light.

But the oaks can't help their feelings

if they like the way they're made.

And they wonder why the maples

can't be happy in their shade?

 

There is trouble in the forest

And the creatures all have fled

As the maples scream "oppression!"

And the oaks, just shake their heads

 

So the maples formed a union

And demanded equal rights

"the oaks are just too greedy

We will make them give us light"

Now there's no more oak oppression

For they passed a noble law

And the trees are all kept equal

By hatchet,

Axe,

And saw ...

 

I always like these lyrics. Not my favorite RUSH song music wise, but the words are cool.

[Cin-De 0]

Just the chorus on a Joni Mitchell tune:

 

 

And the seasons they go round and round

And the painted ponies go up and down

Were captive on the carousel of time

We can't return, we can only look behind

From where we came

And go round and round and round

In the circle game

[remote controller 133]

number nine......number nine.....number nine.....number nine

number nine......number nine.....number nine.....number nine

[Yer mom 2]

Everytime I see or hear theses lyrics, im greatful that im not a musician cause how can one compete with this?

 

 

You got a fast car

I want a ticket to anywhere

Maybe we make a deal

Maybe together we can get somewhere

 

Anyplace is better

Starting from zero got nothing to lose

Maybe we'll make something

But me myself I got nothing to prove

 

You got a fast car

And I got a plan to get us out of here

I been working at the convenience store

Managed to save just a little bit of money

We won't have to drive too far

Just 'cross the border and into the city

You and I can both get jobs

And finally see what it means to be living

 

You see my old man's got a problem

He live with the bottle that's the way it is

He says his body's too old for working

I say his body's too young to look like his

My mama went off and left him

She wanted more from life than he could give

I said somebody's got to take care of him

So I quit school and that's what I did

 

You got a fast car

But is it fast enough so we can fly away

We gotta make a decision

We leave tonight or live and die this way

 

I remember we were driving driving in your car

The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk

City lights lay out before us

And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder

And I had a feeling that I belonged

And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

 

You got a fast car

And we go cruising to entertain ourselves

You still ain't got a job

And I work in a market as a checkout girl

I know things will get better

You'll find work and I'll get promoted

We'll move out of the shelter

Buy a big house and live in the suburbs

You got a fast car

And I got a job that pays all our bills

You stay out drinking late at the bar

See more of your friends than you do of your kids

I'd always hoped for better

Thought maybe together you and me would find it

I got no plans I ain't going nowhere

So take your fast car and keep on driving

 

You got a fast car

But is it fast enough so you can fly away

You gotta make a decision

You leave tonight or live and die this way

[SUXBNME 1,340]

Everytime I see or hear theses lyrics, im greatful that im not a musician cause how can one compete with this?

You got a fast car

I want a ticket to anywhere

Maybe we make a deal

Maybe together we can get somewhere

 

Anyplace is better

Starting from zero got nothing to lose

Maybe we'll make something

But me myself I got nothing to prove

 

You got a fast car

And I got a plan to get us out of here

I been working at the convenience store

Managed to save just a little bit of money

We won't have to drive too far

Just 'cross the border and into the city

You and I can both get jobs

And finally see what it means to be living

 

You see my old man's got a problem

He live with the bottle that's the way it is

He says his body's too old for working

I say his body's too young to look like his

My mama went off and left him

She wanted more from life than he could give

I said somebody's got to take care of him

So I quit school and that's what I did

 

You got a fast car

But is it fast enough so we can fly away

We gotta make a decision

We leave tonight or live and die this way

 

I remember we were driving driving in your car

The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk

City lights lay out before us

And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder

And I had a feeling that I belonged

And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

 

You got a fast car

And we go cruising to entertain ourselves

You still ain't got a job

And I work in a market as a checkout girl

I know things will get better

You'll find work and I'll get promoted

We'll move out of the shelter

Buy a big house and live in the suburbs

You got a fast car

And I got a job that pays all our bills

You stay out drinking late at the bar

See more of your friends than you do of your kids

I'd always hoped for better

Thought maybe together you and me would find it

I got no plans I ain't going nowhere

So take your fast car and keep on driving

 

You got a fast car

But is it fast enough so you can fly away

You gotta make a decision

You leave tonight or live and die this way

Tracy Chapman = The only sistah alive uglier then Whoopie