Favorite lyric

Exapno · Post by **Exapno** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:15 am

She wrote a long letter
on a short piece of paper

drumana · Post by **drumana** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:09 am

keep it up! I'm enjoying this. . . someone mentioned Leonard Cohen - he's another great lyricist. Lennon/McCartney = amazing.

"Stepping through my shadow, crawling out the other side. Stepping through my shadow - 46 & 2 just ahead of me"

- Maynard James Keenan of TOOL.

salbev · Post by **salbev** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:29 pm

'Beans hit Cornbread on the head, Cornbread said I'm almost dead
Beans told Cornbread get up man, you know that we go hand and hand.'

-Louis Jordan
'beans and cornbread'

'Mahna Mahna'

-Mahna Mahna and the two Snowths

Exapno · Post by **Exapno** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:48 am

Everyday she wears the same thing
I think she smokes pot
She's everything I want
She's everything I'm not

Bowcephalus · Post by **Bowcephalus** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:25 pm

"They called it "Paradise",
I don't know why.
To call some place "Paradise",
Is kissin' it goodbye"

Bowcephalus · Post by **Bowcephalus** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:41 pm

"There are people in your life who've come and gone. They let you down, they hurt your pride. You better put it all behind you 'cause life goes on. You keep carrying that anger it'll eat you up inside"........Don Henley

Laager · Post by **Laager** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:37 am

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.

NiksaNovovic · Post by **NiksaNovovic** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:35 pm

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps

Well…

I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all
Still my guitar gently weeps

and..
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes

No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies

But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be

I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you

No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through

But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be

I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool

If I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
If I shiver, please give me a blanket
Keep me warm, let me wear your coat

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes

Warmest regards, Niksa

sysiphus · Post by **sysiphus** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:24 pm

"If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plan"

DEF · Post by **DEF** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:24 pm

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.

- "The Trees," Rush

drumana · Post by **drumana** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:16 am

She wrote a long letter
on a short piece of paper

that's a good one. . . who wrote that?

Seamus · Post by **Seamus** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:27 pm

You got to tell me, brave captain,
why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
when the devil leaves his porch light on?

Tom Waits, "Mr. Segal"

ScottS · Post by **ScottS** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:08 pm

And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise,
And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea.
And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body,
Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.

Chaps · Post by **Chaps** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:15 pm

"Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow." -Zappa

Danny

rogersfreud · Post by **rogersfreud** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:58 am

I have many, because i am a sarcastic clinical psychologist, but i say "exactly" alot.

Exactly!!!!

I picked it up in Graduate school.

Isaac

sgtrecon212 · Post by **sgtrecon212** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:19 pm

Another Al Stewart

"You're on my mind like a song on the radio"

" And today is only yesterday's tomorrow" From "The Wizard" Uriah Heep

"But still from near and far to seek America they came by thousands to court the wild. And she just patiently smiled and bore a child to be their spirit and guiding light."........ Monster by Steppenwolf

"Tell me who's to say after all is done and you're finally gone, you won't be back again. You can find a way to change today, you don't have to wait 'till then.
It's never too late to start all over again. To love the people you caused the pain. And help them learn your name."
.."Never Too Late" Steppenwolf

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:46 pm

Meet the new Boss
Same as the old Boss

-Pete Townshend

Big Ren · Post by **Big Ren** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:48 pm

"Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"
Roger Waters

Ren

kvanderslice · Post by **kvanderslice** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:57 pm

"Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk."

wrath186 · Post by **wrath186** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:45 am

I need to lose to make it right
I'll confront the stars tonight
I will babble, I will bite
You will never know how much you shine
40 miles from the sun.

--Bush

I told her I ain't so sure about this place.
It's hard to play a gig in this town and keep a straight face.
Seems like everyone here's got a plan,
Kind of like Nashville, with a tan.

--Shawn Mullins.