favourite lyric?
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Posted on Dec 24, 2003 10:23 am
flame
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i was thinking about some of my favourite lines from songs today, and wondered what your guys (and girls) favourites were?
one of my all time favourites is from a song called 'robin hood' by ocean colour scene...
'when you're starting to cry,
i will be by your side
and i will love you so
and when the nightmares come
i will try to be fun
but im so scared you know'
and so on. quite tendre and soopy but its a wicked song.
anyone else?
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LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Dec 24, 2003 10:56 am My favourite are from a smashing pumpkins song called "in the arms of sleep"
Sleep will not come to this tired body now
Sleep will not come to this lonely heart
there are some things I'll live without
but I want you to know
that I need you right now
I need you tonight
Or from the smashing pumpkins song, Crestfallen:who am I to need you now
to ask you why to tell you no
to deserve your love and sympathy
you were never meant to belong to me
and you may go, but I know you won't leave
too many years built into memories
your life is not your own
TheTincanbugsloppy dice, drinks twiceMember
Since: Aug 05, 2003
Dec 24, 2003 10:57 am "Just Shoot Me" by Crash Test Dummies
Not a tender song at all. It's a song that says that we are human to the core, and what makes us human isn't always pretty and polished and proper. Our humanity is also comprised of lustful thoughts and deeds, reveling in sensual decadence, and fierce independance.
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Take off your mink coat, take off your muff
Get on the table and show us your stuff
Right here next to me
I'm a fat old man, sweatin' and huffin'
A gin in my hand and your pretty little muffin
Right here next to me
Just don't feed me with no tube
Or change my dirty diaper
If I'm back at mommy's boob
Call in the frickin' snipers
And just shoot me, baby
Stuff me in the cracks, Stuff me
In the toilet, sweetie, put me in the trash
But be next to me
Send me to my room, hold me down
And spank me, use the wooden spoon
But be next to me
Just don't feed me with no tube
Or change my dirty diaper
If I'm back at Mommy's boob
Call in the frickin' snipers
And just shoot me, baby
Dip me in the river
You'll never wash my dirt away
Rip out my liver, baby
But be next to me
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Dec 24, 2003 11:05 am thats a bizarre tune tican...
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Dec 24, 2003 11:06 am Oh man I could name lots...there's a classic line or two from just about every Tom Waits album.
How about:
"Tell me is the crack of the poolballs, neon buzzin?
Telephone's ringin'; it's your second cousin
Is it the barmaid that's smilin' from the corner of her eye?
Magic of the melancholy tear in your eye.
Makes it kind of quiver down in the core
'Cause you're dreamin' of them Saturdays that came before
And now you're stumblin'
You're stumblin' onto the heart of Saturday night"
-Title track from "The Heart of Saturday Night"
TheTincanbugsloppy dice, drinks twiceMember
Since: Aug 05, 2003
Dec 24, 2003 11:07 am I'm an unusual guy, flame. :)
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Dec 24, 2003 11:13 am most musicians are dude!
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Dec 24, 2003 11:26 am and you may go, but I know you won't leave
too many years built into memories
your life is not your own
Describes exactly how I feel most of the time
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Dec 24, 2003 11:27 am who's lyric is that?
Dec 24, 2003 01:26 pm pearl jam "black"
I know someday you have a beautiful life
I know you'll be the sun
In somebody else's sky
But why... why..
Why can't it be in mine?
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Dec 24, 2003 03:42 pm flame- that would be "Crestfallen" By The Smashing Pumpkins
Dec 24, 2003 04:46 pm good call jamie...black is a terribly moving song. oceans, too.
god, those guys were so talented. :(
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girlchild in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn the imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
--venus in furs, the velvet underground
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Dec 24, 2003 04:47 pm i love the velvets...took me a while to get into them though...
Dec 24, 2003 04:54 pm i got into the banana album years ago. two standout tracks there...venus and heroin. waiting for the man is good too. the rest of that album is okay...i don't think they ever surpassed venus in furs, though, which is just the most amazing tune. their other stuff i am just about to give a shot, since a friend of mine gave me the entire box set, out of the blue. said she got tired of it, and had burnt them all to mp3.
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Dec 24, 2003 05:00 pm i like loaded best...cos its got 'sticking with you' and 'who loves the sun' on it - amazing tunes!
Dec 24, 2003 07:23 pm cool i'm gonna listen to those. never heard 'em!
cooloFrisco's Most UnderratedMember
Since: Jan 28, 2003
Dec 24, 2003 10:12 pm "softly, as if I played piano in the dark;
found a way to channel my anger not doing war(???);
The words are staged and everybody gots to play their part;
But god works in mysterious ways, so when he starts;
The job of speaking through us, we be so sincere with this here;
No drugs or alcohol so I can keep the signal clear;
As day, put my glock away, I gotta stronger weapon that never runs out of amunition so I'm ready for war, OK!
-Andre of Outkast on ATLiens
Dec 25, 2003 05:35 am Just about any lyric from Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" is the bomb.
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Dec 25, 2003 08:43 am i remember when we were young, you shone like the sun...
top!
Dec 25, 2003 08:50 am Shine on you crazy diamond...
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Dec 25, 2003 09:00 am err, you too man...
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Dec 25, 2003 09:17 pm Agreed on the PF Wish U were here. I was going for that untill I got to dBs post, so Ill give it a bit more thought before I put one up.
olddogMember
Since: Jul 02, 2003
Dec 25, 2003 11:09 pm I'm not sure if I really have any favorite lyrics, but I do know it would be something penned by John Lennon.
this one would rank way up there for me:
Let Me take you down, cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever.
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see, It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.. It doesn't matter much to me.
Dan
Dec 26, 2003 06:24 am I am also a big fan of the music (and lyrics) of Nirvana...
"Throw down your ambilical (sp?) noose so I can climb right back"
yikes, he was one very troubled soul...
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Dec 26, 2003 06:52 am teenage angst has paid off well, now im bored and old!
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Dec 26, 2003 01:27 pm I am my own parasite
I don't need a host to live
We feed off of each other
We can share our endorphins
Very troubled indeed, but they always made sense in the end.
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Jan 01, 2004 09:42 am this is cool - one of the girls at work downloaded my demo of 'all gone' ages ago - and she sung the whole tune to me work for work yesterday...i well impressed!
juesContributor
Since: Dec 30, 2002
Jan 01, 2004 07:41 pm it's early morning
No one is awake
I'm back at my cliff
Still throwing things off
I listen to the sounds they make
On their way down
I follow with my eyes 'til they crash
Imagine what my body would sound like
Slamming against those rocks
When it lands
Will my eyes
Be closed or open?
I go through all this
Before you wake up
So I can feel happier
To be safe up here with you
bjork - hyperballad.
Jan 02, 2004 08:17 am Stoneage dinosaurs
A song by Cardiacs from "Songs for Ships and Irons"
Wishing for money is a man growing old and he
breaks our knifes edge with his care for the ordinary
Winning hand in hand Michael Miles plays a game for me
Liberace asks after me and all my family
On down the line a soldier hides his worn uniform in an eiderdown,
says never mind the war just take me home again
for the last time
Jim parades a toy that he won on a rifle range
Holds him up high, its a plaster statue of Peter Glaze, it says the
strangest things
and all we feel is lonely just like stoneage dinosaurs
Wishing for money is a man growing old and he
breaks our knifes edge with his care for the ordinary
And Mr "T" offers me and all humanity a safe place to be
and all we feel is lonely just like stoneage dinosaurs
Loosefish Scapegrace
A song by Cardiacs from "Songs for Ships and Irons"
RIGID LICENSE SEVERITY, To drain the cup of misery
Put dirty water in their tea, Join them to the armies
What are the acts, do they perform in institution uniform
Pay in the price to pay for day, to spill or fritter away
Loosefish bad egg sad lot scapegrace
All my magnitude stops the irons, entering my soul
Here I stand and I can and I like it
RIGID LICENSE SEVERITY, Graceless is the place to be
to drain the cup of misery, Join them to the armies
RIGID LICENSE SEVERITY, Graceless is the place to be
TO DRAIN THE CUP OF MISERY, to the dregs the only place to be
I'm a man seeing if I can be a bigger man
And be the big world holder, And wear it on my shoulder
Confiscate all the hearts and minds, of all humankind
And give a daring operation, To deflect all lifes afflictions
Nastiness disease squander mania prevails
Loosefish bad egg sad lot scapegrace
Here I stand and I can and I like it
To have no being, be the null and void, to be no more
Leave no rack behind
So I dissolve away. So to be such stuff as dreams are made
Rigid license severity Graceless is the place to be
To drain the cup of misery, To the dregs the only place to be
Nastiness and diseases, Will choose me any path it pleases
I dont sleep, I die, My bed is always closing in on me
I DISSOLVE ! , VOID !, VACUUM ! , GOOSEGASH !
I will stake all my pride against my suicide
And wear upon my shoulder, The mark of a good soldier
Malice having the itchy palm with a sparing hand
Making ducks and drakes of evil, With a lesser form of people
sorry for the length (ahem) but i really like the wierdness and childlike strangeness....
TheTincanbugsloppy dice, drinks twiceMember
Since: Aug 05, 2003
Jan 02, 2004 11:01 am This is a fascinating series of posts. It's interesting to see what speaks to each of us through our favorite lyrics. I like the lyrics that you guys have posted, the bits that jump out at me are... (in no particular order)
I'm a man seeing if I can be a bigger man
And be the big world holder, And wear it on my shoulder
Confiscate all the hearts and minds, of all humankind
And give a daring operation, To deflect all lifes afflictions
-----------
Wishing for money is a man growing old and he
breaks our knifes edge with his care for the ordinary
And Mr "T" offers me and all humanity a safe place to be
and all we feel is lonely just like stoneage dinosaurs
-----------
I go through all this
Before you wake up
So I can feel happier
To be safe up here with you
-----------
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see
-----------
Tell me is the crack of the poolballs, neon buzzin?
Telephone's ringin'; it's your second cousin
Is it the barmaid that's smilin' from the corner of her eye?
Magic of the melancholy tear in your eye.
Makes it kind of quiver down in the core
'Cause you're dreamin' of them Saturdays that came before
And now you're stumblin'
You're stumblin' onto the heart of Saturday night
juesContributor
Since: Dec 30, 2002
Jan 02, 2004 11:54 am Tincan - the thing I love about that song is the deep sense of irony in the lyrics, when she sings the song, she's almost crying those words.
el musicoFreeleance Producer/Engineer/GtrMember
Since: Aug 11, 2002
Jan 02, 2004 12:02 pm coolo... i think it's "found a way to channel my anger, now to embark"
i could be wrong but that's what i hear.
here's my current fave:
recall the deeds as if they're all
someone else's atrocious stories.
Now you stand reborn before us all,
so glad to see you well.
But not to pull your halo down
around your neck and tug you to the ground,
but i'm more than just a little curious...
how're you planning to go about making your amends
to the dead?
A Perfect Circle - "The Noose"
taken out of context of the song, it can be a little wierd. it strikes a chord with me because i take it as someone who lived a very evil life was babtized and "reborn" thinking that all is suddenly forgiven and the sins forgotten. Obviously i think organized religion is a bunch of bull but that's an entirely different thread.
Jan 02, 2004 02:03 pm I think my absolute favorite lyric of all time would have to be in the song "For The Record" by Stretch Arm Strong. It's a song about going to punk/hardcore shows and how they're much more than just "shows."
"you were more than just a tourdate, we were more than just a song, we sweat and sang together, and that helped us to cary on..."
other lines from the song that stand out:
"bands would come, and we would all sing along (sing along! sing along!) would they ever know, their impact would last so long?"
and
"the world is full of lonely places no matter where you're from, a crowded show familiar faces makes me feel at home"
And of course, just for good measure, I'll throw in a River City Rebels lyric.
"From the heart, from the soul, small town pride is all I know."
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Jan 02, 2004 09:30 pm Everday is a new day
Im thankfull for every breath I take
I wont take it for granted
So I learned from my mistakes
It's beyond my control, sometimes it's best to let go
Whatever happens in this lifetime
So I trust in love
You have given me peace of mind
POD
By the way flame, its cool when you hear someone else singing our stuff. Now you know youve reached someone if they took the time to learn all the words, or listened enough to learn them.
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Jan 04, 2004 08:10 am totally...its happened twice for me, and its a great feeling. its even cooler when someone on here covers something of yours...ive been done by tony d and jamie so far...
Jan 04, 2004 08:13 am Nothing's cooler than 250 kids all trying to get to the front of the stage and every one of them knows every word to all of your songs. That happened at our last show.
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Jan 04, 2004 08:19 am nice one!
Jan 04, 2004 09:49 am And then the bassist quit and walked off stage in the middle of our set. Go figure.
Jan 04, 2004 09:52 am bass players suck...
hey, wait a sec...
flame...bringing sexy backMember
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Jan 04, 2004 10:07 am lol
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Jan 04, 2004 06:00 pm That stinks Johnny, sorry to hear but glad the fans are there.
I forgot about TD covering your tune, I havent heard the cover by Jamie yet.
Maybe Ill do a trance remix of No Cigs...
FunkDadyPNo Commercial Appeal.Member
Since: Jan 09, 2003
Jan 09, 2004 03:25 pm If you've heard the new Outkast song "hey ya" you know it's good. It's a very catchy tune. My favorite line from that song goes something like:
You know people say nothing is forever
Then what makes
Then what makes
Then what makes love the exception
I'm just being honest.
It's a pretty simple line, but he is being honest.
GregorMember
Since: Jan 08, 2004
Jan 09, 2004 10:51 pm This is a song that means a lot to me and best describes who I am.
Reconciliation by Pain of Salvation
I thought I'd seen hell
Thought I knew it all
Now I know too well
Hell is to wake up
But it makes all the difference
Tasting the tears in my mouth
Taking the weight on my shoulders
The hours and days of your life
Don't necessarily make you older
I'm sick of running away
Along these bloody streets
I'm sick of predators and prey
Of being everybody's end!
I've washed my hands of your blood
Thought it would leave me clean
But with time on my hands
It turned to mud forming this crust of sin
Now - to be truly free
I'll let it come to me
So -break me if you must
When you break this crust
Freedom is to see
Hear this voice, see this man
Standing before you I'm just a child
Just a man learning to yield
I hate these hands soaked in blood
I hate what these eyes have seen
Up to my knees in filth and mud
How it hurts to become clean
I was always on my mind
But never on my side
Run - but if you run away
You'll always have to hide
So if you need to run
Run for help!
Jan 10, 2004 12:38 am All I know is that I don't know nothing. - Operation Ivy
All I know is that I know nothing. - Socrates
Yep.
Jan 11, 2004 06:02 am Noize, you dun wanna hear my version of All Gone. I was sick that day lol. It was just to test out my condenser and compressor. I sent it to flame cause i knew he'd get a kick out of it.
another fav. a new one:
All we want are just pretty little homes
Our work makes pretty little homes
Agenda; suicide
The drones work hard before they die..
and give up on pretty little homes
The Faint, Agenda Suicide
Thanks to Chico for reminding me how much I love that song.
I have a ton of fav lyrics. I'll try and add them as I think of them. ;O)
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Jan 11, 2004 01:44 pm Dang straight Jamie, I wanna hear it. I like that tune a bunch and would love to hear what you did with it.
And agree with ya on the Faint, they have some great reminder type lyrics that seem to make ya remember that eve when it looks like it wont get better, if your patient it usually does.
Jan 11, 2004 03:47 pm If you feel alive,
in a darkened room
Do you know the name,
of your solitude
If you ain't got the answer,
if you don't know the truth
If you want the power
then let it flow through
would you let it go,
ooh, would you let it go,
ooh, would you let it go,
ooh, would you let it go,
they cannot end this morning
of my life
show me
how the gods kill
Jan 11, 2004 05:35 pm hehe, maybe if properly EQ it and cut out the extra crap at the beginning and end
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Jan 12, 2004 05:32 am thatd be funny noize...ive always wanted to hear something of mine done by someone who can do dance and stuff...
jamie, get that tune eq'd!
youre gonna hate the new version, probably...
TheTincanbugsloppy dice, drinks twiceMember
Since: Aug 05, 2003
Jan 12, 2004 08:30 am "All we want are just pretty little homes
Our work makes pretty little homes
Agenda; suicide
The drones work hard before they die..
and give up on pretty little homes"
that's very cool.
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Jan 12, 2004 08:39 am its a cracking tune, that...
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Jan 12, 2004 04:16 pm Flame, whos gonna hate the new version of what?
And now I may take that as a dare and just do up So Cigs dance style for yucks. What was the BPM on it again, I am such alamo I never made note of it.
Jan 12, 2004 10:45 pm i think he means I'm gonna hate the new version of All Gone hehe. Not hate, it's a good song, i just don't feel *any* version doen so far can top the original mp3 i downloaded a year and a half ago.
Jan 12, 2004 10:46 pm **** i can't delete that double post LOL
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Jan 12, 2004 11:08 pm Got it for ya Jamie. :-)
Na, I dont think youll hate it. I got em both and like em both as well. I find the new version pretty kool myself, even though I do like the old version alot as well. Its just the voice in the tune that makes it.
Jan 13, 2004 03:31 am and of course, the lyrics of ray divies and jello biafra take some beating.
Jan 13, 2004 04:16 am I'll have to look in to members deleting there own posts, there seems to be an issue with that...I'll check it out in thenext few days...
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Jan 13, 2004 06:27 am Forgot to mention that any song by The Cure I adore, as well as a few by Legendary Pink Dots are amazing... and 12 by Wolfhsiem
Jan 13, 2004 09:04 am most smiths songs
therapy? had good lyrics on their older releases, oh and MC Pitman!
tonyd1970The fat one always watches us.Member
Since: Nov 08, 2002
Jan 13, 2004 09:45 am gonna ride my lamb, from peru to tex-arkan
gonna ride him good, in my old neighborhood
niel young
i take 1 1 1 cause you left me
and 2 2 2 for my heart ache
and 3 3 3 for my headache
and 4 4 4 for my lonelyness
and 5 5 5 for my sorrow
and 6 6 6 no no no tomarrow
and 7 7 7 (dont remember)
and 8 8 8 i forget what 8 was for
its been awhile on that one, the violent femmes
Jan 13, 2004 10:10 am Faith lies in the ways of sin. I chased the charmed, but I don't want them anymore....
Life's a bummer when you're a hummer
Smashing Pumpkins, Hummer
that says it all... so just stop thinking so damn much!
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Jan 14, 2004 07:51 am man I love the pumpkins.
Twighlight Fades on aching avalon
the skys cruel torch on an aching autobahn...
you make me real
Jan 14, 2004 09:30 am I feel that I am ordinary, just like everyone...
I know that I am meant for this world
SP, Muzzle
Jan 20, 2004 10:02 pm k, Loki got me hooked on this one. It hasn't left my winamp playlist in months. Hasn't left my head in as long.
It's getting dark too soon
a threatening silence surrounding me
a wind comes up from the islands
when distance fades to stormy grey
washed out from the deep of the ocean
here i stand to face your wraith
while all the other are praying
Calm down, my heart, don't beat so fast
don't be afraid, just once in a lifetime
Calm down, my heart, don't beat so fast
don't be afraid, just once in a lifetime
no rain can wash away my tears
no wind can sooth my pain
you made me doubt, you made me fear
but now i'm not the same..
Wolfsheim, Once In A Lifetime
Jan 20, 2004 10:06 pm oh yeah, Noize, i mixed it down better, that All Gone cover I ran off real quick. I'll have to catch you sometime on AIM and xfer it
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Jan 20, 2004 10:33 pm Kool, I will try to pop on tommorrow night or maybe even in the afternoon late.
Jan 20, 2004 11:00 pm I always thought I could change the world, but I couldn't even change myself.
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Jan 22, 2004 05:57 am thats an AWESOME line hero...
Jan 22, 2004 06:01 am yeah, what's it from?
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Jan 22, 2004 09:32 pm Only when the last fish has been caught, the last river dried up, and the last tree chopped down will we then realize...
We cannot eat money!
Writen by an unknown teenager on the wall of The Garage, a small teen only club in Apple Valley, MN. And yes it really is a garage.
Jan 22, 2004 09:40 pm It's from one of my newer songs... which you WON'T be hearing because the band broke up. :(
Jan 23, 2004 03:51 am damn, what happened?
glynbMember
Since: Dec 16, 2002
Jan 23, 2004 06:18 am I'd go with Lennon's "Imagine".
Every word I agreed with when I was 12 and first heard it, and now I still agree with it. So simple, direct, no bullshit, Lennon at his best.
You may say I'm a dreamer....
...but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us...
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Jan 23, 2004 07:24 am i love the little **** symbol btw db , very cool!
Jan 23, 2004 07:36 am me too LOL
Jan 23, 2004 01:47 pm Yeah it's ******* awesome.
flame...bringing sexy backMember
Since: Jul 01, 2002
Jan 23, 2004 01:54 pm lol
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Jan 23, 2004 05:11 pm I for one have just avoided using fowl language on this site becuase of the family oriented image we would like to keep.
So What the **** are you shitheads doing cussing all the time?
There now I have gone and done it.
