Cool Lyrics

[Juspar Emvan]

Just looking for a few of your favourite lines from songs.

"y'know that I want your loving
But my logic tells me that it ain't never gonna happen
And then my defense'd say I, I didn't want it anyway
But you know, sometimes I'm a liar"
Violent Femmes - Promise

 

[Ksss]

"I look for you in the morning with the sunrise.
And I search for you all day through.
And at night as I lay my head down,
I close my eyes and dream only of you."
Billy Ray Cyrus - Some day, somewhere

 

[Merelan]

"Life's a journey, not your destination"

Aerosmith... Amazing

 

[teresafannin]

"Life's a dance that you don't know
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don't worry about what you don't know
Life's a dance you learn as you go."

John Michael Montgomery

 

[Bushido71XS]

Allman Brothers

" No, I'm no angel,
No, I'm no stranger to the dark.
Let me rock your cradle, let me start a fire in your heart, oh come on baby, come on let me show you my tattoo."

 

[BrainyBeauty]

kinda in a mushy, sappy, romantic mood this morning

To really love a woman
Let her hold you -
'Til ya know how she needs to be touched
You've gotta breathe her - really taste her
'Til you can feel her in your blood
And when you can see your unborn children in her eyes
You know you really love a woman

-Bryan Adams-

 

[Purple Haze]

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand,
Vanished from my hand,
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'.
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,
I promise to go under it.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though you might hear laughin', spinnin', swingin' madly across the sun,
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facin'.
And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind,
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

 

[Madame Pandora]

Like Lays Potato Chips...

No one can pick just ONE!!!
choices choices choices... ;-)

I can't possibly type it all here, but one of the most amazing song's lyrics is Screenwriter's Blues by Soul Coughing. Here's the link if anyone is interested:
http://www.fourdegrees.net/revmaynard/lyrics/soulcoughing/rubyvroom.shtml#blues

Now...hmmm...the best lines from favorite songs...

My Back Pages
Bob Dylan (Dylan's best lyrics alone could fill pages)
A self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.A Long Time Ago

A Long Time Ago
Jim Croce
I was just a boy far from home
But I became a man when you came along

The Man in Black
Johnny Cash
Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,

I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.

Walk on Water
Marc Cohn
Baby when the bands and barkers go home
They say that Venus she rises
From out of the foam
She dances on air and laughs at the moon
And watches young lovers in fiery dunes

Criminal
Fiona Apple
I've been a bad bad girl
I've been careless with a delicate man
And it's a sad sad world
When a girl will break a boy
Just because she can

Hotel California
The Eagles
And in their master's chambers they gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't
Kill the Beast

Man On The Moon
REM
Andy, are ya goofin' on Elvis


[Edited by Madame Pandora on 01-07-2001 at 11:30 AM]

 

[naudiz]

"Where Your Eyes Don't Go" by They Might Be Giants

Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of.


"Jerusalem" by Dan Bern

When I tell you that I love you,
Don't test my love.
Accept my love.
Don't test my love.
'Cuz maybe I don't love you all that much.


"Willing To Fight" by Ani Difranco

The mirrors of my soul are made of one way glass
Don't bother looking into my eyes
If there's something want to know just ask
I've got a deadbolt stroll, where I'm going is clear
I won't wait for you to wonder
I'll just tell you why I'm here

Because I know the biggest crime
Is just to throw up your hands
Say this has nothing to do with me
I just want to live as comfortably as I can
You've got to look outside your eyes
You've got to think outside your brain
You've got to walk outside your life
To where the neighborhood changes

Tell me who is your bogeyman? That's who I will be
You don't have to like me for who I am
But we'll see what you're made of by what you make of me
I think it's absurd that you think I am the derelict daughter
I fight fire with words
Words are hotter than flame
Words are wetter than water

I got friends all over this country
I got friends in other countries too
I got friends I haven't met yet
I got friends I never knew
I got lovers whose eyes I've only seen at glance
I've got strangers for great grandchildren
I've got strangers for ancestors
I was a long time coming, I'll be a long time going
You've got your whole life to do something
And that's not very long
So why don't you give me a call
When you decide you're willing to fight
For what you think is real
For what you think is right

 

[R Nitelight]

Miracle Man - Elvis Costello

You never asked me what I wanted.
You only asked me why.
I never thought that so much trouble
was resting on my reply.
I could say it was the nights when I was lonely
and you were the only one who'd come.
I could tell you that I liked your sensitivity,
when you know it's the way that you walk.

 

[Havocman]

Once I used to believe,
I was such a great romancer,
Then I came home to a woman,
That I did not recognize,
When I pressed her for a reason,
She refused to weave an answer,
It was then I felt The Stranger,
Kick me right between the eyes...

Billy Joel, The Stranger

 

[Dirk13]

no shit...too many

Dr.Dre and Snoop Dogg "Smoke Weed Every Day"

Eminem "I am whatever you say i am"

Britney Spears "i'm not as inocent as i look"

Limp Bizkit "move in now move out, hands up now hands down, back up back up, tell me what you gonna do now, breath in now breath out, hands up now hands down, back up back up tell me what you gonna do now, Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' come on keep rollin' rollin' rollin' yeah keep rollin' rollin' rollin' uh keep rollin' rollin' rollin', now i know yall be lovin this shit right here, l i m p bizkit is right here"

Christina Agulera "i'm a geine in a bottle, you gotta rub me the right way"

 

[OUTSIDER]

"We are all of in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars" The Pretenders, but I think it may be from Oscar Wilde originally

 

[Gaucho]

One of my very favorites:

"He was the sun
Burning bright and brittle and
She was the moon
Shining back his light a little
He was a shooting star
She was softer and more slowly
He could not make things possible but
She could make them holy
Holy"

Shooting Star - Harry Chapin

But my all-time fav has to be:

Oh ma cameo molesting
Kee pa a poorer for tee
Solar prestige a gammon
Lantern or turbert paw kwee

Solar prestige a gammon
Kool kar kyrie kay salmon
Hair ring molassis abounding
Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin

Cod ee say oo pay a loto
My zeta prestige toupay a floored
Ray indee pako a gammon
Solar prestige a pako can nord

Solar Prestige A Gammon - Bernie Taupin (plus Reg, of course)

 

[jcgirl]

And now I'm glad I didn't know,
The way it all would end the way it all would go,
Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain,
But I'd of had to miss the dance,

Garth Brooks "The Dance"

 

[Guest]

 

[~melia~]

Sometimes you're the windshield. Sometimes you're the bug.
Mary Chapin Carpenter.

 

[Juspar Emvan]

Dire Straits

Interesting, the bug / windshield line also features in a Dire Staits song The Bug off their 'On Every Street' album, one of my favourites.

Also from that album:
"Well alas we've sen it all before
Knights in armour, days of yore
The same old fears and the same old crimes
We haven't changed since ancient times"
Dire Straits - Iron Hand

 

[naudiz]

Another one.

"Master and Slave", The Daddies

No pennies from heaven, no pennies in my hand
You think you're drinking wine dad it's blood of the Lamb
That's no way to treat your son now is it Abraham
After he busted his ass for you?
You've never known hunger never took a risk
Though you know you should you know you'd never raise a fist
If the boss told you to jump you know you'd find the nearest cliff
That man talks down to you and you talk down to me too now

Master and slave in equal parts
Split down the middle drinking doubles at the bar
Master and slave God bless you both
I got two for the price of one
Such a deal for your only son


"She's Got All the Friends", Chumbawamba

Versace and Prada mean nothing to me
You can buy your friends, but I'll hate you for free

 

[JadedHeart]

You know it smells like shit
Goddamn
Tag team the double header
Son of Sam
Fire always makes it better
Navigate
With style and aplomb
Cause wherever you're at
That's the tip you's on

~Original Prankster~
the Offspring