A lyrics thread

[Eientei]

Because every other message board in the world has it.  Why not? 

These are the lines to a song by Steely Dan - really, I could just as easily post the lyrics to any other song they've ever done, because they're pretty great at lyric-writing and often witty and bitingly satirical.  This one isn't that, just kind of bitter, but pretty true.

Steely Dan - Fire in the Hole

I decline
To walk the line
They tell me that I'm lazy
Worldly wise
I realize
That everybody's crazy
A woman's voice reminds me
To serve and not to speak
Am I myself or just another freak

Don't you know
There's fire in the hole
And nothing left to burn
I'd like to run out now
There's nowhere left to turn

With a cough
I shake it off
And work around my yellow stripe
Should I hide
And eat my pride
Or wait until it's good and ripe
My life is boiling over
It's happened once before
I wish someone would open up the door

Don't you know
There's fire in the hole
And nothing left to burn
I'd like to run out now
There's nowhere left to turn

[Khem]

i submit the greatest song ever written.

PRIMUS

"Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers"

I've seen them out at Soco
They're pounding sixteen penny nails
The truckers on the interstate
Have been known to ride the rails
The sweat is beating on the brow
Can't keep these fellas down
'Cause those damned blue-collared tweekers
Are runnin' this here town

I knew a man who hung drywall
He hung it mighty quick
A trip or two to the blue room
Would help him do the trick
His foreman would pat him on the back
Whenever he would come around
'Cause these dammed blue-collar tweekers
Are beloved in this here town

Now the union boys are there
To protect us from all the corporate type
While curious George's drug patrol
Is out here hunting snipe
Now they try to tell me different
But you know I ain't no clown
'Cause those damned blue-collar tweekers
Are the backbone of this town

Now the flame that burns twice as bright
Burns only half as long
My eyes are growing weary
As I finalize this song
So sit back and have a cup o' joe
And watch the wheels go round
'Cause those damned blue-collar tweekers
Have always run this town

[Allama]

I absolutely love this song, stalking "implications" and all.  ^_^


Imogen Heap - "Goodnight And Go"

Say goodnight and go.
Woah, woah-oah. Woah-oah-oah, woah-oah.

Skipping beats, blushing cheeks I am struggling
Daydreaming, bed scenes in the corner café
And then I'm left in bits recovering tectonic tremblings
You get me every time

Why d'ya have to be so cute?
It's impossible to ignore you
Must you make me laugh so much
It's bad enough we get along so well
Say goodnight and go

Follow you home, you've got your headphones on and you're dancing
Got lucky, beautiful shot you taking everything off watch the curtains wide open
Then you fall in the same routine flicking through the TV relaxed and reclining
And you think you're alone...

Why d'ya have to be so cute?
It's impossible to ignore you
Must you make me laugh so much?
It's bad enough we get along so well
Say goodnight and go

One of these days, you'll miss your train and come stay with me
We'll have drinks and talk about things, any excuse to stay awake with you
You'll sleep here, I'll sleep there, but then the heating may be down again
At my convenience
We'd be good, we'd be great together.

[Sigh]
Go!

Say goodnight and go,
Why's it always, always
Goodnight and go?
Darling not again
Goodnight and go

[kor]

Love this song. Very close to how I feel toward a situation I'm having IRL. 

Aqualung- "Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You)"

I've been watching your world from afar,
I've been trying to be where you are,
And I've been secretly falling apart, unseen.
To me, you're strange and you're beautiful,
You'd be so perfect with me but you just can't see,
You turn every head but you don't see me.

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep and I'll put a spell on you.
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realize that you love me.

Yeah...
Yeah...

Sometimes, the last thing you want comes in first,
Sometimes, the first thing you want never comes,
And I know, the waiting is all you can do,
Sometimes...

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep,
I'll put a spell on you,
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realize that you love me.

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep 'cos I'll put a spell on you,
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realize that you love me, yeah...

Yeah...
Yeah...
Yeah...
Yeah...

[Allama]

What a great song, Kor!  That one has struck close to home for me before, too.

[The Master]

The Master knows good lyrics.

Untitled 8 (The Nothing Song)
Sigur Ros

[Annex]

Jesus Was Way Cool
King Missile

Jesus was way cool
Everybody liked Jesus
Everybody wanted to hang out with him
Anything he wanted to do, he did
He turned water into wine
And if he wanted to
He could have turned wheat into marijuana
Or sugar into cocaine
Or vitamin pills into amphetamines

He walked on the water
And swam on the land
He would tell these stories
And people would listen
He was really cool

If you were blind or lame
You just went to Jesus
And he would put his hands on you
And you would be healed
That's so cool

He could've played guitar better than Hendrix
He could've told the future
He could've baked the most delicious cake in the world
He could've scored more goals than Wayne Gretzky
He could've danced better than Barishnikov
Jesus could have been funnier than any comedian you can think of
Jesus was way cool

He told people to eat his body and drink his blood
That's so cool
Jesus was so cool
But then some people got jealous of how cool he was
So they killed him
But then he rose from the dead
He rose from the dead, danced around
Then went up to heaven
I mean, that's so cool
Jesus was way cool

No wonder there are so many Christians

[Tritopea]

One of These Days
Pink Floyd

One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces

[Gulliver]

Peter Gabriel: "Shock the Monkey"

Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life

Cover me when I run
Cover me through the fire
Something knocked me out the trees
Now I'm on my knees
Cover me, darling please
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know when you're going to shock the monkey

Fox the fox
Rat the rat
You can ape the ape
I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I cant take any more
Darling, don't you monkey with the monkey
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey

Wheels keep turning
Somethings burning
Don't like it but I guess I'm learning

Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey

Cover me, when I sleep
Cover me, when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine
Make the monkey blind
Cover me, darling please
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey

Too much at stake
Ground beneath me shake
And the news is breaking

Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey

Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life

[Anniane]

4:50 AM (Go Fishing)
Roger Waters

As cars go by I cast my mind's eye
Over back packs on roof racks
Beyond the horizon
Where dream makers
Working white plastic processors
Invite the unwary
To reach for the pie in the sky
Go fishing my boy!

We set out in the spring
With a trunk full of books about everything
About solar devices
And how nice natural childbirth is
We cut down some trees
And we trailed our ideals
Through the forest glade
We dammed up the stream

And the kids cooled their heels
In the fishing pool we'd made
We held hands and we exchanged bands
And we practically lived off the land
You adopted a fox cub
Whose mother was somebody's coat
You fed him by hand
And then snuggled snuggled him down
By the grandfather bed while I wrote
We grew our own maize
And I only occasionally went into town
To stock up on antibiotics
And shells for the shotgun that I kept around
I told the kids stories while you worked your loom
And the sun went down sooner each day.
*Chapter six in which Eeyore has a birthday
And gets two presents
Daddy...come on dad
Eeyore the old grey donkey stood by the side
Of the stream and he looked at himself in the water
"Pathetic" he said, "That's what it is"
"Good morning Eeyore" said Pooh
"Oh" said Pooh, He thought for a long time

The leaves all fell down
Our crops all turned brown
It was over
As the first snowflakes fell
I realized all was not well in the camp
The kids caught bronchitis
The space heater ran out of diesel
One weekend a friend from the East
Rot his soul
Stole your heart
I said "Fuck it then
Take the kids back to town
Maybe I'll see you around"

And so...leaving all our hopes and dreams
To the wind and the rain
Taking only our stash
Left our litter and trash
And set out on the road again
On the road again

Bye Bye Daddy, Bye Daddy
You can bring Pearl she's a darn nice girl
But don't bring Liza

[B9 perspective]

Positively 4rth Street- Bob Dylan ( a Classic)

You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning

You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that's winning

You say I let you down
You know it's not like that
If you're so hurt
Why then don't you show it

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You're in with

Do you take me for such a fool
To think I'd make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don't know to begin with

You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say, "How are you?" "Good luck"
But you don't mean it

When you know as well as me
You'd rather see me paralyzed
Why don't you just come out once
And scream it

No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I'd rob them

And now I know you're dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don't you understand
It's not my problem

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is
To see you

[Meridianland]

Minstrel Boy
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros   

Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh

Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh

(Chorus)
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Aaaah ahhhhhhhhhh ahhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh

(Repeat Chorus 2x)
War

Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh

[Myroria]

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
Beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All thats to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

[Eientei]

Minstrel Boy
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros   

Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh

Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh

(Chorus)
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Aaaah ahhhhhhhhhh ahhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh

(Repeat Chorus 2x)
War

Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmm
Mmmmmmm mmmmm mmmm mmmh

So profound.  These lyrics really make you think.

[Annex]

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
William Shatner

Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Oooohhhhhhhh...

Picture yourself
In a boat
On a river
With.... Tangerine trees, and...
Marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you....
Your answer quiet slowly....
A girl
with kaleidoscope eeeyes!
Cellophane flowers
of yellow and green...
towering ovveerrr your head!
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
and she's gone (gone gone gone)!

Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

Follow her downnn
To a bridge by a fountain
where rocking horse people eat
marhmellow piees....
Everyone smiles as your drift past the flowers that grow so incredibly high
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore!
Waiting to take you away!
Climb on the back with your head in the clouds
and you're gone (you're gone gone gone gone)!

Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Ohhhhhhhhhh....

Picture yourself
On a train in a station
With... plasticene porters
with looking glass ties
SUDDENLY!
SOMEONE!
IS THERE!
AT THE TURNSTILE!
A giiiiirl with kaleiiidiscope eyessss....

Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
(fade)