Strange Famous

ALBUM: Sage Francis - Personal Journals
WRITTEN BY: Sage Francis
PRODUCED BY: Sixtoo

I'd give a 21 gun shot salute...
With the toy rifle that you bought me, but it won't shoot.

And all is well, because there's been one too many shots.
The sterile robots want to talk to me about detox.

Stop the presses. There's been an update via 1:30 AM phone call.
When an only half-informative source talks discretely...

Meet me...at the family room on the side of the intensive care unit.
Immediately...I'll carry a tune, but the siren's so loud I can't hear my music.
Keep free...of negative thoughts. Everything'll be fine we all assumed.
That is would go back to the way things were. That it would go back to normal soon.

I saw the moon in a way that I'd never seen it before when I looked up that night,
Into the sky...wondering why...looking for answers. Guess I ain't asked right.
I'm guessing most of y'all out there know exactly what that's like.
What that's like. Tell me...what's that like?

It's like a whirlwind of emotions that occurs when moms and dads fight.
It's like when a girl grins and a motion of hers that holds your arm and grabs tight.
Hurl him into the ocean. One of those cold sweat, heat flash types.
But extreme fluctuations and temperature changes have been known to crack pipes...
Crack pipes...
crack pipes.

Meet me...halfway and I'll go that extra length just to help your strength.
Meet me at the AA meeting, needing to take more than 12 steps.
Bring me to your hiding place so I can face your vice grip.
I'll chisel every single monkey off your back with this ice pick.
Come meet up with me on the sidelines when the game is over just to say hello.
Then afterwards...backstage...to let me know that you enjoyed the show.
Then go to Grandma's house for Sunday dinner. Sit at the head of the table.
Take away the fatal flaw you made the day before I seen you bleed.

Meet me...on Christmas Eve. We can fight but make up before you leave.
Make visits with the rest of those who rest in pieces of my dreams.

Meet me at the fork in the road where the lost souls get indecisive.
Meet me at the crossroads so I can have someone to walk into the light with.

IC3

I just bought Canibus's CD and I am finding myself listening to this track over & over...It's an amazing track, The beat is just amazing...But here are the Lyrics.

+Spartibus+

[Canibus]
Yeah, This is Spartibus
Yo, yo, yo

You wanna spar wit 'bus
Then let's get started 'cuz
Atomic thrusts turn you into cosmic dust
Bomb ya borders with Japanese Spigot mortars
Recompose your composition to sawdust
Time is breath; breath is life; life is light
Light is no less than capital 'C' on the mic
Beneath the mirage of night I'll attack you twice
Prepare to rig a sacrifice with my ritual rights
Reinforce my habitual likes 'n dislikes
Then diss you on the mic cause I'm sick o' the hype
No one's ever written what I write
Compare they calligraphy type
Tell me yo how can I not be nice
The royal semen of Caesar frozen in a cryofreezer
On sale for seven figures per milliliter
Lethally illegal; I speak to the people
In the form of an eagle on top of the Theves Cathedral
With boundless knowledge, like hairless dalai'lamas
With linen garments neatly wrapped around armpits
With monasteries in the mountains
Trumpets have already sounded
You can't denounce my crown bitch

*Rakim samples from Paid in Full's "My Melody"*
Any MC that disagree with me just wave your arm (4x)
Now tear it up y'all, and bless the mic for the gods

[Canibus]
This game is Chinese chess
Countless issues need to be addressed
Before the East nukes the West
Totalitarianistic cause-'n-effect
"Run the words through a decompressor, recompress the depth"
Canibus is the most explosive next to meth?
The inconsistency of the text, makes me complex
Pay attention to 'bis my intention is this
Leave you spacially adrift suspended in the abyss
Marijuana plant owners, smell my aroma
Contract ? carcinoma and retinoblastoma?
Confederate veteran general the electric general
FCC omnidirectional antenna poles
IFF, identification friend or foe
This areas restricted don't let 'em thru
He'll mock your style, rock you to the ground
With the bite force of a ? crocodile
Travel a fiber optic mile before you can smile
So don't ask me why, and don't ask how

*Rakim samples from Paid in Full's "My Melody"*
Any MC that disagree with me just wave your arm (2x)
Now tear it up y'all, and bless the mic for the gods

[Canibus]
Until I'm impressed with the print
I can hear a pin drop like Sprint
Once it blends I can stop right then
Quantum coupling mechanisms and technical shit
Confuses you but I don't think your any less of a dick
Just define what is poetry and what is rap
I demonstrate how to effectively +Bridge the Gap+
The answer is simple in fact
If the protons don't attack the retina
All we'd ever see is black
No ability, no extraocular motility
Silly emcees can't see me lyrically or visually
They'll never be better than me
I'll triple team 'em with a trinity severed to 3
And give 'em 9 enemies
Climb back to periscope depth in 2 hours
Surrender and throw in the towel
The amalgam of the ultimate album
This is +Spartibus+ power (echoes)

*Rakim samples from Paid in Full's "My Melody"*
Any MC that disagree with me just wave your arm (4x)
Now tear it up y'all, and bless the mic for the gods

K-Wise

I just....fuckin love this song right here. Shit is so beautiful.

Artist: Common f/ Lauryn Hill
Album: One Day It'll All Make Sense
Song: Retrospect for Life
Typed by: dj.flash@pobox.com

Yo, we gotta start respectin life more y'all
You look at your brother man you gotta see yourself
Gotta see the God within him
Brothers gettin changed real quick over nothin
We losin too many of ours
Gotta recreate y'all
Yo, check it

Knowin you the best part of life, do I have the right to take yours?
Cause I created you, irresponsibly
Subconciously knowin the act I was a part of
The start of somethin, I'm not ready to bring into the world
Had myself believin I was sterile
I look into mother's stomach, wonder if you are a boy or a girl
Turnin this woman's womb into a tomb
But she and I agree, a seed we don't need
You would've been much more than a mouth to feed
But someone, I woulda fed this information I read
to someone, my life for you I woulda had to leave
Instead I lead you to death
I'm sorry for takin your first breath, first step, and first cry
But I wasn't prepared mentally nor financially
Havin a child shouldn't have to bring out the man in me
Plus I wanted you to be raised within a family
I don't wanna, go through the drama of havin a baby's momma
Weekend visits and buyin J's ain't gon' make me a father
For a while bearing a child is somethin I never wanted to do
For me to live forever I can only do that through you
Nerve I got to talk about them niggaz with a gun
Must have really thought I was God to take the life of my son
I could have sacrificed goin out
To think my homies who did it I used to joke about, from now on
I'ma use self control instead of birth control
Cause $315 ain't worth your soul
$315 ain't worth your soul
$315 ain't worth it

[Lauryn Hill (two layers of vocals, same words)]
I, never dreamed you'd leave, in summer
You said you would be here when it rained
[Common] Yo
Why didn't you stay

Seeing you as a present and a gift in itself
You had our child in you, I probably never feel what you felt
But you dealt with it like the strong black woman you are
Through our trials and tribulations, child's elimination
An intergration of thoughts I feel about the situation
Back and forth my feelings was pacin
Happy deep down but not joyed enough to have it
But even that's a lie in less than two weeks, we was back at it
Is this unprotected love or safe to say it's lust
Bustin, more than the sweat in somebody you trust
Or is it that we don't trust each other enough
And believe, havin this child'll make us have to stay together
Girl I want you in my life cause you have made it better
Thinkin we all in love cause we can spend a day together
We talkin spendin the rest of our lives
It's too many black women that can say they mothers
but can't say that they wives
I wouldn't chose any other to mother my understanding
But I want our Parenthood to come from Planning
It's so much in my life that's undone
We gotta see eye to eye, about family, before we can become one
If you had decided to have it the situation I wouldn't run from
But I'm walkin, findin myself in my God
So I can, discipline my son with my writin
Not have a judge tellin me how and when to raise my seed
Though his death was at our greed, with no one else to blame
I had a book of Afrikan names, case our minds changed
You say your period hasn't came, and lately I've been sleepy
So quit smokin the weed and the beadies and let's have this boy

[Lauryn Hill]
I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer
You said you would be here when it rained
You said you would be here when it rained
Ohh I, never dreamed you'd leave in summer
Now the situation's made things change
Things change
Why, didn't you stay
Why didn't you stay...
I, never dreamed you'd leave, in summer
In summer
You said you would be here when, it rained
When it rained, it rained
Ohhhohh I, never dreamed, you'd leave in summer
You said you wouldn't leave
Now the situation's made things change
Things change, why didn't you stay?
Stay, stay stay stay stay stay stay
Mmmmm, stayyy
Uh-uh
Ohh why didn't you stay..

Asta!!

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"I love music and it's my parents fault (closing statement)." - Me..quoting myself...from when I said that...On TFP..thats here...Tilted Forum Project

It ain't goodbye, it's see ya later! I'll miss you guys! - Asta!!

daydream

Ok well instead of giving you the lyrics to a whole song here are three quotes from songs that I love

"I Know a girl... she puts the color inside of my world" -John Mayer

"Airports see it all the time,
When someone's last goodbye
Blends in with someone's sigh
Cause someone's coming home,
In hand a single rose"
-John Mayer

"I dig my toes into the sand,
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket,
I lean against the wind,
pretend that I am weightless,
And in that moment I am happy
I wish you were here, I wish you were here
I lay my head onto the sand,
the sky looks like a backlit canopy with holes punched in it"
-Incubus-

__________________
"Can't help it if I space in a daze, my eyes tune out the other way... I may switch off and go in a daydream... in this head my thoughts are deep, Sometimes I can't even speak, would someone be and not pretend, I'm off again in my world"

filtherton

"I put my hand up on your hip
When i dip, you dip, we dip
Put your hand upon my hip
When you dip, i dip we dip"
-Freaknasty-

numberfive

Fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable, not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym, 3 days a week
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries at ease
Eating well, no more microwave dinners and saturated fats
A patient better driver, a safer car, baby smiling in back seat
Sleeping well, no bad dreams, no paranoia
Careful to all animals, never washing spiders down the plughole
Keep in contact with old friends, enjoy a drink now and then
Will frequently check credit at moral bank, hole in wall
Favors for favors, fond but not in love
Charity standing orders on sundays ring road supermarket
No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants
Car wash, also on sundays, no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate nothing so childish
At a better pace, slower and more calculated, no chance of escape
Now self-employed, concerned, but powerless
An empowered and informed member of society, pragmatism not idealism
Will not cry in public, less chance of illness, tires that grip in the wet
Shot of baby strapped in back seat, a good memory still cries at a good film
Still kisses with saliva, no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick
That's driven into frozen winter shit, the ability to laugh at weakness
Calm fitter, healthier and more productive a pig in a cage on antibiotics

-Radiohead, Fitter Happier

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P.S. Always remember: to forget is a form of suicide. (If I could only remember to forget myself.)

mrcraptastic

"Last Year's Nest"
By: Boy Sets Fire

Discontent in this life as is, our mechanisms deviate
Rust debrided inspires change, and leaves behind exhausted dreams -ignition engaged-
So save your wishes for the sky, diluted and disguised, as a perfect fuel that won't ignite
But hope will heal us all
Set to action our forward thought
To allocate and stabilize
The truth for so long can only hide
In shadows of our own design - amend and revise -
A wish will leave you empty handed (hope will provide)
Shun your responsibilities (and lead an empty life)
A dream alone will bear no seed (hope is alive)
And wishes will leave you dead and buried
Lost and forgotten
With your lives

Strange Famous

Nas - I Can


[Kids]
I know I can (I know I can)
Be what I wanna be (be what I wanna be)
If I work hard at it (If I work hard it)
I'll be where I wanna be (I'll be where I wanna be)

[Nas]
Be, B-Boys and girls, listen up
You can be anything in the world, in God we trust
An architect, doctor, maybe an actress
But nothing comes easy it takes much practice
Like, I met a woman who's becoming a star
She was very beautiful, leaving people in awe
Singing songs, Lina Horn, but the younger version
Hung with the wrong person
Gotta astrung when I heard when
Cocaine, sniffing up drugs, all in her nose
Coulda died, so young, no looks ugly and old
No fun cause when she reaches for hugs people hold they breath
Cause she smells of corrosion and death
Watch the company you keep and the crowd you bring
Cause they came to do drugs and you came to sing
So if you gonna be the best, I'ma tell you how

[Chorus - 2x (Nas and Kids)]
I know I can (I know I can)
Be what I wanna be (be what I wanna be)
If I work hard at it (If I work hard it)
I'll be where I wanna be (I'll be where I wanna be)

[Nas]
Be, B-Boys and girls, listen again
This is for grown looking girls who's only ten
The ones who watch videos and do what they see
As cute as can be, up in the club with fake ID
Careful, 'fore you meet a man with HIV
You can host the TV like Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you decide, be careful, some men be
Rapists, so act your age, don't pretend to be
Older than you are, give yourself time to grow
You thinking he can give you wealth, but so
Young boys, you can use a lot of help, you know
You thinkin life's all about smokin weed and ice
You don't wanna be my age and can't read and right
Begging different women for a place to sleep at night
Smart boys turn to men and do whatever they wish
If you believe you can achieve, then say it like this

[Chorus]

Save the music y'all, save the music y'all
Save the music y'all, save the music y'all
Save the music

[Nas]
Be, be, 'fore we came to this country
We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys
It was empires in Africa called Kush
Timbuktu, where every race came to get books
To learn from black teachers who taught Greeks and Romans
Asian Arabs and gave them gold when
Gold was converted to money it all changed
Money then became empowerment for Europeans
The Persian military invaded
They learned about the gold, the teachings and everything sacred
Africa was almost robbed naked
Slavery was money, so they began making slave ships
Egypt was the place that Alexander the Great went
He was so shocked at the mountains with black faces
Shot up they nose to impose what basically
Still goes on today, you see?
If the truth is told, the youth can grow
They learn to survive until they gain control
Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes
Read more learn more, change the globe
Ghetto children, do your thing
Hold your head up, little man, you're a king
Young Prince thats when you get your wedding ring
Your man is saying "She's my queen"

[Chorus]

forseti-6

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" Bob Dylan

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
By losers, cheaters
Six-time users *)
Hangin' 'round the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters

Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles

__________________
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

Robblee

Incubus
I miss you


I Miss You
To see you when I wake up
Is a gift I didn't think could be real
To know that you feel the same as I do
Is a three-fold utopian dream

You do something to me that I can't explain
So would I be out of line if I said
I miss you?

I see your picture
I smell your skin on the empty pillow next to mine
You have only been gone ten days
But already I'm wasting away
I know I'll see you again
Whether far or soon
But I need you to know that I care
And I miss you

KellyC

A Japanese song....

Artist: Hiroko Moriguchi
Title: Eternal Wind

japanese lyric

Maru de kanashimi no kakera da wa
Machi wo tozasu Garasu iro no yuki
Ashita wo sagasu hitomi sae mo
Kumorasete yuku no yami no kanata
Mishiranu chikara ni nagasarete
Kokoro ga dokoka e hagureteku
Harisakesou na mune no oku de
Kodou dake ga tashika ni ikite iru
Hikaru kaze no naka kikoete kuru anata no koe
"Pray don't break a peace forever"
sono kagayaki wo shinjite iru
<Instrumental>
Aoku kemuru suiheisen wo
Kono me wa mada oboete iru kara
Mabuta wo tojireba kaereru no
Atataka na jikan... omoidetachi...
Kurikaesu ayamachi ga itsumo
Orokana ikimono ni kaeteku
Kizutsuku dake no ikikata demo
Namida wa sou yo kesshite misenai wa
Hikaru kaze no naka hohoende iru anata ga iru
"Pray don't break a peace forever"
Sono mabushisa wo mitsumete iru
<Percussion Instrumental>
Hageshii itami wa dare no tame?
Sore ga yatto wakaru ki ga suru wa
Meguriaisou kiseki na no
Ikuoku no hoshi ga samayou sora
Sayonara ga oshiete kureta no
Anata no hontou no yasashisa
Dare yori mo daiji na hito da to
mune wo hatte ieru wa itsu no hi mo
Hikaru kaze no naka hohoende iru anata ga iru
"Pray don't break a peace forever"
Sono mabushisa wo mitsumete iru
"Pray don't break a peace forever"
Atsui hitomi ni yakitsukete
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Translated in English

From the nothingness comes a fragment of sorrow
That closes the roads with its glass-colored snow.
Even as my eyes search for a better tomorrow,
They become clouded by its darkness.
Somewhere, while flowing through an unknown power.
My heart has strayed off course
Now, the only certainty that I am still alive
Is the throbbing left from inside my open chest.
From inside the shining wind, I hear your voice calling to me.
Pray don't break a peace forever.
I hold my faith firm in the light.
<Instrumental>
Because my eyes can still remember
That azure smoking horizon from long ago.
If I close my eyelids,
I can return to those gentle times... to all those memories...
Each time they repeat a mistake,
Something changes in those who are foolish and naive.
Even if my life was only full of pains,
I will never show you my tears.
From inside the shining wind, you smile out to me.
Pray don't break a peace forever.
I cast my eyes into the dazzling radiance.
<Percussion Instrumental>
For whom is this great suffering for?
I finally am beginning to understand;
Stumbling into this wonderful chance meeting
After wandering among the millions of stars in space.
When in the end we said goodbye, I realized
That you really were a wonderful person.
If I truly am the most important person to you
Will you promise to mend my broken heart someday?
From inside the shining wind, you smile out to me.
Pray don't break a peace forever.
I cast my eyes into the dazzling radiance.
Pray don't break a peace forever.
The memories of you are burned into my blazing eyes.

read it line for line...

__________________
Him: Ok, I have to ask, what do you believe?
Me: Shit happens.

Super Model

Guns and Roses - Use Your Illusions 1
Bad Apples

Diamonds and fast cars
Money to burn
I got my head in the clouds
I got these thoughts to churn
Got my feet in the sand
I got a house on the hill
I got a headache like a mother
Twice the price of my thrills

An it's a cold day,
It's a continental drift
I said this traffic is hell
Can you give me a lift
An I'll try to paint a story
Got your pictures to tell
Yeah you got to make a living
With what you bring yourself to sell

I got some genuine
Imitation
Bad Apples
Free sample
For your peace o' mind
Only $9.95
I got my camera back from customs
Got my law fees up to date
Hell they musta seen me comin'
Ain't this life so fuckin' great


Chorus:
When the shit hit the fan
It was all I could stand
Yeah, well I'm a frequent flyer
My body's breathing while it can
But what I don't understand is that
My world ain't gettin' no brighter
If I could touch the sky
Well I would float on by
While everybody's talkin'
Hell I'm just another guy
If it were up to me
I'd say just leave me be
Why let one bad apple
Spoil the whole damn bunch

Gold and caviar
Now why'nt you pour my apathy
I'd have all my bases covered
If I could teach my hands to see

But now we're down in the deep end
Where they'd love to watch you drown
I said your laundry could use washing
We'll hang it up all over town

I said Hollywood's like a dryer
An we're down on Sunset Strip
An you'll be suckin' down the Clorox
'Til your life's all nice and crisp

Chorus..

monkeydriven

I could post hundreds of songs here....but this is the first one that popped into my head...particularly the line "all the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives choosing the shiny ones instead" so true....



Thumbing My Way - Pearl Jam


i have not been home since you left long ago
i'm thumbing my way back to heaven
counting steps, walking backwards on the road
i'm counting my way back to heaven
i can't be free with what's locked inside of me
if there was a key, you took it in your hand
there's no wrong or right, but i'm sure there's good and bad
the questions linger overhead
no matter how cold the winter, there's a springtime ahead
i'm thumbing my way back to heaven
i wish that i could hold you
i wish that i had
thinking 'bout heaven
i let go of a rope, thinking that's what held me back
and in time i've realized, it's now wrapped around my neck
i can't see what's next, from this lonely overpass
hang my head and count my steps, as another car goes past
all the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives
choosing the shiny ones instead
i turned my back, now there's no turning back
no matter how cold the winter, there's a springtime ahead
i smile, but who am i kidding?
i'm just walking the miles, every once in a while i'll get a ride
i'm thumbing my way back to heaven
thumbing my way back to heaven
i'm thumbing my way back to heaven...

__________________
you think i got my eyes closed but i've been lookin' at you the whole f&ckin' time...
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Posting from the home of the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox

CSflim

Well, three songs by Talking Heads spring immediately to mind!

Talking Heads - Seen and Not Seen
He would see faces in movies, on T.V., in magazines, and in books....
He thought that some of these faces might be right for him....And
that through the years, by keeping an ideal facial structure fixed in his
mind....Or somewhere in the back of his mind....That he might, by
force of will, cause his face to approach those of his ideal....The
change would be very subtle....It might take ten years or so....
Gradually his face would change it's shape....A more hooked nose...
Wider, thinner lips....Beady eyes....A larger forehead.

He imagined that this was an ability he shared with most other
people....They had also molded their faces according to some
ideal....Maybe they imagined that their new face would better
suit their personality....Or maybe they imagined that their
personality would be forced to change to fit the new appear-
ance....This is why first impressions are often correct...
Although some people might have made mistakes....They may have
arrived at an appearance that bears no relationship to them....
They may have picked an ideal appearance based on some childish
whim, or momentary impulse....Some may have gotten half-way
there, and then changed their minds.

He wonders if he too might have made a similar mistake.


Talking Heads - Heaven
Everyone is trying to get to the bar.
The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven.
The band in Heaven, they play my favorite song.
Play it once again, play it all night long.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

There is a party, everyone is there.
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.
When this party is over, it will start again
Will not be any different, it will be exactly the same

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

When this kiss is over it will start again.
It will not be any different, it will be exactly
the same.
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
could be so exciting, could be so much fun.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.



Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers
Here we stand
Like an Adam and an Eve
Waterfalls
The Garden of Eden
Two fools in love
So beautiful and strong
The birds in the trees
Are smiling upon them
From the age of the dinosaurs
Cars have run on gasoline
Where, where have they gone?
Now, it's nothing but flowers

There was a factory
Now there are mountains and rivers

We caught a rattlesnake
Now we got something for dinner

There was a shopping mall
Now it's all covered with flowers

If this is paradise
I wish I had a lawnmower

Years ago
I was an angry young man
I'd pretend
That I was a billboard
Standing tall
By the side of the road
I fell in love
With a beautiful highway
This used to be real estate
Now it's only fields and trees
Where, where is the town
Now, it's nothing but flowers
The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we'd start over
But I guess I was wrong

Once there were parking lots
Now it's a peaceful oasis

This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies

I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens

And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention

I dream of cherry pies,
Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies

We used to microwave
Now we just eat nuts and berries

This was a discount store,
Now it's turned into a cornfield

Don't leave me stranded here
I can't get used to this lifestyle

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Untitled

Anna Begins by Counting Crows

My friend assures me it’s all or nothing
I am not worried- I am not overly concerned
My friend implores me for one time only,
Make an exception. I am not not worried
Wrap her up in a package of lies
Send her off to a coconut island
I am not worried - I am not overly concerned
With the status of my emotions
Oh, she says, we're changing.
But we're always changing
It does not bother me to say this isn’t love
Because if you don’t want to talk about it then it isn’t love
And I guess I’m going to have to live that
But, I’m sure there’s something in a shade of gray
Or something in between
And I can always change my name if that’s what you mean

My friend assures me it’s all or nothing`
But I am not really worried
I am not overly concerned
You try to tell your self the things you try tell yourself to make yourself forget
To make yourself forget
I am not worried
If it’s love she said, then were gonna have to think about the consequences
She can’t stop shaking and I can't stop touching her and.....

This time when kindness falls like rain
It washes her away and Anna begins to change her mind
These seconds when I’m shaking leave me shuddering for days she says.
And I’m not ready for this sort of thing
But I’m not gonna break
And I’m not going to worry about it anymore
I’m not gonna bend and I’m not gonna break and I'm not gonna worry about it anymore

It seems like I should say as long as this is love...
But it’s not all that easy so maybe I should just
Snap her up in a butterfly net-
Pin her down on a photograph album
I am not worried
I’ve done this sort of thing before
But then I start to think about the consequences
Because I don’t get no sleep in a quiet room and...

The time when kindness falls like rain
It washes me away and Anna begins change my mind
And every time she sneezes I believe it’s love
And oh lord.... I’m not ready for this sort of thing
She's talking in her sleep- it's keeping me awake
And Anna begins to toss and turn
And every word is nonsense but I understand it and
Oh lord, I m not ready for this sort of thing

Her kindness bangs a gong
It’s moving me along and Anna begins to fade away
It s chasing me away.
She disappears, and oh lord I’m not ready for this sort of thing

BoomTruck

The Bottle Rockets- Gotta Get Up

Gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home and I gotta go to bed,
cause I gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home, gotta go to bed
cause I gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home and I gotta go to bed
cause I gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home, gotta go to bed
cause I gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home, gotta go to bed
So I can sleep my 2 days off away, and do it all over again


Gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home, gotta go to bed,
cause I gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home, gotta go to bed
cause I gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home and I gotta go to bed
cause I gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home, gotta go to bed
cause I gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home, gotta go to bed
So I can sleep my 2 days off away, and do it all over again

(guitar solo)

Gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home and I gotta go to bed,
cause I gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home, gotta go to bed
cause I gotta get up, gotta go to work, then I come home, gotta go to bed

So I can sleep my 2 days off away, do it all over again
So I can sleep my 2 days off away, do it all over again
So I can sleep my 2 days off away, do it all over again

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Judge me all you want, but keep the verdict to yourself.

DownwardSpiral

"She seemed dressed in all of me, stretched across my shame.
All the torment and the pain
Leaked through and covered me
Id do anything to have her to myself
Just to have her for myself
Now I dont know what to do, I dont know what to do when she makes me sad.

She is everything to me
The unrequited dream
A song that no one sings
The unatainable, Shes a myth that I have to believe in
All I need to make it real is one more reason
I dont know what to do, I dont know what to do when she makes me sad.

But I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me

I catch in my throat
Choke, torn into pieces-i won't
No, I dont want to be this

But I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me

She isnt real
I can make her real
She isnt real
I can make her real"

-- Slipknot, 'Vermillion, Pt.2', from Vol.3 - The Subliminal Verses

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"So Keep on Pretending.
Our Heavens Worth the Waiting.
Keep on Pretending.
It's Alright."

-- H.I.M., "Pretending"

Derwood

Ralph Covert - Fools Will Try

Let your light shine from your heart
And the world will see you for who you are
Fill your words with all that you mean
And the world will light its way with your dreams

And don't let them drag you down, though fools will try
Be cool and strong
Be true to the truth you've found
Though fools will try to bring you down

And if you fall don't feel that you failed
You'll always find your feet again
And if you rise with a smile on your face
The world will marvel at your grace

And don't let them drag you down, though fools will try
Be cool and strong
Be true to the truth you've found
Though fools will try to bring you down

Fools will try to break your heart
Just remember who you are

Fill your life with all you believe
Your friends will light their way with your dreams

And don't let them drag you down, though fools will try
Be cool and strong
Be true to the truth you've found
Though fools will try to bring you down

But let your light shine from your heart
And the world will see you for who you are



Ralph Covert - Adam McCarthy

Lit a cigarette and smiled, alone in the kitchen
It's all been more trouble than it's worth for Adam McCarthy

Made a long-distance call, talked for an hour
Dying at 33...Adam McCarthy

And what about growing old, getting drunk, getting mad at your lover?
What about making time for yourself?
What have I done to deserve watching a friend waste away?
And what about waking up, feeling good, acting like you're immortal?
What about having a moment to lose?
And what about having a place in the world?

The doctor says "Hope, hope is the answer."
But he means that he's run out of tricks for Adam McCarthy

So I sat by his bed while he showed me his pictures
The candles, the cake, and the two sunken eyes of Adam McCarthy

And what about growing old, getting drunk, getting mad at your lover?
What about making time for yourself?
What have I done to deserve watching a friend waste away?
And what about waking up, feeling good, acting like you're immortal?
What about having a moment to lose?
And what about having a place in the world?

And I wanted to cry
But I could see he was hungry for laughter
And I wanted to say that I understood
But how can you lie to a friend?

He smiled and said "Do you want to get high?
It's not like it's gonna kill me.
I'm almost as dead as I'll get." said Adam McCarthy

So we stared into space, lost in our own worlds
And I said I'd come back when I could,
but I never did make it

And what about growing old, getting drunk, getting mad at your lover?
What about making time for yourself?
What have I done to deserve watching a friend waste away?
And what about waking up, feeling good, acting like you're immortal?
What about having a moment to lose?
And what about having a place in the world?
What about Adam McCarthy?

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"You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel

Derwood

One more:

Ralph Covert - Jack Dark (Space Assassin)

He whipped his micro-polyphonic laser pistol out
And blew away the evil cyborg from Alpha Centauri
(Alpha Centauri)
He jumped into his waiting space ship
Blasted off at the speed of light
It’s a wicked wicked universe but Jack Dark always does alright
He’s in orbit ‘round the second moon
Of a fiery planet called Hell’s Bath
Going down to drink his fill in the bars and brothels
(bars and brothels)
He stands seven two and his eyes of blue
Are as striking as his skin of green
He smiles as sweet as whiskey
But he’s really just a death machine
Well Agamemnon the Martian Dwarf
Smuggled drugs in his turbo-spacer
With his body-odor bodyguard Billy the Camel
(Billy the Camel)
When Jack Dark walked into the room
Agamemnon was waiting there
Took one last shot of ethyl-methyl-gin and drew his gun
Chorus:

Is this the end for Jack Dark the space assassin?
Secret agent of the interplanetary wars
Is this the end for Jack Dark the true crusader?
Darling of the ladies all the way to Sirius Four
Jack Dark

As Agamemnon raised his laser pistol for the kill
Jack Dark smashed him to the floor
Like a watermelon (a watermelon)
Billy the Camel turned and ran like thunder through the door
Leaving behind the smell of rotting fish and apples
There was drinking to be done after the barmaid mopped the mess
There was a rendezvous with an agent
Who had secret orders (secret orders)
In a hieroglyphic drug-induced kaleidoscopic trance
He lit a syntho-cigarette and did a funky lunar dance
Shiva was a goddess who had ruled upon the Nile
She had seven breasts and fourteen arms and a movie actress smile
When Jack Dark started dancing she said “It’s my wedding day!”
And with fourteen arms and seven breasts she carried him away
Chorus
In a zero-gravity waterbed with a quadrophonic whale quartet
He unslung his long green love machine for
The golden goddess (the golden goddess)
As Shiva came old Billy the Camel burst in with a dozen thugs
But Jack Dark shot ‘em with one hand
While he was taking Shiva there again
Duty called he had a secret mission to fulfill
He tipped his hat and tucked her in
And stepped over the bodies (over the bodies)
With a flash of sulphur smoke his spaceship shot into the night
It’s a wicked wicked universe but Jack Dark always does alright ...
Chorus

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"You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel

cameroncrazy822

Live-

"I don't need no one to tell 'bout heaven, all I have to do is look at my daughter and I believe."

I know I butchered it but it struck me a a really powerful emotionally loaded lyric. In my case it's my son.

Live has great lyrics and are a great band in my opinion.

CheeseButtons

Radiohead -
"I'm not living, I'm just killing time"

The Offspring -
"The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care, right? yeah!"

Radford -
"Have you ever needed someone else, and the feeling never fadees? Have you ever had it pulled away, until there's nothing left to take?"

Tonic -
"Love is color, Love is loud, Love is never saying you're too proud, Love is trusting, Love is honest, Love is not a hand that holds you down."

Sense Field -
"Cuz I want to learn
How you save yourself
For someone who
Could love you for you
So many times we just give it away
To someone who couldn’t even remember your name
Did you save yourself
For someone who loves you for you
And loves me for me
Give it away
To someone who
Someone who
Can cherish your name"

"All of the ways I wish I could have shown you
All of the things I want you to know by now
All of the ways I wish I could protect you
From all the things that you learned on your own somehow

These ugly places I don't want you to see
These smiling faces I don't want you to meet
Their hands extended out holding a knife behind their backs"

Revis -
"How heavy the sky was outside of my windows
And from the inside I watched it go by
With all that I've got to reach back to remember
The things I fought, so hard with each thought
Then your voice returns until every word burns the walls
I tried to keep you outside, you're part of me now
But you're not around"

Downface -
"Confidence I always used to know exactly how to feel
but now I have no
Confidence It all seems jumbled in my mind
But that's why I'm
Thinking of the times I had
Wondering If I will ever again
Running Circles in my head
Wondering If I'll ever love again
Yet I need this"

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Sorrow is better than laughter,
because a sad face is good for the heart. -Ecclesiastes 7:3