In the black sky thunder sweeping under
Ground and over water, sounds of
Crying, weeping will not save your
Faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave when
Stone is dust and only air remains

- The Sisters of Mercy, "Temple of Love"

again and again it comes
I cannot move fast enough
blow after blow, taking me down

the darkness engulfs me
I feel like I'm falling
just like the damned, I'll never be found

You and your hate and your violence, they bury me
bury me alive
I fight for each breath, but you beat the wind out of me
bury me alive

Screaming the agony
trying to break away
hair and flesh burn, destroying my soul

crying for mercy now
falling on deaf ears
I'm just a child, leave me alone


Mark Breton, 2003

She said with a grin,
As she wiped off her chin...


The Newlydeads

"now I don't know but I been told it's hard to run with the weight of gold, other hand I heard it said it's just as hard with the weight of lead "
- Grateful Dead, Workingman's Dead

"There really isn't a dark side, you know. It's all dark"
- Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon

"I'm Popeye the sailor man"
- Popeye

"There's gonna be a lot of slow singin and flower bringin if my burgular alarm starts ringin" Biggie. RIP

"juiced in it"

bob dylan, like a rolling stone

Which one of all you motherfuckers drank my fucking Koolaid!

- Down

"and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" Beatles, Abbey Road

"I fucked the Queen, I fucked Bach, I've even sucked that old man's cock, SO WHAT?
I fucked a sheep, I fucked a goat, I rammed my cock right down its throat, SO WHAT?" -Metallica

Without giving it much thought...

I'll lean on you and
you lean on me and
we'll be okay

-- Dave Matthews

shit,blood and cum on my hands

-stinkfist-Tool

Disturbing and strangely funny at the same time!!

My fav is from a Tool song on Opiate called "Jerk Of"


If consequences dictate our course of action then it dosn't matter whats right. It's only wrong if you get cought.

Blue October - Calling You

Well I will be calling you to see,
if you're sleepin' are you dreamin',
if you're dreamin' are you dreamin' of me?

I can't get this line and melody out of my head, but it makes me smile fondly and remember

I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house i don't know why i call him gerald.

Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) - Bike

"I need to wash myself again to hide all the the dirt and pain"

Radiohead - The Bends

"When it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, is just a freight-train coming your way"

-Metallica, No Leaf Clover

"I'm drivin' a hearse full of bikini clad girls/
doin' donuts in your drum circle/
welcome to cex world!"

Cex - Stamina

Pantera - strength beyond strength

There is nothing. No education. No family life to open my
Arms to. You'd say that my job is today, yet gone tomorrow.
I'll be broke in a gutter.
I know the opinion. A broken record. Fuck you and your
College dream. Fact is, we're stronger than all.
You're working for perfect bodies, perfect minds and perfect
Neighbors. But I'm helping to legalize dope on
Your pristine streets and I'm making a fortune.
You're muscle and gall. Naive at best. I'm bone, brain and
Cock. Deep down stronger than all.
A sad state of affairs. A crippled America. A pipe dream
Buttfucked. Immune. Stronger than all.
A lament for a rookie officer, punk ass weak little lamb.
For the mob, truly, does rule at this particular time.
We've grown into a monster. An arrogant, explosive motherfuck.
Hard as a rock. Shut like a lock.
Finally, the president in submission. He holds out his hand on
Your television and draws back a stump. It's too late for some.
Far too late.
No more holdbacks. No more paying a cops paycheck. Let him
Bust his own child. The son that heeds my word and smokes my dope.
The daughter that sucks me off and snorts cheap anything.
Hail Kings. The new Kings. Stronger than all.
A simple process to legalize. There would not be a choice but to
Take our side. Be there no question of certain strengths. Know
This intention. Forever stronger than all.

Some people tell me that I need help.
Some people can fuck off and go to hell!

Best use of swearing in any song. Ever.

Cypress Hill. Illusions.

"she bangs like a shithouse door in the wind"

corris flinch - sex

"Scream at me, and if you like,
throw your hate at me, with all your might.
Hit me because I'm strange, hit me.
Tell me I'm a pussy and you're harder than me.
What's with you boy? Think hard...
A tattooed body to hide who you are.
Scared to be honest, be yourself.
A cowardly man."
Clown-KoRn

lets swim to the moon lets climb through the tide - the doors - moonlight drive

iv been wallowing in my own chaotic insecure delusion - tool - 46&2

I got stopped by a lady of cop in my automobile
she said get out and spread thos legs
then she tried to cop a feel
that cop she was all dressed in blue
Was she pretty?
boy I'm tellin you
she stuck my but with her big black stick
i said what's up now suck my dick
- RHCP - sir syco sexy

Desperately waiting on something else more than nothing.
I’ve been here forever waiting just to see your hands.
If you hear me cry, It’s just something I’m always doing.
Desperately waiting this wait, I hope
it’ll be over soon. - Dead poetic - burgundy

The way you fucked his life
is that your big disguise
i swear
were not running naked - glassjaw - ry ry's song

here i lay
still and breathless
just liek always
still i want some more - deftones - passenger

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 this moment I am happy...happy
I wish you were here
I lay my head into the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it
I'm counting UFO's
I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy...happy
I wish you were here
The world's a roller coaster and I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care but my hands are busy in the air

-Wish you were here - Incubus

Meanwhile back in the year One,
when you belonged to no-one,
you didn't stand a chance son,
if your pants were undone.
'Cause you were bred for humanity
and sold to society
one day you'll wake up
in the Present Day
a million generations removed from expectations of being who you really want to be.
Skating away, skating away,
skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
So as you push off from the shore,
won't you turn your head once more
and make your peace with everyone?
For those who choose to stay,
will live just one more day
to do the things they should have done.
And as you cross the wilderness,
spinning in your emptiness:
you feel you have to pray.
Looking for a sign that the Universal Mind has written you into the Passion Play.
Skating away, skating away,
skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.

And as you cross the circle line,
the ice-wall creaks behind
you're a rabbit on the run.
And the silver splinters fly
in the corner of your eye
shining in the setting sun.
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like you're the only person sitting in the audience?
Skating away, skating away,
skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
Skating away, skating away , skating away

Skating away on the thin ice of a new day - Jethro Tull

As Brother Barry said
when he married Marion,
a wife must have three attributes;
intelligence a swiss army knife and charm
The Warmest Room
Billy Bragg

fuck you, I won't do what you tell me (x16) .
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name

It's not the books that I read.
It's not the movies I see,
It's not the the music I dig,
I'm just a Wicked young man.

-Wicked Young Man-Alice Cooper

C'mon guys, Alice is the Man.

...And in thirty seconds time she said
I want to live like common people
I want to do what ever common people do
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like you
What else could I do?
I said I'll see what I can do.

Pulp - Common People

All you pretty womens
Stand in line
I'll make love to ya woman
In an hours time.

Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy

I just found me a bottle of blues
Some strange comfort for a soul to sooth
ain't it hard, ain't it hard
to love somebody who doesn't want me

Like a tired soldier with nothing to shoot
and nowhere to lose these bottle of blues

Beck - Bottle of Blues

<i>Mommies, I've been stealing your babies
I gag the brat and then maybe...
I'll suck out his brain
You know those dead kids,
They're making me feel almost hard
Go get one from the school yard
He bled like a stuck pig!</i>

<b>GWAR</b> - Have You Seen Me?

<i>Run far away from what you have created.
You have created this drama.
Dancing around the truth.
My God rain down power.
My God rain down fire.
War.
With these diamonds you cut your throat.
Code red.
Cut throat victim.
The outside looks so good.
It is so simple and yet they don't find.
It is so simple and yet they don't mind.
They tradegy is the ignorance behind the clean casket.
On the outside they look so good.
They are walking to wall street in a straight jacket.</i>

<b>Norma Jean</b> - I Used to Hate Cell Phones, But Now I Hate Car Accidents

"These communities are sacked with impunity
by jackbooted stooges with immunity,
Soon to be distorted and contorted when the story gets reported
and I'm foolish enough to still think that it's important."

2 Skinnee J's - Freedom

If anyone has ever heard of The Mentors, their music takes the cake.... If you haven't heard of them, they were number 2 on Tipper Gore's list in the eighties? I can't see why...

Mother and daughter, doing what the otter...

My woman from Sodom, she lets me put it, in her bottom...

I'm a peeping, i'm a peeping tom, I'm a peeping, i'm a peeping on your mom....

I could go on for hours, well a few more minutes anyway

I pushed my seed into her bush for life
It's gonna work 'cause I'm pushing it right
If my baby dropped my girl tonight
I would name her rock and roll

The Roots

You got a one way ticket
On your last chance ride
Gotta one way ticket
To your suicide
Gotta one way ticket
And there's no way out alive

G'nR - Coma

"So I pulled on her hair, got her legs in the air, and asked if she had any cooties in there..."

Frank Zappa
Dinah Moe Hum

favorite song lines
 

"You talk, talk, talk, about suffering and pain,
your mouth is bigger than your entire brain,
what the hell do you know about suffering and pain?
you dumbfuck.
Capitalism by Oningo Boingo

". . . or am I origami, fold me up and just pretend,
demented as the motives in your head."
Inside Outside by Eve 6

"This cat was flying through with the greatest of ease,
all of a sudden he missed the trapeze.
down and down, down and down,
kersplatty, on the ground.
Come and see where Mondello did land,
the poor fellow is in the lords hands.
oh me oh my, what a shame,
nothing left, just a stain."
The Rise and Fall of the Great Mondello by Royal Crown Review

"Kapag babae may bigote,
Ito ang lalake."
Salawikain by Apo Hiking Society (filipino pop band)

rolling down rodeo with a shotgun, these people aint seen a brown skinned man since their grandparents bought one

-- down rodeo, ratm

The sunshine bores the daylights out of me....

Rocks Off, The Rolling Stones


baby tie your hair up in a pretty white bow,
and meet me in the field, out behind the dynamo
you hear their voices telling you not to go,
well they made their choices, and they'll never know
what it means to steal, to cheat, to lie
what it's like to live and die....

Prove It All Night, Bruce Springsteen


My name's Stuart Ransom Miller, I'm a serial lady killer
She said I'm already dead, that's exactly what she said....

Barrier Reef, The Old 97's

I'll climb that hill in my own way.. just wait around for the right day - PF

Can't you see I'm easily bothered by persistence
One step from lashing out at you...
You want in to get under my skin
And call yourself a friend
I've got more friends like you
What do I do?

(Pre) Is there no standard anymore?
What it takes, who I am, where I've been
Belong
You can't be something you're not
Be yourself, by yourself
Stay away from me
A lesson learned in life
Known from the dawn of time

(Chorus)

Respect, walk

Run your mouth when I'm not around
It's easy to achieve
You cry to weak friends that sympathize

Can you hear the violins playing your song?
Those same friends tell me your every word

(Pre)

(Chorus)

Are you talking to me?
No way punk

This whole song is awesome. If you like powerful vocal performances, even if you're not a Queensryche fan, find a copy and give it a listen.
---------------------------
When I fell from grace
I never realized
how deep the flood was around me.
A man whose life was toil
was like a kettle left to boil,
and the water left scars on me.

I know now who I am.
If only for a while,
I recognize the changes.
I feel like I did before the
magic wore thin and the "baptism
of stains" began.

They used to say I was
nowhere, man,
heading down
was my destiny.
But yesterday, I swear,
that was someone else not me.

Here I stand at the crossroads edge,
afraid to reach out for eternity,
One step, when I look down,
I see someone else not me.

Looking back and I see
someone else.

All my life they said I
was going down,
but I'm still standing,
stronger, proud.
And today I know there's
so much more I can be.

From where I stand at the crossroads edge,
there's a path leading out to sea.
And from somewhere
deep in my mind,
sirens sing out loud
songs of doubt
as only they know how.
But one glance back reminds, and I see,
someone else not me.

I keep looking back
at someone else... me?
-------------------------------
"Someone Else?" - Queensryche from "Promised Land"
--
Lexbaby

gradually
we became aware
of a hum in the room
an electrical hum in the room
it went mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Changing Opinions by Philip Glass & Paul Simon

i was always fond of "i think you're blind to the fact that the hand you hold is the hand that holds you down" from "everything to everyone" by Everclear. good band

BulletBob, I think this is one of the most thought provoking pieces I have heard in a long time.

___________________________________________________
My favourites?
In random order...

Dennis Leary: "I'm an asshole" (also track title)

Steve Earl/Copperhead road:
"Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge
Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge
Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side
Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
Well him and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumblin' sound"

Mental as anything/ Nips are getting bigger....
"Started out, just drinkin' beer
I didn't know how or why
Or what I was doin' there
Just a couple more
Made me feel a little better"...."Sometimes I wonder
What all these chemicals
Are doin' to my brain
Doesn't worry me enough
To stop me from doin' it agai-ai-ain
Wipin' out brain cells
By the millions but I don't care "



More than a line, but down-load them and you will understand!

OH I just remembered another... Paul simon/50 ways to leave your lover:
"Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan
Don't need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus, don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free"

girl you've got to know when it's time to turn the page
when you're only wet, because of the rain

Northern Lad - Tori Amos

"But she never lost her head
Even when she was given head"

Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side

"I looked into your eyes and saw... a world that does not exist. I looked into your eyes and saw... a world I wish I was in." - from "Touched" by Vast

"Sometimes I park in handicap spaces,
while handicap people
make handicap faces.
I'm an asshole...."
Dennis Leary - I'm an Asshole

Why leave me hanging on a star
When you deem me so high
When you deem me so high
when you deem me so high
And why leave me sailing in a sea
When you hear me so clear
When you hear me so clear
When you hear me so clear
And why leave me hanging on a star
When you deem me so high
When you deem me so high
When you deem me so high

Nick Drake - Hanging on a Star

"The grass is always greener where the dogs are shitting"
I think this one's from Outshined as well


"Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"
Rush - Anthem

to all the nanny ogg fans out there...

'' you can bugger a bear
if you do it with care,
in winter when hes
asleep in his lair,
but whether you do it in spring or in fall,
the hedgehog can never be buggered at all''

Lit - "Miserable"
"You make me cum, you make me complete, you make me completely miserable."

Mr. T Experience - "Even Hitler had a Girlfriend"
"He was the worst guy ever, reviled and despised even Hitler had a girlfriend so why can't I?"

Doctor says, "Take this, it'll settle you down".
Doctor says, "Take this, it'll settle your system".
Doctor says, "Take this, we'll settle the bill".
Doctor says, "Take this, it'll settle the score".


- From "The Ambitions Are" by the Golden Palominos

Rock over London
Rock over Chicago

- Wesley Willis

Midnight Oil - - - - -Its better to die on you feet than live on your knees


All time favourite




Ta

but she only cums when shes on top,....... laid by james

Birds flip a dozen, chicks is dicks they suckin'
Swallow my kids, go and kiss they cousin
Yes, they kissing cousins, toys kissing muppets
Worst then that, they go home and kiss they husband
That shit's disgusting
Keep the chickens clucking, keep the pigeons buggin' - Cam'ron

just like today.......

Ticking away,the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way

time-floyd

"When it's my moment in the sun, oh how beautiful I'll be"

-- Clem Snide, 'Moment in the Sun'

"Can't you see? It's not me you're dying for."

-- Ben Folds Five, 'Brick'

"There's a skeleton in everybody's closet.
I can think of one or two in my own room.
But I would like to introduce them both to you;
shake their bony hands and so dispell the gloom."

-- Crash Test Dummies, 'The Ghosts that Haunt Me'

Wow!! 4 pages and I can't believe my favorites haven't been listed so far.

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" - Rush "Freewill"

"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then" Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band "Against the Wind"

And I can't pick out just one line in this song, so the whole thing gets listed:

She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I stared too long
I'd probably break down and cry

She's got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I hate to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me
of a warm safe place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly pass me by

Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine"

Steal your face right off your head - Dead, "He's Gone"

"Walk in my shoes,
and hurt your feet.
Then know why I,
do dirt in the street."
DMX
The Greatest Rapper Alive

"Hey you, dont help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight."

-Pink Floyd, Hey You

"Fuck this and Fuck that! Fuck it all you Fuckers! Fucking Brat!"

- Sex Pistols "Bodies"

"They one person, they two alone, they are three together, they are for each other."

- CSN - "Heplessly Hoping"

Beware the fisherman who's casting out his line
into a dried-up riverbed, but don't try to tell him
cause he won't believe you.
Throw some bread to the ducks instead
it's easier that way.

Heathaze - Genesis

"I don't know what's cool any more
Who am I to say
If you can't make that decision on your own
Then you're pretty fucking dumb any way."

- Pulley, "One Shot"

"You are so majestic, so skillful
In the way that you make me sick
You are the perfect one
The only one for you"

- Shihad, now known as Pacifier, "Leo Song"

"When they stand up, stand up
When they light up, light up
Standing in line
Left alone in your mind
You're too cool to touch"

- Pacifier, "Just a Shadow"

"And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If anything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again"

- Foo Fighters, "Everlong"

"So
So you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail
A smile from a veil
Do you think you can tell"

- Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here"

"Oh now feel it coming back again
Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
Forces pulling from the center of the earth again
I can feel it"

- Live, "Lightning Crashes"

"im gonna smash out every window in your S.U.V, why the hell do you need one of those things for driving in the city." - Jaya the Cat.. "wilderness"

"the confusion sets in before the doctor can even close the door" -live

now thats some real stuff

We thought that we had the answers
It was the questions we had wrong
- U2, 11 o'clock tick tock

I remember hating you for loving me
- Berlin, The Metro

Greed, gluttony, pride, envy, wrath, sloth, death, deadly seven
Seven deadly sins of mine

On every street
And corner lie
These seven deadly sins of mine

"Seven" Hidden Treasures LP - Megadeth

Mudvayne - The End of All Things To Come

...and then when the whole world is dead, there's your fucking peace.

"Do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damned real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage and it seems like you're the only person sitting in the audience...?"
- Jethro Tull, Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day

"Send me dead flowers every morning,
Send me dead flowers by the mail,
Say it with dead flowers at my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave"
- Stones, Dead Flowers

"When it's my moment in the sun, oh how beautiful I'll be"
- Clem Snide, Moment in the Sun

"She's got eyes of the bluest skies, as if they thought of rain"
-GN'R, Sweet Child O' Mine

"'The only thing I'll ever ask of you - you've got to promise not to stop when I say when,' she sang"
- Foo Fighters, Everlong

"On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turned back time, you go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime"
- Al Stewart, Year of the Cat

"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces"
- Pink Floyd, One of These Days

"P.S. Mom and Dad, this is Chasey... Chasey, this is my Mom and Dad. Now show 'em them titties"
- Bloodhound Gang, Ballad of Chasey Lain

"The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways. Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays"
- Bruce Springsteen, Thunder Road

"And all this crass communication that has left you in the cold
Isn't much for consolation when you feel so weak and old"
- GN'R, Coma

"You got your bitches with the silicone injections
Crystal meth and yeast infections
Bleached blond hair, collagen lip projections
Who are you to criticize my intentions?
Got your subtle manipulative devices,
Just like you I got my vices
I got a thought that would be nice...
I'd like to crush your head tight in my vice- PAIN!!"
- GN'R - Get in the Ring

"Just because you're winnin' don't mean you're the lucky one"
- GN'R, Breakdown

"I know this chick she lives down on Melrose
She ain't satisfied without some pain
Friday night is goin' up inside her...again
Well crack the whip
'Cause that bitch is just insane"
- GN'R, Pretty Tied Up

(ok, I'll stop with the GN'R haha)

"so rage, please rage, against me
beat me down, beat me down, forgive me
for what I've done, I'm so lame"
- 7 Mary 3, Lame

"I have no fear of falling
But I hate hitting the ground"
- Badlees, Fear of Falling

"Mom said 'sell it to the circus, what the heck.'
Dad said, 'nope, this one's a pencil-neck'"
- Fred Blassie, Pencil-Neck Geek

"she shadows me in the mirror, she never leaves on the light
and some things that I say to her just don't seem to bite"
- The Cars, All Mixed Up

"Sheila rides on crashing nightingale
intake eyes leave passing vapor trails
With blushing brilliance, alive,
because it's time to arrive"
- Smashing Pumpkins, To Sheila

"I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me"
- Cheap Trick, I Want You to Want Me

"Two kinds of people in this world - winners, losers
I lost my power in this world 'cause I did not use it."
- Lindsey Buckingham, Go Insane

"I pick up my smile and put it in my pocket
Hold it for a while, try not to have to drop it
Men are not to cry, so how am I supposed to stop it?
Keep it all inside... don't show how much she rocked you"
- Blues Traveler, The Mountains Win Again

With apologies to Jeff Lynne -- after I started thinking about this, I can't get it out of my head.



"I'll probably feel a whole lot better when you're gone"
- Byrds, Feel A Whole Lot Better

"She gives me her cheek, oh but I want her lips
and I don't have the strength to go
On the lost side of town in a dark apartment...
we gave up trying so long ago"
- Dave Alvin, Fourth of July

"Take off, it's a beauty way to go"
- Geddy Lee, Take Off

"He said I'd find out soon; I've got too much Saturn and not enough Moon"
- Francis Dunnery, Too Much Saturn

"I'm sick of hearing about sadness, I'm sick of violent crime
I'm sick of angry, militant, lesbian feminists
I'm sick of imperfect rhyme."
- Kevin Gilbert, When You Give Your Love to Me

"Goodness gracious, is there nothing left to say?
When the ones that get to keep looking are the ones who look away.
It's pabulum for the sleepers in the cult of brighter days."
- Kevin Gilbert, Goodness Gracious

"masque of goodness and of grace the blood of angels made to face the horror of the naked truth is only what you make it do the things you want to do complete the animal that has to eat the innocent are left to bear the blame we'll never have to wear them masque of honor Liebens born of darkness brothers we are sworn you make us strong when we are weak you are the only truth we seek you only to forget the hollow men we have become your followers so lead us now to paradise we'll never have to wear them masque of goodness and of grace..."
- Kevin Gilbert, Shadow Self

"20 times I've tried to tell you, 20 times I've cried alone.
Always, I'm surprised how well you cut my feelings to the bone."
- Lowen & Navarro, We Belong

"If I was to buy you a diamond ring
and make you my princess, would it mean anything?
Would you take me for granted and just curse my name?"
- John Mellencamp, Now More than Ever

"Last night I told a stranger all about you
He smiled patiently with disbelief
I always knew you would succeed no matter what you tried
and I know you did it all in spite of me"
- Morphine, In Spite of Me

"They all hate us anyhow, so let's drop the big one now"
- Randy Newman, Political Science

"Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights its way back to your side"
- Whiskeytown, 16 Days

"Don't surround yourself with yourself, move on back two squares"
- Yes, I've Seen All Good People

"Sing, bird of prey;
Beauty begins at the foot of you."
- Yes, Siberian Khatru

"We're still building then burning down love
And when I go there, I go there with you..."
U2- Where the Streets Have No Name

"Can't this car go any faster?
Can't this car go cause I can still see where I am."
- Dada, Dim

"In this life I’ve seen everything I can see woman,
I’ve seen lovers flying through the air hand in hand
I’ve seen babies dancing in the midnight sun,
And I’ve seen dreams that came from the heavenly skies above
I’ve seen old men crying at their own gravesides
And I’ve seen pigs all sitting watching picture slides
But I never seen nothing like you."
- The Move, Do Ya

"With the dark, I see so very clearly now
All my fears are drifting by me so slowly now
...fading away"
- Genesis, Follow You, Follow Me

Here's a couple:

Take two people - romantic
Smoky nightclub situation
Your cigarette traces a ladder
-Roxy Music (2hb)

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above
-Bruce Springsteen (Tunnel of Love)

He's got this dream about buyin' some land
He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
-Gerry Rafferty (Baker Street)

Hey man where'd you get that lotion?
-Iggy Pop (Lust For Life)

I gotta stop drinking around men
-Rapeman (Trouser Minnow)

Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in
-Bob Seger (Night Moves)

Would you rather have a Lexus? or justice? a dream? or some substance?
A Beamer? a necklace? or freedom?
-Dead Prez (Hip Hop)

Then it hit me oh please god no
Don't let this ho turn out to be a john doe
-Pharcyde (Oh Shit)

You see just beneath the surface of the mud,
There's more mud here...
Surprise.
-Crosby, Stills & Nash (Anything at All)


This should cheer you up for sure
See, I've got your old I.D.
And you're all dressed up like The Cure
-Ben Folds Five (Battle of Who Could Care Less)

I've been thinking some of suicide
But there's bars out here for miles
-Ryan Adams (Dear Chicago)

I live by the sword
I take my bouys everywhere I go because I'm paranoid
-Geto Boys(Mind Playing Tricks On Me)

They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
-Steely Dan (Deacon Blues)

Good call! From the same song, I've always loved:

"I cried when I wrote this song,
sue me if I play too long"

People of today just don't know how to dress
They don't seem to care, they are looking a mess
Scruffy looking t-shirts torn up jeans
Dress hard, dress smart - they don't know what it means

WE DRESS HARD, WE DRESS SMART
DON'T WANNA LOOK LIKE NO TRENDY TART
WE DRESS HARD, WE DRESS SMART
DON'T WANNA LOOK LIKE YOU

I don't wanna look lik no hippy punk
And I don't wanna wear your trendy junk
Coz I take pride in dressing smart
I know what I'm doing, I just follow my heart

WE DRESS HARD, WE DRESS SMART
DON'T WANNA LOOK LIKE NO TRENDY TART
WE DRESS HARD, WE DRESS SMART
DON'T WANNA LOOK LIKE YOU

You know nothing till you know how it feels
To put on a Sherman, walk on Marten heels
It's the ultimate feeling I can happily sigh
If you've got any sense you ought to give it a try

- "Dress Hard, Dress Smart" by the Clockwork Crew.

I don't pretend to know what you want, but I offer love
-Crowded House, from "Distant Sun"

That band put out a few true lyrical gems.

"The photograph kills and your fame will destroy you
tryin' to find a place to rest will taint everything you do"

"I've committed most sins known to makind but
I still believe in the essential goodness of my spirit"

"I ask forgiveness continuously for I know
He knows
Some things... just have to be experienced"

- TOFOG, The Photograph Kills

I got muscles in my ass, so I hump fast

-Saafir

"I used to think I'd get over everything, but everything just got over me."

-Matthew Good Band, "The Fine Art of Falling Apart"

Saafir!

I love that boxcar sessions quote:

"Where will I go when I die?
Will I be underground like I am now or in the sky?"
-Saafir (Can You Feel Me?)

"Turn on the radio, nah fuck it, turn it off. Fear is your only god."

RATM - Vietnow

"To escape from the pain in an existence mundane
I gotta 9, a sign, a set and now I gotta name

Read my writing on the wall
No-one's here to catch me when I fall
Death is on my side....suicide!"

RATM - Settle for Nothing


"Underneath the bridge
The tarp has sprung a leak
And the animals I've trapped
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off of grass
And the drippings from the ceiling
But it's ok to eat fish
Cause they haven't any feelings"

Nirvana - Something in the Way.

"I got the news that'll save the world
baseball bats and colors that swirl"

Mower - Long Awaited Riot

"Fuck you for loving me"

System of a Down - Metro

"I am just a man,
Fighting other men,
For land, for land,
While I turn to sand,
In spite of the pain,
Ego brain,
Man made Shame,
Shame, Love after it rains,
You see my pain is real,
Watch my world dissolve,
And pretend that none of us see the Fall
As I turn to sand,
You took me by the hand,
And declared that love prevails over all."

System of a Down - Ego Brain

"I took a virgin mary axe to his sweet baby jane,
lost my innocence to a no good girl, scratch my
face with anvil hands, and coil my tongue around a bumblebee mouth
And I give it all back to you"

Smashing Pumpkins - Fuck You (an Ode to No One)

"We are all human
It's time to prove it."

Anti-Flag - 911 for Peace

"All in all, you're just another dick with no balls"

Bloodhound Gang - Another Dick With no Balls

"We are not countries. We are not nations. We are not religions.
We are not gods. We are not weapons. We are not ammunition. We are not killers.
We will NOT be tools.

motherfucker
I will not die
I will not kill
I will not be your slave
I will not fight your battle
I will not die on your battlefield
I will not fight for your world
I am not a fighter
I'm a human being"

Anti-Flag - Anatomy of your Enemy

and just for fun....

"One night in jail it was getting late. He was butt-raped by a large inmate and he screamed. But the guards
paid no attention to his cries.
That's when things got out of control. The moral of the date rape story, it does not pay to be drunk
and horny.
But that's the way it had to be. They locked him up and threw away the key. Well, I can't take pity on men
of this kind, even though he now takes it in the behind."

Sublime - Date Rape

Wait, what are we talking about?! We decided?! My best interest?! How can
you know, how can you say what my best interest is? What are you trying to
say? I'm crazy? When I went to your schools, I went to your churches, I
went to your institutional learning facilities. So how can you say that I'm
crazy?

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

Oh and the entire song of Tenacious D - Tribute. I mean hell it is a tribute to the greatest song in the world. Oh and of course my signature.

geez there are so many, and there is so much more.

'you better get yo' ass in here boy
coz your monkeys havin' too much
of a good tiiiiiime'

Robbie Williams - Me and My Monkey

institutionalized is an excellent inclusion, yawhateva.

here are a few for the mix, so hard to choose:

some come to laugh their past away, some come to make it just one more day/
whichever way your pleasure tends, if you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind.
-Grateful Dead, "Franklin's Tower", music and lyrics by Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, and Bill Kreutzman.
(when one of the greatest beat poets is your lyricist, you end up with some pretty profound shit)


I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm thunderstruck
they got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
two men say they're Jesus one of them must be wrong
there's a protest singer singing a protest song - he says
'they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
they wanna have a war to keep their factories
they wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
they wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease
they're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
they wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
they give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease'
meanwhile the first Jesus says 'I'd cure it soon
abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons'
the other one's on a hunger strike he's dying by degrees
how come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?
-Dire Straits, "Industrial Disease", music and lyrics by Mark Knopfler (so many great lyrics in their songs... so many)


I was born a rebel
Down in Dixie on a Sunday morning
Yeah with one foot in the grave
And one foot on the pedal
I was born a rebel
Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers, "Rebel", music and lyrics by Tom Petty.

Let me live 'neath your spell
You do that voodoo that you do so well

"You do Something to me," music and lyrics by Cole Porter

Although she may not the girl some men think of
As handsome to my heart
She carries the key

Won't you tell her please to put on some speed
Follow my lead, oh how I need
Someone to watch over me
-"Someone to watch over me", music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin

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
-"Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan (how do you choose just one?)

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no,
- CCR, "Fortunate Son," music and lyrics by John Fogarty
(and that it is used as a soundtrack in patriotic themed advertising continually astounds me)

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
-"White Rabbit" -Jefferson Airplane

I went down to the chelsea drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with mr. jimmy
And man, did he look pretty ill
We decided that we would have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red
I sung my song to mr. jimmy
Yeah, and he said one word to me, and that was "dead"
Rolling Stones, "You Can't Always Get What You Want"

School girl sadie with the classy kinda sassy
Little skirt climbing way up her knees
There was three young ladies in the school gym locker
When I noticed they was lookin’ at me
-Aerosmith, "Walk This Way"

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
So the days float through my eyes
But stil the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through
-"Changes" David Bowie

And I will break for now with what I consider to be the all time greatest song lyric:

Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!
-Tutti Fruitti, Richard Penniman

ok, just one more.... recalled from the stump the lyrics thread:

Well, she's walking through the clouds,
With a circus mind that's running wild,
Butterflies and Zebras,
And Moonbeams and fairy tales.
That's all she ever thinks about.
Riding with the wind.

When I'm sad, she comes to me,
With a thousand smiles she gives to me free.
It's alright, she says it's alright,
Take anything you want from me,
Anything.
Fly on little wing.
-Little Wing, Jimi Hendrix

"...and this love is never well-behaved"
- Kim Richey, This Love

"So grey is not the color I expected
On one who is so often touched by grace
But always she's the spectre of uncertainty
I first endure, then pity, then embrace"
- Toy Matinee, Things She Said

[QUOTE]Originally posted by BulletBob

"A throne from which i'm told all history does unfold
It's made of wood and wire
And my buddy is fire
And god is never far away"
- Johnny Cash - Mercy Seat


--

That's a cover of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, but it is a fantastic song nonetheless. If you haven't heard the original you should definitely check it out.

Here's a quote or two:

"Do you realize the sun don't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinnin' round"

The Flaming Lips, "Do You Realize"


"If you are my answer
Then I must have asked the wrong question"

Gary Numan, "A Prayer for the Unborn"

I could quote Numan at length...but I won't. Too darn tired.

Watcha' gonna' do when God comes?

cause you can't get strapped for when God comes

-Craig Mack

"I see a red door and i want it painted black.
No colors anymore i want them all to turn black."

Rolling Stones - Paint it Black

Only 1 Alkaline Trio...for shame, for shame

Here are a few more.

"I heard everybodies voice cut out when you spoke, and I watched all the lights go dim when your eyes opened" - You've Got So Far To Go

"Like liquid white from fallen glass, nothing to cry over" - Tuck Me In

"Take your wings outside, you can't fly in here." - Goodbye Forever

"I was getting bored, with hurting myself" - 100 stories

"You told me that the daylight burned you
and that the sunrise was enough to kill you
I said maybe you're a vampire
You said it's quite possible I feel truly dead inside" - Trouble Breathing

"i know it's dark here, you know that i'm scared too
for some reason right now, of everything but you
right now you're all that i recognize
you know i came here when i needed your soft voice
i needed to hear something that sounded like an answer
now i wait here and sometimes i get one" - Every Thug Needs A Lady

"We learned more from a three minute record, baby,
than we ever learned in school"
- Bruce Springsteen, "No Surrender"

"Crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak
Reveal yourself all now to me, girl, while you've got the strength to speak
'Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks
But I could give it all to you now, if only you could ask
And don't call for your surgeon, even he says it's too late
It's not your lungs this time, it's your heart that holds your fate"
- Bruce Sprignsteen, For You

"Suck it in suck it in suck it in if you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn
Make a desperate move or else you'll win
And then begin to see what you're doing to me
this MTV is not for free
It's so PC it's killing me, so desperately I sing to thee
Of love, sure, but also rage and hate and pain and fear of self
And I can't keep these feelings on the shelf
I've tried well no in fact I lied
Could be financial suicide but I've got too much pride inside
To hide or slide, I'll do as I'll decide and let it ride until I've died
And only then shall I abide this tide
Of catchy little tunes, of hip three minute ditties
I wanna bust all your balloons, I wanna burn all of your cities to the ground
I've found I will not mess around
Unless I play then hey, I will go on all day
hear what I say, I have a prayer to pray
That's really all this was"
- Blus Traveler, Hook

Made the scene from week to week
Day to day, hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side

The Doors - Break on Through

It's so much better when Jim is singing it...

"I feel buried or maybe I'm just alone" Swimming the channel vs. driving the chunnel -- Botch, We are the Romans
"Napalm scorched your backs and you ask where your tax dollars went to so now they have sent you a demonstration, devastation
Four billion degrees of presentation" Earthcrusher -- Mr. Lif, I Phantom
"Problems surfaced and they capsized our relationship, I now propose this expedition to salvage it, the weather may start getting rough, our tiny ship may be tossed, but I'll not be stopped by acts of god, I'll get you back at any cost." Back for the Attack -- The Impossibles, Anthology
"Don't wait until it's gone to wish that it was back" Politics, music and drugs -- Slowreader, Self-titled
"Did you come to see my show or to the stupid nigga playoffs, killing you and killing me...that's the Soliloquy of Chaos" Soliloquy of Chaos -- Gangstarr, Daily Operation
"I'm drunk, but right now I am so in love with you
and I don't want to think too much about what we should or shouldn't do" The Only Time -- Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine
"And I was thinkin' bout how everyone is dying and maybe it's time to live" P.S. You rock my world -- The Eels, Electro shock Blues
"You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes" Eyeless --Slipknot, Self-Titled
"Reaching out to embrace the random, reaching out to embrace whatever may come" Lateralus -- Tool, Lateralus
"Around these parts a fly can live a thousand years, but a man cannot die soon enough, true enough" When good dogs do bad things -- The Dillinger Escape Plan, Irony is a Dead Scene (lyrics by Mike Patton)

I know there are a thousand that I like even more than these but they'll do for now.

Bingo
I love that song.

WE FOUND A NEW KIND OF DANCE IN A MAGAZINE

TRIED IT OUT IT'S LIKE NOTHING YOU EVER SEEN

YOU SWEET TALK LIKE A COP AND YOU KNOW IT

YOU BOUGHT A NEW BAG OF POT, SAID LET'S MAKE A NEW START

AND THAT'S THE WAY TO MY HEART
THAT'S THE WAY WE GET BY

Spoon - The way we get by

"Baby! I don't know why the cry of love is so alarming..."
- John Hiatt, Thing Called Love

"You drain me dry and make me wonder why I'm even here
This double vision I was seeing is finally clear
You want to stay but you know very well I want you gone
Not fit to fuckin' tread the ground I'm walking on"
- Maroon 5, Harder to Breathe

hahaha..."f YOU, bitch"

since it just came around on the Winamp playlist...

I have always loved, loved, loved the line
"I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis"

rock and f'ing roll