I like 'wrapped up like a douche, you know the roamer in the night'....
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Best rock lyric ever?
- Thread starter AaronVonRock
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Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear
How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air
'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, and the evil one Invalid Link Removed
Crept up and slipped away with her, her, her, yeah
Ah, there's nothing I can do now
I guess I'll keep on....
How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air
'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair
But Gollum, and the evil one Invalid Link Removed
Crept up and slipped away with her, her, her, yeah
Ah, there's nothing I can do now
I guess I'll keep on....
"Through the dark Atlantic, over mariners' stormy graves"
"The spirits of the sunken crews,
Their phantoms follow us"
"My sins are many, my guilt is too heavy
The pressure of knowing, of hiding what I know
I'm able to see things, things I don't want to see
The lives of a thousand souls weigh heavy down on me."
"The spirits of the sunken crews,
Their phantoms follow us"
"My sins are many, my guilt is too heavy
The pressure of knowing, of hiding what I know
I'm able to see things, things I don't want to see
The lives of a thousand souls weigh heavy down on me."
You're too young, and I'm too well hung
Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight!
Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight!
Watch Out Where the Huskies Go
And Don't You Eat That Yellow Snow
And Don't You Eat That Yellow Snow
Lyrics that stick with me are usually the ones that make you think a bit, especially if they have multiple meanings, or expose a truth in a clever way.
The Dawes - From a Window Seat: "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there"
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng: "I don't want the world, I just want your half"
Death Cab for Cutie - Bixby Canyon Bridge:
"And it's hard to want to stay awake
When everyone you meet, they all seem to be asleep
And you wonder if you're missing a dream"
The Rainmakers had several memorable lyrics -
Wild Oats:
"Baby takes communion with the rest of the clan
They bought a Pat Boone tour to the Holy Land
At the Shrine of the Virgin, she was dressed to kill
With her Mad Dog 20 and her birth control pills"
Shiny Shiny:
"The more you race them, the less you trust
The less you drive them, the more they rust"
Downstream:
Well, we picked up Harry Truman floating down from Independence
We said "What about the war?", he said "Good riddance"
We said "What about the Bomb, are you sorry that you did it?"
He said "Pass me back that bottle, and mind your own business"
Rush has several, but one for today:
They say there are strangers who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theaters and bookstore shelves
That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves
Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand...
Oh, and also - Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream - "Waaaaah wah wahhh waaaaah weeeooop wah"
The Dawes - From a Window Seat: "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there"
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng: "I don't want the world, I just want your half"
Death Cab for Cutie - Bixby Canyon Bridge:
"And it's hard to want to stay awake
When everyone you meet, they all seem to be asleep
And you wonder if you're missing a dream"
The Rainmakers had several memorable lyrics -
Wild Oats:
"Baby takes communion with the rest of the clan
They bought a Pat Boone tour to the Holy Land
At the Shrine of the Virgin, she was dressed to kill
With her Mad Dog 20 and her birth control pills"
Shiny Shiny:
"The more you race them, the less you trust
The less you drive them, the more they rust"
Downstream:
Well, we picked up Harry Truman floating down from Independence
We said "What about the war?", he said "Good riddance"
We said "What about the Bomb, are you sorry that you did it?"
He said "Pass me back that bottle, and mind your own business"
Rush has several, but one for today:
They say there are strangers who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theaters and bookstore shelves
That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves
Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand...
Oh, and also - Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream - "Waaaaah wah wahhh waaaaah weeeooop wah"
I widdle when I piddle 'cause my middle is a riddle. I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus, I'm spasticus autisticus.
Ian Dury
If you don't know, this references his early life as a polio victim.
Ian Dury
If you don't know, this references his early life as a polio victim.
-Break on through,to the other side ,- j.morrison
Scuse me,while i kiss the sky -jimi
They say she got use,on the night she was born,
-crankin' up, in a school zone. -heart
-Well we've got no Class,
-and we've got no Principals.-- alice cooper
Scuse me,while i kiss the sky -jimi
They say she got use,on the night she was born,
-crankin' up, in a school zone. -heart
-Well we've got no Class,
-and we've got no Principals.-- alice cooper
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King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Cat's foot iron claw
Neurosurgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty first century schizoid man
Blood rack barbed wire
Politicians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man
Death seed blind man's greed
Poets' starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man
Cat's foot iron claw
Neurosurgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty first century schizoid man
Blood rack barbed wire
Politicians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man
Death seed blind man's greed
Poets' starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man
I propose a toast, to my self-control. You see it crawlin' helpless on the floor. - Morphine, Cure for Pain
And she never had dreams
So they never came true
"Angel in Blue"
also
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube.
"In the Year 2525"
Springsteen has a lot to choose from.
So they never came true
"Angel in Blue"
also
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube.
"In the Year 2525"
Springsteen has a lot to choose from.
"UGHRR!!!!!" - James Brown, Mick Jagger, Edwin Starr, Burton Cummings, Jim Morrison, Robert Plant, Joe Cocker, Paul Rodgers, Ronald Isley ...
Several ones I can recall:
"When you ain't got nothing you got nothing to loose"
"I'm so mad at my wife I don't know whether to shoot myself or go bowling"
"I knew it was over when her lips touched mine"
"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then"
"The seventeen jewels that dictate the rules say it's time to fly, so as we're passing by we've just got the time to say hello and a quick goodby - we're a traveling band"
"Excuse me, but aren't there a few places you just quite can't reach with toilet paper?"
"Ah - we all wondered if she would . . . "
"Hello Darlin' "
"I can see by your clothes you're from the other side - please tell me . . . who won?"
"When you ain't got nothing you got nothing to loose"
"I'm so mad at my wife I don't know whether to shoot myself or go bowling"
"I knew it was over when her lips touched mine"
"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then"
"The seventeen jewels that dictate the rules say it's time to fly, so as we're passing by we've just got the time to say hello and a quick goodby - we're a traveling band"
"Excuse me, but aren't there a few places you just quite can't reach with toilet paper?"
"Ah - we all wondered if she would . . . "
"Hello Darlin' "
"I can see by your clothes you're from the other side - please tell me . . . who won?"
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