Best rock lyric ever?

[pbass74]

I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

I always thought it said "rises like an empress". Maybe this should go on that misunderstood lyrics thread.

 

[Lagado]

I've exposed your lies, baby
The underneath's no big surprise
Now it's time, for changing
And cleansing everything
To forget your love

 

[consectaneus]

I always thought it said "rises like an empress". Maybe this should go on that misunderstood lyrics thread.

And I guess it doesn't really rise above the Serengeti. But the writers admit to never having been to Africa at the time--it was all based on a fantasy after watching National Geographic.

I love misheard lyrics too!

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

I got a gun for my mouth and a bullet with your name on it - Royal Blood.

 

[Lagado]

I have played in every toilet
But you still want to spoil it
To prove I've made a big mistake

 

[Tom Bomb]

It's dreamy weather we're on
You waved your crooked wand
Along an icy pond with a frozen moon
A murder of silhouette crows I saw
And the tears on my face
And the skates on the pond
They spell Alice

I disappear in your name
But you must wait for me
Somewhere across the sea
There's a wreck of a ship
Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide
And the raindrops on my window
And the ice in my drink
Baby all I can think of is Alice

Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier

And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice

And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice

There's only Alice

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[Lagado]

For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

 

[Lagado]

You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
Is you do it to yourself, just you
You and no-one else
You do it to yourself

 

[noeinstein]

Trust yourself,
Trust yourself to do the things that only you know best.
Trust yourself,
Trust yourself to do what’s right and not be second-guessed.

 

[Lesfunk]

“Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then...”
Against the wind-Bob Seger

 

[Lesfunk]

“One empty floor stands between the stage and the welfare door”
Beats workin- David Lee Roth

 

[Lesfunk]

“Papa didn’t cuss
He didn’t make a whole lot of fuss
But when we did wrong,
Papa beat the hell out of us”
Papa don’t take no mess- James Brown

 

[David Jayne]

'I reach down, between my legs..................ease the seat back.."
Maybe not the most brilliant line ever but it still makes me giggle.

 

[StatesideRambler]

“I used her, she used me but neither one cared.
We were gettin’ our share.
Workin’ on our night moves.” Bob Seger

 

[Bobhmcs]

Remember what the eskimo's know:
Watch out where the huskies go
Don't you eat that yellow Snow!

If already posted please accept my apologies.
;[)
Bob

 

[Bobhmcs]

'Scuse my while I kiss the sky

I think the title of the book was "Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy"
;[)
Bob
On a book of fractured lyrics.

 

[LBS-bass]

The way I see it, he said
You just can't win it
Everybody's in it for their own gain
You can't please 'em all
There's always somebody calling you down
I do my best
And I do good business
There's a lot of people asking for my time
They're trying to get ahead
They're trying to be a good friend of mine

I was a free man in Paris
I felt unfettered and alive
There was nobody calling me up for favors
And no one's future to decide
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I've taken on
Stoking the star-maker machinery
Behind the popular song

I deal in dreamers
And telephone screamers
Lately I wonder what I do it for
If l had my way
I'd just walk out those doors
And wander
Down the Champs Elysees
Going cafe to cabaret
Thinking how I'll feel when I find
That very good friend of mine

I was a free man in Paris
I felt unfettered and alive
Nobody was calling me up for favors
No one's future to decide
You know I'd go back there tomorrow
But for the work I've taken on
Stoking the star maker machinery
Behind the popular song

 

[laristotle]

'I don't want to be your boyfriend. I want to be your dirty little secret'

 

[laristotle]

'It looks just like a TeleFunken U-47
You'll love it...'

'With leather?'

 

[Tari]

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?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here