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[Funky Ghost]

Summer Highland Falls

They say that these are not the best of times
But they’re the only times I’ve ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own

Now, I have seen that sad surrender in my lover’s eyes
And I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what our situations hand us
It’s either sadness or euphoria

So we’ll argue and we’ll compromise
And realize that nothing’s ever changed
For all our mutual experience,
Our separate conclusions are the same

Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason coexists with our insanity
And though we choose between reality and madness
It’s either sadness or euphoria

How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don’t fulfill each others fantasies
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives,
With our respective similarities
It’s either sadness of euphoria

~ Billy Joel

 

[packhowitzer]

You have to be trusted
By the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You'll get the chance to put the knife in

Dogs
Pink Floyd
Animals

No body can turn a phrase like Roger Waters

 

[Double E]

I don't know why but I could probably scroll along all damn day reading one or a few lines from tunes that are cherry picked by the poster... but I have no interest in reading a whole song's worth of lyrics.

You talk too much
You worry me to death
You talk too much
You even worry my pet

You just talk
Talk too much

Joe Jones - You Talk Too Much

 

[T-boneParish]

"I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images
And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned"
The Postal Service
Such Great Heights

 

[Basically Bob]

She loves you, yeah yeah yeah

 

[The Owl]

PRETZEL LOGIC - STEELY DAN

1. I would love to tour the Southland
   In a traveling minstrel show
   Yes I'd love to tour the Southland
   In a traveling minstrel show
   Yes I'm dying to be a star and make them laugh
   Sound just like a record on the phonograph
   Those days are gone forever
   Over a long time ago, oh yeah
   I have never met Napoleon
   But I plan to find the time
   I have never met Napoleon
   But I plan to find the time
   'Cause he looks so fine upon that hill
   They tell me he was lonely, he's lonely still
   Those days are gone forever
   Over a long time ago, oh yeah
   I stepped up on the platform
   The man gave me the news
   He said, You must be joking son
   Where did you get those shoes?
   Where did you get those shoes?
   Well, I've seen 'em on the TV, the movie show
   They say the times are changing but I just don't know
   These things are gone forever
   Over a long time ago, oh yeah

 

[Ostie]

I am young in this world
I am glad that I’m alive
I know someday, I’ll fly away
On the wings of horses

Peter Rowan

 

[Double E]

Yeah, we got dogs and Valvoline
And it's a pretty damn good time

Toy Matinee - Last Plane Out

 

[PaulCISSA]

Hatesong by Porcupine Tree

"This is a hate song just meant for you
I thought that I'd write it down while I still could
I hope when you hear this you'll want to sue"

...or The Sound Of Muzak by Porcupine Tree

"The music of rebellion
Makes you want to rage
But it's made by millionaires
Who are nearly twice your age"

Those are really Steven Wilson songs. He’s pretty vocal about making that distinction.

 

[segina]

You can feel it in the distance the deeper down You stare
From up above it's hard to see
But you know when you're there
On the bottom words are shallow
On the surface talk is cheap
You can only judge the distance by the company you keep

The Confessor-- Joe Walsh

 

[LowFactor]

I ain’t broke and I ain’t hungry, but I’m close enough to care

Tom Petty/ Mudcrutch
I forgive it all

 

[JimmyM]

Joel Steinfeldt pandi vangi --- Winny Puhh

 

[Lovep]

She said, you're a good man, Baby
To treat me like you do
She said, you ain't done nothin' to me
I just can't stay here with you
I stood and watch my baby as far as I could see
You know the girl started runnin'
After waiving goodbye to me
Now that was too much for me
That's why I walked the backstreets and cry

Walk the Backstreets and Cry (Little Milton)

A fun bass line on this track too!

 

[Accurmi]

Sometimes you get too close to see
A different side of what life can be
And if you stare too long
It all becomes a blur
And it's easy to forget just who we are
Don't stare too hard
Just take a look around
-"Too Close To See" by Strung Out

'N' every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll
Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this and it's been tested by research
He who f**ks nuns will later join the church
-"Death Or Glory" by The Clash

 

[lowplaces]

why settle on a lyric when you can copy and paste a whole song!!!

There's a song in there somewhere !

 

[biguglyman]

Those are really Steven Wilson songs. He’s pretty vocal about making that distinction.

They're listed as Porcupine Tree songs on YouTube and they're off PT albums. I guess he can sue me if he wants...

 

[velascorp]

I was gonna paste all 18 plus minutes of lyrics.... but here's the just.

"You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.... (except for Alice.)"

 

[lowplaces]

They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot

Joni Mitchell

 

[lowplaces]

No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains
Til a man from the northeast arrived
Waving hundred dollar bills, he said "I'll pay you for your minerals"
But he never left Harlan alive

Darrell Scott - You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive

 

[SasquatchDude]

How could I forget this classic Floyd gem:

Time spent lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain,
you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you
no one told you when to run; you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run, to catch up with the sun as it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again

The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Goosebumps every time.