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Your Favorite Lyric Lines

I must have stood for hours
The mist of dawn still rising
Brushing from my face
Cold tears of finally knowing
The world that we had twisted
The years of strength and glory
Were wicked and obscene
And there we stood so proud
What legends we must be
Really something to behold Lord
So irresponsible
With the powers of creation


~ Don't Ever Cry, Just Remember : Carved In Stone
by Shadow Gallery
 
"If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy's poor just do what you feel". (In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry)

"We all know that crap is king, give us Dirty Laundry". (Don Henley)


"Now they tell me that I ain't so fashion able
An' I owe the man a million bucks a year
So I told 'em where to stick the fancy label
It's just me and the road from here" (Queen Sleeping On The Sidewalk)
 
"Tell Sanchito that if he knows what is good for him he best go run and hide,
Daddy's got a new .45,
And I won't think twice to stick that barrel straight down sancho's throat,
Believe me when I say that I got somethin' for his punk ass". -Santeria by Sublime
 
These are lines from different songs by the master lyricist Gareth Liddiard.

"The rest of you have a choice of late night news
And more commercials
Yeah Just Do It, Have A Break, yes Life Is Good,
Because You're Worthless
Maybe She Was Born With It,
And maybe you were too
Seems that one way or the other,
There is nothing you can do"

"You are driving the Jeep Cherokee,
It burns Arabs for fuel
But you are driving the Jeep Cherokee
And that's good enough for you"

"But I ain't here because he's tall
I'm only here to see him fall
If I get on the wagon now
It'll only be to run him down"

"And the stars they bleed together like the flames inside a forge
The Earth is molten, time is stretching on a rack
Yet he labours like a shadow across the meadows of the moon"

Particularly if you were born in Australia many of his lyrics with resonate with you, like I imagine Dylan did to hippies in the 60's!
 
I'm on my way I'm making it, Huh!
I've got to make it show yeah, Hey!
So much larger than life
I'm gonna watch it growing
Hey hey hey heyyyyyyy

The place where I come from is a small town
They think so small, they use small words
But not me, I'm smarter than that,
I worked it out
I'll be stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out
I've had enough, I'm getting out
To the city, the big big city
I'll be a big noise with all the big boys, so much stuff I will own
And I will pray to a big god, as I kneel in the big church

Big Time, I'm on my way I'm making it, big time, oh yes
Big time, I've got to make it show yeah, big time
Big time, so much larger than life
Big time, I'm gonna watch it growing, big time
Ho ohh ohh, oh oh, ho ohh ohh, oh ohhh

My parties have all the big names and I greet them with the whitest smile
Tell them how my life is one big adventure and always they're amazed When I show them 'round my house to my bed
I had it made like a mountain rage with a snow white pillow for my big fat head
And my heaven will be a big heaven,
And I will walk through the front door

Big Time, I'm on my way i'm making it, big time, Huh!
Big time, I've got to make it show yeah, big time
Big time, so much larger than life
Big time, I'm gonna watch it growing, big time
Big time, my car is getting bigger Big time, my house is getting bigger
Big time, my eyes are getting bigger
And my mouuuth
Big time, my dinner's getting bigger
Big time, and my bank account
Big time, look at my circumstance
Big time, and the bulge in my big big big big big big big big big big big big big big big, hi there

I love the groove and the message it is bringing. :D
 
That's alright. I still got my guitar. Look out now.
Red House - J.Hendrix

It's such a madhouse, I can hardly get next to myself.
Motor City Madhouse - T.Nugent

Almost cut my hair.
It happened just the other day.
It was gettin' kinda long.
Almost Cut My Hair - CSNY
 
"Living like a gypsy queen in a fairy tale" - Steely Dan - My Old School (or 'My Ex Wife' as I call it)

Spoken intro to Funkadelic's Maggot Brain - logical nonsense from the poet that is George Clinton

Lots of the poet that is Bowie

No Jim Morrison (not since I was 17 anyway)
 
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man. Godzilla Blue Oyster Cult

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. Subterranean Home Sick Blues Bob Dylan

They're selling independence,
Actors in the white house,
Acid in digestion,
Mortgage on my life,
Mortgage on my life.
Ramble Tamble CCR John Fogerty

Money doesn't talk, it swears! It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding Bob Dylan
 
"In the white room with black curtains near the station.
Black-roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.
Silver horses run down moonbeams in your dark eyes.
She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings.
And I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines;
Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves. "
 
The Blood Brothers - Guitarmy

Do you remember us?
Do you remember us?
We wrapped your corvette in cellophane, set it aflame!
Do you remember us?
Do you remember us?
We doused your TV set in propane, turned up the gain!
This party's dying so guitar-me!
Raise the glass to the guitarmy!

This party's dying!

A wonderful 40 sec opening to their album burn piano island burn.
 
Some are born to move the world
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we'd like to be
Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee...

Losing It-Rush