Favourite Lyrics

[roostersgal4eva]

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Well, you went uptown ridin' in your limousine
With your fine Park Avenue clothes
You had the Dom Perignon in your hand
And the spoon up your nose
Ooh, and when you wake up in the mornin'
With your head on fire
And your eyes too bloody to see
Go on and cry in your coffee
But don't come bitchin' to me

Because you had to be a big shot, didn't cha
You had to open up your mouth
You had to be a big shot, didn't cha
All your friends were so knocked out
You had to have the last word, last night
You know what everything's about
You had to have a white hot spotlight
You had to be a big shot last night

And they were all impressed with your Halston dress
And the people that you knew at Elaine's
And the story of your latest success
You kept 'em so entertained
But now you just don't remember
All the things you said
And you're not sure that you want to know
I'll give you one hint, honey
You sure did put on a show

Yes, yes, you had to be a big shot, didn't cha
You had to prove it to the crowd
You had to be a big shot, didn't cha
All your friends were so knocked out
You had to have the last word, last night
You're so much fun to be around
You had to have the front page, bold type
You had to be a big shot last night, Oh oh

Oh Oh whoa whoa oh, Oh Oh whoa who-oo-oo-oo-ah,
Oh Oh Oh whoa whoa oh, Oh Oh whoa.

Well, it's no big sin to stick your two cents in
If you know when to leave it alone
But you went over the line
You couldn't see it was time to go home
No, no, no, no, no, no

You had to be a big shot, didn't cha
You had to open up your mouth
You had to be a big shot, didn't cha
All your friends were so knocked out
You had to have the last word, last night
So much fun to be around
(LIVE VERSION ON 3RD CHORUS ONLY: "You know what everything's about")
You had to have the white hot spotlight
You had to be a big shot last night, Oh oh

Oh Oh whoa whoa oh, Oh Oh whoa.

Big shot … Big shot … Big shot … Mmmm … Big shot … Whoa whoa!
Big shot …

They dont call him the Entertainer for nothing

 

[Marklar_33]

Looking for special things inside of me

Isn't it...


"Looking for special things, and sodomy"

 

[hirdy_is_champ]

Smashing Pumpkins:
"Zero"
My reflection, dirty mirror
There's no connection to myself
I'm your lover, I'm your zero
I'm the face in your dreams of glass
So save your prayers
For when we're really gonna need'em
Throw out your cares and fly
Wanna go for a ride?

She's the one for me
She's all I really need
Cause she's the one for me
Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness
And cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me
Intoxicated with the madness, I'm in love with my sadness
Bullshit fakers, enchanted kingdoms
The fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth
I never let on, that I was on a sinking ship
I never let on that I was down
You blame yourself, for what you can't ignore
You blame yourself for wanting more
She's the one for me
She's all I really need
She's the one for me
She's my one and only


Garbage - Only Happy When it Rains
You wanna hear about my new obsession,
I'm riding high upon a deep depression.

 

[The Passenger]

from a band that probably cops a lot of crap in these parts (maybe they don't i don't know)...

Jebediah - Harpoon

"I can handle the fighting, it's the affection i can't stand"

 

[Silent Alarm]

So drunk in the August sun
And you're the kind of girl I like
Because you're empty,
And I'm empty
And you can never quarantine the past

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One of my all time favourite songs. Summer's never sounded so melancholy.

Bloc Party's "So Here We Are", and Weezer's "The World has Turned and Left Me Here" and "Only in Dreams" are close second.

 

[HARKER]

Pussy - Rammstein

Forget the words, get the visual on this one.
The unrated version goes where no clips have gone before (or come from before)

 

[Oakland Raider]

The Cramps pee on all them cryptic's for lyrical and visual wit.

As do Nashville Pussy.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Black by Pearl Jam, especially the last couple of lines:

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky but why, why, why, can't it be, can't it be mine?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true, Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil, Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet, all of a sudden I found myself in love with the world and there was only one thing that I could do...... was ding a ding dang my dang a long a ling long.

It doesn't get better than that.

 

[aussierulesrules]

"Whoo hoo". Blur, Song 2.

Also
"This old town's changed so much
Don't feel that I belong
Too many protest singers
Not enough protest songs" A Girl Like You, Edwyn Collins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKxGzm98AU

Black by Pearl Jam, especially the last couple of lines:

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky but why, why, why, can't it be, can't it be mine?

Fantastic stuff, love it

Another by Pearl Jam:

"I seem to recognize your face
Haunting familiar yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place I wish I'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me
Hearts and thoughts they fade fade away...

I swear I recognize your breath
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising
Me you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former
It's hard when, your stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream...hello...
My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are, and here I am
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away..."

from Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town.

 

[Gough]

If no one out there understands,
Start your own revolution and cut out the middle man

Billy Bragg, Waiting for the Great Leap Forward.

 

[Cursed Cat]

"Don't you know there ain't no Devil, it's just God when he's drunk" - Tom Waits

"Look over there ! A dry ice factory ! A good place to get some thinking done !" - David Byrne (Talking Heads)

"No thugs in our house - are there dear ? We made that clear - we made little Graeme promise us he'd be a good boy !" - Andy Partridge (XTC)

"Broadway looked so medieval, it seemed to flap, like little pages" - Tom Verlaine (Television)

"Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob." - John Lennon (erm, the Beatles)

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

GREAT THREAD

Billy Bragg ....Mother of the bride

She married him and destroyed all my hopes
Of a two-up, two-down, two point five
and a dish on the roof for the soaps
But I saw them at the hardware store
He looked boring and she looked bored
Chorus
It's nice to know that someone was on my side
Best wishes to the mother of the bride.

Bob Dylan .....Positively 4th Street

And now I know you’re dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don’t you understand
It’s not my problem

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you

Whitlams - You Sound Like Louis Burdett

Had a little bit to drink
There's a little thing I want at a do out East
Nothing too emotional, my good miss
I couldn't be serious in a room full of jack-knife eyes
Stop talking 'bout the years - you sound like Louis Burdett
And we roll on to my backshed, play some poker, scratch my head
Look at the sky and spot the planes, where would I go on holidays?
Roll with the punches, down the aisles, and down the street the weeks roll by
I'm chewing ice and grinning, I'm spewing up and spinning
It's billiousness as usual in my corner of the kitchen
Hey you, lose that friend before we go anywhere
What? Someone might see you alone?
Stop bagging out the band, you sound like Louis Burdett
All my friends are fukk-ups but they're fun to have around
Banana chairs out on the concrete, telling stories to the stars
how Gemini's love Wooden Dragons, and how down the street the weeks roll by

Mental As Anything

If you leave me, can I come too?
We can always stay
But if you leave me, can I come too?
And if you go, can I come too?

 

[eldorado]

I tried to choose just one or two verses of this song, but I couldn't...

God knows what the hell it means, but it just hints at something sinister and dark...

FOOT OF PRIDE - Dylan


Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man
So can a woman who passes herself off as a male
They sang "Danny Boy" at his funeral and the Lord's Prayer
Preacher talking 'bout Christ betrayed
It's like the earth just opened and swallowed him up
He reached too high, was thrown back to the ground
You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up
Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down

Well, there ain't no goin' back when your foot of pride come down
Ain't no goin' back

Hear ya got a brother named James, don't forget faces or names
Sunken cheeks and his blood is mixed
He looked straight into the sun and said revenge is mine
But he drinks, and drinks can be fixed
Sing me one more song, about ya love me to the moon and the stranger
And your fall by the sword love affair with Erroll Flynn
in these times of compassion when conformity's in fashion
Say one more stupid thing to me before the final nail is driven in.

Well, there ain't no goin' back when your foot of pride come down
Ain't no goin' back

There's a retired businessman named Red, cast down from heaven and he's out of his head
He feeds off of everyone that he can touch
He said he only deals in cash or sells tickets to a plane crash
He's not somebody that you play around with much
Miss Delilah is his, a Philistine is what she is
She'll do wondrous works with your fate
Feed you coconut bread, spice buns in your bed
If you don't mind sleepin' with your head face down in a grave.

Well, there ain't no goin' back when your foot of pride come down
Ain't no goin' back

Well they'll choose a man for you to meet tonight
You'll play the fool and learn how to walk through doors
How to enter into the gates of paradise
No, how to carry a burden too heavy to be yours
Yeah, from the stage they'll be tryin' to get water outta rocks
A whore will pass the hat, collect a hundred grand and say thanks
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in
Sing "Amazing Grace" all the way to the Swiss banks

Well, there ain't no goin' back when your foot of pride come down
Ain't no goin' back

They got some beautiful people out there, man
They can be a terror to your mind and show you how to hold your tongue
They got mystery written all over their forehead
They kill babies in the crib and say only the good die young
They don't believe in mercy
Judgment on them is something that you'll never see
They can exalt you up or bring you down main route
Turn you into anything that they want you to be

Well, there ain't no goin' back when your foot of pride come down
Ain't no goin' back

Yes, I guess I loved him too
I can still see him in my mind climbin' that hill
Did he make it to the top, well he probably did and dropped
Struck down by the strength of the will
Ain't nothin' left here partner, just the dust of a plague that has left this whole town afraid
From now on, this'll be where you're from
Let the dead bury the dead. Your time will come
Let hot iron blow as he raised the shade

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Tomorrow Wendy ....Andy Prieboy and Johnette Napolitano


I told the priest, don't count on any second coming.
God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming.
He had the balls to come, the gall to die and then forgive us.
No, I don't wonder why, I wonder what he thought it would get us.
Hey, hey, good bye.
Tomorrow Wendy's going to die.

 

[jtsopy]

Everlong by Foo Fighters

 

[WinmarToLockett]

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy ******
Happy Christmas my arse I pray to God its our last...

 

[The Passenger]

citizen erased and time have been mentioned here. two of my top 5-10 songs. both superb lyrics.

tool have some great lyrics - undertow, schism and lateralus as a whole are just brilliantly composed songs.

Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
I know they buried her body with others
her sister and mother and five hundred families
and will she remember me 50 years later
I wish I could save her in some kind of time machine

jeff magnum is such a good song writer. and neutral milk hotel are brilliant. the lyrics to this song are brilliant but i just can't get into the tune at all.

i love his lyric "how strange it is to be anything at all" in the title track of aeroplane. also the lyrics to king of carrot flowers are great. part of it's been mentioned in here.

"As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for

And this is the room
One afternoon I knew I could love you
And from above you how I sank into your soul
Into that secret place where no one dares to go"

is also a brilliant little section. actually the whole song is golden.

there is one song i'm thrashing the shit out of lately and there is one particular lyric in at that i love.

stone roses - sugar spun sister

"she wakes up with the sun
she asks me what is all the fuss
as she gave me more than she thought she should

she wakes up with the sun
i think what have i done
as i gave her more than i thought i would"

there is so many multiple meaning lyrics in that tune is gold

 

[volcboy]

So what you wanted to see good
Has made you blind
And what you wanted to be yours
Has made it mine

So don't you lock up something
That you wanted to see fly
Hands are for shaking
No, not tying

 

[Black Diamond]

White Flag by Dido: I know you think that I shouldn't still love you, or tell you that. But if I didn't say it, well I'd still have felt it, where's the sense in that?

Lame, I know, but I've just always liked it.

 

[PVF]

Avenged Sevenfold - Betrayed

I started here so young and helped you get along
Just did it for the love, and people healed through us
Don't live your life in vain, don't take it out on me
You're cracked, so just remember, I'm not your enemy
I don't deserve to fall this way, by a man who felt betrayed

Nirvana - In Bloom

He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
Knows not what it means
when I say yeeeaaahhh

 

[Black Diamond]

I'll also add from my sig: Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.

From Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin.

 

[JimDocker]

^ Me and Bobby McGee was written by Kris Kristofferson ^

California Snow - Dave Alvin. Great artist. Massively underated.

I'm just tryin' to make a livin'
I'm an old man at thirty-nine
With two kids and an ex-wife
Who moved up to Riverside
I'm workin' down on the border
Drivin' back roads every night
Mountains east of El Cajon
North of the Tecate line.

Where the California summer sun
Will burn right through your soul
But in the winter you can freeze to death
In the California snow.

I catch the ones I'm able to
And watch the others slip away
I know some by their faces
And I even know some by name
I guess they think that we're all
Movie stars and millionaires
I guess that they still believe
That dreams come true up here.

But I guess the weather's warmer down in Mexico
And no one ever tells them 'bout the California snow.

Last winter I found a man and wife
Just about daybreak
Layin' in a frozen ditch
South of the interstate
I wrapped 'em both in blankets
But she'd already died
The next day we sent him back alone
Across the borderline.

I don't know where they came from
Or where they planned to go
But we carried her all night long
Through the California snow.

Sometimes when I'm alone out here
I get to thinkin' about my life
Maybe I should go to Riverside
And try to fix things with my wife
Or maybe just get in my truck
And drive as far as I can go
Away from all the ghosts that haunt
The California snow.

Where the California summer sun
Can burn right to your soul
And in the winter you can freeze to death
In the California snow.

 

[woopedazz]

I still owe money to the money to the money I owe
I never thought about love when I thought about home
I still owe money to the money to the money I owe
The floors are falling out from everybody I know