Post your favourite song lyrics thread

[chairdriver]

This is a thread where you post song lyrics that have realistically changed your life. Don't post the whole song if some bits are irrelevant, just post the real bits.

 

Okay I'll start!

 

"You've used up all your coupons, and all you've got left is me.

And somehow I'm full of forgiveness- I guess it's meant to be."

 

Underneath It All - No Doubt

 

Like actually the song I have to play at my wedding/funeral.

[My Buttons are Magic!]

Hopelessly I'll love you endlessly

Hopelessly I'll give you everything

But I won't give you up

I won't let you down

And I won't leave you falling

If the moment ever comes

 

Muse - Endlessly

[Goron_3]

'Sometimes you gotta dig deep, when problems come near

Don't fear, things get severe for everybody everywhere,

Why do bad things happen, to good people,

It seems that life is just a constant war between good and evil'

 

Moment of Truth - Gang Starr.

[Paj!]

What's the lesser of two evils:

If a suicide bomber

Made to look pregnant

Manages to kill her target

Or not?

 

What's the lesser of two evils?

 

What's the lesser of two evils:

If she kills them

Or dies in vain?

 

Nature has fixed no limits on our hope

 

Hope- Bjork

[welsh_gamer]

He's just a young boy looking for a way to find love

It isn't easy, nothing you can say will help him, find love

He's got to do it for himself

And it can take so long

He's just a young boy looking for a way to find love

Find love, a time for meditation

Find love, a source of inspiration

Find love, instead of confrontation

Find love, and love will come looking for you

 

Young Boy - Paul McCartney

[Hellfire]

mmm...

 

"Been a fool, been a clown

Lost my way from up and down

And I know, yes, I know

And I see in your eyes that you really weren't surprised at me

At all

Not at all

And I know by your smile

It's you"

Adieu by The Seatbelts

 

"Don't wake me from the dream

It's really everything it seemed

I'm so free

No black and white in the blue"

Blue from The Seatbelts (yeah I love their lyrics)

 

"Happiness is just a word to me

And it might have meant a thing or two

If I'd had known the difference

 

Emptiness, a lonely parody

And my life, another smokin' gun

A sign of my indifference

 

Always keepin' safe inside

Where no one ever had a chance

To penetrate or break in"

 

Gotta Knock A Little Harder by... you guessed it, The Seatbelts. Actually the whole freaking music is amazing.

 

"Full moon waves

Slowly on the surface of the lake

You are there

Smiling in my arms for all those years "

Moon on the Water by Beat Crusaders (Dying Breed if you watched Beck)

 

"You are the Sun

You are the Star!

To me forever!"

Hit in the USA by Beat Crusaders

 

"Born upon a dark sky and shining on my dark side!"

Brightest by Husking Bee

 

"baby

I know your asking me to stay

say please please please don't go away

cause your giving me the blues"

Faith, originally by George Michael, but made awesome by Limp Bizkit

 

"You keep your distance, I can't deny you

I've got the feeling, can't satisfy you

I've got your picture on the wall

I've got the picture, long ago

You keep your wishes I'll keep my feelings

There goes another one that kept me breathing

I'm waiting for you I know your leaving

I still adore you, you never need me

 

Hold on

I found another way to let you go away

Hold on

You found another way to bleed my soul away"

Hold on by Limp Bizkit

 

"Mama, put my guns in the ground

I can't shoot them anymore.

That long black cloud is comin' down

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door."

Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan

 

"Its more than a feeling, when I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)

I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)

till I see marianne walk away

I see my marianne walkin away"

More than a feeling, by Boston

[Guest Stefkov]

You promised me starry night skies

They just remind me of your shining bright eyes

I'm missing your voice at night time

This sepa-separation seem-seems a sad crime

 

B-b-b-but don't don't don't think think think I forgot you you you

Are are are oh so sweet I I I - I knew

 

If only you were here

Things would be more magical

 

If I was there

Right now would be more radical

 

You're so not near

I'm wishing I could place a call

 

And feel closer to you ooo-ooo

 

Call n Return - hellogoodbye

Bit long but..some awesome lyrics.

[My Buttons are Magic!]

mmm...

 

 

"Mama, put my guns in the ground

I can't shoot them anymore.

That long black cloud is comin' down

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door."

Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan

 

..love that song...

[Ant-Shimmin]

Wait dear, a white horse is walking down my street here,

Your words are creeping at my feet

I fear, sunrise will come too soon and you'll disappear

Into the haze of this city and go south...

 

Look out, they're coming after us with big guns,

They're only gonna tell you all the bad things I've done

Even if the words they say aren't true, they've won,

And I'm left here dyin' in the sun

 

Oh...seems like I'm always on my own,

Seems like I'm never coming home

Seems like I'm always on my...

All the stars and boulevards ain't close enough for you...

 

Late nights, won't do me justice

Cause when I drink...I just get so damn depressed,

And it's...

It's not like, I ain't trying to get over you.

It's just hard to look at all the seasons, pass me over too...and i say

 

Oh...seems like I'm always on my own,

Seems like I'm never coming home

Seems like I'm always on my...

All the stars and boulevards ain't close enough for you...

 

One last phone call from you, it wouldn't hurt much,

I'd just like to hear your voice and pretend to touch,

Any inch of you that hasn't said it all or read it all

Or sung my life away

 

And I say oh...seems like I'm always on my own,

Seems like I'm never coming home

Seems like I'm always on my...Ohhhhhhh

All the stars and boulevards ain't close enough for you...

 

Augustana-Stars and Boulevards

[Wesley]

Far too many... far, far too many. Pretty much most Joy Division songs...

 

Erm, but this one will do for the thread:

 

Its been such a long time

And I was just a child then

What will you say

When you see my face?

Time feels like its flown away

The days just pass and fade away

What will you say

When they take my place?

 

Its funny now

I just dont feel like a man

What will you say

When you see my face?

My face...

 

Mother dear, the worlds gone cold

No one cares about love anymore

What will you say

When you see my face?

 

Father do you hear me?

Do you know me?

Do you even care?

What will you say

When they take my place?

 

My heart cant take this anymore

What will you say

When you see my face?

When you see my,

See my face...

 

I can feel your time crawling

To a slow end

I can feel my time crawling

To a slow end...

 

Mother dear, the worlds gone cold

No one cares about love anymore

What will you say

When you see my face?

 

Father do you hear me?

Do you know me?

Did you even care?

What will you say

When you take my place?

 

Well its so funny now

I just dont feel like Im a man

What will you say?

 

[chairdriver]

"Mama, put my guns in the ground

I can't shoot them anymore.

That long black cloud is comin' down

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door."

Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan

 

I was thinking of posting that song next.

[jayseven]

Why burn poor and lonely under a bowl or under a lampshade

Or on the shelf beside the bed

Where at night you lay turning like a door on its hinges?...

First on your left side, then on your right side...then your left side again.

Why burn poor and lonely?

Tell all the stones we're gonna make a building...

We'll be cut into shape and set into place

Or if you'd rather be a window, I'll gladly be the frame,

Reflecting any kind words, we'll let in all their blame...

And ruin our reputation all the same.

So never mind our plan making, we'll start living...

Anyway, aren't you unbearably sad?

Then why burn so poor and lonely?

 

-mewithoutYou - Torches Together

 

 

that'll do for now. mewithoutYou are an awsomely lyric'ked band. The guy speaks the words, not songing them. It takes a few songs to get used to but then you start to feel that what he speaks about is hugely important to him. Plus, it's poetic genius.

[Dante]

let down and hanging around,

crushed like a bug in the ground.

Let down and hanging around.

 

Let down,

Let down,

Let down.

 

You know, you know where you are with,

you know where you are with,

floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back

and one day, I am gonna grow wings,

a chemical reaction, [You know where you are,]

hysterical and useless [you know where you are,]

hysterical and [you know where you are,]

 

Let Down - Radiohead

[chairdriver]

The ad begs 'Buy bottled water'

But we know that it tastes of piss

Should be getting our tampons free

DIY gynaecology!

 

She's A Millionaire - Catatonia

[weeyellowbloke]

Faith, originally by George Michael, but made awesome by Limp Bizkit

 

That song was already as awesome as it could possibly get when George Michael did it!

 

Down down, you bring me down

I hear you knocking at my door and I cant sleep at night

 

Your face, it has no place

No room for you inside my house I need to be alone

 

Turn turn, I wish you'd learn

Theres a time and place for everything I've got to get it through

 

Cut loose, you're no use

I couldnt stand another second in your company

 

Stone me, why cant you see

Youre a no-one nowhere washed up baby who'd look better dead

 

Your tongue is far too long

I dont like the way it sucks and slurps upon my every word

 

Dont waste your words I dont need anything from you

I dont care where youve been or what you plan to do

 

I am the resurrection and I am the light

I couldnt ever bring myself to hate you as Id like

Stone Roses-I am the Resurrection - Damn, if your going to dump someonewith the maximum about of bitterness, this is the way to go about it.

 

When I was a young man I carried my pack

And I lived the free life of a rover

From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback

I waltzed my Matilda all over

Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son

It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done

So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun

And they sent me away to the war

And the band played Waltzing Matilda

As we sailed away from the quay

And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers

We sailed off to Gallipoli

 

How well I remember that terrible day

How the blood stained the sand and the water

And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay

We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter

Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well

He chased us with bullets, he rained us with shells

And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell

Nearly blew us right back to Australia

But the band played Waltzing Matilda

As we stopped to bury our slain

We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs

Then we started all over again

 

Now those that were left, well we tried to survive

In a mad world of blood, death and fire

And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive

But around me the corpses piled higher

Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit

And when I woke up in my hospital bed

And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead

Never knew there were worse things than dying

For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda

All around the green bush far and near

For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs

No more waltzing Matilda for me

 

So they collected the cripples, the wounded, the maimed

And they shipped us back home to Australia

The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane

Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla

And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay

I looked at the place where my legs used to be

And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me

To grieve and to mourn and to pity

And the band played Waltzing Matilda

As they carried us down the gangway

But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared

Then turned all their faces away

 

And now every April I sit on my porch

And I watch the parade pass before me

And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march

Reliving old dreams of past glory

And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore

The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war

And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?"

And I ask myself the same question

And the band plays Waltzing Matilda

And the old men answer to the call

But year after year their numbers get fewer

Some day no one will march there at all

 

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda

Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me

And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the Billabong

Who'll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?

The Pogues-And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Oh the futility of war, it's enough to bring me to tears when I hear it. Proof if anyone needs it that Shane MacGowan has an amazing talent as a songwriter and lyricist.

[Dyson]

I love you through sparks and shining dragons, I do,

now there's poetry, in an empty coke can.

I love you through sparks and shining dragons, I do,

now there's majesty, in a burnt out caravan.

 

You got me off the paper round, just sprang out of the air,

the best things come from nowhere,

I love you, I don't think you care.

 

I love you through sparks and shining dragons, I do,

and the symmetry in your northern grin.

I love you through sparks and shining dragons, I do,

I can see myself in the refill litter bin.

 

You got me off the sofa, just sprang out of the air,

the best things come from nowhere, I can't believe you care.

Made Up Lovesong #43 - Guillemots

[martinist]

He just kept talking in one incredibly un-broken scentence

Moving from topic to topc

So that on one had a chance to interrupt

It was really quite hypnotic

[Ashley]

I wouldn't say theres any song lyrics that changed my life, but some have definatly moved and inspired me.

 

Tegan & Sara - I Know I Know I Know

from hundreds of miles

you cry like a baby

you plead with me

shout, scream

tell me i'm staying

i know i know i know

i'm still your love

 

A great song about the hearbreak of a relationship split especially when the love is still there.

 

The Perishers - Sway

I don't want to hurt you

I don't want to make you sway

Like I know I've done before

I will not do it any more

I've always been a dreamer

Hide my head amongst the clouds

Now that I'm coming down

Won't you be my solid ground?

 

If these weren't so "we broke up and put each other through shit but we're getting back to almost friends again"-ish they would be perfect for a wedding. So beautifully performed.

 

Cotton Mather - Lily Dreams On

 

Lily I hope you picture me in your dreams

Put down your King James Bible, You don't need no kings

Close you eyes, baby I'll dry mine

Echoes through the phone

Far from this, Lily dreams on

Think back to fields of Catherine, you used to play

I swore I heard you laughing

And almost say

Pull your mirrors down to glitter glass

And let the past be gone

Far from this, Lily dreams on

 

Thats the whole song. Its so moving and dreamy. Also why I want to call my daughter Lilly. (two 'l's is better)

 

The Format - If Work Permits

It’s a shame what your father did to your brother’s head

He smashed it with a telephone

And your mother got scared and locked the door

You were only four, but lord you remember it

So now you’re scared of love

I’m here to tell you loves not some fucking blood on the receiver

 

Scares me deeply. Because of both the lyrics and the upbeat tune that accompanies it.

[gmac]

I can't believe the news today

I can't close my eyes and make it go away

How long, how long must we sing this song?

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

[Slaggis]

There's quite a few lol

 

Counting Crows - Acidentally in Love

 

So she said what's the problem baby

What's the problem I don't know

Well maybe I'm in love (love)

Think about it every time

I think about it

Can't stop thinking 'bout it

 

How much longer will it take to cure this

Just to cure it cause I can't ignore it if it's love (love)

Makes me wanna turn around and face me but I don't know nothing 'bout love

 

 

Half Cocked - Bad Reputation

 

I don't give a damn

'Bout my reputation

I've never been afraid of any deviation

An' I don't really care

If ya think I'm strange

I ain't gonna change

An' I'm never gonna care

'Bout my bad reputation

 

 

Avril Lavigne - Loosing Grip

 

Are you aware of what you make me feel, baby

Right now I feel invisible to you, like I'm not real

Didn't you feel me lock my arms around you

Why'd you turn away?

Here's what I have to say

I was left to cry there, waiting outside there

Burning with a lost stare

That's when I decided

 

Why should I care

'Cuz you weren't there when I was scared

I was so alone

You, you need to listen

I'm starting to trip, I'm losing my grip

And I'm in this thing alone

 

 

Avril Lavigne - Fall to Peices

 

I looked away

then I look back at you,

You try to say

the things that you can't undo,

If I had my way

I'd never get over you,

Today's the day

I pray that we make it through.

 

Make it through the fall,

Make it through it all.

 

And I don't wanna fall to pieces

I just wanna sit and stare at you.

I don't wanna talk about it

And I don't want a conversation

I just wanna cry in front of you.

and I don't wanna talk about it

'Cause I'm in love with you.

I'm in love with you,

'Cause I'm in love with you.

I'm in love with you,

I'm in love with you.

[Ramar]

You promised me starry night skies

They just remind me of your shining bright eyes

I'm missing your voice at night time

This sepa-separation seem-seems a sad crime

 

B-b-b-but don't don't don't think think think I forgot you you you

Are are are oh so sweet I I I - I knew

 

If only you were here

Things would be more magical

 

If I was there

Right now would be more radical

 

You're so not near

I'm wishing I could place a call

 

And feel closer to you ooo-ooo

 

Call n Return - hellogoodbye

Bit long but..some awesome lyrics.

 

You sir are made of win!! That song made my summer last year.

 

Ultimate lyric awsomeness

 

"Dare - dare to believe you can survive

You hold the future in your hand

Dare - dare to keep all of your dreams alive

It's time to take a stand

And you can win, if you dare"

 

Dare by Stan Bush

[KKOB]

He will then be reborn,

From 1970s porn,

Wearing tube socks with style,

And such an innocent smile,

 

. . . No, it will not be me,

Rufus the baptist i be,

No i won't be the one,

Baptised in cum,

What will happen instead,

Someone will demand my head,

And then i will kneel down,

And give it to them looking down.

 

Better pray for your sins,

Cos the gay messiah's coming.

 

Rufus Wainwright - Gay Messiah - funny clever little song!

[jayseven]

Like actually the song I have to play at my wedding/funeral.

 

Does your girlfriend know she'll be a widow the same day she's a bride?

[DCK]

It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest

It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief

All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief

U2 had incredibly good lyrics in their Achtung Baby/Zooropa/Pop era.

[Jav_NE]

Not a song that has changed my life, but i just love this line;

 

It's never too late to be early, or try and maintain some scrap of integrity and certainty, i guess.

 

Pulmonary Archery by Alexisonfire