Favorite Music Lyrics (Read the Fucking Rules You Damn Philistines)

[morphsci]

And in honor of the Masters:

Artist: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Album: American Dream

Song: An American Dream

Lyrics:

I beg your pardon momma

What did you say?

My mind was drifted off on Martinique Bay

It's not that I'm not interested you see

Augusta Georgia is just no place to be

[Abbadon]

Artist: Cream

Album: Disraeli Gears

Song: Tales of Brave Ulysses

Lyrics:

And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise,

And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea.

And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body,

Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.

[Happy Camper]

Pink Floyd

DSotM

Time

But you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking

Racing around to come up behind you again.

The sun is the same, in a relative way but your older.

Shorter of breath, and one day, closer to death

Steve Walsh

Schemer-Dreamer

Every Step of the Way

Well it's been 9 or 10 years since I started my ramblin round

and from hand to mouth I was livin, playin every bar in town.

Though a dollar a day didn't go too far, I could never deny my pride.

I couldn't lay back and be taken care of, while the world went by outside.

So I went to school to learn, but I didn't like what they teach.

And I went to church to pray, but I didn't like what they preach.

I was hot-headed, young and angry, and I felt I could take the heat.

And I had to find out my own way, how to live out on the street.

So I packed my bags and I left here, to peruse the streets alone.

And I saw that side of midnight, where the beggars howled and groaned.

Faces filled with desperation, where the future ain't so bright

But I remember back in Kansas, when we sang this song at night Every Step........

[deepak]

The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

I get a laugh every time The Queen is Dead comes to an end with this song. So good.

"Some girls are bigger than others

Some girls are bigger than others

Some girl's mothers are bigger than

Other girl's mothers"

[Upstateguy]

Artist: Warren Zevon

Album:

Song: "Lawyers, Guns and Money"

Lyric: "Send lawyers, guns and money,The shit has hit the fan"

[Pars]

Artist: Secret Machines

Album: 10 Silver Drops

Song: can't recall

Lyric: Just because I'm wrong doesn't mean you're right...

[postjack]

Artist: RA

Album: 29

Song: 29

"Most of my friends are married and making them babies,

To most of them I already died,

And whatever it is about you I've always hated,

Is something about myself I just couldn't hide."

[Upstateguy]

Artist: John Lennon

Ablum:

Song: Working Class Hero

Lyric:

And you think you're so clever and class less and free

But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

USG

[postjack]

Artist: John Lennon

Ablum:

Song: Working Class Hero

Lyric:

And you think you're so clever and class less and free

But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

USG

that song is so punk rock. more punk then the MC5 anyway.

[riceboy]

Artist: John Lennon

Song: Working Class Hero

Lyric:

And you think you're so clever and class less and free

But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

USG

Very nice. I sure do like that song a bunch

[postjack]

Artist: Drive-By Truckers (Mike Cooley)

Album: The Dirty South

Song: "Carl Perkins Cadillac"

Life ain't nothing but a blending up of all the ups and downs

Dammit Elvis, don't you know

You made your Mama so proud

Before you ever made that record, before there ever was a Sun

Before you ever lost that Cadillac that Carl Perkins won

Mr. Phillips found old Johnny Cash and he was high

High before he ever took those pills and he's still too proud to die

Mr. Phillips never said anything behind nobody's back

Like "Dammit Elvis, don't he know, he ain't no Johnny Cash"

If Mr. Phillips was the only man that Jerry Lee still would call sir

Then I guess Mr. Phillips did all of Y'all about as good as you deserve

He did just what he said he was gonna do and the money came in sacks

New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac

[gauche]

Artist: Taj Mahal (I think)

Album: ??

Song: ??

Lyric: "Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker drink all the liquor down in Costa Ricker ain't nobody's business from my own."

Can anyone confirm that the artist is Taj and the name of the album?

and

Artist: The Doors

Album: Live

Song: N/A

Lyric: "YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!"

Can anyone tell me what album this was originally on? The LIve version has some pretty annoying background audience noise.

[Dusty Chalk]

Artist: Rodney Carrington

Album: King of the Mountains

Song: Show Them To Me

Lyrics:

Oh it seems to me this whole world's gone crazy

There's too much hate and killin' goin' on

But when I see the bare chest of a woman

My worries and my problems are all gone

No one thinks of fightin', when they see a topless girl

Baby if you would show yours too, we could save the world

Show them to me, show them to me

Unclasp your bra and set those puppies free

They'd look a whole lot better without that sweater baby I'm sure you'll agree

If you got two fun bags

Show them to me

I don't care if they don't match or ones bigger than the other

You could show me one, and I'll imagine the other

Even if you're really old, theres nothing wrong

Don't be sad your boobs ain't bad, they're just a little long

Show them to me, show them to me

Lift up your shirt and let the whole world see

Just disrobe, show your globes and a happy man I'll be

If you got dos chichi's,

Show them to me

I've met a lot of them, but never one I've hated

Even if you've had thirteen kids and you think they look deflated

Theres no such thing as a bad breast, I believe this much is true

If you're a big fat man I'm a titty fan and I'd love to see yours too

Show them to me, show them to me

Just like the girls gone wild on T.V.

Just lean back and show your rack and I'll be in ecstasy

If you got two casabas

Show them to me

All the world will live in harmony

It'll do you good, it'll give me wood, we'll make history

If you love your country, I'm gonna say it one more time,

I said if you love your country yeah

Then stand your ass up and show them big old titties to me

[grawk]

She's so beautifully broken

You can barely see the flaw

Especially from a distance

Which is always how I fall

Why do I fall for the dangerous ones

The ones that never learned to let go

And why do I lie to myself

And pretend that I can break her

When she's already been so

Beautifully broken

[Dominatrice]

Artist: Sublime

Album: 40oz to Freedom

Song: "Smoke Two Joints"

Lyric: "Smoke two joints in the morning, smoke two joints at night, smoke two joints in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright. I smoke two in time of peace and during times of war, i smoke two joints before i smoke two joints and then i smoke two more."

[gauche]

Artist: Sublime

Album: 40oz to Freedom

Song: "Smoke Two Joints"

Lyric: "Smoke two joints in the morning, smoke two joints at night, smoke two joints in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright. I smoke two in time of peace and during times of war, i smoke two joints before i smoke two joints and then i smoke two more."

Artist: The Toyes

Album: The Toyes

Song: "Smoke Two Joints" (1993)

Lyric: "Smoke two joints in the morning, smoke two joints at night, smoke two joints in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright. I smoke two in time of peace and during times of war, i smoke two joints before i smoke two joints and then i smoke two more."

[diebenkorn]

Artist: Company FLow (EL-P)

Album: Funcrusher PLus

Song: "The Fire In Which You Burn"

Lyric: Even when I say nothing it's a beautiful use of negative space

[Dusty Chalk]

Artist: depeche Mode

Album: Construction Time Again

Song: "And Then..."

Lyric:

Let's take the whole of the world

The mountains and the sand

Let all the boys and the girls

Shape it in their hands

To put it all down and start again

From the top to the bottom and then

I'll have faith, or I prefer

To think that things couldn't turn out worse

[barmar46]

Artist: Leonard Cohen

Album: SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE

(I know the rules, I just couldn't find the italics on this new but lame Dell computer that I didn't want in the first place but since my wife rules...)

Song: Famous Blue Raincoat

Lyric: "Thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes. I thought it was there for good, so I never tried."

[en480c4]

Artist: Scarling

Album: So Long, Scarecrow

Song: "Hello London"

Lyric:

"We are paranoid

All our friends agree

Lately I've forgotten you

Know you'll remember me

Cause I am spinning round and round

Like a record in your head

Seizing your subconscious

Until you wish me dead..."

[Dusty Chalk]

Artist: depeche Mode

Album: Construction Time Again

Song: "Shame"

Lyric:

It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up...

But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?

[Dusty Chalk]

Artist: Joseph Arthur

Song: Joseph Arthur- All of Our Hands Lpv - Free MP3 Stream on IMEEM Music@@AMEPARAM@@http://media.imeem.com/m/JRNVdKAK5w/aus=false/@@AMEPARAM@@JRNVdKAK5w

Lyric:

Until we feed the starving, blood is on all of our hands;

Babylon is burning and there is no promised land;

Until we clothe the naked, all of us are damned;

Dreams are just for savages calling themselves men;

And in time...fire will rain down on our head;

The sky will open up and life will be bled.

Also,

We are all the same spirit, we are all the same love;

And still somehow we've chosen to slaughter the white dove.

And,

Truth is just a word said to the ones who plead;

What will we get back when we plant a poison seed?

This is actually one of those songs that is absolutely powerful, lyrically, from beginning to end. Worth seeking out the entirety of the lyrics.

[Knuckledragger]

M-W defines a sample as "an excerpt from a musical recording that is used in another artist's recording." Usually, samples are taken out of context of the original, and put to a different purpose. In this case, taking a verse from a song about madness, murder and revenge, and turning it into a reflection on isolation, loneliness and possibly lust.

Artist: Diamond Head

Album: Lightning to the Nations

Song: Am I Evil?

Lyric:

I'll make my residence, I'll watch your fire

You can come with me, sweet desire

My face is long forgot, my face not my own

Sweet and timely whore, take me home

[Dusty Chalk]

Artist: Rob Dougan

Song: "Drinking Song"

Album: Furious Angels

Lyric:

I want to write a simple song

that's so frequently sung

That you call me to have the thing banned

Who's charm so endears

that whole nations cheer

and sigh...when you you take my hand

Edited August 16, 2008 by Dusty Chalk

[NightWoundsTime]

Artist: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

Album: I See A Darkness

Song: Nomadic Reverie (All Around)

o all around a left buttock

and all around a right

all around your every curve

I'm going to go tonight

but only hold me, hold me

all the city's on me

and all their wish to scold me

and lay their hands upon me

so only hold me, hold me

and I'll return't you baby

I just need an evening

with someone nice to hide me

Artist: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

Album: I See A Darkness

Song: I See A Darkness

we've shared our thoughts

but did you ever, ever notice

the kind of thoughts I got

well you know I have a love

a love for everyone I know

and you know I have a drive

to live I won't let go

but can you see its opposition

comes a-rising up sometimes

that it's dreadful and position

comes blacking in my mind

and that I see a darkness

And one more. Obviously this album means a lot to me. Speaking of black and darkness as a concept of depression:

Artist: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

Album: I See A Darkness

Song: Black

So I thought I'd try to cut him

Try to force him 'neath my level

The only way to equal to him

Would be hit him with a shovel

But to really rise above him

That would be the final evil

So instead I asked the sucker

If he'd care to see my rooms

And as a friend and as a comrade

And all the things that these implied

I made him leave what it was that he had

Used to keep us unallied

But really, I'm alright.