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Artist: Megadeth

Album: Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

Song: My Last Words

Lyric:

A couple grains of powder,

A couple grams of lead.

A touch against the trigger,

A touch inside the head.

Take another drink, and

Raise the last bets.

Think about my last words,

They might be what I just said.

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That is the greatest douchebag song ever. 8)

Artist: Wu-Tang Clan

Album: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Song: Da Mystery of Chessboxin' (Masta Killa's verse)

Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty

What justifies the homicide, when he dies?

In his own iniquity it's the

Master of the Mantis Rapture coming at you

We have an APB on an MC Killer

Looks like the work of a Master

Evidence indicates that's it's stature

Merciless like a terrorist hard to capture

The flow, changes like a chameleon

Plays like a friend and stabs you like a dagger

This technique attacks the immune system

Disguised like a lie paralyzing the victim

You scream as it enters your bloodstream

Erupts your brain from the pain these thoughts contain

Moving on a nigga with the speed of a centipede

and injure - ANY MOTHERFUCKING CONTENDER

He sounds like he's slicing you up with his rhymes! So damn serious.
  • 1 month later...
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Peter Gabriel

3

Games Without Frontiers

"Hans plays with lotte, lotte plays with jane

Jane plays with willi, willi is happy again

Suki plays with leo, sacha plays with britt

Adolf builts a bonfire, enrico plays with it"

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Artist: Peter Hammill

Album: In Camera

Song: The Comet, The Course, The Tail

"In the slaughterhouse all corpses smell the same,

whether queens or pawns or innocents at the game; "

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Artist: The National

Album: Alligator

Song: "Stretch's Theme" "All The Wine"

I'm put together beautifully,

Big wet bottle in my fist, big wet rose in my teeth.

I'm perfect piece of ass, like every Californian.

So tall I take over the street, with high-beams shining up my back.

A wingspan unbelievable,

I'm a festival! I'm a parade!

And all the wine is all for me.

;D

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Artist: Goo Dolls

Album: Dizzy Up The Girl

Song: "Acoustic #3"

Lyric:

They painted up your secrets

With the lies they told to you

And the least they ever gave you

Was the most you ever knew

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There was never any good old days

They are today, they are tomorrow

It's a stupid thing we say

Cursing tomorrow with sorrow

Eugene Hutz - Gogol Bordello - "Ultimate" from the album Super Tarantal

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Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

Stop

I know a sickness

So ancient and cross

No crucifix

Could ever fix enough

In the basement of a church

These people, they talk

There is a line

That must be walked

If you wanna make it stop

Then stop

I know a place

Where the future is denied

I know a hand

That twitches inside

For some of us the glass

Is filled with lights

But if the honey

Makes you sick

Honey, there is a line

That must be walked

If you wanna make it stop

Then stop

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Artist: Soft Machine

Album: Soft Machine 2

Song: Hulloder

If I were black, and I lived here

I'd want to be... a big man in the FBI - or the CIA

But as I'm not - and of course I don't

And as I'm free - white and twenty-one

I don't need more power than I've got

... Except for some times when I'm broke

  • 2 months later...
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Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator

Album: Still life

Song: La Rossa

Lacking sleep and food and vision

here I am again, encamped upon your floor,

craving sanctuary and nourishment,

encouragement and sanctity and more.

The streets seemed very crowded,

I put on my bravest guise-

I know you know that I am acting,

I can see it in your eyes.

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Sullen and bored the kids stay

And in this way they wish away each day

Stoned in the mall the kids play

And in this way they wish away each day

from both "Sentimental" and "Normal", in entirely different contexts (Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson) He also reuses the line, "I do a good impression of myself" from "Anesthetize":
A good impression of myself

Not much to conceal

I'm saying nothing

But I'm saying nothing with feel

And:
My friend says he wants to die

He's in a band, they sound like Pearl Jam

Their clothes are all black

The music is crap

Porcupine Tree again, "Fear of a Blank Planet"
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Artist: Tom Waits

Album: Bone Machine

Song: Dirt In The Ground

What does it matter, a dream of love

Or a dream of lies

We're all gonna be in the same place

When we die

Your spirit don't leave knowing

Your face or your name

And the wind through your bones

Is all that remains

And we're all gonna be

We're all gonna be

Just dirt in the ground

The quill from a buzzard

The blood writes the word

I want to know am I the sky

Or a bird

'Cause hell is boiling over

And heaven is full

We're chained to the world

And we all gotta pull

And we're all gonna be

Just dirt in the ground

Now the killer was smiling

With nerves made of stone

He climbed the stairs

And the gallows groaned

And the people's hearts were pounding

They were throbbing, they were red

As he swung out over the crowd

I heard the hangman said

We're all gonna be

Just dirt in the ground

Now Cain slew Abel

He killed him with a stone

The sky cracked open

And the thunder groaned

Along a river of flesh

Can these dry bones live?

Ask a king or a beggar

And the answer they'll give

Is we're all gonna be

Yea yeah

We're all gonna be just

Dirt in the ground

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Artist: Pain of Salvation

Album: Road Salt One

Song: Of Dust

Come break my bones,

come spread my ashes.

Come wear me down,

come wear me down.

In life a king,

in death a failure.

Come help me cry,

come help me cry.

...

Dust in my throat,

dust in my nostrils.

Dust in my mouth,

dust in my eyes.

From dust I come,

through dust I wander.

Dust I'll remain - dust all I am.

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Artist: Tito Puente

Song: Senor Burns

(also my new ringtone)

Wounds won't last long

but an insulting song

Burns will always carry with him

So I'll settle my score

on the Salsa floor

with this vengeful Latin rhythm!

Edited by jinp6301
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Artist: I Love Egg

Song: Egg Song

Eggs, get your eggs here!

Fresh and white eggs are here!!!

Wiggle jiggle, yellow middle,

thats the best of what you are.

White and tender, surrond the center,

cozy sitting in a crackling shell.

Vitamins and minerals in you.

Oodles of the protiens, too!

Oodle doodle!

Popular and perfect and so complete in every way!

I love you eggs eggs!

Come into my tummy, oh so very yummy.

Crack, crack, crack!

Chipa chipa away your shell and come to me!

Get your eggs! I love you!

Fresh Eggs! I love you!

White eggs! Really really love you so!

Eggs fresh white eggs.

Eggs I really love you like the sky~ above!

Eggs are the best! I love you!

Fresh eggs! I love you!

White eggs! Really really love you so!

Eggs freshwhite eggs!

365 days I really love you so!

I really love you so! mmm! Yummy!

Egg Song | Flash Videos

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Artist: Hot Chip

Album: One Life Stand

Song: Alley Cats

Pretty much all of it, because the lyrics are so well constructed even though there's repetition. Well, the repetition is put to good effect. Here's one part:

Well we wear each other's heads like hats

Speak in tongues like alley cats

Cradle them in both our laps

When we lie (replaced by die the second time around) alone

http://www.lyricsmania.com/alley_cats_lyrics_hot_chip.html

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La Dispute - Sad Prayers for Guilty Bodies

They stored their passion in the creases in the corners of their mouths,

every angle of light from the open window washed their aged faces out.

They said, "Should we feel guilty for this sin?

Lord, did we kill a man and woman just to lie here skin to skin?"

"I wasn't happy. I wasn't happy where I was..

What is life without a purpose? What is purpose without love?

I pray my children will forgive me, though I bade the river flood.

I have washed my hands a thousand times but still can see the blood."

"Oh, great mercy, I am here to beg forgiveness for this mess.

I know I tore two worlds apart but I can't change the way I felt.

Love swept in like a storm and ripped the hinges from the doors.

Love poured in like a flood, I couldn't stop it anymore. I will not be drowned."

She said, "Lover, come and hold me, I am terribly afraid.

While you're shouting at the stars, my scars are not fading away."

He said, "Darling, I was begging heaven make them disappear, but,

See, I didn't get an answer or at least one I could hear.

Now, I am thinking of the past and how we both said vows and lied and

I am wondering how we trust ourselves to say a second time:

'To have and to hold,

From this day and onward,

For better and for worse,

For richer and for poorer,

In sickness or in health,

To love and to cherish

Till death do us part?'"

The song really channels some demons from my childhood.

  • 2 years later...
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"When you came in the air went out..."

"Bad Things", Jace Everett

Yes, I've been watching True Blood. But I find myself returning to those opening lyrics, and when I try to recreate them in my head,

I try to squeeze the word "room" in there somewhere, but ... IT'S NOT THERE...

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Artist: David Allan Coe

Song: If That Ain't Country.

Album: 17 Greatest Hits.

"Momma sells eggs at the grocery store.

My oldest sister is a first-rate whore.

Dad says she can't come home anymore

And he means it.

Ma just sits and keeps her silence.

Sister, she left 'cause Dad got violent

And he knows it."

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"In a little nowhere town

Way out deep in the woods

Sits a little lonely factory

Makin' household goods

With a little nothin' river

Flowin' by their back door

You won't find any fishin'

There ain't no fish in there no more..."

Planet P Project, "To Live Forever", Pink World

I especially like the way he slurs the syllables in that last line so that it sounds like he's singing, "There ain't no fission there no more..."

  • 2 months later...
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"Jenny", Walk the Moon:

 

"Jenny's got a body just like an hourglass...

But I'm taking my time, I'm taking my time...
I wanna be the sand inside that hourglass...
Take it slow, oh, oh, gonna make it last"

 

(emphasis mine, as that's the part I like so much -- also, kickass song)

  • 4 weeks later...
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Manfred Mann's Earth Band, "Martha's Madman", opening foray:

 

"Martha has a madman
Standing hidden in the shadows
He's got a long curved Turkish dagger
With a bejewelled handle

He's tellin' her the world is full of freaks and geeks and simples and he's
Hiding like a leprechaun under stones and in the ripples
In the pool of time she thought she knew it - but someone threw a stone into it
Which breaks up the surface and it's making her nervous..."

 

Despite being sung without question marks, this actually raises more questions than it answers -- how does one 'hide like a leprechaun'?  What is a Turkish dagger?  I mean, obviously I can picture it, but I wouldn't have called it a dagger...and why does this song show up in 4 out of 5 of their live sets on the bootlegs archives, and how on earth does it rock so hard?  And what on earth is up with that video:

 

 

Also, lollers at "simples".

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Artist: Natalie Merchant
Album: Ophelia
Song: "Thick as Thieves"
Lyric:

 

"I come to you in restless sleep

Where all your dreams turn bitter-sweet
With voodoo doll philosophies
And day-glo holy trinities

The crooked raft that leaves the shore
Ferries drunken souls aboard
Pilgrims march to Compestela
Visions of their saint in yellow

All follow deep in trance
Lost in a catatonic dance
Know no future
Damn the past
Blind, warm, ecstatic
Safe at last…"

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