[MrMajestic]

Please share some of your favorite lyrics. (there is probably some other thread like this, but I did not check.) Please keep them relatively short. Also just one quote per person per day. List artist, album and song.

Thanks,

Here is mine...

...the roof is red
and fiery like a volcano,
I'll wear it like a massive halo
and the pretty speckled length of twine
that wrapped around your neck is mine.
A ruby rose, stiff and froze
is what I give to you.

Artist: Ruby
Album: Salt Peter
Song: Salt Water Fish

 

[MrMajestic]

I thought more people than zero would want to share.

 

[zowie]

Is it an earthquake or simply a shock?
Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock?
Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy?
Or is what I feel the real McCoy?

Is it for all time or simply a lark?
Is it Granada I see or only Asbury Park?
Is it a fancy not worth thinking of?
Or is it at long last love?

 

[zowie]

You crave one kiss of my clay-cold lips,
But my breath smells earthy strong.
If you have one kiss of my clay-cold lips,
Your time will not be long.

The Unquiet Grave (Child # 78)

 

[elrod-tom]

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been.

You've been in the pipeline, filling in time,
provided with toys and Scouting for Boys.
You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn't like school, and you know you're nobody's fool,

So welcome to the machine.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream.

You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar,
He always ate in the Steak Bar. He loved to drive in his Jaguar.
So welcome to the machine.

 

[elrod-tom]

She said I know what it's like to be dead
I know what it is to be sad
And she's making me feel like I've never been born.

I said "Who put all those things in your head
Things that ake me feel that I'm mad
And you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said "you don't understand what I said"
I said "No, no, no, you're wrong"
When I was a boy everything was right
Everything was right

I said "Even though you know what you know
I know that I'm ready to leave
'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said "you don't understand what I said"
I said "No, no, no, you're wrong"
When I was a boy everything was right
Everything was right

I said "Even though you know what you know
I know that I'm ready to leave
'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said I know what it's like to be dead
I know what it is to be sad...

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMajestic I thought more people than zero would want to share.

Actually, this is a great idea. Now let's see -- Leonard Cohen's one of my favorite lyricists, it's just tough to pick one particular song. Let's try this:

Now, Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water,
And he spent a long time watching from a lonely wooden tower.
And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him,
He said "All men shall be sailors, then, until the sea shall free them."
But he himself was broken, long before the sky would open.
Forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.

from "Suzanne", on Songs of Leonard Cohen

 

[elrod-tom]

Well I heard there was a secret chord
that david played and it pleased the lord.
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth,
the minor fall and the major lift.
The baffled king composing hallelujah

hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah. ..

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof.
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.
And she tied you to her kitchen chair,
and she broke your throne and she cut your hair,
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah

hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah. ..

Well baby i've been here before
I've seen this room and i've walked this floor
You know I used to live alone before i knew you
Andy I've seen your flag on the marble arch,
but love is not a victory march.
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah. ..

Well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you
But remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah

hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah. ..

Maybe there's a god above
but all i've ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah. ..

 

[rsaavedra]

While you are away
my heart comes undone,
slowly unravels
in a ball of yarn.

The devil collects it
with a grin,
our love,
in a ball of yarn.

He'll never return it,
so when you come back
we'll have to make new love.

(Unravel, Bjork)

 

[Head Creep]

I always found the lyrics of some Alice in Chains songs to be hauntingly beautiful, with this one standing out in my mind at the moment...

Hey, I ain't never coming home
Hey, I'll just wander my own road
Hey, I can't meet you here tomorrow
Say goodbye don't follow
Misery so hollow

Hey you, you're livin' life full throttle
Hey you, pass me down that bottle, yeah
Hey you, you can't shake me round now
I get so lost and don't know how
And it hurts to care, I'm going down

Forgot my woman, lost my friends
Things I'd done and where I've been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors cold
See my face it's growin' old
Scared to death no reason why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things I said
Read the page it's cold and dead

Take me home
-Alice in Chains - Don't Follow
From the album Jar of Flies, IMO one of the greatest albums of all time.

 

[Mr.PD]

You guys remember way too much of a song.

One line that sticks in my head is from Courtney Love.
"Your little sugar coated world is rotten to the core
I didn't know you were born without a soul"

 

[Head Creep]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr.PD You guys remember way too much of a song.

I remember only a few lines every here and there, unless I'm completely in love with a song. But to save typing, no matter what, I just use Google to find the lyrics.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Hate to let a good thread die. Let's try this, from the late, great, lamented Warren Zevon:

Big gorilla at the LA Zoo
Snatched the glasses right off my face
Took the keys to my BMW
Left me here to take his place

I wish the ape a lot of success
I'm sorry my apartment's a mess
Most of all I'm sorry if I made you blue
I'm bettin' the gorilla will too

They say Jesus will find you wherever you go
But when he'll come looking for you they don't know
In the meantime keep your profile low
Gorilla, you're a desperado

He built a house on an acre of land
He called it Villa Gorilla
Now I hear he's gettin' divorced
Laying low at L'Hermitage, of course

Then the ape grew very depressed
Went through transactional analysis
He plays racquetball and runs in the rain
Still he's shackled to a platinum chain

Big gorilla at the LA Zoo
Snatched the glasses right off my face
Took the keys to my BMW
Left me here to take his place...

"Gorilla, You're A Desperado" by Warren Zevon, from Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School

 

[Jahn]

Lets Do It
[Lets Fall In Love]

Birds do it,_ Bees do it,__
e-ven ed-u-cat-ed fleas do it,___
Let's do it,__ Let's fall in__ love._______

In Spain, the best up-per _ sets do it,__
Lith - u - an-i-ans and Letts do it,__
Let's do it,___ Let's fall in__love._______

The Dutch in old Am-ster-dam do it,__
Not to men - tion the Finns
Folks in Si - am do it,__
Think of Si - am - ese twins.

Some Ar-gen-tines, with-out means, do it,__
Peo-ple say, in Bos-ton, ev - en beans do it,__
Let's do it,___ Let's fall in__love._______

Ro-mantic Spon - ges, they_ say, do it,__
Oy-sters, down in Oy - ster Bay, do it,__
Let's do it,___ Let's fall in__love._______

Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their__ wish, do it,__
ev-en laz - y Jel - ly - fish do it,__
Let's do it,___ Let's fall in__love._______

E-lect-ric eels, I might_ add, do it,__
Though it shocks 'em I know.
Why ask if__ shad do it,__
Wait - er, bring me shad - roe.

In shal-low shoals, Eng - lish soles do it,__
Gold-fish, in the pri - va -cy of bowls, do it,__
Let's do it,___ Let's fall in__love._______

 

[Alu]

Genesis - Snowbound (Genesis for president(s))

Lay your body down upon the midnight snow,
Feel the cold of winter in your hair
Here in a world of your own,
In a casing that's grown
To a children's delight
That arrived overnight.

And here they come to play their magic games
Carving names upon your frozen hand.
Here in a world of your own,
Like a sleeper whose eyes
Sees the pain with surprise
As it smothers your cries
They'll never never know.

Hey there's a Snowman
Hey, Hey what a Snowman
Pray for the Snowman
Ooh, Ooh what a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep.

Smiling faces tear your body to the ground
Covered red that only we can see.
Here in a ball that they made
>From the snow on the ground,
See it rolling away
With wild eyes to the sky
They'll never, never know.

Hey there's a Snowman
Hey what a Snowman
Pray for the Snowman
Ooh, Ooh what a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep.

Hey there goes the Snowman
Hey there what a Snowman
Hey there lies the Snowman
Hey he was a Snowman
They say a snow year's a good year
Filled with the love of all who lie so deep.