lyrics that won't leave me alone.

[Jon]

i know you're there
i wish you'd talk
should i stay on or should i get off?

roll over to me, roll over
roll over to me, roll over

but there is nothing i'd rather do
than spend all day in the sack with you
i want to mess up my sheets with you
there is nothing i'd rather doooo.
-mirah, 100 knives.

[lyrics lose some meaning in the absence of counting]

[Orangey]

Someone's knockin on my kitchen door
Leave the wood outside
What all the girls here are freezing cold
Leave me with your Borneo
I don't need much to keep me warm

Don't stop now what you're doin
What you're goin my ugly one
Bring them all here
Hard to hid a hundred girls in your hair
It won't be fair if I hate her
If I ate her you can go now

You're already in there
I'll be wearing your tatoo
You're already in there

Got a cloud sleeping on my tongue
He goes then it goes and kiss the violets
As they're waking up

Leave me with your Borneo
Leave me the way I was before

You're already in there
I'll be wearing your tatoo
I'm already in
Circles and circles and circles again
The girl's in

-Cloud On My Tongue, Tori Amos

[ajblaise]

Someone's knockin on my kitchen door
Leave the wood outside
What all the girls here are freezing cold
Leave me with your Borneo
I don't need much to keep me warm

Don't stop now what you're doin
What you're goin my ugly one
Bring them all here
Hard to hid a hundred girls in your hair
It won't be fair if I hate her
If I ate her you can go now

You're already in there
I'll be wearing your tatoo
You're already in there

Got a cloud sleeping on my tongue
He goes then it goes and kiss the violets
As they're waking up

Leave me with your Borneo
Leave me the way I was before

You're already in there
I'll be wearing your tatoo
I'm already in
Circles and circles and circles again
The girl's in

-Cloud On My Tongue, Tori Amos

hey you might be an INFP yet..

[Athenian200]

Not sure why, but this one...

Crime Pays - Fr/action

Now we live in desperate times
Standing ground behind the lines
Watch your back
Obey the signs
Can't avoid the futile crimes

Laws will pass
So laws will break
Pay the price for one mistake
What you've earned someone will take
Realize the games we make

Life's short, and time will fly
Years pass before our eyes
Stand now and wonder why
Crime pays, and then you die

Things change, but in the end
Fair play cannot contend
Believe you will ascend
Crime pays, I can't pretend

[Orangey]

hey you might be an INFP yet..

Sure, if enjoying lyrics makes one an INFP ;). The thread says 'lyrics that won't leave me alone' anyway...and these won't leave me alone (much as with most of her music) because they're so opaque that definite meaning is difficult to extract from them.

[ajblaise]

..enjoying Tori Amos lyrics.

[Orangey]

They're interesting. If that makes me an NF then so be it (the better for NF's).

[bluemonday]

..enjoying Tori Amos lyrics.
+1
gotta love crazy cornflake girls.

[anii]

one day those toughies will be withered up and bent
the father son the holy warriors and the president

[bluemonday]

Blue Monday


sassayh!

[Jon]

because they're so opaque that definite meaning is difficult to extract from them.

what do you think they mean?

[dnivera]

Every time I try to pick it up like falling sand
As fast as I pick it up it runs away from my clutching hands

There's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else I can really do at all

- The Cure, "A Letter to Elise"

[Orangey]

what do you think they mean?

I don't think that they mean any one thing. And if you're asking for my personal interpretation, I'm sorry to disappoint but I don't have one. What makes them so appealing to me is simply the fact that they have such flexible meaning. And also because I find the contrast of words to be stimulating.

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I'm not generally someone who pays attention to lyrics in the music I listen to. Still, this particular song stays with me and hits me in the gut because I see myself in it.

She was sixteen and six feet tall
In a crowd of teenagers comin' out of the zoo
She stumbled started to slip and fall
Teeter-tottered on the top of patent leather shoes
I happened to catch her and said,
"maybe these ruby shoes are a little cumbersome for you"

Maybe for you, now

But not as shaky as I must have seemed
Talkin' junk through her giggle, little teenage dream
And on the phone I could not compete
My dumb-love fake competence was getting weak
For a sec' I thought I sounded sweet
But sure 'nough in a gruff, faint voice
I heard myself speak

[Chorus:]
I could stay a while
But sooner or later I'll break your smile
And I can tell a joke
But one of these days I'm bound to choke
And we could share a kiss
But I feel like I can't go through with this
And I bet we could build a home
But I know the right thing for me to do
Is to leave you alone

Leave you alone, now

I'm beginning to like you
So you probably won't get what I'm going to do
I'm walkin' away from you
It probably don't make much sense to you
But I'm trying to save you
From all of the things that I'll probably say or do

I'll probably do

[Chorus:]
I could stay a while
But sooner or later I'll break your smile
And I can tell a joke
But one of these days I'm bound to choke
And we might share a kiss
But I feel like a can't go through with this
And I bet we could build a home
But I know the right thing for me to do
Is to leave you alone

Leave you alone, now

You'll probably call me a fool
And say I'm doin' exactly what a coward would do
And I'm beginning to like you
It's a shame what a lame way to live
But what can I do?
I hope you appreciate what I do

I'm a martyr for my love for you
A martyr for my love for you, now
A martyr for my love for you
A martyr for my love for you

[Jon]

I don't think that they mean any one thing. And if you're asking for my personal interpretation, I'm sorry to disappoint but I don't have one. What makes them so appealing to me is simply the fact that they have such flexible meaning. And also because I find the contrast of words to be stimulating.

gotcha. and i'm sure the counting is awesome too.

[Jon]

I'm not generally someone who pays attention to lyrics in the music I listen to. Still, this particular song stays with me and hits me in the gut because I see myself in it.
[/I]

Really? You don't pay attention to the lyrics? They're just as musical as the music.

I've always had respect for the stripes.

What's he doing in this song, though? He likes her and yet he's peacing. Why?

[Orangey]

gotcha. and i'm sure the counting is awesome too.

The counting?

[EffEmDoubleyou]

Really? You don't pay attention to the lyrics? They're just as musical as the music.

I've always had respect for the stripes.

What's he doing in this song, though? He likes her and yet he's peacing. Why?

I agree that lyrics are just as musical as the music. But I hear the voice as just another instrument unless the lyrics really speak to me. There's lots of music I love that I could never enjoy if I actually listened to what the lyrics mean.

And he does like her, which is why he doesn't want to do her wrong in the end. The narrator has a habit of bailing out of relationships when he has a crisis of confidence. And he wants to save this girl the hurt that is coming to her down the line by getting out before anyone is too invested. I admit that my reading of the lyrics is colored by the fact that I do this exact same thing :)

[Orangey]

I agree that lyrics are just as musical as the music. But I hear the voice as just another instrument unless the lyrics really speak to me. There's lots of music I love that I could never enjoy if I actually listened to what the lyrics mean.

And he does like her, which is why he doesn't want to do her wrong in the end. The narrator has a habit of bailing out of relationships when he has a crisis of confidence. And he wants to save this girl the hurt that is coming to her down the line by getting out before anyone is too invested. I admit that my reading of the lyrics is colored by the fact that I do this exact same thing :)

Yeah, sometimes the lyrics can kill a song that's really strong musically (if you choose to interpret them).

[ajblaise]

I like vocals, but the confines created by language and especially rhyming is limiting musically.

[Jon]

The counting?

Yea. Our interest in lyrics may be an interest in 1 of 3 things: (1) the content of the sentences, (2) the pace at which the words are being sung (the counting), or (3) both #1 and #2.

#2 is often thought to be associated with the rhythm or beat of the song (which may or may not be true depending on the song). This interest often goes unnoticed. Regardless, though, it stands that we derive a significant amount of pleasure from repeating certain patterns of counting.

Ex) the song that's in my head right now is like: 1....2..3.4.5...6..7.8.9...10..11, etc...where the dots represent how long the note is held and which syllable of the word is being held for how long.

[Orangey]

Listening to music in foreign languages makes me appreciate vocals more.

[EffEmDoubleyou]

Yeah, sometimes the lyrics can kill a song that's really strong musically (if you choose to interpret them).

True. One of my favorite bands is Def Leppard (Quiet, I'm old!) and if I ever stopped to listen to the lyrics in a critical way, I could never listen to them again.

[Orangey]

Yea. Our interest in lyrics may be an interest in 1 of 3 things: (1) the content of the sentences, (2) the pace at which the words are being sung (the counting), or (3) both #1 and #2.

#2 is often thought to be associated with the rhythm or beat of the song (which may or may not be true depending on the song). This interest often goes unnoticed. Regardless, though, it stands that we derive a significant amount of pleasure from repeating certain patterns of counting.

Ex) the song that's in my head right now is like: 1....2..3.4.5...6..7.8.9...10..11, etc...where the dots represent how long the note is held and which syllable of the word is being held for how long.

Aha...I do like music where the 'counting' is staggered or made inconsistent so that interest and dissonance (not the MBTIc member, ha) are created.

[Orangey]

True. One of my favorite bands is Def Leppard (Quiet, I'm old!) and if I ever stopped to listen to the lyrics in a critical way, I could never listen to them again.

Lol! Same with the Beatles (a lot of their stuff), early Pink Floyd (in my view, anyway), the list goes on.

[Jon]

I agree that lyrics are just as musical as the music. But I hear the voice as just another instrument unless the lyrics really speak to me. There's lots of music I love that I could never enjoy if I actually listened to what the lyrics mean.

And he does like her, which is why he doesn't want to do her wrong in the end. The narrator has a habit of bailing out of relationships when he has a crisis of confidence. And he wants to save this girl the hurt that is coming to her down the line by getting out before anyone is too invested. I admit that my reading of the lyrics is colored by the fact that I do this exact same thing :)

I totally get what you're saying now re: lyrical meaning. I agree.

Confidence, eh. I guess he's gotta solve that before it's too late. But he shouldn't just give up and claim (at the start) that he'll hurt her in the end. Doing this dooms it from the start. He is already giving up on his ability to change. That or he knows he'll never change (which begs the question, "why will he never change?").

[Jon]

I like vocals, but the confines created by language and especially rhyming is limiting musically.

This is interesting. Language confines music? What makes the language of music more vast than spoken language?



Regarding foreign lyrics: yea, to me, the fact that I don't know what they're saying just emphasizes the count.

Regarding lyrical meaning: yea, a lot of musicians are scum-bags. creeepy. I mean, The Police: I'll be watching you....wwoooowww...I mean, I'd never listen to the song but gee...psycho...

[Orangey]

This is interesting. Language confines music? What makes the language of music more vast than spoken language?



Regarding foreign lyrics: yea, to me, the fact that I don't know what they're saying just emphasizes the count.

Regarding lyrical meaning: yea, a lot of musicians are scum-bags. creeepy. I mean, The Police: I'll be watching you....wwoooowww...I mean, I'd never listen to the song but gee...psycho...

Vocal texture and range as well.

[Jon]

Vocal texture and range as well.

Ok, good. Vocal texture is definitely key. What sense of "range" are you using?

[Orangey]

Ok, good. Vocal texture is definitely key. What sense of "range" are you using?

The range of the singer (octaves), although that doesn't always matter in pop music.

[Jon]

The range of the singer (octaves), although that doesn't always matter in pop music.

The vocal texture may change depending on the language but you're saying that the range changes as well? I don't know if it does or not but I would guess that it doesn't. If it does then how is this done?

[Orangey]

The vocal texture may change depending on the language but you're saying that the range changes as well? I don't know if it does or not but I would guess that it doesn't. If it does then how is this done?

Oh, no, that's not what I meant. All I was saying was that lyrics in a foreign language help me to listen better to the vocals because I'm not distracted by the words. And it therefore helps me notice both the texture of the vocal and the range more so than I would have if the lyrics were in English.

I didn't mean that the language had any actual effect on the range. Oops, must have phrased my comment wrong. But yeah, I can see how the vocal texture may be changed because of the language, but definitely not the range.

[Jon]

Oh, no, that's not what I meant. All I was saying was that lyrics in a foreign language help me to listen better to the vocals because I'm not distracted by the words. And it therefore helps me notice both the texture of the vocal and the range more so than I would have if the lyrics were in English.

I didn't mean that the language had any actual effect on the range. Oops, must have phrased my comment wrong. But yeah, I can see how the vocal texture may be changed because of the language, but definitely not the range.


This makes me wonder about the other sounds we have yet to create and what impact they will have on us (given your comment that another language - which is another sound - can help you understand texture and range better). There is an infinite number of sounds given the endless combinations that can be made and maybe one specific combination will have such an impact on us as to change the way we process our thoughts. I guess physics would deny this by stating that we know the limits of what is audible (and everything in between) and that there is no such sound that could achieve this.

[disregard]

the chorus of made of stone by the stone roses

Sometimes IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Fantasiiiiiiiiiiiiiize
When the streets are cold and lonely
And the cars they burn below me
Don't these tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimes
Fill your eyeeeeeeeeeeees
When the streets are cold and lonely
And the cars they burn below me
Are you all alooooone?
Are you made of stone?

:D

The verses are fun to sing too.

[Uberfuhrer]

Anything by William Shatner.

Get out of my head, goddammit!

[sanveane]

^Hah, yeah I'd like to hear him do "Closer" by NIN :wubbie:

[Jack Flak]

^Hah, yeah I'd like to hear him do "Closer" by NIN :wubbie:
Ewwwww. I can barely stomach the original version. It's one of my least favorite NIN songs, yet I'm sure I've heard it ten times more than any other due to POPULARITY.

[sanveane]

^I like paradox, which is why I would find it amusing if William Shatner did a version. EDIT: Not a big NIN fan at all...

[sanveane]

Father and Son by Cat Stevens. Affects me deeply. I particularly identify with the son's perspective.

(Father)
It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

I was once like you are now, and I know that its not easy,
To be calm when you've found something going on.
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

(Son)
How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again.
It's always been the same, same old story.
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.

(Father)
It's not time to make a change,
Just sit down, take it slowly.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to go through.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.
(son-- away away away, I know I have to
Make this decision alone - no)

(Son)
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.
(father-- stay stay stay, why must you go and
Make this decision alone? )

[Jon]

Father and Son by Cat Stevens. Affects me deeply. I particularly identify with the son's perspective.

(Father)
It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

I was once like you are now, and I know that its not easy,
To be calm when you've found something going on.
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

(Son)
How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again.
It's always been the same, same old story.
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.

(Father)
It's not time to make a change,
Just sit down, take it slowly.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to go through.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.
(son-- away away away, I know I have to
Make this decision alone - no)

(Son)
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.
(father-- stay stay stay, why must you go and
Make this decision alone? )

I totally agree. This song is awesome. Check out this commercial, lol: YouTube - Father and Son (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtU0S1rG2fM) (awww, Saatchi..)

[sanveane]

^Seriously, it's the one song where I cannot keep it together when I hear it.

[Jon]

^Seriously, it's the one song where I cannot keep it together when I hear it.

definitely. I feel the same way.

Supposedly, Cat refused Telecom (and every other company that wanted the song) when they asked to use it but changed his mind after seeing the video.

This song has a lot of truth as well:

Mad World
Gary Jules (cover of Tears for Fears)

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad World
Enlarging your world
Mad World.

[Orangey]

Ooh, love Mad World.

[Beat]

I saw Gary Jules do a sound check of that song when he played here (I didn't stick around for his set). It was just random. I was at the venue and he happened to be there, on stage. Good song, both versions.

One of the prettiest songs, IMO (stunning, really...):

YouTube - Sting - Fields Of Gold (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UppX6vP3c4g)

You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in its jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold

So she took her love
For to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold

Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We'll forget the sun in its jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold

See the west wind move
Like a lover's soul
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold

I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold

Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold

You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in its jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold

[Jon]

oh gosh. we haven't mentioned Regina.

watchwatchwatchwatchwatchwatchwatchwatchwatchwatch :

YouTube - Regina Spektor US (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pKujuTgtL0&feature=related)

This song/music video should have its own thread because of: the stop motion animation, the oversized piano keys, her voice, the lyrics, the runaway table, her lips, the way she packs up the room, her facial expressions. wow.

Regina Spektor: Us

They made a statue of us
and put it on a mountaintop
Now tourists come and stare at us
Blow bubbles with their gum, take photographs of fun
have fun

they'll name a city after us
and later say it's all our fault
then they'll give us a talking to
then they'll give us a talking to
cause they've got years of experience

we're living in a den of thieves
rummaging for answers in the pages
we're living in a den of thieves
and it's contagious

we wear our scarves just like a noose
but not cause we want eternal sleep
and though our parts are slightly used
new ones are slave labor you can keep

we're living in a den of thieves
rummaging for answers in the pages
we're living in a den of thieves
and it's contagious

They made a statue of us
They made a statue of us
The tourists come and stare and us
The sculptor's momma sends regards
They made a statue of us
They made a statue of us
Our noses have begun to rust

we're living in a den of thieves
rummaging for answers in the pages
we're living in a den of thieves
and it's contagious

[Lithium]

stronger - 30 seconds to mars cover version

Let's get lost tonight,
You can be my black Kate Moss tonight.
Play secretary, I'm the boss tonight,
And you don't give a fuck what they all say right
Awesome, the Christian in Christian Dior,
Damn, they don't make 'em like this anymore,
I ask 'cause I'm not sure,
Do anybody make real shit anymore?
Bow in the presence of greatness
'Cause right now thou hast forsaken us.
You should be honoured by my lateness,
That I would even show up to this fake shit.
So go ahead, go nuts, go ape shit...

I don't know if you got a man or not,
If you made plans or not,
If God put me in your plans or not,
I'm trippin', this drink got me sayin' a lot.
But I know that God put you in front of me,
So how the hell could you front on me?
There's a thousand yous, there's only one of me.
I'm trippin', I'm caught up in the moment, right
'Cause it's Louis Vuitton Don night,
So we gon' do everything that Kan like,
Heard they do anything for a Klondike,
Well, I'd do anything for a blonde dyke.
And she'll do anything for the limelight,
And we'll do anything when the time's right,
Uh, baby, you're makin' it
Harder, better, faster, stronger,

Now that don't kill me,
Can only make me stronger, oh!
I need you to hurry up now, oh!
'Cause I can't wait much longer, oh!
I know I got to be right now, oh!
'Cause I can't get much wronger, oh!
Man, I been waitin' all night now,
That's how long I've been on ya.

I need you right now,
I need you right now.

[heart]

Listening to music in foreign languages makes me appreciate vocals more.

+1

[Mempy]

Father and Son by Cat Stevens. Affects me deeply. I particularly identify with the son's perspective.

(Father)
It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

I was once like you are now, and I know that its not easy,
To be calm when you've found something going on.
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

(Son)
How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again.
It's always been the same, same old story.
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.

(Father)
It's not time to make a change,
Just sit down, take it slowly.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to go through.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.
(son-- away away away, I know I have to
Make this decision alone - no)

(Son)
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.
(father-- stay stay stay, why must you go and
Make this decision alone? )

I love this song. It's always affected me a little. I didn't even know that it was both the son AND the father talking, though; I always thought it was just the dad! And I can totally relate to the son more, too. I love how he sings this song. :)

[Uberfuhrer]

^Hah, yeah I'd like to hear him do "Closer" by NIN :wubbie:

That's funny, I mentioned at another site that I wanted him to do "You Know What You Are" by NIN.

[sanveane]

I love this song. It's always affected me a little. I didn't even know that it was both the son AND the father talking, though; I always thought it was just the dad! And I can totally relate to the son more, too. I love how he sings this song. :)


I almost wrote that a lot of people do not realize it's the father and son! So much more affecting knowing that. I was listening to it loads last night, then I called my Dad. :)

That's funny, I mentioned at another site that I wanted him to do "You Know What You Are" by NIN.

haha, cool! I don't know that one, yeah I think "Closer" would be hilarious...

[Mempy]

Man, I didn't realize there were so many songs whose lyrics I really liked in this thread! Weird! I love the lyrics of "Mad World," too.

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad world
[...]
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me

[phoenix13]

Wait a minute... this is a lyrics thread, and no one has posted Sondheim?! No more, I say! ...and that's the song that plays in my head at least once a week. (the italicized lyric loops in my head far more often)

NO MORE

No more questions,
Please.
No more tests.
Comes the day you say, "What for?"
Please- no more.

MYSTERIOUS MAN
They disappoint,
They disappear,
They die but they don't...

BAKER
What?

MYSTERIOUS MAN
They disappoint
In turn, I fear.
Forgive, though, they won't...

BAKER
No more riddles.
No more jests.
No more curses you can't undo,
Left by fathers you never knew.
No more quests.

No more feelings.
Time to shut the door.
Just- no more.

MYSTERIOUS MAN
Running away- let's do it,
Free from the ties that bind.
No more depair
Or burdens to bear
Out there in the yonder.

Running away- go to it.
Where did you have in mind?
Have to take care:
Unless there's a "where,"
You'll only be wandering blind.
Just more questions.
Different kind.

Where are we to go?
Where are we ever to go?

Running away- we'll do it.
Why sit around, resigned?
Trouble is, son,
The farther you run,
The more you feel undefined
For what you've left undone
And, more, what you've left behind.

We disappoint,
We leave a mess,
We die but we don't...

BAKER
We disappoint
In turn, I guess.
Forget, though, we won't...

BOTH
Like father, like son.

BAKER
No more giants
Waging war.
Can't we just pursue out lives
With out children and our wives?
'Till that happy day arrives,
How do you ignore
All the witches,
All the curses,
All the wolves, all the lies,
The false hopes, the goodbyes,
The reverses,
All the wondering what even worse is
Still in store?

All the children...
All the giants...

No more.

[disregard]

The Kinks -- Strangers

Where are you going I don't mind
I've killed my world and I've killed my time
So where do I go, what do I see?
I see many people coming after me
So where are you going to I don't mind
If I live too long I'm afraid I'll die
So I will follow you wherever you go
If your offered hand is still open to me

Strangers on this road we are on
We are not two we are one

So you've been where I've just come
From the land that brings losers on
So we will share this road we walk
And mind our mouths and beware our talk
'Till peace we find, tell you what I'll do
All the things I own I will share with you
If I feel tomorrow like I feel today
We'll take what we want and give the rest away

Strangers on this road we are on
We are not two we are one

Holy man and holy priest
This love of life makes me weak at my knees
And when we get there make your play
'Cos soon I feel you're gonna carry us away
In a promised lie you made us believe
For many men there is so much grief
And my mind is proud but it aches with rage
And if I live too long I'm afraid I'll die

Strangers on this road we are on
We are not two we are one
Strangers on this road we are on
We are not two we are one

[Flush]

I love the way Devin writes his lyrics. They're are so... different.

Devin Townsend - The Death Of Music

Question...
Leapt like dog from man...
Terminate high thinking...
Known in your prophecy...

Sun... Son...
Sun it shifts, and brittleness subsides
To sleep... sleep away

One comes, the rain will always be
And things I am
Are things that should not be
They laughed at me but we never bothered

My friends and I
There were no others

Now it comes...
Bolt across the blue...
Shadows dance over the land...
Walls high, water deep
Brick and steel gathering speed
Guess it's just a feeling
Guess it's just a feeling...

Rain may come
The rain may never be
In things you are
Are things I need to be
My friends were there but they never bothered

Now there's you and I an
There are no others

It's like when death becomes musical
It's musical
It's like a death becomes musical
Musical

And it comes
To make sure that he will never rise
And the groans from the bellies
Have never cried this hard
And the eyes of the wicked ones
Have never been full of dust
In the middle of the sea it waits...
Closer...

Home, nor anywhere on Earth on that final day will anyone be apart
...one...schooled...together...
Towards the sea...
And we may drown, fly, fall from faith
...but the pain won't be realized
Because the emotions will hit as god should
And the mountains will offer no shelter
And the clouds will be no cover
No matter where we run...

Don't die on me
Don't go away
When I need you here
In my need

The rain will come
The rain will always be
In things I am
Are things that have to be
My friends have come and I never bothered

Myself and I
There is no other

It's like a death becomes musical
It's musical
_______________________________________________

I love this song. It's so beautiful...

[Flush]

Oh, how could I forget this one?

Devin Townsend - Dynamics

Winter hides the dead
Just like summer ends too soon
Springing forth the new knowing
Autumn is the tomb

And I'll wait for you
'Cause it's waiting for you
Living hides the dead just like
Suns and earth and moon
Springing forth the new knowing
Flowers need to bloom

And I'll wait for you
'Cause it's waiting for you
Unsure? Well, here's help with the wait
The heavens move and the earth will quake
And now god has failed as a metaphor
There's only awe forever more

Life is all dynamics
Life is all... dynamics
There's life in all dynamics

Life is all dynamic

Unsure? Well, here's help with the weight
There's only "god" for "heaven's" sake
There's only one key to unlock the door
You must get by the metaphor
(God help our mother... love one another!)
__________________________________________

Really, really, really good.

[Kora]

This part of Reptilia by the Strokes

I said please don't slow me down
If I'm going too fast
You're in a strange part of our town...

Yeah, the night's not over
You're not trying hard enough,
Our lives are changing lanes
You ran me off the road,
The wait is over
I'm now taking over,
You're no longer laughing
I'm not drowning fast enough.

Now every time that I look at myself
"I thought I told you
this world is not for you"

[Jon]

This part of Reptilia by the Strokes

I said please don't slow me down
If I'm going too fast
You're in a strange part of our town...

Yeah, the night's not over
You're not trying hard enough,
Our lives are changing lanes
You ran me off the road,
The wait is over
I'm now taking over,
You're no longer laughing
I'm not drowning fast enough.

Now every time that I look at myself
"I thought I told you
this world is not for you"

YES YES YES. god yes.

[EJCC]

Here's part of one that I have a serious love-hate relationship with... As the thread title says, it won't leave me alone, but it may have scarred me.


"Fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),
a patient better driver,
a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals
(never washing spiders down the plughole),
keep in contact with old friends
(enjoy a drink now and then),
will frequently check credit at
(moral) bank (hole in the wall),
favors for favors,
fond but not in love,
charity standing orders,
on Sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants),
car wash
(also on Sundays),
no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,
nothing so childish - at a better pace,
slower and more calculated,
no chance of escape,
now self-employed,
concerned (but powerless),
an empowered and informed member of society
(pragmatism not idealism),
will not cry in public,
less chance of illness..."

- "Fitter Happier", Radiohead

[heart]

Everybody talks about a new world in the morning.
A new world in the morning so they say.
I, myself don't talk about a new world in the morning.
A new world in the morning, that's today.
And I can feel a new tomorrow comin' on.
And I don't know why I have to make a song.
Everybody talks a bout a new world in the morning.
New world in the morning takes so long.

I met a man who had a dream he had since he was twenty.
I met that man when he was eighty-one.
He said too many people just stand and wait up til the mornin',
Don't they know tomorrow never comes.
And he would feel a new tomorrow coming on.
And when he'd smile his eyes would twinkle up in thought.

Everybody talks about a new world in the morning.
New world in the morning never comes.
And I can feel a new tomorrow coming on.
And I don't know why I have to make a song.
Everybody talks about a new world in the morning.
New world in the morning takes so long.

[EJCC]

Ooh, love Mad World.

Me too. A few years ago I had an obsession with it. I'd listen to it over and over every day (though it never quite got to the level where I would pick out the piano part by ear).

[heart]

"Question"

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war.

It's where we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need.
In a world of persecution
That is burning in it's greed.

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
Because the truth is hard to swallow
That's what the wall of love is for.

It's not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me.
It's more the way that you mean it
When you tell me what will be.

And when you stop and think about it
You won't believe it's true.
That all the love you've been giving
Has all been meant for you.

I'm looking for someone to change my life.
I'm looking for a miracle in my life.
And if you could see what it's done to me
To lose the the love I knew
Could safely lead me through.

Between the silence of the mountains
And the crashing of the sea
There lies a land I once lived in
And she's waiting there for me.

But in the grey of the morning
My mind becomes confused
Between the dead and the sleeping
And the road that I must choose.

I'm looking for someone to change my life.
I'm looking for a miracle in my life.
And if you could see what it's done to me
To lose the the love I knew
Could safely lead me to
The land that I once knew.
To learn as we grow old
The secrets of our souls.

It's not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me.
It's more the way you really mean it
When you tell me what will be.

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war.

It's where we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need.
In a world of persecution
That is burning in it's greed.

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?

[Gish]

"Believe"


The faces all around me they don't smile they just crack
Waiting for our ship to come but our ships not coming back
We do have time like pennies in a jar
What are we saving for

There's a smell of stale fear and it's reeking from our skins
The drinking never stops because the drinks absolve our sins
We sit and grow our roots into the floor
What are we waiting for


So give me something to believe
Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe

Something's always coming you can hear it in the ground
It swells into the air
With the rising
Rising sound
And never comes but shakes the boards and rattles all the doors
What are we waiting for


So give me something to believe
Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe

I am hiding from some beast
But the beast was always here
Watching without eyes
Because the beast is just my fear
That I am just nothing
Now its just what I've become
What am I waiting for
Its already done


So give me something to believe
Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe

[AwesomeCakes]

"Believe"


The faces all around me they don't smile they just crack
Waiting for our ship to come but our ships not coming back
We do have time like pennies in a jar
What are we saving for

There's a smell of stale fear and it's reeking from our skins
The drinking never stops because the drinks absolve our sins
We sit and grow our roots into the floor
What are we waiting for


So give me something to believe
Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe

Something's always coming you can hear it in the ground
It swells into the air
With the rising
Rising sound
And never comes but shakes the boards and rattles all the doors
What are we waiting for


So give me something to believe
Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe

I am hiding from some beast
But the beast was always here
Watching without eyes
Because the beast is just my fear
That I am just nothing
Now its just what I've become
What am I waiting for
Its already done


So give me something to believe
Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe

:hug: I LOVE this song.

[PollyPeachum]

If you don't mind why don't you mind
Where is your sense of indignation
You are too kind
Much too kind
Where is the madness that you promised me?
Where is the dream for which I paid dearly?
When things go wrong I sing along
It is the nature of the business
But you're not here to make my sad songs more sincere
No one will ever love you honestly
No one will ever love you for your honesty
No one will ever love you honestly
No one will ever love you for your honesty

[phoenix13]

Lyrics to Stephen Sondheim's "The Road You Didn't Take" come into my head regularly. It's about making choices and dealing with the "what-ifs" in life.:

The Road You Didn't Take

You're either a poet, or you're a lover
Or you're the famous Benjamin Stone.
You take one road, you try one door.
There isn't time for any more.
One's life consists of either/or.
One has regrets, which one forgets,
And as the years go on...

The road you didn't take hardly comes to mind.
Does it?
The door you didn't try, where could it have led?
The choice you didn't make never was defined.
Was it!

Dreams you didn't dare are dead.
Were they ever there? Who said!
I don't remember, I don't remember at all.

The books I'll never read wouldn't change a thing.
Would they?
The girls I'll never know, I'm too tired for.
The lives I'll never lead couldn't make me sing.
Could they?

Chances that you miss-- Ignore.
Ignorance is bliss-- What's more,
You won't remember, you won't remember at all.
Not at all.

You yearn for the women, long for the money,
Envy the famous Benjamin Stones.
You take your road, the decades fly.
The yearnings fade, the longings die.
You learn to bid them all goodbye.
And oh, the peace, the blessed peace...
At last you come to know:

The roads you never take go through rocky ground.
Don't they?
The choices that you make, aren't all that grim.
The worlds you never see, still will be around.
Won't they!
The Ben I'll never be, who remembers him?

[burkeus]

Ben was a dog I remember.

[disregard]

I like the line between your belly and your thighs (rollin' along, rollin' along)
The smell of your hair, the sparkle in your eyes (rollin' along, rollin' along)
Smoke in your breath, your breathing hard and heavy
The back of your neck, the shine on your Chevy
The moon was so big when I drove into the levy, girl (rollin' along, rollin' along)

I found blood and I saw stars all in the backseat of your car
And I told you it was love, but you don't wanna know the truth
I'm a young man in my prime, but my heart's still filled with fear
And it goes on clear...

The clean dreams, the sexy limousine (rollin' along, rollin' along)
Jason's got the energy, used to be a coke fiend (rollin' along, rollin' along)
Skinny brown arms coming out of your shirt
Heart is in the right place, brain is in the dirt
You live life like everyone's an enemy (rollin' along, rollin' along)

I found blood and I saw stars all in the backseat of your car
And I told you it was love, but you don't wanna know the truth
I'm a young man in my prime, but my heart's still filled with fear
And it goes on clear...

YouTube - MGMT - Indie Rokkers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgW0RaWUS0I)

[cloakofsnow]

This is just a song that I just keep singing. For over a year now. Not entirely sure why. Or maybe I do know why, in ineffable kind of way..

Somewhere Only We Know (Keane)

I walked across an empty land,
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand.
I felt the earth beneath my feet,
Sat by the river and made it complete.

Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on.
So tell me when you're going to let me in,
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.

I came across a fallen elm tree,
I felt the branches; are they looking at me?
Is this the place we use to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on.
So tell me when you're gonna let me in,
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.
So if you have a minute why don't we go,
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything.
So why don't we go, somewhere only we know,
Somewhere only we know.

[cloakofsnow]

This is from The Secret Garden, my favourite movie ever since I saw it 15 years ago. For the last two years I couldn't stop singing this song, during evenings when I'm alone, or quietly to myself when I'm at work and see that no one is around to hear..

Winter Light (Linda Ronstadt)

Hearts call
Hearts fall
swallowed in the rain
Who knows
life grows hollow and so vain

Wandering in the winter light
the wicked and the sane
bear witness to salvation
and life starts over again

Now the clear sky is all around you
Love's shadow will surround you
all through the night
Star glowing in the twilight
Tell me true
Hope whispers
and I will follow
till you love me too

[cloakofsnow]

And this is the third one.


Moment of Peace (Gregorian)

Come now, come by our side
A place where you can hide
We are the sunshine
Rest your soul here
And you'll find
We are the energy
We give the world to thee
Hold up your heart now
We will ease pain from your brow

When the world is in tatters
And destruction is near
You can come with us here

When the people are strangers
You'll rest here with me
In a moment of peace

Light up the dark below,
See through the stars,
Reach to the earth's flow
Drift in the joy of our hearts,
Unleash the energy,
Taste of the wine
Drink as a soul
That knows now, power divine

[Owl]

Psalm 102:1-12 set to meter.

To this my prayer O listen, LORD!
And let my cry for help reach You.
In day of grief hide not Your face.
Your list’ning ear toward me O bend;
The day I call, Your answer send,

For all my days go up in smoke,
And like a hearth my bones are burned.
Like grass my heart is crushed and dried;
I daily food forgotten leave;
My skin and bones together cleave.

With sighs and groans my frame resounds.
I’m like a desert pelican,
Or like an owl in ruined wastes.
I lie awake, as on the roof
A sparrow stands, alone, aloof.

All day my foes their taunts repeat;
Those filled with anger curse my name.
I food with tears and ashes mix,
For You on me in anger frown;
You raised me up to throw me down.

An ev’ning shadow are my days;
Like grass I wither soon away.
But You, Jehovah, sit enthroned
Forever; Your memorial
Abides through generations all.

[InaF3157]

I can tell by your eyes that you've
probably been crying forever
And the stars in the sky don't mean
nothing to you they're a mirror

[InaF3157]

And when I asked for a separate room
It was late at night
And we'd been driving since noon
But if I'd known
How that would sound to you
I would have stayed in your bed
For the rest of my life
Just to prove I was right
That it's harder to be friends than lovers
And you shouldn't try to mix the two
Cause if you do it and you're still unhappy
Then you know that the problem is you

[ed111]

These are great lyrics, but don't take my word for it, any major dude will tell you...

Steely Dan - Any Major Dude

I never seen you looking so bad my funky one
You tell me that your superfine mind has come undone
Chorus:
Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend
Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again
When the demon is at your door
In the morning it wont be there no more
Any major dude will tell you

Have you ever seen a squonks tears? well, look at mine
The people on the street have all seen better times

Chorus

I can tell you all I know, the where to go, the what to do
You can try to run but you cant hide from whats inside of you

Chorus

YouTube - Steely Dan - Any Major Dude Will Tell You (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm0Iq5ebU9U)

[WobblyStilettos]

IT'S JUST A JUMP TO THE LEFT
THEN A STEP TO THE RIIIIIIIIGHT
etc.

[Jack Flak]

Then I spin around? Oh, that was tight?

YouTube - MC Hammer Dance Machine 90's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60aOwWuE2C4)

I can't stop now! YEAHHH!

[JivinJeffJones]

Sometimes I feel I've got to *clapclap* run away I've got to *clapclap* get away from the pain that etc.



2 fucking days now.

[InaF3157]

This one is *always* always with me:

L'amour est un oiseau rebelle
Que nul ne peut apprivoiser

[ed111]

Steely Dan - Deacon Blues

I love the line, "I cried when I wrote this song"

This is the day
Of the expanding man
That shape is my shade
There where I used to stand
It seems like only yesterday
I gazed through the glass
At ramblers
Wild gamblers
That's all in the past

You call me a fool
You say it's a crazy scheme
This one's for real
I already bought the dream
So useless to ask me why
Throw a kiss and say goodbye
I'll make it this time
I'm ready to cross that fine line

CHORUS:
I'll learn to work the saxophone
I'll play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whisky all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues

My back to the wall
A victim of laughing chance
This is for me
The essence of true romance
Sharing the things we know and love
With those of my kind
Libations
Sensations
That stagger the mind

I crawl like a viper
Through these suburban streets
Make love to these women
Languid and bittersweet
I'll rise when the sun goes down
Cover every game in town
A world of my own
I'll make it my home sweet home

CHORUS

This is the night
Of the expanding the man
I take one last drag
As I approach the stand
I cried when I wrote this song
Sue me if I play too long
This brother is free
I'll be what I want to be

CHORUS

YouTube - Steely Dan- Deacon Blues (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=inz9Sa_CVFs&feature=related)

[EJCC]

Sometimes I feel I've got to *clapclap* run away I've got to *clapclap* get away from the pain that etc.



2 fucking days now.

w00t! That song is sexy and awesome. :)

But it's annoying if/when it's in your head and you don't know all the words.

[sanveane]

Smokey - Red House Painters

I'm broken down
You caved my karma in
I'm staying up
Waiting for you like a fool

You made me forget
About all the dreams I kept
I keep your glass here
By the bed we slept

I can't erase your smokey eyes
Your smothered face
Gripping on my waist
Leaving a ghost
Upon the Oregon Coast

And on the floors
Of a crashes porch

Who can pretend
That there's a beginning and not an end?
It ain't contrived
All this magic in our lives
Comes down like a storm
Then drizzles then dies

Your soul is free
But you're the one I need
And you made your deal
But you're still my ideal

And so I wait
And so I choose this fate
And store your shape
In my electric bed

Who can pretend
That there's a beginning and not an end?
It ain't contrived
All the magic in our lives
Comes down like a storm
Then drizzles then dies

[Kora]

I never realized how much I relate to The Logical Song.

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well theyd be singing so happily,
Joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
Clinical, intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what weve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

Now watch what you say or theyll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Wont you sign up your name, wed like to feel youre
Acceptable, respecable, presentable, a vegtable!

At night, when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what weve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.