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Posted on 11/27/12 at 8:12 pm to
Posted by Mottleduk
Moss Bluff
Member since Nov 2009
561 posts
Posted on 11/27/12 at 8:12 pm to
"I found her on the first warm day
The rain had washed the snow away
Gone for wood and lost her way back home.
Now I ain't the kind that believes in ghosts
But some nights I get pretty close
When the North Dakota winter moans
When the North Dakota winter moans"

Chris Knight-North Dakota
Posted by SlidellBammer
Member since Oct 2008
2380 posts
Posted on 11/27/12 at 8:13 pm to
"Black" by Pearl Jam
quote:

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine


"I Could Have Lied" by RHCP
quote:

There must be something
In the way I feel
That she don't want me to feel
The stare she bares cut me
I don't care
You see so what if I bleed

I could never change
Just what I feel
My face will never show
What is not real

A mountain never seems to have
The need to speak
A look that shares so many seek
The sweetest feeling
I got from you
The things I said to you were true

I could never change
Just what I feel
My face will never show
What is not real

I could have lied I'm such a fool
My eyes could never never never
Keep their cool
Showed her and I told her how
She struck me but I'm fricked up now

But now she's gone yes she's gone away
A soulful song
That would not stay
You see she hides 'cause she is scared
But I don't care
I won't be spared


and the most poignant hip hop verse of all time by CeeLo in his Goodie Mob days from "I refuse limitation"

quote:

Well I woke up this mornin with the same frustration from situations like these
Got a call about some work from one of them temporary agencies
No high school diploma or any college degrees
I can't enlist but they'll draft me if there's a war overseas
Oh please
Of course I can slice some OZs
But see I'm one of those aspiring MCs
And uh bills are due so at times I'm doubtful and everyone disagrees
But I'd rather struggle on my feet than to live on my knees
So my uniform tight workin all night at Mickey D's
Got about 90 dollars and some change after the government
get they fees
These minimum wages ain't enough to feed my babies
Purposely these limitations on black folks opportunities
So I quit cuz I'm tired of being one of those overworked
underpaid employees
Stop carin at all went on and did a few small burglaries
It seems like my face done turned into forgotten memories
And I ain't gettin away with nothing because I know He always sees
But see right now I need to see how I can get this here dope sold
I done stuffed in my pocket as many rocks as it can hold
They gon get high so I'ma get my money even though it's freezin cold
Now how many times you done heard this story told?
Believe it or not, it's some very intelligent junkies
But dependencies is eatin away at they souls like disease
Anyone can turn into somebody who covets and envies
Unequal economics can easily make you some enemies
And the crime rate never drops to the cops ride around in threes
I knew he would have killed me if I did anything but freeze
They found the rest of the dope in some nearby shrubberies
In a dimlit room being questioned by these authorities
And they gave me some time in correctional facilities
And now my woman's gotta take on a man's responsibilities


Posted by IonaTiger
The Commonwealth Of Virginia
Member since Mar 2006
33048 posts
Posted on 11/27/12 at 8:34 pm to
quote:

The phone don't ring
And the sun refused to shine
Never thought I'd have to pay so dearly
For what was already mine
For such a long, long time
We made mad love
Shadow love
Random love
And abandoned love
Accidentally like a martyr

zevon


One of my favorites!


ETA: I would add Zevon's "Keep Me In Your Heart":

Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile
If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile

When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for awhile
There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for awhile


Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sometimes when you're doing simple things
around the house
Maybe you'll think of me and smile
You know I'm tied to you like the buttons on
your blouse
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Hold me in your thoughts, take me to your dreams
Touch me as I fall into view
When the winter comes keep the fires lit
And I will be right next to you

Engine driver's headed north to Pleasant Stream
Keep me in your heart for awhile
These wheels keep turning but they're running out
of steam
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Keep me in your heart for awhile
This post was edited on 11/27/12 at 9:08 pm
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
26957 posts
Posted on 11/27/12 at 11:10 pm to
Pearl Jam Black line someone beat me to.

"It says, 'son. Time is all the luck you need.'" 7 Mary Three.

More Pearl Jam. The End.
"People change as does everything.
I wanted to grow old.
I just want to grow old."
Everybody knows somebody who died too soon. That line makes me think of EVERY one I have ever known .

Now to lighten my mood.

"The dance is always better when the stripper's crying."
I have no idea who wrote/sang that.
Posted by TigersMaul Bammers
Normandy Park, WA
Member since Apr 2009
870 posts
Posted on 11/27/12 at 11:17 pm to
Love Nick Cave's lyrics and honesty. Here's some of my other favorites

The only girl I've ever loved
Was born with roses in her eyes
But then they buried her alive
One evening 1945
With just her sister at her side
And only weeks before the guns
All came and rained on everyone
Now she's a little boy in Spain
Playing pianos filled with flames
On empty rings around the sun
All sing to say my dream has come
But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on
And now we ride the circus wheel
With your dark brother wrapped in white
Says it was good to be alive
But now he rides a comet's flame
And won't be coming back again
The earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are
He didn't mean to make you cry
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
On empty rings around your heart
The world just screams and falls apart
But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on
And here's where your mother sleeps
And here is the room where your brothers were born
Indentions in the sheets
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
And it's so sad to see the world agree
That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes


Read more: NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL - HOLLAND, 1945 LYRICS
Posted by kbro
North Carolina, via NOLA
Member since Jan 2007
5014 posts
Posted on 11/27/12 at 11:37 pm to
quote:

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL - HOLLAND, 1945 LYRICS


Great one...
Posted by kbro
North Carolina, via NOLA
Member since Jan 2007
5014 posts
Posted on 11/27/12 at 11:46 pm to
From Nick Cave's 'The Curse Of Millhaven'

quote:

Since I was no bigger than a weavil
They've been saying I was evil

That if bad was a boot that I'd fit it
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been trying hard lately
O frick it, I'm a monster I admit it
Posted by BunkieWrench
Katy
Member since Nov 2008
5600 posts
Posted on 11/27/12 at 11:47 pm to
Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have

I still recall the taste of your tears
Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears
My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore
Scraping through my head 'till I don't want to sleep
Anymore

You make this all go away
You make this all go away
I'm down to just one thing
And i'm starting to scare myself
You make this all go away
You make this all go way
I just want something
I just want something I can never have

You always were the one to show me how
Back then I couldn't do the things that I can do now
This thing is slowly taking me apart
Gray would be the colour if I had a heart
Come on, tell me

You make this all go away
You make this all go away
I'm down to just one thing
And I'm starting to scare myself
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
I just want something
I just want something I can never have

In this place it seems like such a shame
Though it all looks different now
I know it's still the same
Everywhere I look you're all I see
Just a fading fricking reminder of who I used to be
Come on, tell me!

You make this all go away
You make this all go away
I'm down to just one thing
And i'm starting to scare myself
You make this all go away
You make it all go way
I just want something
I just want something I can never have
I just want something I can never have
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
26957 posts
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:06 pm to
"I wish I could be like all my heroes.
Wish I could be like all yours too.

Wish I could sing like Otis Redding.
I wish I could play this guitar in tune."

Everclear
Posted by TigersMaul Bammers
Normandy Park, WA
Member since Apr 2009
870 posts
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:19 pm to
These PJ Harvey lyrics still creep me out to this day--

I lost my heart
Under the bridge
To that little girl
So much to me
And now I'm old
And now I holler
She'll never know
Just what I found

That blue eyed girl
(that blue eyed girl)
She said "no more"
(she said "no more")
That blue eyed girl
(that blue eyed girl)
Became blue eyed whore
('came blue eyed whore)
Down by the water
(down by the water)
I took her hand
(I took her hand)
Just like my daughter
(just like my daughter)
Won't see her again
(see her again)

Oh help me jesus
Come through this storm
I had to lose her
To do her harm
I heard her holler
(I heard her holler)
I heard her moan
(I heard her moan)
My lovely daughter
(my lovely daughter)
I took her home
(I took her home)

Little fish. big fish. Swimming in the water.
Come back here, man. gimme my daughter.
Little fish. big fish. Swimming in the water.
Come back here, man. gimme my daughter.
Little fish. big fish. Swimming in the water.
Come back here, man. gimme my daughter ....
Posted by lsuguy13
RIP MATT
Member since Mar 2004
9509 posts
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:35 pm to
i have a lot of lyrics that speak to me.

the whole song forever young by audra mae

Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight
Why am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sight
Why am I trying to give, when no one gives me a try
Why am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?
someone tell me why???
Tupac

Be grateful for blessings, don't ever change, keep your essence. - 2 Pac

I will never be anything till I break away from me. I will break away, I'll find myself today. I wanna heal, I wanna feel. - Linkin Park

ill post more laterr
Posted by lsuguy13
RIP MATT
Member since Mar 2004
9509 posts
Posted on 11/28/12 at 11:58 pm to
I've seen my people's dreams die
I've seen what they can be denied
And "weeds not a drug" - that's denial
Groundhog Day life repeat each time
I've seen Oxycontin take three lives
I grew up with them, we used to chief dimes
I've seen cocaine bring out the demons inside
Cheatin' and lyin'
Friendship cease, no peace in the mind
Stealin' and takin' anything to fix the pieces inside
Broken, hopeless, headed nowhere
Only motivation for what the dealer's supplying
That rush, that drug, that dope
Those pills, that crumb, that roach
Thinkin' I would never do that, not that drug
And growing up nobody ever does
Until your stuck, lookin' in the mirror like I can't believe what I've become
Swore I was goin' to be someone
And growing up everyone always does
We sell our dreams and our potential
To escape through that buzz

macklamore otherside

ive had a battle with drugs for quite some time. hes been through it too. lot of his songs deal with that
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
66763 posts
Posted on 11/29/12 at 12:03 am to
"Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bone
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong"

Tennessee Ernie ford- sixteen tons
Posted by Macintosh504
Leveraging Salaries University
Member since Sep 2011
52510 posts
Posted on 11/29/12 at 12:42 am to
A lotof Arcade Fire songs.

Backseat is a good one
Posted by Flair Chops
to the west, my soul is bound
Member since Nov 2010
35569 posts
Posted on 11/30/12 at 9:01 am to
Tonight I feel like an old violin,
Soon to be put away and never played again.
Don't ask me why I feel like this, hell, I can't say.
I only wish this feelin' would just go away.
I guess it's 'cos the truth,
Is the hardest thing I ever faced.
'Cos you can't change the truth,
In the slightest way. I tried.

paycheck, old violin

Posted by Drive-by Tiger
Member since Aug 2012
27 posts
Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:40 pm to
And I can't tell you
How many ways that I've sat and viewed my life today
But I can tell you
I don't think that I can find an easy way
So, if I see you
Walkin' hand in hand in hand
With the three armed man
You know I'd understand
But you should've been in my shoes yesterday.

'St. Andrew's Fall'
Blind Melon

Posted by Drive-by Tiger
Member since Aug 2012
27 posts
Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:42 pm to
If any of you don't know about Shannon Hoon, that song sums up his struggles late in his short life. Incredible stuff from an incredible talent. Listen to that song if you haven't before,
Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
66982 posts
Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:47 pm to
Very possibly my favortie set of lyrics ever:

Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light
To chase a feather in the wind
Within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight
There moves a thread that has no end.

For many hours and days that pass ever soon
the tides have caused the flame to dim
At last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom
Is this to end or just begin?

All of my love, all of my love,
All of my love to you.

The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again
One voice is clear above the din
Proud Arianne one word, my will to sustain
For me, the cloth once more to spin

Yours is the cloth, mine is the hand that sews time
his is the force that lies within
Ours is the fire, all the warmth we can find
He is a feather in the wind

All of my love - Led Zeppelin

I dont think Bill Withers has any love yet:
Use me:
Talkin about you usin people
It all depends on what you do
It ain't too bad the way you're usin' me
'Cause I sure am usin' you to do the things you do'
to do the things you do

Lean on me:
Sometimes in our lives
We all have pain, we all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need somebody to lean on

Please, swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you won't let show

You just call on me, brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on
This post was edited on 12/2/12 at 9:52 pm
Posted by Doosh606
The DC
Member since Apr 2008
3232 posts
Posted on 12/2/12 at 10:11 pm to
Gotta go with something different:

Squint your eyes to see clearly. Blur reality to make
it real
Let focus go from your deceiving eyes to know what's
been concealed
We've all been blinded - Subjects to visual
misinformation
A systematic denial of the crystalline

To see the fine grain, to read the hidden words
The context of parallel truth - Devoid of
fragmentation

Our light-induced image of truth - Filtered blank of
its substance
As our eyes won't adhere to intuitive lines
Everything examined, Separated, one thing at a time
The harder we stare the more complete the
disintegration. -Dissolution

Eyes re-opened, Reasoning focalized, Receptors
activated

Perspectives distorted
The ladder beyond our grasp
The twin-headed serpent forever hidden
Where's the true knowledge -
Where engines of the sane & insanity merge
The clarity. The unity

Reality untouchable, transparent, invisible
to our fixed, restricted fields of vision
Existence taken for granted. -Absolute

Possessed, owned, controlled
By the common sense-infected rational gaze
Onward forever we walk among the ignorant
Never stray from the common lines

Meshuggah: Rational Gaze
This post was edited on 12/2/12 at 10:12 pm
Posted by IonaTiger
The Commonwealth Of Virginia
Member since Mar 2006
33048 posts
Posted on 12/2/12 at 10:15 pm to
These lyics from Annie Lennox' "Why" always struck me:

I may be mad
I may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking
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