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  • Registered Users Posts: 43,936 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    The Pussycat Dolls....

    .. best lyrics ever written..

    ... please tell me you're joking?! :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭Custom22


    There is such a thing as subjectivitiy you know. They are beautiful lyrics. Sheesh.

    Close second.

    BAND: FOOK
    ALBUM:FOOK - 1992
    SONG: Hips, Tits, Lips, Power!

    Hips
    Tits
    Lips
    POWER!

    I didn't want a bull in china
    I didn't want to fall in love
    Let me give you broken peices
    Hand in gloves

    I want to give you it now
    I want to give you some broken peices
    Wanna give you it now
    Hand in glove

    I want to give you it now
    Uh uh uh uh broken peices
    Wanna give you it now
    Valentine...
    Twisted tied
    Seeded valentine
    Twisted broken peices
    Twisted valentine

    Power
    I need it every hour

    Valentine
    Heart in mouth


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    somebody had to do it.

    I usually find myself listening to the music more than the lyrics. So most of the time they fly over my head.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    chiller wrote:
    love on mellon collie and the infinite sadness listen to that track brilliant love it! TO MANY OTHERS TO NAME WAY TO MANY

    yeah.......pumpkins had so many brilliant lyrics!!and brilliant songS!!i wasnt sure which one to go for for this thread,but i think Tear was lyrically their greatest song..


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Hmm lots of songs and some great ones already

    A few spring to mind


    Hotel California -Eagles

    "Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes Bends
    She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
    How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat
    Some dance to remember, some dance to forget"

    Simon And Garfunkel - The Boxer

    "In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade,
    And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down,
    Or cut him 'til he cried out in his anger and his shame,
    "I am leaving, I am leaving."
    But the fighter still remains."

    Burt Bacharach - The way to San Jose

    "In a week, maybe two, they’ll make you a star
    Weeks turn into years. how quick they pass
    And all the stars that never were
    Are parking cars and pumping gas"

    and finally

    Tom Waits- The piano has been drinking

    The piano has been drinking
    my necktie is asleep
    and the combo went back to New York
    the jukebox has to take a leak
    and the carpet needs a haircut
    and the spotlight looks like a prison break
    cause the telephone's out of cigarettes
    and the balcony's on the make
    and the piano has been drinking
    the piano has been drinking...

    and the menus are all freezing
    and the lightman's blind in one eye
    and he can't see out of the other
    and the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid
    and he showed up with his mother
    and the piano has been drinking
    the piano has been drinking

    cause the bouncer is a Sumo wrestler
    cream puff casper milk toast
    and the owner is a mental midget
    with the I.Q. of a fencepost
    cause the piano has been drinking
    the piano has been drinking...

    and you can't find your waitress
    with a Geiger counter
    And she hates you and your friends
    and you just can't get served
    without her
    and the box-office is drooling
    and the bar stools are on fire
    and the newspapers were fooling
    and the ash-trays have retired
    the piano has been drinking
    the piano has been drinking
    The piano has been drinking
    not me, not me, not me, not me, not me


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  • Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭nachos


    Favourite band at the moment, Arcade Fire.

    Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)

    And if the snow buries my,
    my neighborhood.
    And if my parents are crying
    then I'll dig a tunnel
    from my window to yours,
    yeah a tunnel from my window to yours.
    You climb out the chimney
    and meet me in the middle,
    the middle of the town.
    And since there's no one else around,
    we let our hair grow long
    and forget all we used to know,
    then our skin gets thicker
    from living out in the snow.

    You change all the lead
    sleepin' in my head,
    as the day grows dim
    I hear you sing a golden hymn.

    Then we tried to name our babies,
    but we forgot all the names that,
    the names we used to know.
    But sometimes, we remember our bedrooms,
    and our parent's bedrooms,
    and the bedrooms of our friends.
    Then we think of our parents,
    well what the hell ever happened to them?!

    You change all the lead
    sleepin' in my head to gold,
    as the day grows dim,
    I hear you sing a golden hymn,
    the song I've been trying to sing.

    Purify the colors, purify my mind.
    Purify the colors, purify my mind,
    and spread the ashes of the colors
    in this heart of mine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Nimrod's Son


    For sad yet cool lyrics: Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

    When the routine bites hard
    And ambitions are low
    And the resentment rides high
    But emotions won’t grow
    And we’re changing our ways,
    Taking different roads
    Then love, love will tear us apart again

    Why is the bedroom so cold
    Turned away on your side?
    Is my timing that flawed,
    Our respect run so dry?
    Yet there’s still this appeal
    That we’ve kept through our lives
    Love, love will tear us apart again

    Do you cry out in your sleep
    All my failings expose?
    Get a taste in my mouth
    As desperation takes hold
    Is it something so good
    Just can’t function no more?
    When love, love will tear us apart again

    For lust/raw sexual energy: Pixies - Cactus

    Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
    Just wishing that I had just something you wore

    I put it on when I go lonely
    Will you take off your dress and send it to me?

    I miss your kissin' and I miss your head
    And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
    Run outside in the desert heat
    Make your dress all wet and send it to me

    I miss your soup and I miss your bread
    And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
    So spill your breakfast and drip your wine
    Just wear that dress when you di-i-i-i-i-ne

    Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
    Just wishing that I had just something you wore

    Bloody your hands on a cactus tree
    Wipe it on your dress and send it to me

    Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
    Just wishing that I had just something you wore


    For something way the hell out there: Super Furry Animals - Mountain People

    Mountain People
    Radiator
    Lyrics
    They don't care about
    You and me
    Obviously
    No not us
    We're the mountain people

    So far away from those
    Tree lined streets
    Look so neat
    Not for us
    No fat chance
    We're the mountain people

    They seek us in the valley
    They'll seek us on the plain
    They own the milk and runny honey
    And they're not quite the same

    And we
    Live together under
    Fantasy
    Oak trees
    In the dark
    We make sparks
    So unique
    We're the mountain people

    Curiosity comes to
    Plead with me
    Vanity
    Strangles me
    Pulls me
    Shakes me down
    We're the mountain people

    They seek us in the valley
    They'll seek us on the plain
    They own the milk and runny honey
    And they're not quite the same

    Because
    They don't care about
    You and me
    Obviously
    Hand-me-down
    Culture
    Waiting for the vulture
    Yes-yes-yes
    We're the mountain people
    Hibernation comes so early
    This year
    Dig the peat
    Pile it high
    Let it dry
    One last chance at ignorance
    No fat chance
    We're the mountain people

    One short blast was
    Followed by
    Two longer ones
    Short blast
    Long blast
    Coming for the outcast
    Put me in a deep freeze
    And I'll sneeze
    We're the mountain people

    From a distance
    I can see them
    Pacing
    Upstream
    Slowly
    Ruthlessly
    Onwards
    Steady
    Nets and cages
    Open
    Ready
    Long term memory
    Soothes me
    Worry
    Take me
    Break me
    Any way you fancy

    Deep freeze put me in it and I'll sneeze, a
    Deep freeze put me in it and I'll sneeze, a
    Deep freeze put me in it and I'll sneeze, a
    Deep freeze put me in it


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,135 ✭✭✭Royale with Cheese


    I'm not a major fan of deep, poetic lyrics. I mean it's not that I don't like them but I don't look for them in a song. A great song for me doesn't have to have absolutely great lyrics. Some of my favourite lyrics are pretty much the entire of 'Growing on Me' by the Darkness.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Dr J wrote:
    I'm not a major fan of deep, poetic lyrics. I mean it's not that I don't like them but I don't look for them in a song. A great song for me doesn't have to have absolutely great lyrics. Some of my favourite lyrics are pretty much the entire of 'Growing on Me' by the Darkness.

    You know that song is about genital warts right? Listen to it again with that in mind.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,135 ✭✭✭Royale with Cheese


    MrJoeSoap wrote:
    You know that song is about genital warts right? Listen to it again with that in mind.

    That's exactly the reason I like it. Who doesn't like genital warts?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭Davey Devil


    The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll by Bob Dylan

    Good article here for anyone who is interested about the background to this great protest song.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,,1424244,00.html#article_continue

    William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
    With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger
    At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'.
    And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him
    As they rode him in custody down to the station
    And booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder.
    But you who philosophise disgrace and criticise all fears,
    Take the rag away from your face.
    Now ain't the time for your tears.
    William Zanzinger, who at 24 years
    Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres
    With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him
    And high office relations in the politics of Maryland,
    Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders
    And swear words and sneering, and his tongue it was snarling,
    In a matter of minutes on bail was out walking.
    But you who philosophise disgrace and criticise all fears,
    Take the rag away from your face.
    Now ain't the time for your tears.
    Hattie Carroll was a maid of the kitchen.
    She was 51 years old and gave birth to 10 children
    Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage
    And never sat once at the head of the table
    And didn't even talk to the people at the table
    Who just cleaned up all the food from the table
    And emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level,
    Got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane
    That sailed through the air and came down through the room,
    Doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle.
    And she never done nothing to William Zanzinger.
    But you who philosophise disgrace and criticise all fears,
    Take the rag away from your face.
    Now ain't the time for your tears.
    In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel
    To show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level
    And that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded
    And that even the nobles get properly handled
    Once that the cops have chased after and caught 'em
    And that the ladder of law has no top and no bottom,
    Stared at the person who killed for no reason
    Who just happened to be feelin' that way without warnin'.
    And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished,
    And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance,
    William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence.
    Oh, but you who philosophise disgrace and criticise all fears,
    Bury the rag deep in your face
    For now's the time for your tears.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭micromegas


    Oasis - Don't Go Away



    Cold and frosty morning,
    There's not a lot to say,
    About the things caught in my mind,
    And as the day was dawning,
    My plane flew away,
    With all the things caught in my mind,

    I don't wanna be there when your, coming down,
    I don't wanna be there when you hit the ground,
    So dont go away,
    Say what you say,
    Say that you'll stay,
    Forever and a day,
    In the time of my life,
    Cos I need more time,
    Yes I need more time just to make things right

    Damn my situation and the games I have to play,
    With all the things caught in my mind,
    Damn my education I can't find the words to say,
    With all the things caught in my mind,

    I don't wanna be there when your, coming down, I
    don't wanna be there when you hit the ground,
    So dont go away,
    Say what you say,
    Say that you'll stay,
    Forever and a day,
    In the time of my life,
    Cos I need more time,
    Yes I need more time just to make things right.

    Me and you whats going on,
    All we seem to know is how to show,
    The feelings that I wrote.
    So dont go away,
    Say what you say,
    Say that you'll stay,
    Forever and a day,
    In the time of my life,
    Cos I need more time,
    Yes I need more time just to make things right.

    And dont go away,
    Say what you say,
    Say that you'll stay,
    Forever and a day,
    In the time of my life,
    Cos I need more time,
    Yes I need more time just to make things right,
    Yes I need more time just to make things right,
    Yes I need more time just to make things right,
    So Don't Go Away.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,031 ✭✭✭MorningStar


    Very rarely noticed for how good some of his songs are but this one always hits me as it sounds so real and truthful.

    Artist/Band: Kristofferson Kris
    Lyrics for Song: Sunday Morning Coming Down

    Well I woke up Sunday morning,
    With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
    And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
    So I had one more for dessert.
    Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes,
    And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
    An' I shaved my face and combed my hair,
    An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

    I'd smoked my brain the night before,
    On cigarettes and songs I'd been pickin'.
    But I lit my first and watched a small kid,
    Cussin' at a can that he was kicking.
    Then I crossed the empty street,
    'n caught the Sunday smell of someone fryin' chicken.
    And it took me back to somethin',
    That I'd lost somehow, somewhere along the way.

    On the Sunday morning sidewalk,
    Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
    'Cos there's something in a Sunday,
    Makes a body feel alone.
    And there's nothin' short of dyin',
    Half as lonesome as the sound,
    On the sleepin' city sidewalks:
    Sunday mornin' comin' down.

    In the park I saw a daddy,
    With a laughin' little girl who he was swingin'.
    And I stopped beside a Sunday school,
    And listened to the song they were singin'.
    Then I headed back for home,
    And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'.
    And it echoed through the canyons,
    Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.

    On the Sunday morning sidewalk,
    Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.
    'Cos there's something in a Sunday,
    Makes a body feel alone.
    And there's nothin' short of dyin',
    Half as lonesome as the sound,
    On the sleepin' city sidewalks:
    Sunday mornin' comin' down.

    Do do do do do do do do,
    Do do do do do do do,
    Do do do do do do do do,
    Do do do do do do do.

    To fade


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 371 ✭✭Beer is Life


    Megadeth - In my darkest hour

    In my hour of need
    Ha you're not there
    And though I reached out for you
    Wouldn't lend a hand

    Through the darkest hour
    Grace did not shine on me
    It feels so cold, very cold
    No one cares for me

    Did you ever think I get lonely
    Did you ever think that I needed love
    Did you ever think to stop thinking
    You're the only one that I'm thinking of

    You'll never know how hard I tried
    To find my space and satisfy you too

    Things will be better when I'm dead and gone
    Don't try to understand, knowing you I'm probably wrong

    But oh how I lived my life for you
    Still you'd turn away
    Now as I die for you
    My flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
    All these years I thought I was wrong
    Now I know it was you
    Raise your head raise your face your eyes
    Tell me who you think you are, who ?

    I walk, I walk alone
    Into the promised land
    There's a better place for me
    But it's far, far away
    Everlasting life for me
    In a perfect world
    But I gotta die first
    Please God send me on my way

    Time has a way of taking time
    Loneliness is not only felt by fools
    Alone I call to ease the pain
    Yearning to be held by you, alone, so alone, I'm lost
    Consumed by the pain
    The pain, the pain, the pain

    Won't you hold me again
    You just laughed, ha, ha, bitch
    My whole life is work built on the past
    But the time has come when all things shall pass
    This good thing passed away

    Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde

    Don't remember where I was
    I realized life was a game
    The more seriously I took things
    The harder the rules became
    I had no idea what it'd cost
    My life passed before my eyes
    I found out how little I accomplished
    All my plans denied

    So as you read this know my friends
    I'd love to stay with you all
    Please smile when you think of me
    My body's gone that's all

    A tout le monde
    A tout mes amis
    Je vous aime
    Je dois partir
    These are the last words
    I'll ever speak
    And they'll set me free

    If my heart was still alive
    I know it would surely break
    And my memories left with you
    There's nothing more to say
    Moving on is a simple thing
    What it leaves behind is hard
    You know the sleeping feel no more pain
    And the living are scarred


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    No, not for one second did you look behind you
    As you were walking away
    Never once did you wish any of us well
    Those who had chosen to stay
    And if that's what it takes to make it
    In the place that you live today
    Then I guess you'll never read these letters that I send
    From the valleys of the green and the grey


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭kawaii


    Band (Well, duo...): They Might Be Giants
    Album: Flood
    Song: Particle Man

    Particle man, particle man
    Doing the things a particle can
    What’s he like? it’s not important
    Particle man

    Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
    When he’s underwater does he get wet?
    Or does the water get him instead?
    Nobody knows, particle man

    Triangle man, triangle man
    Triangle man hates particle man
    They have a fight, triangle wins
    Triangle man

    Universe man, universe man
    Size of the entire universe man
    Usually kind to smaller man
    Universe man

    He’s got a watch with a minute hand,
    Millenium hand and an eon hand
    When they meet it’s a happy land
    Powerful man, universe man

    Person man, person man
    Hit on the head with a frying pan
    Lives his life in a garbage can
    Person man

    Is he depressed or is he a mess?
    Does he feel totally worthless?
    Who came up with person man?
    Degraded man, person man

    Triangle man, triangle man
    Triangle man hates person man
    They have a fight, triangle wins
    Triangle man

    -Beat That :p

    /edit/ Waits is great also.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 371 ✭✭Beer is Life


    biko wrote:
    No, not for one second did you look behind you
    As you were walking away
    Never once did you wish any of us well
    Those who had chosen to stay
    And if that's what it takes to make it
    In the place that you live today
    Then I guess you'll never read these letters that I send
    From the valleys of the green and the grey

    What's this from?


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    What's this from?

    New Model Army - Green and Grey


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭Duffman


    Jeff Buckley:

    "Last goodbye"

    This is our last goodbye
    I hate to feel the love between us die
    But it's over
    Just hear this and then i'll go
    You gave me more to live for
    More than you'll ever know

    This is our last embrace
    Must I dream and always see your face
    Why can't we overcome this wall
    Well, maybe it's just because i didn't know you at all

    Kiss me, please kiss me
    But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
    You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
    I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye

    Did you say "no, this can't happen to me,"
    And did you rush to the phone to call
    Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
    Saying maybe you didn't know him at all
    You didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know

    Well, the bells out in the church tower chime
    Burning clues into this heart of mine
    Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
    Offer signs that it's over... it's over

    "Lover, you should've come over" Jeff Buckley

    Looking out the door i see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
    Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water
    And maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong
    But tonight you're on my mind so you never know

    When i'm broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it
    Where are you tonight, child you know how much i need it
    Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

    Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun
    And much too blind to see the damage he's done
    Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one

    So i'll wait for you... and i'll burn
    Will I ever see your sweet return
    Oh will I ever learn

    Oh lover, you should've come over
    'Cause it's not too late

    Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in
    Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him
    My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come

    It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
    It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her
    It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
    It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

    Well maybe i'm just too young
    To keep good love from going wrong

    Oh... lover, you should've come over
    'Cause it's not too late

    Well I feel too young to hold on
    And i'm much too old to break free and run
    Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage i've done
    Sweet lover, you should've come over
    Oh, love well i'm waiting for you

    Lover, you should've come over
    'Cause it's not too late

    More Pumpkins:

    "To Sheila"

    Twilight fades
    Through blistered avalon
    The sky's cruel torch
    On aching autobahn
    Into the uncertain divine
    We scream into the last divide

    You make me real
    You make me real
    Strong as i feel
    You make me real

    Sheila rides on crashing nightingale
    Intake eyes leave passing vapor trails
    With blushing brilliance alive
    Because it's time to arrive

    You make me real
    You make me real
    Strong as i feel
    You make me real

    Lately I just can't seem to believe
    Discard my friends to change the scenery
    It meant the world to hold a bruising faith
    But now it's just a matter of grace

    A summer storm graces all of me
    Highway warm sing silent poetry
    I could bring you the light
    And take you home into the night

    You make me real
    Lately I just can't seem to believe
    You make me real
    Discard my friends to change the scenery
    Strong as i feel
    It meant the world to hold a bruising faith
    You make me real
    But now it's just a matter of grace


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Duffman wrote:
    Jeff Buckley: "Last goodbye"

    Best... Song... Ever.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 263 ✭✭Local Goddess


    Morrissey:Asleep

    Deep in the cell of my heart I will be so glad to go



















































































































































































































































































































































    Snow Patrol:Wow

    If it looks like it works and it feels like it works then it works

    Snow Patrol:Post Punk Progression

    Won't be around forever girl you got to grad life with both hands


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Led Zeppelin-Kashmir
    ===============
    Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
    I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
    To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
    They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed

    Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear
    But not a word I heard could I relate, the story was quite clear
    Oh, oh.

    Oh, I been flying... mama, there ain’t no denyin’
    I’ve been flying, ain’t no denyin’, no denyin’

    All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground
    And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
    Trying to find, trying to find where I’ve been.

    Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream
    Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream
    My shangri-la beneath the summer moon, I will return again
    Sure as the dust that floats high and true, when movin’ through kashmir.

    Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years
    With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear
    Ohh.

    When I’m on, when I’m on my way, yeah
    When I see, when I see the way, you stay-yeah

    Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I’m down...
    Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, well I’m down, so down
    Ooh, my baby, oooh, my baby, let me take you there

    Let me take you there. let me take you there
    =====================
    Somewhat Profound me thinks

    Also take a look at the Hot Rats album by Zappa ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 806 ✭✭✭Atrocity


    Morrissey:Asleep

    Deep in the cell of my heart I will be so glad to go

    I agree. Anything from that man.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭BLITZ_Molloy


    I like big butts and I can not lie
    You other brothers can't deny
    That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waste
    And a round thing in your face
    You get sprung

    Why can't rap be this funny anymore? The world needs more Sir-Mix-Alots.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
    Flowing into the night
    People so busy, makes me feel dizzy
    Taxi light shines so bright
    But I don't need no friends
    As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
    I am in paradise

    Every day I look at the world from my window
    But chilly, chilly is the evening time
    Waterloo sunset's fine

    Terry meets Julie, Waterloo Station
    Every Friday night
    But I am so lazy, don't want to wander
    I stay at home at night
    But I don't feel afraid
    As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
    I am in paradise

    Every day I look at the world from my window
    But chilly, chilly is the evening time
    Waterloo sunset's fine

    Millions of people swarming like flies 'round Waterloo underground
    But Terry and Julie cross over the river
    Where they feel safe and sound
    And the don't need no friends
    As long as they gaze on Waterloo sunset
    They are in paradise

    Waterloo sunset's fine


    AND

    He's a real nowhere Man,
    Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
    Making all his nowhere plans
    for nobody.

    Doesn't have a point of view,
    Knows not where he's going to,
    Isn't he a bit like you and me?
    Nowhere Man, please listen,
    You don't know what you're missing,
    Nowhere Man, the world is at your command.

    He's as blind as he can be,
    Just sees what he wants to see,
    Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
    Nowhere Man, don't worry,
    Take your time, don't hurry,
    Leave it all till somebody else
    lends you a hand.
    Doesn't have a point of view,
    Knows not where he's going to,
    Isn't he a bit like you and me?

    Nowhere Man, please listen,
    You don't know what you're missing,
    Nowhere Man, the world is at your command.

    He's a real Nowhere Man,
    Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
    Making all his nowhere plans
    for nobody.
    Making all his nowhere plans
    for nobody.
    Making all his nowhere plans
    for nobody.


  • Registered Users Posts: 820 ✭✭✭Niall - Dahlia


    finlma wrote:
    The one and only Sultans of Ping FC

    My, brother, knows, Karl Marx,
    He met him eating mushrooms in the peoples park,
    He said 'What do you think about my manifesto?'
    'I like a manifesto, put it to the test-o.'

    Took it straight down to meet the anarchist's party.
    I met a groovy guy, he was arty farty,
    He said 'I know a little latin man a cus man a kai'
    I said 'I don't know what it means' he said 'neither do I'

    Eat natural foods, bathe twice daily,
    Fill your nostrils up with gravy.
    Don't drink tea and don't drink coffee.
    Cover your chin in yorkshire toffee.

    Dancing in the disco, bumper to bumber,
    Wait a minute, where's me jumper, ( x4 )

    :D Sultans of Ping were brilliant, Veronica, Pints of Rasa, Give Him a Ball, deadly.

    Agree with everybody who mentioned Morrissey. Disagree with everybody who's dissing people's choices! It's subjective. My favourite lyrics would be from Placebo, not to everybody's taste though. I'll go with the obvious one...

    Every You Every Me - Placebo

    Sucker love is heaven sent
    You pucker up, our passion's spent
    My heart's a tart, your body's rent
    My body's broken, yours is bent

    Carve your name into my arm
    Instead of stressed, I lie here charmed
    'Cause there's nothing else to do
    Every me and every you

    Sucker love, a box I choose
    No other box I choose to use
    Another love I would abuse
    No circumstances could excuse

    In the shape of things to come.
    Too much poison come undone
    'Cause there's nothing else to do
    Every me and every you
    Every me and every you
    Every me, me

    Sucker love is known to swing
    Prone to cling and waste these things
    Pucker up for heavens sake
    There's never been so much at stake

    I serve my head up on a plate
    It's only comfort, calling late
    'Cause there's nothing else to do
    Every me and every you
    Every me and every you
    Every me, me

    Every me and every you,
    Every me, me

    Like the naked leads the blind
    I know I'm selfish, I'm unkind
    Sucker love I always find
    Someone to bruise and leave behind

    All alone in space and time
    There's nothing here but what here's mine
    Something borrowed, something blue

    Every me and every you
    Every me and every you
    Every me, me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭Closing Doors


    Why can't rap be this funny anymore?

    Most of it is....it's just not intentional ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭merlinsmerryman


    Please Don't Let It Go- HIM

    We're drifting apart
    But I want you to know
    Wherever you are I belong
    Love's singing our song
    But we fail to sing along
    Wherever you go I will follow

    So please don't let it
    Please don't let it go
    'Cause if you won't let it I won't let it go
    So please don't let it
    Please don't let it go
    'Cause if you don't let it I won't let it go

    You try to be strong
    But you're always so alone
    Whatever I do I do it wrong
    Death sings our song
    And we eagerly sing along
    Whatever you do I adore
    I adore

    So please don't let it
    Please don't let it go
    'Cause if you won't let it I won't let it go
    So please don't let it
    Please don't let it go
    'Cause if you won't let it I won't let it go
    Oh no

    Don't let go of life
    Let go of love
    Let go of all we have

    So don't let go of trust
    Let go of lust
    Let go of all we share
    All we share

    So please don't let it
    Please don't let it go
    'Cause if you won't let it I won't let it go
    So please don't let it
    Please don't let it go
    'Cause if you don't let it I won't let it go

    So please don't let it
    Please don't let it go
    'Cause if you won't let it I won't let it go
    Hey my darling
    Please don't let it
    Please don't let it go
    'Cause if you won't let it I won't let it go
    Oh no


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    sublime - caress me down

    Me gusta mi reggae,
    (I like my reggae)
    Me gusta punk rock,
    (I like punk rock)
    Pero la cosa que me gusta mas es panochita,
    (but the thing I like most is pussy)

    Ponga la nalga en la aire if you know who you are,
    (put your ass in the air if you know who you are)
    Ponga la nalga en la aire y empieza gritar,
    (put your ass in the air and start to scream)

    No tenga miedo, I'm your papi,
    (Don't be scared, I'm your daddy)
    take your chones, y los manden a mi,
    (take your panties and send them to me)
    levanta, levanta, tienes que gritar,
    (get up, get up, you have to scream)
    levanta, levanta, tienes que bailar.
    (get up, get up, you have to dance)


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,532 Mod ✭✭✭✭BossArky


    "Indifference" by Pearl Jam - not the best lyrics ever but a nice little ditty.

    I will hold the candle
    Until it burns right up my arm
    I'll keep taking punches until I grow immune
    I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind,
    I will scream my lungs out until I fill this room

    Oh how much difference will it make...(repeated)


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