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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    PINK FLOYD ... TIME
    Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
    You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
    Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
    Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

    Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
    You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
    And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
    No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

    And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
    And racing around to come up behind you again
    The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
    Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

    Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
    Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
    Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
    The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say

    Home, home again
    I like to be here when I can
    And when I come home cold and tired
    Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
    Far away across the field
    The tolling of the iron bell
    Calls the faithful to their knees
    To hear the softly spoken magic spells.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭bringitdown


    Someone had to: Tool: STINKFIST

    Something has to change.
    Un-deniable dilemma.
    Boredoms not a burden
    Anyone should bear.

    Constant over stimulation numbs me
    But I wouldnt want you
    Any other way.

    Just, not enough.
    I need more.
    Nothing seems to satisfy.
    I said, I dont want it.
    I just need it.
    To breathe, to feel, to know Im alive.

    Finger deep within the borderline.
    Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
    Relax, turn around and take my hand.

    I can help you change
    Tired moments into pleasure.
    Say the word and well be
    Well upon our way.

    Blend and balance
    Pain and comfort
    Deep within you
    Till you will not want me any other way.

    But, its not enough.
    I need more.
    Nothing seems to satisfy.
    I said, I dont want it.
    I just need it.
    To breathe, to feel, to know Im alive.

    Knuckle deep inside the borderline.
    This may hurt a little but its something youll get used to.
    Relax. slip away.

    Something kinda sad about
    The way that things have come to be.
    Desensitized to everything.
    What became of subtlety?

    How can it mean anything to me
    If I really dont feel anything at all?

    Ill keep digging till,
    I feel something.

    Elbow deep inside the borderline.
    Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
    Shoulder deep within the borderline.
    Relax. turn around and take my hand.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Open strange doors that we'll never close again


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Show of Hands - Roots


    And the Minister says his vision of hell
    Is three folk singers in a pub near Wells
    Well I've got a vision of urban sprawl
    Pubs where no one ever sings at all

    And everyone is staring at a TV screen
    Overpaid soccer stars, prancing teens
    Australian soap, American rap
    Estury English, Baseball cap

    We learn to be ashamed before we walk
    Of the way we look and the way we talk
    Without our stories or our songs
    How will we know where we came from?

    I've lost St. George in the Union Jack
    It's my flag too and I want it back


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 Writie


    Here's a slinky classic I first heard done by Mink deVille. It's "Cadillac Walk" by Moon Martin

    +++
    CADILLAC WALK
    (Moon Martin)

    When the moon comes up the sun goes down
    Rita starts to creep around
    Gets a flame in her blood fire on her breath
    Fourteen names notched on her chest
    She gotta rose tattooed on her thigh
    Dead men raise and sigh
    And it drives my young blood wild

    My baby's got the Cadillac walk

    When Rita turns down her bed
    Grown men plead and beg
    Baby honey baby you're the one
    Carve your name right on my gun
    Ain't she something nice
    Bones rattle my dice
    I slobber down my side

    My baby's got the Cadillac walk

    Lonely tonight honey hear my call
    She said boy I won't make you crawl
    Rita pound by pound
    Knows how to work it down
    Weep and cry to and fro
    Leave your heart she'll steal your gold
    No matter what the cost
    Ooh...them duel exhaust
    Make my motor sigh

    My baby's got the Cadillac walk

    +++

    More can be found on Moon Martin.com lyrics

    M


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭Pet


    Dear god, there were some utterly, utterly terrible choices in this thread. Some people need to be strapped down in a dark room and forced to listen to decent, non-**** music.

    Some of my choices:

    Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother

    (the last lines are especially poignant given his sudden death)

    There is a child sleeping near his twin
    The pictures go wild in a rush of wind
    That dark angel he is shuffling in
    Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled

    The love you lost with her skin so fair
    Is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair
    Her green eyes blew goodbyes
    With her head in her hands
    and your kiss on the lips of another
    Dream Brother, with your tears scattered round the world.

    Don't be like the one who made me so old
    Don't be like the one who left behind his name
    'Cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine
    And nobody ever came...

    I feel afraid and I call your name
    I love your voice and your dance insane
    I hear your words and I know your pain
    Your head in your hands and her kiss on the lips of another
    Your eyes to the ground
    and the world spinning round forever
    Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over...

    Smashing Pumpkins - I of the Mourning
    The companion song to "For Martha", in my opinion.

    Radio
    Play my favourite song
    Radio
    Radio
    Radio
    I'm alone
    Radio
    Radio
    Please don't go
    Radio
    I peer thru curtains on empty streets
    Behind a wall of caller i.d.
    No one's out there
    To hear if I care
    About the troubles in the air
    As I of the morning now come
    Pick up where my thoughts left off
    Cause I'm home to die on my own
    As my radio
    Plays my favourite song
    Radio
    Radio
    Radio
    Don't you know
    Radio
    Radio
    That radio
    I'm alone
    I blow the dust off my guitars
    In the attic with the stars
    I read your letters
    To feel better
    My tears upon the fading ink
    As I of the morning now gone
    Pick up where my thoughts left off
    Cause I'm home to die on my own
    As my radio
    Plays my favourite song
    Radio
    Radio
    Radio
    I'm alone
    Radio
    Radio
    Radio
    Please don't go
    I sit in the dark light
    To wait for ghost night
    To bring the past alive
    To make a toast to life
    Cause i have survived
    What is it you want
    What is it you want to change
    What is it you want
    What is it you want to change
    What is it you want to change
    Radio

    Dresden Dolls - Sex Changes

    (The lyrics in this song are simply amazing - an abortion, a sex change and the loss of a girl's virginity are all mishmashed together. Almost every line has a double meaning - "you'll get your choice of an aesthetic/anaesthetic", "there is no money back once you've been ripped off", "and how you'd love to have a little thing with which to play".)

    dear mr. and/or mrs. sender-
    we're pleased to inform you that your applications been accepted
    starting from the time you get this letter
    your life will be one never-ending
    “hope you're feeling better”
    you get your choice of an aesthetic
    we'll need to chop your clock off (tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock)
    it might not be what you expected
    there is no money back once you've been ripped off

    today's a very special day
    the boys'll murder for it but what will the neighbors say
    it leaves you feeling pretty hollow
    it might be nice to look at
    don't forget you're stuck with it tomorrow (and tomorrow, and tomorrow....)

    you're big enough to stop pretending
    you'll start to really show within a week or so
    so don't go saying it's just come to your attention
    you'll get more than you're asking for without the right protection

    today's a very special day
    and how you'd love to have a little thing with which to play
    but love wont get you very far
    today be still your beating heart
    you'll have to keep on feeding it tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow


    boys will be boys will be boys will be boys will be boys will be boys will be girls with no warning
    girls will be girls will be guys will be boys that don't cry over toys that they use to beat girls they despise by the morning
    they always said that sex would change you...

    no second thoughts the knife is nearing
    you'll never hear the little pitter patter pitter patter
    of this little feat of engineering
    of course i love you and of course it's what's inside that matters
    but i think the whole charade is ending
    it seems to me to be the only way to keep from getting
    caught up in a long life of regretting
    the doctors said that once you get a taste for it you'll keep on cutting

    but while you happen to be here
    why don't you whisper all those sweet forevers in my ear
    stiff upper lip for all this sorrow
    hurry up and stick it in
    you never when it will end
    tomorrow or tomorrow or tomorrow...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    Manic Street Preachers - 4st. 7lbs.

    I eat too much to die
    And not enough to stay alive
    I'm sitting in the middle waiting

    Days since I last pissed
    Cheeks sunken and despaired
    So gorgeous sunk to six stone
    Lose my only remaining home

    See my third rib appear
    A week later all my flesh disappears
    Stretching taut, cling-film on bone
    I'm getting better

    Karen says I've reached my target weight
    Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake
    Problem is diet's not a big enough word
    I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view

    I want to walk in the snow
    And not leave a footprint
    I want to walk in the snow
    And not soil its purity

    Stomach collapsed at five
    Lift up my skirt my sex is gone
    Naked and lovely and 5st. 2
    May I bud and never flower

    My vision's getting blurred
    But I can see my ribs and I feel fine
    My hands are trembling stalks
    And I can feel my breasts are sinking

    Mother trys to choke me with roast beef
    And sits savouring her sole Ryvita
    That's the way you're built my father said
    But I can change, my cocoon shedding


    Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat
    All things I like looking at
    Too weak to fuss, too weak to die
    Choice is skeletal in everybody's life

    I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy
    Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires
    Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy
    And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me

    Self-worth scatters, self-esteem's a bore
    I long since moved to a higher plateau
    This discipline's so rare so please applaud
    Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so

    Yeh 4st. 7, an epilogue of youth
    Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
    I've finally come to understand life
    Through staring blankly at my navel


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭The Freeman


    BOB DYLAN-ITS ALL OVER NOW BABY BLUE


    You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.
    But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
    Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
    Crying like a fire in the sun.
    Look out the saints are comin' through
    And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

    The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
    Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
    The empty-handed painter from your streets
    Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
    This sky, too, is folding under you
    And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

    All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
    All your reindeer armies, are all going home.
    The lover who just walked out your door
    Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
    The carpet, too, is moving under you
    And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

    Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
    Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
    The vagabond who's rapping at your door
    Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
    Strike another match, go start anew
    And it's all over now, Baby Blue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 thecellarlife


    a lot of those choices are pretty bad, but to each his own I guess.

    Cake - Hem of Your Garment

    I am intrinsically no good
    I have a heart that's made of wood
    I am only biding time
    Only reciting memorized lines
    And I'm not fit to touch
    The hem of your garment

    No, no, I'm not fit to touch the hem of your garment

    I have no love but only goals
    How very empty is my soul
    It is a soul that feels no thrill
    A soul that could easily kill
    And I'm not fit to touch
    The hem of your garment

    No, no, I'm not fit to touch the hem of your garment


    Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia (first few verses)
    So you been to schools
    For a year or two
    And you know you've seen it all
    In daddy's car
    Thinking you'll go far
    Back east your type don't crawl

    Play ethnicy jazz
    To parade your snazz
    On your five grand stereo
    Bragging that you know
    How the **** feel cold
    And the slum's got so much soul

    It's time to taste what you most fear
    Right Guard will not help you here
    Brace yourself, my dear

    It's a holiday in Cambodia
    It's tough, kid, but it's life
    It's a holiday in Cambodia
    Don't forget to pack a wife


    Velvet Underground - Candy Says

    Candy says I've come to hate my body
    and all that it requires in this world
    Candy says I'd like to know completely
    what others so discretely talk about

    Candy says I hate the quiet places
    that cause the smallest taste of what will be
    Candy says I hate the big decisions
    that cause endless revisions in my mind

    I'm gonna watch the blue birds fly over my shoulder
    I'm gonna watch them pass me by
    Maybe when I'm older
    What do you think I'd see
    If I could walk away from me


    Gnarls Barkley - Charity Case (just an piece of it)
    Oh can't you see?
    Oh can't you see?
    If I help somebody baby there's mercy for me.

    charity

    Don't want to bother you baby but I'm bleeding too,
    Are you needing me like I'm needing you?
    Even my shadow leaves me all alone at night,
    'cause I need to start to take my own advice.


    John Lennon - Working Class Hero

    As soon as you're born they make you feel small
    By giving you no time instead of it all
    Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be

    They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
    They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
    Till you're so ****ing crazy you can't follow their rules
    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be

    When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
    Then they expect you to pick a career
    When you can't really function you're so full of fear
    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be

    Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
    And you think you're so clever and classless and free
    But you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see
    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be

    There's room at the top they are telling you still
    But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
    If you want to be like the folks on the hill
    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be

    If you want to be a hero well just follow me
    If you want to be a hero well just follow me


    Nancy Sinatra - Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (I forget who wrote the lyrics, but they're great)

    I was five and he was six
    We rode on horses made of sticks
    He wore black and I wore white
    He would always win the fight

    Bang bang, he shot me down
    Bang bang, I hit the ground
    Bang bang, that awful sound
    Bang bang, my baby shot me down

    Seasons came and changed the time
    When I grew up, I called him mine
    He would always laugh and say
    "Remember when we used to play?"

    Bang bang, I shot you down
    Bang bang, you hit the ground
    Bang bang, that awful sound
    Bang bang, I used to shoot you down

    Music played and people sang
    Just for me the church bells rang

    Now he's gone. I don't know why
    And till this day, sometimes I cry
    He didn't even say goodbye
    He didn't take the time to lie

    Bang bang, he shot me down
    Bang bang, I hit the ground
    Bang bang, that awful sound
    Bang bang, my baby shot me down


    MGMT - Time To Pretend

    I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life
    Let's make some music, make some money, find some models for wives
    I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and **** with the stars
    You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars

    This is our decision to live fast and die young
    We've got the vision, now let's have some fun!
    Yeah it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
    Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?

    Forget about our mothers and our friends
    We were fated to pretend

    I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms
    I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world
    I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home
    Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone

    But there is really nothing, nothing we can do
    Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew
    The models will have children, we'll get a divorce
    We'll find some more models, everything must run its course

    We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end
    We were fated to pretend

    Yeah, yeah, yeah


    Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945

    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


    I would add more, but it'd be way longer. Those I think are all great examples in themselves for different reasons. I suggest downloading each song if you haven't heard some of them, but even without the music you can hear the meter in the words. I think that is what makes a great song.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Eighties - i'm living in the eighties
    Eighties - i have to push, i have to struggle
    Eighties - get out of my way, i'm not for sale no more
    Eighties - let's kamikaze 'til we get there
    And we sang
    You do it this way
    Eighties - by day we run by night we dance, we do
    Eighties - i'm in love with the coming race
    Eighties - i've got the best, i'll take all i can get
    Eighties - i'm living for the eighties
    Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
    Eighties - i'm living
    Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i struggle
    Eighties - i'm living
    Eighties - i'm living
    Eighties - i'm living in the eighties
    Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
    Eighties - push, push, struggle
    Eighties - i'm living
    Eighties - eighties - i'm living
    Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
    Eighties - push, push, struggle
    Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties
    Eighties - I have to push, I prostitute myself
    Eighties - I saw the whole world getting anxious
    Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
    And we sang
    In these Eighties
    Eighties - I'm sitting on a table talking ideals
    Eighties - I got the best, I'll take all I can get
    Eighties - Here comes the savage day
    Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
    And we sang
    In these Eighties
    Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I push
    Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
    Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I struggle
    Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
    Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I push
    Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
    Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I struggle
    Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭demakinz


    Fade To Black lyrics

    Life it seems, will fade away
    Drifting further every day
    Getting lost within myself
    Nothing matters no one else
    I have lost the will to live
    Simply nothing more to give
    There is nothing more for me
    Need the end to set me free

    Things not what they used to be
    Missing one inside of me
    Deathly lost, this Can t be real
    Cannot stand this hell I feel
    Emptiness is filling me
    To the point of agony
    Growing darkness taking dawn
    I was me, but now he 's gone

    No one but me can save myself, but it's too late
    Now, I can't think, think why I should even try
    Yesterday seems as though it never existed
    Death Greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye


    Metallica--fade to black
    check it live greatest song ever
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7C90sLh5Ok

    i wrote a song years ago when i was 16 if i can rot it out il post it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭eamon234


    Well it's ninth and hennepin
    All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes
    And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky
    Like a tarp thrown all over this
    And the broken umbrellas like dead birds
    And the steam comes out of the grill
    Like the whole goddamn town's ready to blow...
    And the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos
    And everyone is behaving like dogs
    And the horses are coming down violin road
    And dutch is dead on his feet
    And all the rooms they smell like diesel
    And you take on the dreams of the ones who have slept here
    And i'm lost in the window, and i hide in the stairway
    And i hang in the curtain, and i sleep in your hat...
    And no one brings anything small into a bar around here
    They all started out with bad directions
    And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear
    "one for every year he's away", she said
    Such a crumbling beauty, ah
    There's nothing wrong with her that a hundred dollars won't fix
    She has that razor sadness that only gets worse
    With the clang and the thunder of the southern pacific going by
    And the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet
    'til you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin
    And you spill out over the side to anyone who will listen...
    And i've seen it all, i've seen it all
    Through the yellow windows of the evening train...

    Tom Waits, Ninth & Hennepin


  • Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Justlikemike


    Thought I'd mix it up a bit. Literally a random verse from the GZA Genius. I don't expect anyone here will like it but it motivates me.

    Beneath the Surface, first verse.

    On a man-made lake, there's a sheet of thin ice
    Where unskilled skaters, couldn't figure-8 twice
    At 16, uncut, direct from the cult
    Head on assault, the result, death by the bolt
    In a vote, it spoke about the average loss commission
    That was seen by a king in a prophetic vision
    Like a plane crash from a bomb blast
    Special broadcast, slot time with con cash
    It kept the jury quiet, and now a riot will form
    While satanic man, now hang in his dorm
    I swing, on you fake, radio personalities
    Boost ya ratings, but hypes behind casualties
    Fire shots, for low-pressure water gun play
    Instantly, slap ya fire like it's Palm Sunday
    I fashion the first tool, from the elements
    The earth use, and built it to a complex
    Network, of communications, you're up against a hopeless, situation
    I screen every vehicle, through enemy observation
    Swarmin unpredictably, we spread terror
    Increase the force significantly, change the error
    Check my wind pattern, it's headin west
    Success is freedom, failure could mean death
    Humans sweat, aim shovels
    Dig up the debris and rubbel
    Permanent, damage caused by the double-
    U, Now who, cowardly urge you to merge through
    And think the workers'll serve you
    Signin marvel, who just dropped the next novel
    Worldwide, practically marred in marble
    His accountless, amount of MC's I saved
    And those same niggas wanna squander those gifts I gave


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 GoingGaGa


    you walk through my walls
    like a ghost on tv
    you penetrate me

    and my little pink heart
    is on its little brown raft
    floating out to sea

    and what can i say
    but i'm wired this way
    and you're wired to me

    and what can i do
    but wallow in you
    unintentionally



    Grey-Ani di Franco


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,000 ✭✭✭3DataModem


    In all seriousness, I think one of the cleverest lyrics is the following;

    "I've been to the year 3000... not much has changed (but we live underwater)."


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,796 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Eminem - Stan
    Lyrically the best song I have ever heard.

    Chorus: Dido
    My tea's gone cold I'm wondering why I..
    got out of bed at all
    The morning rain clouds up my window..
    and I can't see at all
    And even if I could it'd all be gray,
    but your picture on my wall
    It reminds me, that it's not so bad,
    it's not so bad..

    1st Chorus: volume gradually grows over raindrop background
    2nd Chorus: full volume with beat right after "thunder" noise

    [Eminem as 'Stan']
    Dear Slim, I wrote but you still ain't callin
    I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom
    I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not-a got him
    There probably was a problem at the post office or something
    Sometimes I scribble addresses too sloppy when I jot him
    but anyways; **** it, what's been up? Man how's your daughter?
    My girlfriend's pregnant too, I'm bout to be a father
    If I have a daughter, guess what I'ma call her?
    I'ma name her Bonnie
    I read about your Uncle Ronnie too I'm sorry
    I had a friend kill himself over some bitch who didn't want him
    I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm your biggest fan
    I even got the underground **** that you did with Skam
    I got a room full of your posters and your pictures man
    I like the **** you did with Ruckus too, that **** was phat
    Anyways, I hope you get this man, hit me back,
    just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan
    This is Stan

    {Chorus: Dido

    [Eminem as 'Stan']
    Dear Slim, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance
    I ain't mad - I just think it's ****ED UP you don't answer fans
    If you didn't wanna talk to me outside your concert
    you didn't have to, but you coulda signed an autograph for Matthew
    That's my little brother man, he's only six years old
    We waited in the blistering cold for you,
    four hours and you just said, "No."
    That's pretty ****ty man - you're like his ****ing idol
    He wants to be just like you man, he likes you more than I do
    I ain't that mad though, I just don't like being lied to
    Remember when we met in Denver - you said if I'd write you
    you would write back - see I'm just like you in a way
    I never knew my father neither;
    he used to always cheat on my mom and beat her
    I can relate to what you're saying in your songs
    so when I have a ****ty day, I drift away and put 'em on
    cause I don't really got **** else so that **** helps when I'm depressed
    I even got a tattoo of your name across the chest
    Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds
    It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me
    See everything you say is real, and I respect you cause you tell it
    My girlfriend's jealous cause I talk about you 24/7
    But she don't know you like I know you Slim, no one does
    She don't know what it was like for people like us growin up
    You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
    Sincerely yours, Stan -- P.S.
    We should be together too

    {Chorus: Dido

    [Eminem as 'Stan']
    Dear Mister-I'm-Too-Good-To-Call-Or-Write-My-Fans,
    this'll be the last package I ever send your ass
    It's been six months and still no word - I don't deserve it?
    I know you got my last two letters;
    I wrote the addresses on 'em perfect
    So this is my cassette I'm sending you, I hope you hear it
    I'm in the car right now, I'm doing 90 on the freeway
    Hey Slim, I drank a fifth of vodka, you dare me to drive?
    You know the song by Phil Collins, "In the Air of the Night"
    about that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drowning
    but didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at a show he found him?
    That's kinda how this is, you coulda rescued me from drowning
    Now it's too late - I'm on a 1000 downers now, I'm drowsy
    and all I wanted was a lousy letter or a call
    I hope you know I ripped ALL of your pictures off the wall
    I love you Slim, we coulda been together, think about it
    You ruined it now, I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it
    And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you SCREAM about it
    I hope your conscience EATS AT YOU and you can't BREATHE without me
    See Slim; {*screaming*
    Shut up bitch! I'm trying to talk!
    Hey Slim, that's my girlfriend screamin in the trunk
    but I didn't slit her throat, I just tied her up, see I ain't like you
    cause if she suffocates she'll suffer more, and then she'll die too
    Well, gotta go, I'm almost at the bridge now
    Oh ****, I forgot, how am I supposed to send this **** out?

    {Chorus: Dido

    [Eminem]
    Dear Stan, I meant to write you sooner but I just been busy
    You said your girlfriend's pregnant now, how far along is she?
    Look, I'm really flattered you would call your daughter that
    and here's an autograph for your brother,
    I wrote it on the Starter cap
    I'm sorry I didn't see you at the show, I musta missed you
    Don't think I did that **** intentionally just to diss you
    But what's this **** you said about you like to cut your wrists too?
    I say that **** just clowning dog,
    c'mon - how ****ed up is you?
    You got some issues Stan, I think you need some counseling
    to help your ass from bouncing off the walls when you get down some
    And what's this **** about us meant to be together?
    That type of ****'ll make me not want us to meet each other
    I really think you and your girlfriend need each other
    or maybe you just need to treat her better
    I hope you get to read this letter, I just hope it reaches you in time
    before you hurt yourself, I think that you'll be doin just fine
    if you relax a little, I'm glad I inspire you but Stan
    why are you so mad? Try to understand, that I do want you as a fan
    I just don't want you to do some crazy ****
    I seen this one **** on the news a couple weeks ago that made me sick
    Some dude was drunk and drove his car over a bridge
    and had his girlfriend in the trunk, and she was pregnant with his kid
    and in the car they found a tape, but they didn't say who it was to
    Come to think about, his name was.. it was you
    Damn!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    crooked spin can't come to rest,
    i'm damaged bad at best


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,261 ✭✭✭kenon


    Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

    Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
    Shine on you crazy diamond.
    Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
    Shine on you crazy diamond.
    You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
    blown on the steel breeze.
    Come on you target for faraway laughter,
    come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
    You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
    Shine on you crazy diamond.
    Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
    Shine on you crazy diamond.
    Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
    rode on the steel breeze.
    Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
    come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

    Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
    Shine on you crazy diamond.
    Pile on many more layers and I'll be joining you there.
    Shine on you crazy diamond.
    And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,
    sail on the steel breeze.
    Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,
    come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine.

    5/6 a side football

    Coolmine Sports Centre - Wednesdays - 8pm

    PM me for a game

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    Bill Medley - You've Lost That Loving Feeling


    You never close your eyes
    Anymore when I kiss your lips
    There's no tenderness
    Like before in you fingertips
    You're trying hard
    not to show it,
    But baby, baby I know it...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭Angry Troll


    Orgasmatron by Motorhead


    I am the one, Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
    My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
    Obsequies and arrogant, clandestine and vain
    Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
    Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
    My name is called religion, sadistic sacred whore
    -

    I twist the truth, I rule the world, my crown is called deceit
    I am the emperor of lies, you grovel at my feet
    I rob you and I slaughter you, your downfall is my gain
    And all my promises are lies, all my love is hate
    I am the politician, and i decide your fate
    -

    I march before a martyred world, an army for the fight
    I speak of great heroic days, of victory and might
    I hold a banner drenched in blood, I urge you to be brave
    I hold you to your destiny, I lead you to your grave
    Your bones will build my palaces, your eyes will stud my crown
    For I am Mars, the god of war, and I will cut you down


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 picturethis


    This song by Mick Flannery "Take in on the chin" is just genius...

    Ray: I put fifty fine dollars on this hand
    Luther: I’m in.
    Paulie: I’m out.
    John: Not a chance.
    Ray: So only one of you dolls wanna dance?
    Boy, you’d better have some balls in those pants
    Gimme two cards.
    Luther: One card.
    Ray: Oh look at that!
    Try to fill a flush up to bite me in the ass.
    Jese, you must think Lady Luck is up there hidin’ in your hat,
    Or you’re tryin’ to ****in; fool me boy, we’ll see about that.
    It’s a hundred to play now, we’ll see what you weigh now,
    The pot is getting hotter boy, we’ll see if you stay around.
    Chorus (Frank and Grace)
    Oh, the road, the riverboat,
    Take it on the chin and deal again,
    Till your money’s spent.
    John: Jacks or better, deuces wild,
    Man, I haven’t won a round in while.
    This whiskey must be cloudin’ my mind.
    I’m getting older, could be losin’ my style.
    Paulie: Hey John, I hear you’re leavin’ us
    Headin’ off to better parts.
    Don’t you go forget us now,
    I hope you’re gonna send a card.
    John: Yeah, I’m headin’ down south a while,
    You know me, just the wife and I,
    I hear the weathers mighty fine
    Down by St Columbentine.
    But God knows I need a break from these
    And paying your kids college fees
    You’ll miss my money more than me
    Hey, why don’t the two of you calm down
    You’re acting like a pair of
    Ray: Shut the **** up, what the ****s it got to do with you
    I don’t see your money here so you don’t get to contribute
    Nothin’ to this little battle me and the boy are havin’.
    Luther: You gonna play or you gonna talk all day?
    If you don’t got the money, throw those cards aay.
    Ray: Ah you’re bluffin’, you got nothin’, I say read ‘em and weep, cause I’m in.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭Fink Goddie


    Cheeky girls- Touch my bum, this is life


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭ Nylah Zealous Gunboat


    The greatest song about football/girlfriend EVER.....

    The Hitchers
    Strachan

    She waited for the match to start
    to start a fight up with me.
    She said, "what's that you're watching?",
    "It's a Programme about art".
    She said, "A Programme about art?", I said
    "A programme about art" and then the greatest
    midfield artist of them all walked out onto the park.
    The crowd were on their feet and they whistled and
    they cheered for the tiny wee Scotsman
    with the copper coloured hair.
    She said, "You just don't care, You never listen you know"
    Lukic out to Wetherall and Wetherall to Dorigo.
    Dorigo knocks it on to Fairclough, Fairclough looks for Speed.
    Now she's ranting like a lunatic, "I'm switching off that telly".
    "Look at me while I'm talking to you!"
    To Strachan now -puts Kelly through
    There's one man pulling all the strings and twenty-two
    know damn well who.
    The air begins to thicken. Inside the box Strachan has stricken
    The gap unfilled -he makes the kill -One-Nil

    She waited for the match to start
    to start a fight up with me.
    She said, "what's that you're watching?",
    "It's a Programme about art".
    She said, "A Programme about art?", I said
    "A programme about art" and then the artist
    tackles perfectly and floats over the park
    to the waiting Rodney Wallace who knocks
    it back in to Deane and now the Deane Machine
    to McAllister and McAllister's just seen
    that Gordon Strachan slipped his marker
    and he's free now in space
    he's got 'em pouring forward spraying the ball
    all over the place.
    Now Gary Speed is involved again, he steadies the ball.
    "am I talking to myself?", she says, "or talking to the wall?"
    "Will you look at me while I'm talking to you!"
    To Strachan now -puts Fairclough through
    There's one man pulling all the strings and twenty-two
    know damn well who.
    The air gets even thicker.
    The 'keepers quick -Gordon Strachan's quicker.
    The gap unfilled -he makes the kill -Two-Nil.

    She waited for the match to start
    to start a fight up with me.
    She said, "what's that you're watching?",
    "It's a Programme about art".
    "If you don't take your grief and bad vibes and get out of my face
    I'm gonna sit right here and whistle my way through Melrose Place"

    You could've lit the air in the room with a matchstick,
    McAllisters cross sets up Strachans hat-trick
    The gap unfilled -Strachans skill -Three-Nil



    If any of ye dont know this wonderful little gem of a song by one of Irelands greatest bands check it out here....
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dit3d4s8jRs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


    [quote=[Deleted User];64024046]The greatest song about football/girlfriend EVER.....

    The Hitchers
    Strachan

    She waited for the match to start
    to start a fight up with me.
    She said, "what's that you're watching?",
    "It's a Programme about art".
    She said, "A Programme about art?", I said
    "A programme about art" and then the greatest
    midfield artist of them all walked out onto the park.
    The crowd were on their feet and they whistled and
    they cheered for the tiny wee Scotsman
    with the copper coloured hair.
    She said, "You just don't care, You never listen you know"
    Lukic out to Wetherall and Wetherall to Dorigo.
    Dorigo knocks it on to Fairclough, Fairclough looks for Speed.
    Now she's ranting like a lunatic, "I'm switching off that telly".
    "Look at me while I'm talking to you!"
    To Strachan now -puts Kelly through
    There's one man pulling all the strings and twenty-two
    know damn well who.
    The air begins to thicken. Inside the box Strachan has stricken
    The gap unfilled -he makes the kill -One-Nil

    She waited for the match to start
    to start a fight up with me.
    She said, "what's that you're watching?",
    "It's a Programme about art".
    She said, "A Programme about art?", I said
    "A programme about art" and then the artist
    tackles perfectly and floats over the park
    to the waiting Rodney Wallace who knocks
    it back in to Deane and now the Deane Machine
    to McAllister and McAllister's just seen
    that Gordon Strachan slipped his marker
    and he's free now in space
    he's got 'em pouring forward spraying the ball
    all over the place.
    Now Gary Speed is involved again, he steadies the ball.
    "am I talking to myself?", she says, "or talking to the wall?"
    "Will you look at me while I'm talking to you!"
    To Strachan now -puts Fairclough through
    There's one man pulling all the strings and twenty-two
    know damn well who.
    The air gets even thicker.
    The 'keepers quick -Gordon Strachan's quicker.
    The gap unfilled -he makes the kill -Two-Nil.

    She waited for the match to start
    to start a fight up with me.
    She said, "what's that you're watching?",
    "It's a Programme about art".
    "If you don't take your grief and bad vibes and get out of my face
    I'm gonna sit right here and whistle my way through Melrose Place"

    You could've lit the air in the room with a matchstick,
    McAllisters cross sets up Strachans hat-trick
    The gap unfilled -Strachans skill -Three-Nil



    If any of ye dont know this wonderful little gem of a song by one of Irelands greatest bands check it out here....
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dit3d4s8jRs[/QUOTE]

    Great band, great song.
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭HashSlinging


    For the fun element.

    SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
    Lights Camera Revolution (1990)

    Disco's Out, Murder's In

    Extra, extra, read all about it!
    News flash, read all about it!
    Here comes another scam and don't you doubt it
    May make you laugh, but it aint funny
    I can't believe the things they do for money
    Another show that needs to get rated
    Just gotta alittle bit more hatred
    We interrupt this program to tell you
    Disco's out, Murder's in
    Kill it!

    Goody, goody, another commotion
    One more time, in slow motion
    The mountain wont come to Mohammad
    Let's keep our fingers crossed and maybe we'll bomb it
    La da de da da de de da da
    All kind of la de ****in' das
    Disco's out, Murder's in

    If you wanna go far, we'll make you a star
    Not looking for filler, just a serial killer!
    It's got to be violent to make it a highlight
    If we show it enough
    Well, everyone will think it's alright

    Disco's out, Murder's in
    Kill it! Kill it!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    John Lennon - Working Class Hero
    There's room at the top they are telling you still
    But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
    If you want to be like the folks on the hill

    A working class hero is something to be

    My all time favourite


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭fikay


    lordgoat wrote: »
    crooked spin can't come to rest,
    i'm damaged bad at best
    You disappoint me, you people raking in on the world
    The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird...
    ...Rain dropping acid bought up in the air
    A distorted reality's now a necessity to be free


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    basquille wrote: »
    The Pussycat Dolls....

    .. best lyrics ever written..

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

    no more odd than people posting nirvana lyrics, pussycat dolls are probably slightly more intelligent :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 pobiakar


    The sky weeps tonight
    Our bodies washed away
    I am waiting for you
    Deliverance
    The sun falls through the clouds
    Hear my cry

    (Just Barely Breathing by Killswitch Engage)


    Its hard to believe that theres nobody out there
    Its hard to believe that I'm all alone
    At least I have her love
    The city she loves me
    Lonely as I am
    Together we cry

    (Under The Bridge by The Red Hot Chili Peppers)


    A bleak romance, a doomed crusade
    Young loves bliss a sweet serenade
    Hand in hand they begin to say
    I'll love you forever and always


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭palethinboy


    something by bob dylan


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