Favorite Song Lyrics

[Beirut]

"Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see."

Beatles

[Tristuskhan]

E' un mondo difficile
e vita intensa
felicita' a momenti
e futuro incerto
il fuoco e l'acqua
con certa calma
serata di vento
e nostra piccola vita
e nostro grande cuore

Porque voy a creer yo en el amor
si non me entiende no me comprenden tal como yo soy
Porque voy a creer yo en el amor
si me traiciona y me abandona cuando major estoy
No sabemos muy bien entre tu y yo
y aunque parezca no tienes la culpa la culpa es del amor

E' un mondo difficile
e vita intensa
felicita' a momenti
e futuro incerto

No puedo convencer a mi corazon
si yo no dudo y estoy seguro que el tiene razon
No voy a asesinar esa sensacion
si yo la quiero yo la deseo aunque me de' dolor
Yo no quiero sufrir pero aqui' estoy
y estoy sufriendo y no me arrepiento me cago en el amor

E' un mondo difficile
e vita intensa
felicita' a momenti
e futuro incerto
il fuoco e l'acqua
con certa calma
serata di vento
e nostra piccola vita
e nostro grande cuore

Porque voy a creer yo en el amor
si non me entiende no me comprenden tal como soy yo
Porque voy a creer yo en el amor
si me traiciona y me abandona cuando major estoy
No sabemos muy bien entre tu y yo
y aunque parezca no tienes la culpa la culpa es del amor
Yo no quiero sufrir pero aqui' estoy
y estoy sufriendo y no me arrepiento (me cago en el amor) me cago en el amor

Me cago en el amor
Me cago en el amor

Vita mia

E' un mondo difficile



Tonino Carotone, "me cago en el amor"

[Reverend Joe]

Been buildin' up a few.

"Wanna live, wanna have children, don't have to worry about war..."
-Buffalo Killers, "Children of War"

"Oh, my... city life's in dusk,
my head's about to bust
from all the smoke...
Oh, my... back's about to break,
I took all I could take,
not anymore...

Deep, in the dark night, I hold my pillow tight;
dream, of a better place, of a better life."
-The Brought Low, "A Better Life" (if it sounds cheesy, it's because they're a southern rock band.)

"Sisters and brothers, daddies, mothers
standin'around cryin'...
When I reached the scene, the flames were
makin' a ghostly WHINE...
So I stood on my horse's back,
and I screamed without a crack,
I said, oh, baby, why did you burn your...
brother's house down?"
-Jimi Hendrix, "House Burning Down"

"What's there to live for?
Who needs the peace corps?
Think I'll just DROP OUT
I'll go to Frisco
Buy a wig & sleep
On Owsley's floor

Walked past the wig store
Danced at the Fillmore
I'm completely stoned
I'm hippy & I'm trippy
I'm a gypsy on my own
I'll stay a week & get the crabs &
Take a bus back home
I'm really just a phony
But forgive me
'Cause I'm stoned

Every town must have a place
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . . .

How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya Frisco!
How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya
Oh, my hair is getting good in the back!

Every town must have a place
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . . .

Hotcha!

First I'll buy some beads
And then perhaps a leather band
To go around my head
Some feathers and bells
And a book of Indian lore
I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce
How to get to Haight Street
And smoke an awful lot of dope
I will wander around barefoot
I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times
I will love everyone
I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street
I will sleep . . .
I will, I will go to a house
That's, that's what I will do
I will go to a house
Where there's a rock & roll band
'Cause the groups all live together
And I will join a rock & roll band
I will be their road manager
And I will stay there with them
And I will get the crabs
But I won't care
Because . . . "
-Frank Zappa and the Mothers, "Who Needs the Peace Corps?"

"Tiny purple fishes
run laughing through your fingers,
and you want to take her
to the heartland of the winter..."
-Cream, "Tales of Brave Ulysses"

[Makanyane]

Don't actually like the song so much because of the sound effects at the start but another Pink Floyd one where the lyrics really hit home; 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

erm, OK I'm depressed again!

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road - marginally less melancholic...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

A long time ago came a man on a track
Walking thirty miles with a pack on his back
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Made a home in the wilderness
He built a cabin and a winter store
And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came riding down the track
And they never went further, no, they never went back
Then came the churches then came the schools
Then came the lawyers then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road

Then came the mines - then came the ore
Then there was the hard times then there was a war
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river. . .

And my radio says tonight its gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
There's six lanes of traffic
Three lanes moving slow. . .

I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
I got a right to go to work but theres no work here to be found
Yes and they say were gonna have to pay whats owed
Were gonna have to reap from some seed thats been sowed
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
All the way down the telegraph road

You know Id sooner forget but I remember those nights
When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder like you dont seem to care
But believe in me baby and Ill take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
cos Ive run every red light on memory lane
Ive seen desperation explode into flames
And I dont want to see it again. . .

From all of these signs saying sorry but were closed
All the way down the telegraph road

[Caius]

Risin' up, back in the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive

So many times, it happens to fast,
you change your passion for glory,
don't lose your grip in the dreams of the past
you must fight to keep them alive

Its the eye of the tiger, the cream of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of the rival
And the last survivor that stalk his prey in the night
And its watching us with the eye of the tiger...

[Decker]

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy, and my sight grew dimmer
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell'

The Eagles - Hotel California


And for my favorite song:

She's got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I'd stare too long
I'd probably break down and cry


Sweet child o' mine
Sweet love of mine


She's got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I hate to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly pass me by


Sweet child o' mine
Sweet love of mine


Where do we go
Where do we go now
Where do we go
Sweet child o' mine

Guns N' Roses- Sweet Child O' Mine

[Spartan198]

Risin' up, back in the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive

So many times, it happens to fast,
you change your passion for glory,
don't lose your grip in the dreams of the past
you must fight to keep them alive

Its the eye of the tiger, the cream of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of the rival
And the last survivor that stalk his prey in the night
And its watching us with the eye of the tiger...

[Tony Furze]

"If you know your history,
Then you would know where you coming from,
Then you wouldnt have to ask me,
Who the eck do I think I am."

Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley

[Sasaki Kojiro]

"I'm such a lady but I'm dancin like a ho"--fergie (fergalicious)

"She go like yeeeeeaaahh when her song come on"--webbie (independant)

"Bowwowwowyippyyoyippyyay, bowwowwowyippyyo (the bomb)"--snoop dogg (what's my name)

"whiskey for my men, and beer for my horses"--trace adkins (song of same name)

"we'll put a boot in your ass, that's the american way"--toby keith (courtesy of the red white and blue)

"YAY-yah"--lil john (any song)

"put some D's on that *****"--soulja boy (yahhh!)

"just kiddin ya'll, you know I got straight A's"--soulja boy (yahhh!)

"but can I get a ride? No. Come on nigga why? cuz...you'ze a hoooooo OH! you'ze a hooooo, I said that you'ze a hoooooo.--ludacris (you'ze a ho)


"brush yo teeth brush yo teeth, brush your god ***** teeth"--d'mite (read a book)

Me and my band, man, On the yacht with marilyn manson, Gettin a tan man"--shop boyz (party like a rock star)

"dear diary: my life is just a black abyss, so dark..."--emo kid (adam and andrew)



You kind of have to know the songs...

[Caius]

Trustkhaan, I hope that it isn't what I'm thinking...

[Gregoshi]

Two broken Tigers on fire in the night
Flicker their souls to the wind
We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin.
It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun.
At home it will almost be spring
The flames of the Tigers are lighting the road to Berlin.

Al Stewart, Roads to Moscow

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
'Twas the Witch of November come stealin'

Gordon Lightfoot, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

[Raz]

I got my first real six-string,

- Summer of 69

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

On a slightly more serious note, though, Pink's Dear Mr. President was pretty damn good. Open Letters FTW! First two lines of this verse were really good:

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.

And:

Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you 'bout hard work...

Powerful lyrics...

[CountArach]

Are we allowed to put politically motivated lyrics in here? I have a lot of favourite song lyrics, but most of them are of the " authority" type.

[Quirinus]

Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet
Oh, but they're so spaced out
buh-buh-buh-Bennie and the Jets
Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful
Oh Bennie she's really keen
She's got electric boots, a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine, oh-hoh
Buh-buh-buh-Bennie and the Jets...

Elton John, Bennie and the Jets

[Beirut]

Gordon Lightfoot, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

An Official Frontroom Balloon for Gregoshi for having the intellect, culture, and class to quote Gordon Lightfoot.

[Gregoshi]

An Official Frontroom Balloon for Gregoshi for having the intellect, culture, and class to quote Gordon Lightfoot.

Thank you Canada for Gordon Lightfoot!

A few more from Mr. Lightfoot that always have me wishing I was northward bound:

Just for now I'd like to rest in the shade of a maple tree
To the blue Canadian sky
I'll say a prayer for the world out there.

from Hiway Songs

There's a kind of a restless feeling and it pulls me from within
It sends my senses reeling and my wheels begin to spin
In the quietude of winter you can hear the wild geese cry
I will always love that sound until the day I die.
...
The lake is blue, the sky is gray, the leaves have turned to gold
The wild goose will be on her way, the weather's much too cold
When the muskie and the old trout too have all gone down to rest
We will be returning to the things that we love best.

from Restless

There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white man and long before the wheel
When the green dark forest was too silent to be real

from Canadian Railroad Trilogy

[master of the puppets]

Uriah Heep, Lady in Black

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

She came to me one morning
One lonely sunday morning
Her long hair flowing
In the midwinter wind
I know not how she found me
For in darkness I was walking
And destruction lay around me
From a fight I could not win
Ah ah ah ...

She asked me name my foe then
I said the need within some men
To fight and kill their brothers
Without thought of love or god
And I begged her give me horses
To trample down my enemies
So eager was my passion
To devour this waste of life
Ah ah ah ...

But she wouldnt think of battle that
Reduces men to animals
So easy to begin
And yet impossible to end
For shes the mother of our men
Who counselled me so wisely then
I feared to walk alone again
And asked if she would stay
Ah ah ah ...

Oh lady lend your hand outright
And let me rest here at your side
Have faith and trust
In peace she said
And filled my heart with life
There is no strength in numbers
Have no such misconception
But when you need me
Be assured I wont be far away
Ah ah ah ...

Thus having spoke she turned away
And though I found no words to say
I stood and watched until I saw
Her black coat disappear
My labour is no easier
But now I know Im not alone
I find new heart each time
I think upon that windy day
And if one day she comes to you
Drink deeply from her words so wise
Take courage from her
As your prize
And say hello from me
Ah ah ah ...

Linkin Park, Runaway

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Graffiti decorations
Under a sky of dust
A constant wave of tension
On top of broken trust
The lessons that you taught me
I learn were never true
Now I find myself in question
(They point the finger at me again)
Guilty by association
(You point the finger at me again)

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
I wanna know the truth
Instead of wondering why
I wanna know the answers
No more lies
I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind

Paper bags and angry voices
Under a sky of dust
Another wave of tension
Has more than filled me up
All my talk of taking action
These words were never true
Now I find myself in question
(They point the finger at me again)
Guilty by association
(You point the finger at me again)

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
I wanna know the truth
Instead of wondering why
I wanna know the answers
No more lies
I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind

i'm gonna run away and never say goodbye
(gonna run away gonna run away gonna run away gonna run away)
i'm gonna run away and never wonder why
(gonna run away gonna run away gonna run away gonna run away)
i'm gonna run away and open up my mind
(gonna run away gonna run away gonna run away gonna run away gonna run away gonna run away gonna run away gonna run away)

I wanna run away
Never say goodbye
I wanna know the truth
Instead of wondering why
I wanna know the answers
No more lies
I wanna shut the door
And open up my mind

i wanna run away
and open up my mind
i wanna run away
and open up my mind
i wanna run away
and open up my mind
i wanna run away
and open up my mind

Iron and Wine, Boy with a Coin

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

A boy with a coin he found in the weeds
With bullets and pages of trade magazines
Close to a car that flipped on the turn
When God left the ground to circle the world

A girl with a bird she found in the snow
Then flew up her gown and that's how she knows
That God made her eyes for crying at birth
Then left the ground to circle the Earth

A boy with a coin he crammed in his jeans
Then making a wish he tossed in the sea
Walked to a town that all of us burn
When God left the ground to circle the world

Black Sabbath, Iron Man

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all,
Or if he moves will he fall?
Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
Well just pass him there
Why should we even care?

He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
Where he traveled time
For the future of mankind

Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfold

Now the time is here
For iron man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved

Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge

Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron man lives again!

Tupac Shakur

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

“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 y”

more to come when i have more time.

[Tristuskhan]

Trustkhaan, I hope that it isn't what I'm thinking...

Uh? That must be so, indeed... I love that song, it sounds sooo romantic and the lyrics are so pessimistic and cruel I just can love them.

Yes, "me cago en el amor" means "I ***** on love".


(Language - Beirut)

[naut]

I love the cryptic...

In the sad town
Cold iron hands
Clap the party of clowns outside
Rain falls in gray far away
Please, please, Baby Lemonade.

Syd Barrett.

Don't you pretend
Tangled in thorns,
To walk unborn.

The Mars Volta.

[Caius]

Uh? That must be so, indeed... I love that song, it sounds sooo romantic and the lyrics are so pessimistic and cruel I just can love them.

Yes, "me cago en el amor" means "I ***** on love".


(Language - Beirut)

Confirmated then.