Random lyrics thread part II

TIGER ARMY - TRUE ROMANCE

I told you right from the start.
A knife up to your throat for one put through my heart.

Couldn't hold on and this I should've known.
Thinking back as I walk the night alone.

I told you that my love was true.
I asked you to walk away if you don't feel like i do.
You whispered that you would be mine always.
I felt myself slipping away.

I love you forever, 'til death do us part. And I say..Oh Oh Oh Oh.. Into the night I go.

Night gives no rest and I cannot sleep.
When I can I see your face, it's tattooed on my dreams.
Purple heart pumps sorrow through my veins.
I awaken, I'm calling out your name.

I often think back to that night... the moment when I found out that our love was a lie.

Felt like I would die, I couldn't stand the pain.
And there's nothing left except one thing, I've gotta see you again.
And I said..I love you forever, 'til death do us part.

Oh oh forever is over, Oh oh forever is over.
it's over, it's over, it ended on that night...
that I took your fucking life.

 

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Babe I Got You Bad

Babe I got you bad
Dreaming blood-wet dreams
only madmen have
Baby I got you bad
I wish to God I never had
And it makes me feel so sad,
O, Baby I got you bad
Yeah, Babe I got you bad

I long for your kiss,
for the turn of your mouth
Your body is a long thing
Heading South
And I don't know what I'm talking about
All of my words have gone mad
Ah, baby I got you bad

Seasons have gone wrong
And I lay me down in a bed of snow
Darling, since you've been gone
well my hands, they don't know where to go
And all of my teeth are bared,
I got you so much I'm scared
Ah, baby I got you bad

With the sweep of my hand
I undid all the plans
that explode at the moment I kissed you
on your small hot mouth
and your caramel limbs
that are hymns to the glory that is you.
Look at me darlin' it's sad sad sad
Look at me darlin' it's sad sad sad
Baby I got you bad

Smoke bilowing from the bridges
and the rivers we swim in are boiling
My hands are reaching for you everywhere
but you're not there, or you're recoiling
and a weary moon dangles from a cloud
Oh honey, I know it's not allowed
To say I got you bad.

I got you bad...
I got you bad...
I got you bad...

 

One of my favourite songs I suppose!


Lord of the Ages - Magna Carta

The lord of the ages rode one night
Out through the gateways of time.
Astride a great charger in a cloak of white samite
He flew on the air like a storm.
Dark was the night for he'd gathered the stars in his hand
To light a path through the sky
While the hooves of his charger made comets of fire
Bewitching all eyes that beheld them.

Lord of the ages, nobody knows
Wither he goes, nobody knows.

Below a dark forest in caves of black granite
The children of darkness dwelled in oblivion
Betraying one another in endless confusion
For the lord of the dark had bewitched them.
From time's first creation the wise men and prophets
And all workers of magic had warned of the reckoning
Of the wind and the fire and the plague of destruction
That follows the path of evil.

Lord of the ages, nobody knows
Wither he goes, nobody knows.

Far above the wide ocean and thundering rivers
And through the sun and the rain
And the turn of the seasons
Rode the god of all knowing.
While all around him celestial companions
Friends from the void before time was woven
Honour his crown with words of white fire
And carry his robes of light.

Wither he goes nobody knows

But in the peace of a valley a young child was born
Filling the night with his crying.
And an old man gave thanks to the lord of the ages
Whose battle is not with innocence.
But the birds of the air were silent
Knowing the time had come when time was forgotten.
The waters were stilled, the mountains stood empty.

And the cities were deaf long long ago.

Enough cried a voice and the earth was awakened
The poor and the rich felt the plague and the fire,
Death and destruction rode out together
Turning the world to a funeral pyre.

It was the lord of the ages
Gathering in the harvest
It was the lord of the ages
Gathering in the harvest
Gathering in the harvest ………

And from the blood
and the thunder of men and their dying,
His eyes dark with sorrow
The lord of the ages gathered in his harvest

Gathering in the harvest ……….

But to the old and the helpless
To the weak and the humble
To the children of light
His words of compassion breathed on them gently
Dissolving the darkness across the great valley that rumbled with fire.
And from the death and destruction
The lord of the ages carried the fruits of the harvest
To freedom.

Lord of the ages nobody knows
Wither he goes nobody knows.

 

Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line Lyrics


Wait in line
'Till your time
Ticking clock
Everyone stop

Everyone's saying different things to me
Different things to me
Everyone's saying different things to me
Different things to me

Woooohh
Do you believe
In what you see
There doesn't seem to be anybody else who agrees with me

Do you believe
In what you see
Motionless wheel
Nothing is real
Wasting my time
In the waiting line
Do you believe in
What you see

Nine to five
Living lies
Everyday
Stealing time
Everyone's taking everything they can
Everything they can
Everyone's taking everything they can
Everything they can

Woooohh
Do you believe
In what you feel
It doesn't seem to be anybody else who agrees with me

Do you believe
In what you see
Motionless wheel
Nothing is real
Wasting my time
In the waiting line
Do you believe
In what you see

Ah and I'll shout and I'll scream
But I'd rather not have seen
And i'll hide away for another day

Do you believe
In what you see
Motionless wheel
Nothing is real
Wasting my time
In the waiting line
Do you believe
In what you see

Everyone's saying different things to me
Different things to me
Different things to me
Different things to me
Different things to me
Everyone's taking everything they can
Everything they can

 

I wonder who they are
the men that really run this land
and i wonder why they run it
with such a thoughtless hand
what are their names and on what streets do they live
id like to ride, ride over this afternoon to give
them a piece of my mind
of our peaceful mankind
peace is not an awful lot to ask

its from David Crosby's freaking awexome and waaay overlooked solo album "If I could only remember my name..."
so good, and it has a bunch of guest artists - Jerry Garcia, Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukonen,Grace Slick, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills......and the list goes on even further

 

Phil Ochs - Love Me, I'm a Liberal

I cried when they shot Medgar Evers
Tears ran down my spine
And I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
As though I'd lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X got what was coming
He got what he asked for this time
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I go to the civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R.
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
And I'm glad that the commies were thrown out
From the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
And I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
As long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Ah, the people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
Now I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Yes, I read New Republic and Nation
I've learned to take every view
You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden
I feel like I'm almost a Jew
But when it comes to times like Korea
There's no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I vote for the democratic party
They want the U.N. to be strong
I attend all the Pete Seeger concerts
He sure gets me singing those songs
And I'll send all the money you ask for
But don't ask me to come on along
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Sure, once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
Ah, but I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

 

O God of Earth and Altar,​

Bow down and hear our cry,​

Our earthly rulers falter,​

Our people drift and die,​

The walls of gold entomb us,​

The swords of scorn divide,​

Take not thy thunder from us,​

But take away our pride.​

 

JIMI HENDRIX-GYPSY EYES

Well I realize that I've been hypnotized,
I love your gypsy eyes
I love your gypsy eyes
Alright!

Hey!
Gypsy.

Way up in my tree I'm sitting by my fire
Wond'rin' where in this world might you be
And knowin' all the time
you're still roamin' in the
country side
Do you still think about me?
Oh my gypsy.

Well I walked right on to your rebel roadside
The one that rambles on for a million miles
Yes I walk down this road
searchin' for your love and ah
my soul too
But when I find ya I ain't gonna let go.

I remember the first time I saw you
The tears in your eyes look like
they're tryin' to say
Oh little boy you know I could love you
But first I must make my get away
Two strange men fightin' to
the death over me today
I'll try to meet cha by the old highway.
Hey!

Well I realize that I've
been hypnotized, I love your
gypsy eyes
I love your gypsy eyes
I love your gypsy eyes
I love your gypsy eyes
Alright!

I've been searchin' so long
my feet have made me lose
the battle
Down against the road my
weary knees they got me
Off to the side I fall but I hear a sweet call
My gypsy eyes is comin' and I've been saved.

Oh I've been saved
That's why I love you uh
Said I love you
Hey!
Love you uh
Lord I love you
Hey!

 

"River of Deciet" by Mad Season

My pain is self chosen
at least so The Prophet says
I could either burn
Or cut of my pride and buy some time
A headful of lies is the weight
Tied to my waist

The River of Deciet pulls down oh, oh
The only direction we flow is down
down, oh down
down, oh down
down, oh down
down, oh down

My pain is self chosen
At least I believe it to be
I could either drown
or pull of my skin and swim to shore
Now I can grow a beautiful
Shell for all to see

The River of Deciet pulls down oh, oh
The only direction we flow is down
down, oh down
down, oh down
down, oh down
down, oh down

The pain is self chosen, yeah
Our pain is self chosen

 

Well I woke up this mornin',
Rainbows filled the sky,
Yes I woke up this mornin',
Rainbows filled the sky,

And there was God,
Tellin' me,
"Everythings gonna be alright"

Well so long good friends,
When will we meet again?
I said so long good friends,
When will we meet again?

Well I dont know,
I dont know,
But I guess I'll see you through
[G Love] "I'll see you man"

Well I'm gonna pack my own guitar,
Move on down the road,
(keep on movin)
I'm gonna pack my own guitar,
Move on down the road

(Where ya gonna go?)
Oh, where I go,
I dont know,
But I guess I just gots' to go

Well I woke up this mornin',
Rainbows filled the sky,
Well I woke up this mornin'
Rainbows filled the sky,

And there was god,
Tellin' me,
"Everything.. Everythings gonna be alright!"


G. Love and Jack Johnson - Rainbow

 

Hehe, there's an awful lot of songs that start with 'I woke up this morning', happily most of them are just great!

 

China Cat Sunflower - The Grateful Dead


Look for a while at the china cat sunflower,
Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun.
Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono,
Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind.

Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandanna,
Like a one-eyed cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack.

A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle,
To a double-e waterfall over my back.

Comic book colors on a violin river cryin' leonardo,
Words from out a silk trombone.
I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls,
In the eagle-winged palace of the queen chinee.

 

china-cat is quite awesome...

Shere Kahn - Aesop Rock

[Sample from Sing-A-Song]
"You can come, I'll leap right over
Any day you like
System 605, Union 91"

[Aesop]
I forever wallow in glitches grimly distributed by side effects
Consumed, cocooned in antisocial trenches drenched!
Gridled between dense pillars of polar value lies
a grey so blueless it's got eye fiendin for the sky
Synthesized lies rise synthetic
Sittin inside solidified plastics who's latteral burns germ compatible
My firm's radically piloted, dodging a fire swiftly
Yellow brick stalker walking shifty
I am but a prototype metroid programmed to holocaust style
while you're soakin in the stages of denial
Your petty soldiers seem fragile like Jaquemetti sculptures
Embedded in aramatic cultures. We's rock steady vultures
Plus I's the guise of rowin a soul
My wingspan stands flags in the snow of the poles
Bezerk
Swerve my alignment towards solitary confinement and jade it
Stripping, color my passion mitigated
Slipping

[Ann Colville]
You always seem like a small grey cat to me
Sleepin underneath the silvery moon
Paws curled beneath your head
'til the sun came round just around noon
And you would greet me, purring in your doorway
Drawing up your tail around my hips
And I would go to your mouth wide open
waitin for my nourish to come from your lips
And I move you
And you like it
Just enough
To let me
But I hate you
Cause you're lonely
And you know how
To forget me

[Aesop]
For the love of my personal practice I reside
where obstructive fluxes and societal withdrawl collides
Slide fuel by the fury
Spun a ring around my honor
but the opulence took shelter in my horror
Melancholy masquerade
Cast amongst the braiding of biligerence
and blazing terror that blew the lock down off my placement
I stay special agent till the sky falls
Reverse the curse till my fellow lost children disperse

[Ann Colville]
And your footsteps leading down the pathway
never seem to be quite like my own
Your mind is smokey circles
it blinded me till I turned towards home
And you would watch me far in the distance
hands held high above your head
I only leave the territory where there's nothing left, to be said
And I move you
And you like it
Just enough
To let me
But I hate you
Cause you're lonely
And you know how
To forget me

[Sample from Sing-A-Song]
"You can come, I'll leap right over"

[Aesop]
I make music and connect color to canvas
Swoop down from the trees with potpourris and other bandits
Landed randomly upon the valleys of the grimace
Saw my planted leaf stars burnin from the oustide in
Meaning your clout lies thin
Salt prep the blades prior to five phase in my ever changin underworld
Serate a day to decorate a traitor
That sting never fades like belly wounds from sling blades
Follow my portion, Im gonna swallow distortion and spit the filter

[Sample (Sing-A-Song High Tone Voice)]
"You can come, I'll leap right over
Any day you like
System 605, Union 91"

 

I Need A MiracleI need a woman 'bout twice my ageA lady of nobility, gentility and rageSplendor in the dark, lightning on the drawWe'll go right through the book and break each and every law.I got a feeling and it won't go away, oh noJust one thing then I'll be okI need a miracle every day.I need a woman 'bout twice my heightStatuesque, raven-dressed, a goddess of the night.Her secret incantations, a candle burning blueWe'll consult the spirits maybe they'll know what to do.And it's real and it won't go away, oh noI can't get around and I can't run awayI need a miracle every day.I need a woman 'bout twice my weightA ton of fun who packs a gun with all her freightFind her in a sideshow leave her in L.A.Ride her like a surfer running on a tidal wave.And it's real, believe what I say, yeahJust one thing I got to sayI need a miracle every day.It takes dynamite to get me upToo much of everything is just enoughOne more thing I just got to sayI need a miracle every day,I need a miracle every day,I need a miracle every day, (got to be the only way)I need a miracle

 

JACK-A-ROEThere was a wealthy merchant, in London he did dwellHe had a Beautiful daughter, the truth to you we'll tellOh the truth to you we'll tellShe had sweethearts a plenty, and men of high degreeBut none but Jack the sailor, her true love ever beOh her true love ever beJackie's gone a sailing, with trouble on his mindHe's left his native country and his darling girl behindOh his darling girl behindShe went down to a tailor shop and dressed in man's arrayShe climbed on board a vessel to convey herself awayOh convey herself awayBefore you get on board sir, your name we'd like to knowShe smiled on her countenance, they called me Jack-A-RoeOh they called me Jack-A-RoeI see your waist is slender, your fingers they are smallYour cheeks too red and rosy to face the cannonballOh to face the cannonballI know my waist's to slender, my fingers they are smallbut it would not make me tremble to see ten thousand fallOh to see ten thousand fallThe war soon being over she went and looked aroundamong the dead and wounded her darling boy she foundOh her darling boy she foundShe picked him up on in her arms and carried him to the townshe sent for a physician to quickly heal his woundsOh to quickly heal his woundsThis couple they got married so well they did agreeThis couple they got married so why not you and me?Oh why not you and me?Oh why not you and me?

 

They're pretty unpleasant to read this way, sir.

 

Primus - 'lacquer head'

Sometimes bored sometimes lonely
pimple faced and rather homely
He wasn't much for socializin'
The tv kept him mesmerizin'

In one ear and out the other
Picked up a trick from his older brother
Got him a can of sniffin' salts
Pinned his mind upon the cross

Lacquer head knows but one desire
Lacquer head sets his skull on fire
Lacquer haed knows no in betweens
Huffin' on bags of gasoline

Sniffin' paint since the seventh grade
She was high on gin and gatorade
On turpintine she lost her luck
Fell in front of a speedin' pick-up truck

He was a boy of soft demeanor
And he loved his caburetor cleaner
The vapor made a sweet aroma
He sniffed himself into a coma

Lacquer head feeds his one desire
Lacquer head sets his brain on fire
Lacquer head knows no inbetweens
Huffin' on bags of gasoline

Keep on sniffin' till yer brain goes pop

 

Every time I'm on the street
People laugh and point at me
They talk about my length of hair
And the out of date clothes I wear

They say I look like the living dead
They say I can't have much in my head
They say my songs are much too slow
But they don't know the things I know

I know I don't belong
And there's nothing I can do
I was born too late
And I'll never be like you

In my life things never change
To everybody I seem strange
But in my world now something's died
So I just stare with these insane eyes

I know I don't belong
And there's nothing that I can do
I was born too lte
And I'll never be like you

Saint Vitus

 

Moses came riding up on a guitar

His spurs were a-jingling, the door was ajar
His buckle was silver, his manner was bold
I asked him to come on in out of the cold
His brain was boiling, his reason was spent
He said if nothing was borrowed then nothing was lent
I asked him for mercy, he gave me a gun
Said Now n'again these things just got to be done


Abraham and Isaac
sitting on a fence
You'd get right to work
if you had any sense
Y'know the one thing we need
is a left-hand monkey wrench


Gideon come in with his eyes on the floor
Says: Y'ain't got a hinge, you can't close the door
Moses stood up a full six foot ten
Says: You can't close the door when the wall's caved in
I asked him for water, he poured me some wine
We finished the bottle then broke into mine
You get what you come for, you're ready to go
It's one in ten thousand just come for the show
Abraham and Isaac
Digging on a well
Mama come quick
with the water witch spell
Cool clear water
where you can't never tell

Grateful Dead-Greatest story ever told

​

 

It doesn’t mean much
It doesn’t mean anything at all
The life I’ve left behind me
Is a cold room
I’ve crossed the last line
From where I can’t return
Where every step I took in faith
Betrayed me
And led me from my home
And sweet
Sweet surrender
Is all that I have to give
You take me in
No questions asked
You strip away the ugliness
That surrounds me
Are you an angel
Am I already that gone
I only hope
That I won’t disappoint you
When I’m down here
On my knees
And sweet
Sweet
Sweet surrender
Is all that I have to give
Sweet
Sweet
Sweet surrender
Is all that I have to give
And I don’t understand
By the touch of your hand
I would be the one to fall
I miss the little things
I miss everything (about you)
It doesn’t mean much
It doesn’t mean anything at all
The life I left behind me
Is a cold room
And sweet
Sweet
Sweet surrender
Is all that I have to give



Sarah McLachlan - Sweet Surrender