Topic: Cool Lyric Snippets

[Ultra]

If you have some favorite lyrics running around in your head, this is the thread to share them.


Chemical Brothers / I Think I Am In Love

Sun so bright that I'm nearly blind
Cool cos I'm wired and I'm out of my mind
Warms the dope running down my spine
But I don't care 'bout you and I've got nothing to do
Free as the warmth in the air that I breathe
Even freer than DMT
Feel the warmth of the sun in me
But I don't care 'bout you and I've got nothing to do
Love in the middle of the afternoon
Just me, my spike in my arm and my spoon
Feel the warmth of the sun in the room
But I don't care 'bout you
And I've got nothin' to do

[porridgehead]

Nothin' like a song about heroin addiction to brighten up the holiday season!

[Ultra]

Nothin' like a song about heroin addiction to brighten up the holiday season!

 

www.joeyspina.com / Remember When


I remember when I was five
A teary eyed kid
Just trying to hide.
You drove away and left me in the street
I never said how much it hurt
To watch you drive away.

I'll never forget that day
You shut the door but I had something to say
Now there is a little boy looking at the stars
I can hear the rain come, it's not far
It always reminds me that there is time to run.
So, take a chance and try again
Don't worry the moment will be back again
Live like a kid and play pretend

It's never useless to cry
It's never useless to cry
No, It's never useless to cry



One of the artists recorded here at the Lachine Machine. 

[Otto Puzzell]

Don't know how 'cool' this is, but is sums up my current mood.

I'm a rollin' stone all alone and lost
For a life of sin I have paid the cost
When I pass by all the people say
Just another guy on the lost highway

Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
And a womans lies makes a life like mine
O the day we met, I went astray
I started rolling down that lost highway

I was just a lad, nearly 22
Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you
And now I'm lost, too late to pray
Lord I paid the cost, on the lost highway

Now boys don't start to ramblin' round
On this road of sin are you sorrow bound
Take my advice or you'll curse the day
You started rollin' down that lost highway

[Rich]

Boys from North Dakota
Drink whiskey for their fun
'N cowboys down in Texas
They polish up their guns
Go across the border
To learn the ways of love....

- Lyle Lovett -

[MG]

but is sums up my current mood

DAMN, KU.  This distresses me.  Since I am limited to digital consolation, here it is:   

Or maybe THIS would be more appropriate:   

As for lyrics, these always struck me as being written by someone with some real life experience, as opposed to the cloying nonsense that usually passes for songs these days:

Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air.
Send in the clowns.

Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move.
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.

Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again with my usual flair,
Sure of my lines,
No one is there.

Don't you love farce?
My fault I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.

Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer,
Losing my timing this late
In my career?
And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
Well, maybe next year.

[Ultra]

The Saddest Song / Morphine

On my first day back, my first day back in town
My first day, my first day back in town
The clouds up above they were humming our song
Humming humming our song
My biggest fear is if I let you go
You'll come and get me in my sleep
My biggest fear is if I let you go
You'll come and get me in my sleep
Come and get me
I set my course sailed away from shore
Steady steady as she goes
A crash in the night, two worlds collide
But when two worlds collide no one survives no one survives
The reddest of reds the bluest of blues
The saddest of songs I'll sing for you
My biggest fear is if I let you go
You'll come and get me in my sleep
My biggest fear is if I let you go
You'll come and get me in my sleep
Come and get me come and get me in my sleep

[Otto Puzzell]

Thank you guys. Rough few weeks of late.

Bless you both. 

[Ultra]

Thank you guys. Rough few weeks of late.

Bless you both. 

The holidays always suck for me.   Gretchen had a second miscarriage.    Lots of unpleasant other stuff as well.

Que sera sera.  Every day above ground is a good one.

Soul Perspective / Too Slim and the Taildraggers

I was lost
In the dark
Could not find no
Place to start
Then I saw
A little light
And I knew it was time to fight
It ain't easy but I got my way
And when I fight, I fight to win
I got a clear Soul Perspective

[otto]

Well, when youre sitting there
In your silk upholstered chair
Talking to some rich folks that you know
Well I hope you wont see me
In my ragged company
You know I could never be alone

Take me down little susie, take me down
I know you think youre the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I wont forget to put roses on your grave

Well, when youre sitting back
In your rose pink cadillac
Making bets on kentucky derby day
Ill be in my basement room
With a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away

Take me down little susie, take me down
I know you think youre the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I wont forget to put roses on your grave

Take me down little susie, take me down
I know you think youre the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the us mail
Say it with dead flowers at my wedding
And I wont forget to put roses on your grave
No I wont forget to put roses on your grave


dead flowers--stones

otto

[Stephen M]

There's some depressing lyrics being passed around in this here thread. I, for one, am just happy when I wake up in the morning and find that I have NOT turned into a giant cockroach overnight. Keeps it all in perspective. Like so:

 I woke up this morning and I realized
That I owned everything -- I owned everything
I owned all the air in the world
And all the house too
And all the TVs and Landrovers
And all of Jupiter's moons
Well that's a lot to be owning

So I shared it all -- I shared it with everyone
I'm a good sharer you know -- I guess I learned that young
Shared some land over here, and some food over there
I divvied it all away, tried my best to be fair
Inevitably though, there were inequities though
I mean that certain folks got to use more of my stuff
lots more of my stuff...
Mostly rich people

Yeah I woke up this morning and I realized
That I owned everything -- everything
Ain't it funny how sometimes you just wake
Up in the morning and find that everything's changed

Like going to sleep after a really big fight
And wakin' up in the morning scared to open your eyes
But you look over there -- there she is over there
And oh my god, what the hell, something you dreamed
must've been kinda funny to her cause she's grinning
She's just grinning at you

Or like when Kafka woke up -- woke up in the morning
And all of a sudden, without any warning
He looked in the mirror, saw his worst morning fears
Yeah Kafka -- he was a cockroach... a giant one...
a giant Czechoslovakian allegorical yucky-ass sorta
cockroach.. that must have really sucked for him

Kinda makes you scared to wake up
Wake up in the morning
When things have been going OK
And you've gotten no warning
But it all goes to show
That there's just one thing you know
You just never know

But when you wake up in the morning
And she grinning at you
And you're not a giant cockroach even
And you own everything
Don't it make you feel
Yeah don't it make you feel
Kinda lucky.

[Rich]

I don't hate my parents
I don't get drunk just to spite 'em
I got my own reasons to drink now
I think I'll call my dad up and invite him

I can sleep in 'til noon any day that I want
But there's not many days that I do
Gotta get up and take on this world
When you're an adult that's no cliche'
It's the truth

I'm an adult now...
I'm an adult now...
I got the problems of the world out there
On my head and my shoulders
I'm an adult now...

I don't even look at young girls anymore
Some people'll think I'm some kind of pervert
Adult sex is either boring or dirty
Young people can get away with murder

I don't take any illicit drugs
I don't go for any artificial joy
Who wants to end up dead in a ditch somewhere
Like some cheese-eating high school boy?

I'm an adult now...
I'm an adult now...
I got the problems of the world on my head and my libido
I'm an adult now...

I don't listen to any loud music
I mean, I like to play it, but I sure don't like the racket
And speaking of noise
I'd like to beat that guy screaming in the leather jacket!  Oww!

I'm an adult now............

- The Pursuit of Happiness -