Favorite pieces of lyrics

[Leo Lakio]

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As a father of three girls, it hits right home

For a light-hearted, amusing take on raising daughters, check out Greg Brown's song of the same name. Some lyrics ---
One is long and one is short, One is thin and one is stout.
In the morning when they wake, Only one's breakfast can I make.
One dances and knows how many squares hopscotch ought to have.
One goes wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, ha ha, wah wah.
One won't eat anything much, I guess she lives on air and sun and noodles.

I'm a man who's rich in daughters, And if by some wild chance I get rich in money, Like say another two thou a year or even one thou a year, I'm gonna look in to havin' some more daughters.

[dick]

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Is that PJ Harvey?

PJ = Pearl Jam

[1stwahine]

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K-den. I love these lyrics!!!

Hey Big Spender
Musical from Fosse

Hey fella, can I talk to you for a second, what’s a harm in a little talk.
Hey good lookin I like your hair, mister you got a cigarette for me huh?
mon seiu you speak French? parle vou francè,
Hey cowboy you wanna dance? a little dance won't hurt ya,
Guy ya wanna tango it only takes two to tango.
OHHHH you're sooooo tall. Let’s have some fun. pssst tttt...

The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of distinction
A real big spender
Good looking, so refined
Say wouldn't you like to know what's going on in my mind?

So let me get right to the point
I don't pop my cork for every guy I see

Hey big spender!! Spend a little time with me me meeeeeeeee me...

Do u wanna have fun? Psssttt…
How's about a few laughs?
I can show you a good time

Do you wanna have fun, fun, fun?
Hows about a few, fun laughs, fun laughs, fun laughs
I can show you a fun laughs good time, fun laughs good time,
fun laughs good time. Psssttt…

What do you say to a, hows about a LAUGH! I can give you some, are you ready for some FUN? How would you like a, let me show you a GOOD TIME!
hey big spender, hey big spender!!!!!!

Auntie pUpule!!!!

[Pua'i Mana'o]

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Mad and Chrome:

I just listened to that Marianne Faithfull song. H*. Ly. Shit. That song floored me. Thanks you to for suggesting it and helping me to be able to listen to it.

[MadAzza]

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Mad and Chrome:

I just listened to that Marianne Faithfull song. H*. Ly. Shit. That song floored me. Thanks you to for suggesting it and helping me to be able to listen to it.

Pretty rough stuff, eh? Glad you liked it!

She also has some really "nice" songs, like "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan," which was the opening song in the movie "Montenegro" -- a terrific film.

[craigwatanabe]

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"freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose" Janis Joplin Bobbie McGee

"you've got to go thru Hell before you get to Heaven" Steve Miller Band Jet Airliner

The entire lyrics of "Ruby" Kenny Rogers...for all disabled U.S. veterans.

[craigwatanabe]

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Great topic, MadAzza! Oh my gosh, which set of lyrics to choose from...Can't choose just one...

Flat out brilliant lyrics:
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.

People talking without speaking: Now we text message on our phones

And no one dare...disturb the sound of silence: Because we're all wearing earbuds for our Ipods.

Yes the future is here...how ironic

[jdub]

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Jimi Hendrix Live at the Fillmore East

Machine gun
Tearing my body all apart

Machine gun, yeah
Tearing my body all apart

Evil man make me kill ya
Evil man make you kill me
Evil man make me kill you
Even though were only families apart

Well I pick up my axe and fight like a farmer
(you know what I mean)
Hey! and your bullets keep knocking me down

Hey, I pick up my axe and fight like a farmer now
Yeah, but you still blast me down to the ground

The same way you shoot me down, baby
Youll be blown away just the same
Three times the pain,
And your own self to blame
Hey, machine gun

I aint afraid of your mess no more, babe
I aint afraid no more
After a while, your, your cheap talk dont even cause me pain,
So let your bullets fly like rain

cause I know all the time youre wrong baby
And youll be blown away just the same
Yeah, machine gun
Tearing my family apart
Yeah, yeah, alright
Tearing my family apart

--for the past 20 years or so, i have maintained that this is the single most impassioned performance ever...

[Erika Engle]

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I can't remember all the lyrics ... and nobody should post them all here, but, "Send lawyers, guns and money ..."

-- the late and brilliant Warren Zevon.

Another of his songs, already referenced here, had a great line that Cliff loved -- I see his face and smiling eyes and the quick toss of his long, blonde rock-n-roll DJ hair everytime I hear it:

"I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's ... and his hair was perfect."

[Got2HaVKaYaNoW]

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KAYA ~ Bob Marley

Wake up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose
For the rain is falling

Got to have kaya now, got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now, for the rain is falling

I feel so high, I even touch the sky
Above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighborhood
So here I come again

I got to have kaya now, got to have kaya now
I got to have kaya now, for the rain is falling

I feel so high, I even touch the sky
Above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighborhood
So here I come again

I got to have kaya now, got to have kaya now
I got to have kaya now, for the rain is falling

Get up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose for the rain is falling
Well kayaman, kaya, kaya
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also love:
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Redemption Song

Words by Bob Marley

Old pirates yes they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I from the
Bottom less pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation triumphantly
All I ever had is songs of freedom
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had redemption songs, redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs, redemption songs, redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Yes some say it's just part of it
We've got to fulfill the book

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
All I ever had, redemption songs
These songs of freedom, songs of freedom

[scrivener]

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I still can't get over Warren Zevon getting away with this in a pop hit:

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook's
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein

I didn't see if beef chow mein was one of the items on the menu, but why hasn't anyone ever mentioned to me that there's a restaurant with that very name in Chinatown?

[alohabear]

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You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

[zff]

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"And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had."

[Creative-1]

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Not as "pretty" as other songs, but it makes
up for it with its passion:

Cause your kisses lift me higher
Like the sweet song of a choir
I'm just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love

[NoCal Boy]

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Apologies to Scrivener and any other educators out there but one of my favorite snippets is:

Well, we busted out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three-minute record, baby
Than we ever learned in school

"No Surrender" - Bruce Springsteen

Always thought it was an awesome kickstart to Side B of the "Born In The USA." I literally wore out the grooves on this disc my freshman year in college and decided to buy my first CD player rather than replace the vinyl. I kind of regret that decision sometimes now...

But for an entire song on that same album, the lyrics for "Bobbie Jean" can still choke me up to this day. That's why he's The Boss.

(Funny, as I'm posting this my wife just started watching the movie "Lucky You" and "Lucky Town" is playing over the opening credits.)