Random Lyric Thread

[SmoothedShredder]

I was invited to the State Young Writers' Conference out at Cheney, which was a

Eastern Washington university. And I didn't want to embarrass my son, you

know, and I was gonna behave myself cause I had to live there then - it was a

chore. But I got on the stage - it was an enormous auditorium; there were

twenty-seven hundred young faces out there, none of them with any prospects

anybody could detect - and off to the side of the stage was the suit-and-tie

crowd of people from the school district and the principals, and the, the main

speaker following me was from the Chamber of Commerce.

Well something inside of me snapped.

And I got to the microphone, and I looked out over that multitude of faces and

I said something to the effect of:

"You're about to be told one more time that you're America's most valuable

natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?

Have you seen them strip mine? Have you seen a clear-cut in a forest? Have

you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural

resource! They're gonna strip mine your soul! They're gonna clear-cut your

best thoughts for the sake of profit, unless you learn to resist, cause the

profit system follows the path of least resistance, and following the path of

least resistance is what makes the river crooked! Hmph!"

Well there was great gnashing of teeth and rending of garments - mine. I was

borne to the door, screaming epithets over my shoulder, something to the effect

of: "Make a break for it, kids!" "Flee to the wilderness!" The one within, if

you can find it.

Well, I wrote them a nice letter though, as I oozed out of the state, headed

for Nevada City. I sent it to their little literary magazine. I respect kids.

I love especially little kids. Little kids are assholes. But they're their

own assholes, see, it's when they, when you grow up and become somebody else's

asshole we're all in trouble, you know, like bankers or B-52 pilots and such.

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

. God bless Utah Phillips!

[karatespacetiger]

I was waiting for a cross-town train in the london underground

When it struck me that I've been waiting since birth to find

A love that would look and sound like a movie so I changed

My plans and rented a camera and a van and then I called you

"I need you to pretend that we are in love again" and you agreed to

I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"

And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd

I greased the lens and framed the shot using a friend as my stand-in

The script it called for rain but it was clear that day so we faked it

The marker snapped and I yelled "quiet on the set"

And then called "action!"

And I kissed you in a style that clark gable would have admired

(I thought it classic)

I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"

And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd

I know you're wise beyond your years, but do you ever get the fear

That your perfect verse is just a lie you tell yourself to help you get by?

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

These train tracks run parallel, never shall they meet

You and I on two sides of the same suburban street

We share the same religion, we hum the same old songs

We learn to keep our distance, we never get along

I say, Oh, Mercy, won’t you shine your light on me

Take this blind indifference, and make me see

All the good around me, all the friends that keep me clean

Human beings were never born to be so mean

I’ve been thinking about my father thinking about his son

Caught between what could have been and the things that we should have done

Sometimes I think the only thing that keeps you from someone

Is the pride you never lost and the respect that you never won

And I say, Oh, Mercy, won’t you come and shine your love on me

Take this blind indifference, and make me see

All the good around me, all the friends that keep me clean

Human beings were never born to be so mean

The cost of happiness is rising like the stink of gasoline

Blowing down the highway from the trucks and the limousines

And in the street the tempers and the V8 pistons fly

The curses run like bottles at the endless passers-by

And I say, Oh, Mercy, won’t you come and shine your love on me

Take this blind indifference, and make me see

All the good around me, all the friends that keep me clean

Human beings were never born to be so mean

All the good around me, all the friends that keep me clean

Human beings were never born to be so mean

Human beings were never born to be so mean

[bradm]

I packed that beat-up trailer

'bout as tight as I could

But I still had to leave a good thing behind

And I gave my two week's notice

At the Northwest Company

About a year away from an honest wage

For Kaidy Mae and me

Aloha,

Brad

[d_rawk]

What a beautiful face

I have found in this place

That is circling all 'round the sun

What a beautiful dream

That could flash on the screen

In a blink of an eye and be gone from me

Soft and sweet

Let me hold it close and keep it here with me

And one day we will die

And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea -

But for now we are young

Let us lay in the sun

And count every beautiful thing we can see

Love to be

In the arms of all I'm keeping here with me

What a curious life we have found here tonight

There is music that sounds from the street

There are lights in the clouds

Anna's ghost all around

Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me

Soft and sweet

How the notes all bend and reach above the trees

Now how I remember you

How I would push my fingers through

Your mouth to make those muscles move

That made your voice so smooth and sweet

And now we keep where we don't know

All secrets sleep in winter clothes

With one you loved so long ago

Now he don't even know his name

What a beautiful face

I have found in this place

That is circling all round the sun

And when we meet on a cloud

I'll be laughing out loud

I'll be laughing with everyone I see

Can't believe how strange it is to be anything ... at all

[d_rawk]

47 push ups

In a winter-rate

Sea side motel

I feel like Travis Bickle

I'm listening to Highway to Hell

It's a shitty little tape I taped off the radio

39 push ups

In a winter-rate

Sea side motel

32 push ups

In a winter-rate

Sea side motel

Not looking too good

Not feeling so well

37 push ups

In a winter-rate seaside motel

I'm going up again ...

Goin' up to go down again

(I remember

Entering you

Entering you

I'm gonna be drunk,

so drunk at your wedding)

(there's nothin' I'd rather see

than for you to fail

there's nothin' I'd rather see

than for you to fail

and where is the beauty

that I once had?

where is the beauty

that I had once?

i feel like i'm becoming a stick in the mud

i feel like i'm becoming a Lou Reed - Mistrial stick in the mud

there's nothin' I'd rather see

than for you to fail

and where is the beauty

that I once had?

where is the beauty

i had just once?

i hate songs with questions in them

i feel like i'm becoming a stick in the mud

i feel like i'm becoming a Lou Reed - Mistrial stick in the mud)

(she's had everyone

she made me doubt women

she said I could do it without protection

that's not a woman at all

she says she's an angel

that's not a woman at all

well, what kind of angel

what kind of angel is that?

what kind of angel

what kind of angel is that?

it's an angel of death

she's gonna kill someone

what kind of angel, what kind of angel is that?)

[d_rawk]

And then you said "No, I’m not from the south,

I am from further north than you!"

With that you kissed me full on the mouth

And that was when I knew ...

.. you were either drunk or you wanted me

and, you know, either way I wasn’t going to disagree

But how did one crazy night turn into six weeks

How can we be going out if neither of us speaks

I think we’re the same in many ways

And I admit we had some memorable days

But just not very many

I just think we both need more,

and we can’t ignore how unhappy we were

I’d been abandoned by her and you needed a friend

All right the night we walked into the sea I guess that was okay

And when we bought that weird pornography

yeah that was a good day

The first time I saw your red bikini I just couldn’t help but stare

And when we counted planets in the sky

I was just happy you were there

I guess I'm happy that we were abandoned by her, and you needed a friend.

(I should just get out of here and start driving south on Interstate 5

But I need to stay near, in case you suddenly remember that I'm alive

But I have this nagging fear that sex was all you needed

I've tried to persevere; I guess I've not succeeded

And is it sexist to say that I thought just boys were meant to behave in this way?

And though you seemed quite sincere, will you even recognise my face this time next year?

Well I'll remember how your eyes sparkled in the moonlight

You can surely sympathise; I just wanted more than one night

And yes there was one particular glance that made me afraid

That you were just seeing me as a chance of getting laid)

I love this thread. It's cathartic.

[peipunk]

No I would not give you false hope

On this strange and mournful day

But the mother and child reu-nion

Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine.

I can't for the life of me

Remember a sadder day

I know they say let it be

But it just don't work out that way

And the course of a lifetime runs

Over and over again

No I would not give you false hope

On this strange and mournful day

But the mother and child reu-nion

Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine.

I just can't believe it's so,

and though it seems strange to say

I never been laid so low

In such a mysterious way

And the course of a lifetime runs

Over and over again

But I would not give you false hope

On this strange and mournful day

When the mother and child reu-nion

Is only a motion away,

Oh, oh the mother and child reunion

Is only a motion away

Oh the mother and child reu-nion

Is only a moment away

[Del]

I'm through with standin' in lines

to clubs I'll never get in

It's like the bottom of the ninth

and I'm never gonna win

this life hasn't turned out

quite the way I want it to be

(Tell me what you want)

I want a brand new house

on an episode of Cribs

And a bathroom I can play baseball in

And a king size tub big enough

for ten plus me

--(Tell me what you need)--

I need a a credit card that's got no limit

And a big black jet with a bedroom in it

Gonna join the mile high club

At thirty-seven thousand feet

--(Been Done)--

I want a new tour bus full of old guitars

My own star on Hollywood Boulevard

Somewhere between Cher and

James Dean is fine for me

(So how you gonna do it?)

I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame

I'd even cut my hair and change my name

[CHORUS]

'Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars and

Live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars

The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap

We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat

And we'll hang out in the coolest bars

in the VIP with the movie stars

Every good gold digger's

Gonna wind up there

Every Playboy bunny

With her bleach blond hair

And well...

Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar

Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar

I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels

Hire eight body guards that love to beat up assholes

Sign a couple autographs

So I can eat my meals for free

--(I'll have the quesadilla, ha-ha)--

I'm gonna dress my ass

with the latest fashion

Get a front door key to the Playboy mansion

Gonna date a centerfold that loves to

blow my money for me

(So how you gonna do it?)

I'm gonna trade this life

For fortune and fame

I'd even cut my hair

And change my name

'Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars

And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars

The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap

we'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat

And we'll hang out in the coolest bars

in the VIP with the movie stars

Every good gold digger's

Gonna wind up there

Every Playboy bunny

With her bleach blond hair

And we'll hide out in the private rooms

With the latest dictionary of

today's who's who

They'll get you anything

with that evil smile

Everybody's got a

drug dealer on speed dial, well

Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar

I'm gonna sing those songs

that offend the censors

Gonna pop my pills

from a Pez dispenser

Get washed-up singers writing all my songs

Lip --sync-- 'em every night so I don't get 'em wrong

Well we all just wanna be big rockstars

And live in Hilltop houses driving fifteen cars

The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap

We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat

And we'll hang out in the coolest bars

in the VIP with the movie stars

Every good gold digger's

Gonna wind up there

Every Playboy bunny

With her bleach blond hair

And we'll hide out in the private rooms

With the latest dictionary of

today's who's who

They'll get you anything

with that evil smile

Everybody's got a

drug dealer on speed dial, well

Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar

Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar

[MamaPink]

- Hi Barbie!

- Hi Ken!

- You wanna go for a ride?

- Sure, Ken!

- Jump in!

- Ha ha ha ha!

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it's fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation

Come on, Barbie, let's go party

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it's fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation

I'm a blonde single girl in the fantasy world

Dress me up, take your time, I'm your dollie

You're my doll, rock and roll, feel the glamour and pain

Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky-panky

You can touch, you can play

You can say I'm always yours, oooh whoa

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it's fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh

Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please

I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees

Come jump in, be my friend, let us do it again

Hit the town, fool around, let's go party

You can touch, you can play

You can say I'm always yours

You can touch, you can play

You can say I'm always yours

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it's fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it's fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, ha ha ha, yeah

Come on, Barbie, let's go party, oooh, oooh

- Oh, I'm having so much fun!

- Well, Barbie, we're just getting started!

- Oh, I love you Ken!

[bradm]

You were my hurricane

And I was your trailer park

Aloha,

Brad

[djmelbatoast]

The bats are in the belfry

the dew is on the moor

Where are the arms that held me

and pledged her love before

and pledged her love before

It's such a sad old feeling

the fields are soft and green

it's memories that I'm stealing

but you're innocent when you dream

you're innocent when you dream

Running through the graveyard

we laughed my friends and I

we swore we'd be together

until the day we died

until the day we died

It's such a sad old feeling

the fields are soft and green

it's memories that I'm stealing

but you're innocent when you dream

you're innocent when you dream

I made a golden promise

That we would never part

I gave my love a locket

And then I broke her heart

And them I broke her heart

It's such a sad old feeling

the fields are soft and green

It's memories that I'm stealing

but you're innocent when you dream

you're innocent when you dream

[Esau.]

You can lie to your Mama, you can lie to your race

but you can’t lie to nobody with that cold steel in your face.

And the same God that you’re so afraid is gonna send you to hell

is the same one you’re gonna answer to when the pin hits the shell

[MarcO]

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell

Note the name and note it well

Father of the modern age

His inventions are all the rage

Of course there was the telephone

He’d be famous for that alone

But there’s 50 other things as well

From Alexander Graham Bell

Edison had cylinders

But Bell made records flat

Which we remember gratefully

When we play our floppy or CD

Of course there was the telephone

He’d be famous for that alone

But there’s 50 other things as well

From Alexander Graham Bell

Born in Scotland, moved away

To Canada and the USA

Studied speech, took a wife

Helped the deaf all his life

Came up with a threshing machine

Before he made it to a teen

After years of sweat and toil

He invented the hydrofoil

The respirator was his chance

To save his baby’s life

And just like the Brothers Wright

He got heavily into flight

Of course there was the telephone

He’d be famous for that alone

But there’s 50 other things as well

From Alexander Graham Bell

Graham Bell, Alexander,

It is tantamount to slander

To call him just a scientist

Why his inventions top the list

Edison, he was a thief

And Tesla nuts beyond belief

But Alexander was a gent

So philanthropic, so well meant

Founded Science Magazine

Wrote a book for kids

Because he was a caring fellow

Gave a hand to Helen Keller

Of course there was the telephone

He’d be famous for that alone

But there’s 50 other things as well

From Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Bell, Graham

Modern life would sure be mayhem

Without tetrahedral cells

X-rays, faxes, decibels

I think I’d say, and it’s no fiction

Without fear of contradiction

He improved our lot a smidgeon

From the age of carrier pigeon

Television was a thing

That he had all prepared

But he left that to his pupil

John Logie Baird

Of course there was the telephone

He’d be famous for that alone

But there’s 50 other things as well

From Alexander Graham Bell

-Richard Thompson

[hamilton]

I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar

- Jonathan Richman

Well I was dancing at a night club one Friday night

And that night club bar was a little uptight

Yeah, I was dancing all alone a little self conscious

When some kids came up and said, "for dancing come with us"

And soon I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh

I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh oh

Well I was dancing in the lesbian bar

In the industrial zone

I was dancing with my friends

And dancing alone

Well the first bar things were alright

But in this bar, things were Friday night

In the first bar things were just alright

This bar things were outta sight

and I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh

I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh oh

Well I was dancing in the lesbian bar

Way downtown

I was there to check the scene

And hang around

Well the first bar things were stop and stare

But in this bar things were laissez faire

In the first bar things were stop and stare

In this bar things were lassez faire

and I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh

I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh oh

In the first bar folks were drinking sips

But in this bar they could shake their hips,

In the first bar they were drinking sips

In this bar they could shake their hips

and I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh

I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh oh

I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh

I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh oh

Well in the first bar, things were okay

But in this bar things were more my way

In the first bar things were just okay

in this bar things were done my way

and I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh

I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh oh

Well in the first bar things were controlled

But in this bar things were rock and roll

In the first bar things were so controlled

In this bar things were way way bold

and I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh

I was dancing in a lesbian bar oh oh oh

[bradm]

I crawled out of bed this morning

I could tell something wasn't right

There were cigarettes in the ashtray

And they weren't your menthol lights

Aloha,

Brad

[Esau.]

I know your Daddy hates me and I drink more than a whale

but my failures ain’t for lack of trying it’s just a little too late now to prevail.

You always knew I was a screw up, long before I screwed us up.

You just said it endeared you to me, but in the end you just gave up

[Esau.]

I wish I was in Austin

In the Chili Parlour Bar

Drinkin' Mad Dog Margaritas

And not carin' where you are

But here I sit in Dublin

Just rollin' cigarettes

Holdin' back and chokin' back

The shakes with every breath

Forgive me all my anger

Forgive me all my faults

There's no need to forgive me

For thinkin' what I thought

I loved you from the git go

I'll love you till I die

I loved you on the Spanish steps

The day you said goodbye

I am just a poor boy

Work's my middle name

If money was a reason

I would not be the same

I'll stand up and be counted

I'll face up to the truth

I'll walk away from trouble

But I can't walk away from you

Forgive me all my anger

Forgive me all my faults

There's no need to forgive me

For thinkin' what I thought

I loved you from the git go

I'll love you till I die

I loved you on the Spanish steps

The day you said goodbye

I have been to Fort Worth

I have been to Spain

I have been to proud

To come in out of the rain

I have seen the David

I've seen the Mona Lisa too

I have heard Doc Watson

Play Columbus Stockade Blues

Forgive me all my anger

Forgive me all my faults

There's no need to forgive me

For thinkin' what I thought

I loved you from the git go

I'll love you till I die

I loved you on the Spanish steps

The day you said goodbye

I wish I was in Austin

In the Chili Parlour Bar

Drinkin' Mad Dog Margaritas

And not carin' where you are

[StoneMtn]

Penis severed off with a butcher knife

Only to be sewn on again

A permanent notch on his crotch

Will it ever stiffen again?

He better keep it in his pants this time

Or he might lose it for good

Now he's doing porno films

Does anybody care for sausage?

Throbbing Johnny Bobbitt

Throbbing Johnny lost it

She lopped it off

while it was throbbing

Bobbitt, Bobbitt

She lopped it off

while it was throbbing

Stop it!

[BlindWillieMcTell]

I been meek

And hard like an oak

I seen pretty people disappear like smoke.

Friends will arrive, friends will disappear,

If you want me, honey baby,

I'll be here.

Like your smile

And your fingertips

Like the way that you move your lips.

I like the cool way you look at me,

Everything about you is bringing me

Misery.

[djmelbatoast]

I don't know what the world may need

but I'm sure as hell that it starts with me.

That's a wisdom I've laughed at.

And I don't know what the world may want

But a good stiff drink it surely don't

So I think I'll go and pour myself a tall one

What the world needs now is a new kind of tension

Cause the old one just bores me to death

What the world needs now is another folk singer

Like I need a hole in my head

I don't know what the world may need

But a V8 engines a good start for me

So I can drive off and find some place to be surly

And I don't know what the world may want

But some words of wisdom sure could comfort us

But I reckon I'll leave that up to somebody wiser

What the world nees now are some true words of wisdom

Like la la la la la la la la la la

And what the world needs nnow is another folk singer

Like I need a whole in my head

I don't know what the world may need

But I never asked for perfection

Jeez, I'd just be happy to have your attention

And I don't know what the world may want

But your long sweet body laying next to mine

Could certainly raise my spirits

Cause what the world needs now is another folk singer

Like I need a whole in my head

And what the world needs now is a new Frank Sinatra

So I can get you in bed

Edited October 28, 2006 by Guest

[BlindWillieMcTell]

I got green and I got blues

and everyday there's a little less difference between the two.

So I belly-up and disappear.

Well I ain't really drowning 'cause I see the beach from here.

I could take a Greyhound home but when I got there it'd be gone

along with everything a home is made up of.

So I'll take two of what you're having and I'll take all of what you got

to kill this goddamn lonely, goddamn lonely love.

Sister, listen to what your daddy says.

Don't be ashamed of things that hide behind your dress.

Belly-up and arch your back.

Well I ain't really falling asleep; I'm fading to black.

You could come to me by plane, but that wouldn't be the same

as that old motel room in Texarkana was.

So I'll take two of what you're having and I'll take all of what you got

to kill this goddamn lonely, goddamn lonely love.

Stop me if you've heard this one before:

A man walks into a bar and leaves before his ashes hit the floor.

Stop me if I ever get that far.

The sun's a desperate star that burns like every single one before.

And I could find another dream,

one that keeps me warm and clean

but I ain't dreamin' anymore, I'm waking up.

So I'll take two of what you're having and I'll take everything you got

to kill this goddamn lonely, goddamn lonely love.

[Hartamophone]

He looked down into her brown eyes,

Said, " Say a prayer for me."

She threw her arms around him,

Whispered, "God will keep us free."

They could hear the riders comin,

He said, "This is my last fight.

If they take me back to Texas,

They won't take me back alive."

There were seven Spanish Angels,

At the alter of the Sun.

They were prayin' for the lovers,

In the valley of the gun.

When the battle stopped,

And the smoke cleared.

There was thunder from the throne.

And seven Spanish angels,

Took another angel home.

She reached down and picked the gun up,

That lay smokin in his hand.

She said, "Father please forgive me,

I can't make it without my man."

And she knew the gun was empty,

And she knew she couldn't win.

Her final prayer was answered,

When the rifles fired again.

[bradm]

Well I used to go out in a Mustang

A 302 Mach 1 in green

Till me and your mama made you in the back

And I sold it to by her a ring

Aloha,

Brad