Random Lyric Thread

[djmelbatoast]

You can make a plan

Carve it into stone

Like a feather falling

That is still unknown

Until the clock speaks up

Says it’s time to go

You can choose the high

Or the lower road

You might clench your fist

You might fork your tongue

As you curse or praise

All the things you’ve done

And the faders move

And the music dies

As we pass over

On the arc of time

So you’ll nurse your love

like a wounded dove

in the covered cage of night

Every star is crossed

by phrenetic thoughts

they separate and then collide

and they twist like sheets

‘til you fall asleep

and they finally unwind

it’s a black balloon,

it’s a dream you’ll soon

deny

I hear if you make friends

With Jesus Christ

You’ll get right up

From that chalk outline

And then you'll get dolled up

And you'll dress in white

All to take your place

In his chorus line

And then in you’ll come

With those marching drums

In a saintly compromise

No more whiskey slurs

No more blonde hair girls

For your whole eternal life

And you’ll do the dance

That was choreographed

At the very dawn of time

Singing “I told you son,

The day would come,

You would die, you die, you die, you die…â€

To the deepest part

Of the human heart

The fear of death expands

‘til we crack the code,

we’ve always known

But could never understand

On a circuit board

We’ll soon be born

Again, again, again, again…

[captainsunshine]

It's not...yesterday...anymore

I go visiting, I talk loud

I try to make myself clear

In front...of a face...that's nearer

Than it's ever been before

Not this close before

Nearer than before

Not this close before

It is...is a million...years ago

I hear music...and it sounds like bells

I feel like my head is high

I wish...I could meet...every one

Meet them all over again

Bring them up to my room

Meet them all over again

Everyone's up in my room

And now...Now I'm busy...Busy again

I feel like sitting down but

I'm still thinking...Thinking about my friends

In my garden...moments

But now I'm speaking out

Speaking about my friends

Now I'm speaking out

Thinking about my friends

[bradm]

Before Lord God made the sea and the land

He held all the stars in the palm of his hand

And they ran through His fingers like grains of sand

And one little star fell alone

Then the Lord God hunted through the wide night air

For the little dark star in the wind down there

And He stated and promised He'd take special care

So it wouldn't get lost again

Now, a man don't mind if the stars grow dim

Or the clouds blow over and darken him

So long as the Lord God's watching over him

Keeping track how it all goes on

Now I've been walking through the night and the day

Till my eyes grow weary and my hair turns gray

And sometimes it seems maybe God's gone away

Forgetting His promise that we heard Him say

And we're lost out here in the stars

Little stars big stars blowing through the night

And we're lost out here in the stars

Little stars big stars blowing through the night

And we're lost out here in the stars

Aloha,

Brad

[NewRider]

These cities blur before me, a swirl of colors leaned against the sky

Gone so far away and I never really told you good bye

I know it's kind of lame but sometimes things just turn out that way

We were the best of friends and I'll always remember you that way

We started out with nothing, but wild plans and big ideas and dreams

You were quick to swing the hammer and always fast with some ingenious scheme

Sometimes we argued violently but forged it out of bedrock into steel

Our foundations were so solid and our instincts based on something very real

I feel so damned nostalgic every time I think about those times

I forget how it became that I wouldn't recognize you on the line

I start to feel so guilty but goddamn it I swear to you I tried

To bridge between the distances before I left without saying good-bye

I have friends I met last weekend and friends I've had since I was eight

Friends I've said goodbye to and friends who unexpectedly passed away

And nothing is disposable; at least it's never been that way for me

Its not like you were an acquaintance that I could say never really meant anything to me

No we were really great friends and I always thought that it would be that way

Yet I wonder if I'd know you if the guy that I saw last walked in here today

And I swear until I die, I never would have expected you and I

To grow so far apart and leave without ever saying good bye

[thatpatguy]

Around the world, around the world

Around the world, around the world

Around the world, around the world

Around the world, around the world

repeat 18 times

[celticwolfsun]

I was riding on the Mayflower

When I thought I spied some land

I yelled for Captain Arab

I have yuh understand

Who came running to the deck

Said, "Boys, forget the whale

Look on over yonder

Cut the engines

Change the sail

Haul on the bowline"

We sang that melody

Like all tough sailors do

When they are far away at sea

"I think I'll call it America"

I said as we hit land

I took a deep breath

I fell down, I could not stand

Captain Arab he started

Writing up some deeds

He said, "Let's set up a fort

And start buying the place with beads"

Just then this cop comes down the street

Crazy as a loon

He throw us all in jail

For carryin' harpoons

Ah me I busted out

Don't even ask me how

I went to get some help

I walked by a Guernsey cow

Who directed me down

To the Bowery slums

Where people carried signs around

Saying, "Ban the bums"

I jumped right into line

Sayin', "I hope that I'm not late"

When I realized I hadn't eaten

For five days straight

I went into a restaurant

Lookin' for the cook

I told them I was the editor

Of a famous etiquette book

The waitress he was handsome

He wore a powder blue cape

I ordered some suzette, I said

"Could you please make that crepe"

Just then the whole kitchen exploded

From boilin' fat

Food was flying everywhere

And I left without my hat

Now, I didn't mean to be nosy

But I went into a bank

To get some bail for Arab

And all the boys back in the tank

They asked me for some collateral

And I pulled down my pants

They threw me in the alley

When up comes this girl from France

Who invited me to her house

I went, but she had a friend

Who knocked me out

And robbed my boots

And I was on the street again

Well, I rapped upon a house

With the U.S. flag upon display

I said, "Could you help me out

I got some friends down the way"

The man says, "Get out of here

I'll tear you limb from limb"

I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too"

He said, "You're not Him

Get out of here before I break your bones

I ain't your pop"

I decided to have him arrested

And I went looking for a cop

I ran right outside

And I hopped inside a cab

I went out the other door

This Englishman said, "Fab"

As he saw me leap a hot dog stand

And a chariot that stood

Parked across from a building

Advertising brotherhood

I ran right through the front door

Like a hobo sailor does

But it was just a funeral parlor

And the man asked me who I was

I repeated that my friends

Were all in jail, with a sigh

He gave me his card

He said, "Call me if they die"

I shook his hand and said goodbye

Ran out to the street

When a bowling ball came down the road

And knocked me off my feet

A pay phone was ringing

It just about blew my mind

When I picked it up and said hello

This foot came through the line

Well, by this time I was fed up

At tryin' to make a stab

At bringin' back any help

For my friends and Captain Arab

I decided to flip a coin

Like either heads or tails

Would let me know if I should go

Back to ship or back to jail

So I hocked my sailor suit

And I got a coin to flip

It came up tails

It rhymed with sails

So I made it back to the ship

Well, I got back and took

The parkin' ticket off the mast

I was ripping it to shreds

When this coastguard boat went past

They asked me my name

And I said, "Captain Kidd"

They believed me but

They wanted to know

What exactly that I did

I said for the Pope of Eruke

I was employed

They let me go right away

They were very paranoid

Well, the last I heard of Arab

He was stuck on a whale

That was married to the deputy

Sheriff of the jail

But the funniest thing was

When I was leavin' the bay

I saw three ships a-sailin'

They were all heading my way

I asked the captain what his name was

And how come he didn't drive a truck

He said his name was Columbus

I just said, "Good luck."

the best line ever in this: They asked me for some collateral

And I pulled down my pants

[captainsunshine]

The river rolls and the river winds

And it seems to do something for my peace of mind

Though I didn't know it, I came here looking to find

A place to forget about my troubles for awhile

I saw a mother with her little baby when I was walking here

There's something 'bout a little baby that makes me laugh

They don't seem to have a care

And I wonder if I'm ever gonna feel that way again

Until then, I'll find some time to spend down by the river

I spend a lot of time looking forward

Looking back and looking down at my feet upon the ground

I fell backwards and when I opened my eyes

I found myself staring straight up in the sky

And it seemed like there was something there to learn

When I realized I had nowhere else to be

And the only sound that mattered was the wind that blowed so gentle through the trees

Such a harmony down by the river

Well I heard music, it was soft and clear

And I sang out for the first time, I didn't care who would hear

Because I found my answers in the wind and waves

And the magic in the little things that happen every day

And I played that tune on my old mandolin

And I didn't hurt at all for company

Because the river likes to sing along and knows the words to every song I play

Such a lovely day down by the river

Such a lovely day...

[Hal Johnson]

What's up man! Hey yo what's up!

Yeah what's goin' on here.

Sick an' tired of five-oh runnin' up on the block here.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Yo Snow, they came around here lookin' for you the other day. Word? Word! Bust it!

[chorus] Informer, you no say Daddy me Snow me I'll go blame,

A licky Boom Boom Down.

Detective mon said Daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane,

A licky Boom Boom Down.

Informer, you no say Daddy me Snow me I'll go blame,

A licky Boom Boom Down.

Detective mon said Daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane,

A licky Boom Boom Down.

Police them come an' now they blow down me door,

One him come crawl through, through my window,

So then they put me in the back the car at the station,

>From that point on me reach my destination,

 When the destination reached, it was the east detention, where them

Whipped down me pants, looked up me bottom, so *

Bigger they are they think they have more power,

They're on the phone me say that on (every) hour,

Me for want to use it once an' now me call me lover,

Lover who I'll be callin is the one TAMMY,

an' me love her in me heart down to my belly,

Yes me Daddy me Snow me I feel cool an' deadly,

As the one MC Shan an' the one Daddy Snow,

Together we-a love'em as a Tor-Na-Do.[chorus]

Listen for me, you better listen for me now.

Listen for me, you better listen for me now.

When me rockin' the microphone me rock it steady,

Yes sir, Daddy me Snow me are the article don.

But in the in an' the out of a dance them they say where you come from,

People them say you come from Jamaica,

But me born an' raised in the ghetto that's the one I want you to know,

Pure black people mon that's all I mon know.

Yeah me shoes are tear up an' me toes used to show,

Where me born in on the one Toronto, so [chorus]

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Come with a nice young lady. Intelligent,

Yes she's gentle an' irie.

Everywhere me go, me never left her at all.

Yes, its Daddy Snow me are the roam dance mon.

Roam between a dancin' in a in a nation-a.

You never know say Daddy me Snow me are the Boom Shakata.

Me never lay-a down flat in that one cardboard box.

Yes say me Daddy me Snow me I'll go reachin' at the top, soI [chorus]

Why would he?

Me sittin' 'round cool with my dibbie dibbie girl,

Police knock my door,

Lick up my pal,

Rough me up an' I can't do a thing

Pick up my line, when my telephone ring.

Take me to the station,

Black up my hands.

Trail me down, 'cuz I'm hangin' with the Snowman,

What I'm gonna do,

I'm backed an' I'm trapped,

Slap me in the face an' took all o' my gap.

They have no clues an' they wanna get warmer,

But Shan won't turn Informer! [chorus]

[djmelbatoast]

We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain.

[Esau.]

If I make it through this year, I think I'm gonna put this bottle down

Maybe as time goes on I'll learn to miss it less than I do now

Think I'm gonna tell her that I'm gonna go away for a while

Till I can get this demon out

You know the bottle ain't to blame and I ain't trying to

It don't make you do a thing it just lets you

When I'm six feet underground, I'll need a drink or two

And I'll sure miss you

Take me piece by piece till there ain't nothing left worth taking away from me

The highway's humming in my head and it's hard to hear

Won't you read my lips if I pull you near enough

Could you read my fortune in the bottem of this coffee cup

Tell me how to tell when I've had enough

If morning's a bitch with open arms and night's a girl who's gone to far

Whiskey is harder to keep than a woman and it's half as sweet but

Women without whiskey, Women without whiskey

Whiskey is hard to beat

Whiskey is hard to beat

Women Without Whiskey

DBT

[bradm]

If less is more

Than I've got everything

Aloha,

Brad

[NewRider]

I guess I'll never grow a sideburn, it's a shame with all I've got to go between.

I hope somebody's cause takes soon, it's getting hard to find a place a root can sink.

Mama said a lot of things and "Be thankful" was the one she never minded saying twice.

Thanks to her I can think clear enough to be thankful that she died before tonight.

Baby, every bone in my body's gone to jumping like they're gonna to come through my skin.

If they could get along without the rest of me, it wouldn't matter if they did.

Skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick their money, nobody makes britches that size.

And besides you're a ghost to most before they notice that you ever had a hair or a hide.

Saving everybody takes a man on a mission with a swagger that can set the world at ease.

Some believe it's God's own hand on the trigger, and the other dumping water in the streets.

Talking tough's easy when it's other people's evil and you're judging what they do and don't believe.

Seems to me you'd have to have a hole in your own to point a finger at somebody else's sheet.

Baby, every bone in my body's gone to jumping like they're gonna to come through my skin.

If they could get along without the rest of me, it wouldn't matter if they did.

Skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick their money, nobody makes britches that size.

And besides you're a ghost to most before they notice that you ever had a hair or a hide.

I don't know how much good it does a man to keep on telling him how good it is he's free.

Free to wash his ghost down the drain, free for them to tell him that there's no such thing.

Baby, every bone in my body's gone to jumping like they're gonna to come through my skin.

If they could get along without the rest of me, it wouldn't matter if they did.

Skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick their money, nobody makes britches that size.

And besides you're a ghost to most before they notice that you ever had a hair or a hide.

A Ghost To Most - DBT

[Davey Boy 2.0]

Oh all the money that in my whole life I did spend,

Be it mine right or wrongfully,

I let it slip gladly past the hands of my friends

To tie up the time most forcefully.

But the bottles are done,

We've killed each one

And the table's full and overflowed.

And the corner sign

Says it's closing time,

So I'll bid farewell and be down the road.

Oh ev'ry girl that ever I've touched,

I did not do it harmfully.

And ev'ry girl that ever I've hurt,

I did not do it knowin'ly.

But to remain as friends and make amends

You need the time and stay behind.

And since my feet are now fast

And point away from the past,

I'll bid farewell and be down the line.

Oh ev'ry foe that ever I faced,

The cause was there before we came.

And ev'ry cause that ever I fought,

I fought it full without regret or shame.

But the dark does die

As the curtain is drawn and somebody's eyes

Must meet the dawn.

And if I see the day

I'd only have to stay,

So I'll bid farewell in the night and be gone.

Oh, ev'ry thought that's strung a knot in my mind,

I might go insane if it couldn't be sprung.

But it's not to stand naked under unknowin' eyes,

It's for myself and my friends my stories are sung.

But the time ain't tall,

Yet on time you depend and no word is possessed

By no special friend.

And though the line is cut,

It ain't quite the end,

I'll just bid farewell till we meet again.

Oh a false clock tries to tick out my time

To disgrace, distract, and bother me.

And the dirt of gossip blows into my face,

And the dust of rumors covers me.

But if the arrow is straight

And the point is slick,

It can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

So I'll make my stand

And remain as I am

And bid farewell and not give a damn.

[captainsunshine]

Come on mamma, put your good dress on

The night is young and we're goin' downtown

Where faces come and faces go

It ain't very far you know

Come on mamma, is it really that hard

To lose yourself right where you are

Till your money's gone and your mind is bent

You couldn't say where midnight went

Winding pathways, blind-sided fools

How could you let them get the best of you

Stumblin' footfalls, someone calls your name

Been calling you, stay just the same, just the same

Come on mamma, let it fade away

For good this time and gone we'll stay

All the scenes are gonna pass on by

I swear we'll leave it all behind

Winding pathways, blind-sided fools

How could you let them get the best of you

Stumblin' footfalls, someone calls your name

Been calling you, stay just the same, just the same

[Hal Johnson]

Come and knock on our door.....

We've been waiting for you......

Where the kisses are hers and hers and his,

Three's company too.

Come and dance on on our floor......

Take a step that is new.....

We've a loveable space that needs your face,

Three's company too.

You'll see that life is a frolic and laughter is calling for you......

Down at our rendez-vous,

Three's company, too!!!

They just don write em like they used to.

[Gr8FuL]

Chuck D) "One two three four five six seven eight nine"

Uhh, it's the ten crack commandments

What, uhh, uhh

Nigga can't tell me nothin bout this coke, uh-huh

Can't tell me nothin bout this crack, this weed

To my hustlin niggaz

Niggaz on the corner I ain't forget you niggaz

My triple beam niggaz, word up

(Chuck D) "One two three four five six seven eight nine"

"TEN"

I been in this game for years, it made me a animal

It's rules to this shit, I wrote me a manual

A step by step booklet for you to get

your game on track, not your wig pushed back

Rule nombre uno: never let no one know

how much, dough you hold, cause you know

The cheddar breed jealousy 'specially

if that man fucked up, get your ass stuck up

Number two: never let em know your next move

Don't you know Bad Boys move in silence or violence

Take it from your highness (uh-huh)

I done squeezed mad clips at these cats for they bricks and chips

Number three: never trust no-bo-dy

Your moms'll set that ass up, properly gassed up

Hoodie to mask up, shit, for that fast buck

she be layin in the bushes to light that ass up

Number four: know you heard this before

Never get high, on your own supply

Number five: never sell no crack where you rest at

I don't care if they want a ounce, tell em bounce

Number six: that god damn credit, dead it

You think a crackhead payin you back, shit forget it

Seven: this rule is so underrated

Keep your family and business completely seperated

Money and blood don't mix like two dicks and no bitch

Find yourself in serious shit

Number eight: never keep no weight on you

Them cats that squeeze your guns can hold jobs too

Number nine shoulda been number one to me

If you ain't gettin bags stay the fuck from police (uh-huh)

If niggaz think you snitchin ain't tryin listen

They be sittin in your kitchen, waitin to start hittin

Number ten: a strong word called consignment

Strictly for live men, not for freshmen

If you ain't got the clientele say hell no

Cause they gon want they money rain sleet hail snow

Follow these rules you'll have mad bread to break up

If not, twenty-four years, on the wake up

Slug hit your temple, watch your frame shake up

Caretaker did your makeup, when you pass

Your girl fucked my man Jake up, heard in three weeks

she sniffed a whole half of cake up

Heard she suck a good dick, and can hook a steak up

Gotta go gotta go, more pies to bake up, word up, uhh

Crack king, Frank Blizzard

Uhh

(Chuck D) "One two three four five six seven eight nine"

"Ten"

[Esau.]

I'm diggin' my grave

I'm diggin' my grave

My road to hell is surely paved

With all the love that I never gave

I'm diggin' my grave

Oh lord I'm diggin' my grave

And the hole is made

With a pick and a spade

And all the debts never repaid

Oh how I wish that I could have stayed

But the hole is made

Oh lord the hole is made

And the hole is shallow where I must lay

The hole is shallow

But that's okay

Cause I'll have peace on my final day

Down in this shallow hole where I must lay

Well this July ground is mighty hard

This July ground is mighty hard

My back is broken

My hands are scared

This July ground is mighty hard

Well lord I wish that I hadn't sinned

Oh oh I wish I hadn't sinned

That I could be with you again

Oh oh I wish Oh I wish I hadn't sinned

And the hole is shallow where I must lay

And the hole is shallow but that's okay

Cause I'll have peace on my final day

Down in this shallow hole where I must lay

This Iowa dirt is mighty cold

This Iowa dirt is mighty cold

And god will never rest my soul

Down in this Iowa dirt so cold

I'm diggin' my grave

Well, I'm diggin' my grave

My road to hell is surely paved

With all the love that I never gave

I'm diggin' my grave

Oh lord I'm diggin' my grave

- Diggin' My Grave

William Elliott Whitmore

[bradm]

I can saw

A woman in two

But you won't want to look

In the box when I'm through

Chorus:

I can make love

And disappear

For my next trick

I'll need a volunteer

I can pull a rabbit

Out of a hat

I can pull it out

But I can't put it back

Chorus

Step right up

For my next trick

I'll need a volunteer

For my next trick

I'll need a volunteer

Step right up

For my next trick

I'll need a volunteer

'Cause it's lonely up here

When the tricks have been played

And the spotlight has faded

And the plans that we made

Have fallen apart

It's lonely as Hell

And there's no magic spell

For a broken heart

Put me in chains

I will escape

You better not wait up

'Cause I might be late

Chorus

It's lonely up here

When the tricks have been played

And the spotlight has faded

And the plans that we made

Have fallen apart

It's lonely as Hell

And there's no magic spell

For a broken heart

I can saw

A woman in two

But you won't want to look

In the box when I'm through

Chorus

For my next trick

I'll need a volunteer

Step right up

For my next trick

I'll need a volunteer

For my next trick

I'll need a volunteer

Step right up

For my next trick

I'll need a volunteer

Aloha,

Brad

[d_rawk]

I'm going to the doctor's on Friday

I'm going to the doctor's on Friday

They make me better, they give me pills of all sorts,

my GP's going to help me this Friday

Her name's Suzanne and she's got a PhD

and i think that she likes me,

(well she's always smiling)

Don't think I'm wasting your time

this is not a drama piece of mine

I'm not here to tell you lies

Suzanne you better believe me this time

Help me Suzanne, help help me Suzanne!

Help me Suzanne, help help me Suzanne!

She told me to stop smoking but I'll do it anyways

They told me to stop smoking but I'll do it anyways

I don't care now, I can't see it hurt me

They told me to stop drinking but I'll do it anyway

They told me to stop drinking but I'll do it anyway

I don't care now, maybe I've died inside

Don't think that I'm wasting your time

this is not a drama piece of mine

I'm not here to tell you lies

Suzanne - you better believe me this time

Help me Suzanne, help help me Suzanne!

Help me Suzanne, help help me Suzanne!

Hear it here (it is funner than it reads)

[d_rawk]

RE: Your Brains

Heya Tom, it's Bob,

From the office down the hall.

It's good to see you buddy,

How've ya been?

Things have been okay for me,

Except that I'm a zombie now.

I really wish you'd let us in.

I think I speak for all of us when I say I understand

Why you folks might hesitate to submit to our demands,

But here's an FYI - you're all gonna die, screaming.

All we wanna do is eat your brains

Were not unreasonable,

I mean no-one's gonna eat your eyes

All we wanna do is eat your brains

Were at an impasse here,

Maybe we should compromise.

If you open up the door,

We'll all come inside and eat your brains.

I don't wanna nitpick Tom, but is this really your plan -

Spend your whole life locked inside a mall?

Maybe that's okay for now,

But someday you'll be out of food and guns,

And you'll have to make the call.

I'm not surprised to see you haven't thought it through enough -

You never had the head for all that 'bigger picture' stuff.

But Tom, that's what I do,

And I plan on eating you, slowly.

All we wanna do is eat your brains

Were not unreasonable,

I mean no-one's gonna eat your eyes

All we wanna do is eat your brains

Were at an impasse here

Maybe we should compromise

If you open up the door,

We'll all come inside and eat your brains

I'd like to help you Tom,

In any way I can.

I sure appreciate the way you're working with me.

I'm not a monster Tom - well, technically I am...I guess I am...

I've got another meeting Tom;

Maybe we could wrap it up.

I know we'll get to common ground somehow.

Meanwhile I'll report back to my colleagues,

Who are chewing on the doors.

I guess we'll table this for now.

I'm glad to see you take constructive criticism well

Thank you for your time, I know we're all busy as hell.

And we'll put this thing to bed,

When I bash your head open.

All we wanna do is eat your brains

Were not unreasonable,

I mean no-one's gonna eat your eyes

All we wanna do is eat your brains

Were at an impasse here

Maybe we should compromise

If you open up the door,

We'll all come inside and eat your brains

-- Bob

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[Hal Johnson]

Hey man, listen up. I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. You know that new Depeche Mode album? It sucks. You know what? That new Cure album? It sucks. That new Happy Mondays album? I don't know if there is one, but if there is, it sucks. I can say this 'cause I know. 'Cause I'm a Doors fan. And you know, if you want to be a Doors fan, you know what? You might already be one, and you don't even know it. You know, sort of like being gay, you're walking around, you know something's up, you just don't know what it is. You see, Doors fans aren't made, they're born. I'll bet right now, in Africa, there's some guy madely beatin' on a drum; he's one. Or an old lady on a bus, suckin' humbugs; she's a Rider on The Storm, and she don't even know it. I do... 'Cause I'm a Doors fan.

And if you want to be a Doors fan, don't just go buy a greatest hits album. Greatest Hits albums are for housewives and little girls. You want to be a Doors fan, you gotta do it right. It's very scientific. You gotta buy Waiting For The Sun. It's their third album, but really it's their first. We call it the departure point.

Okay, Quick quiz: Who's on bass? No bass. That's right. The Doors had no bass. You see, the gypsies ad no homes. Don't let that scare you, let that free you. Let that liberate you. 'Cause when you're free-flying with the Doors, man, you don't need no safety net. If you scream, "Viva la Doors!" loud enough for your landlord to start thumpin' on the walls, then you might in fact be a Doors fan.

There's one way to know for absolute sure. Get an eight-track tape of LA Woman -there's only a few in existence- and steal a car. Even if you own one, steal a car. Get in that car, play the tape, full blast, and drive West. When the tape ends, get out, and go to the nearest bar, and start to play pool, or pinbball, or possibly even foosball, and wait to get into a fight. Afterwards, get back into that car, and drive till it runs out of gas. Then, torch it. And if, as you're standing there, watching those flames, if you can still hear the Doors sound, you will have become a Doors fan. You wanna know how I know? You wanna know who told me? Well, last year, Jim fuckin' Morrisson told me, that's who. He came to me, 'cause I'm a Doors fan. I'm a Doors fan, man... man, I love their sound. I like the Doors.

- B. McCulloch

[d_rawk]

:laugh: (@ Hal)

Chris Cornell covers the only song that makes me need to get up and dance even when I don't want to .. in a way that makes me not feel the need to dance.

She was more like a beauty queen

From a movie screen

I said, 'don't mind

But what do you mean

I am the one

Who will dance on the floor, in the round'

She said, 'I am the one, who will dance

On the floor in the round'

She said her name was Billie Jean

And she caused a scene

And all the heads turned with eyes

That dreamed of being the one

Who will dance on the floor, in the round

People always told me,

'Be careful of what you do

Don't go around

Breaking young girls' hearts

Momma always told me,

'Be careful of who you love

Careful what you do

Before the lie becomes the truth'

Billie Jean is not my lover

She's just a girl who says that

I am the one

But the kid is not my son

She says I am the one

But the kid is not my son

For forty days and forty nights

The law was on her side

But who can stand

When she's in demand

Her schemes and her plans

'Cause we danced on the floor, in the round

So take my strong advice

Remember to always think twice

(Do think twice)

She told my baby

That we danced till three

And she looked at me

She showed a photo

My baby cried

His eyes were like mine

'Cause we danced on the floor, in the round

People always told me,

'Be careful of what you do

Don't go around

Breaking young girls' hearts'

And she stood right by me

The smell of sweet perfume

This happened much too soon

She called me to her room

(HEYYYYY!)

Billie Jean is not my lover

She's just the girl who says that

I am the one

But the kid is not my son

She says I am the one

But the kid is not my son

So take my strong advice,

And remember to always think twice.

(Do think twice)

[Cornell's version of the lyrics, not MJ's]

Hear it here

[d_rawk]

Please don't pass me by (A disgrace)

I was walking in New York City and I brushed up

against the man in front of me. I felt a cardboard

placard on his back. And when we passed a

streetlight, I could read it, it said "Please

don't pass me by - I am blind, but you can see

-I've been blinded totally - Please don't pass me

by." I was walking along 7th Avenue, when I

came to 14th Street I saw on the corner curious

mutilations of the human form; it was a school for

handicapped people. And there were cripples, and

people in wheelchairs and crutches and it was

snowing, and I got this sense that the whole city

was singing this:

Oh please don't pass me by, oh please don't pass

me by, for I am blind, but you can see, yes, I've

been blinded totally, oh please don't pass me by.

And you know as I was walking I thought it was

them who were singing it, I thought it was they

who were singing it, I thought it was the other

who was singing it, I thought it was someone else.

But as I moved along I knew it was me, and that I

was singing it to myself. It went:

Please don't pass me by, oh please don't pass me

by, for I am blind, but you can see, well, I've

been blinded totally, oh please don't pass me by.

Oh please don't pass me by.

Now I know that you're sitting there deep in your

velvet seats and you're thinking "Uh, he's up

there saying something that he thinks about, but

I'll never have to sing that song." But I

promise you friends, that you're going to be

singing this song: it may not be tonight, it may

not be tomorrow, but one day you'll be on your

knees and I want you to know the words when the

time comes. Because you're going to have to sing

it to yourself, or to another, or to your brother.

You're going to have to learn to sing this song,

it goes:

Please don't pass me by, ah you don't have to sing

this .. not for you. Please don't pass me by, for

I am blind, but you can see, yes, I've been

blinded totally, oh please don't pass me by.

Well I sing this for the Jews and the Gypsies and

the smoke that they made. And I sing this for the

children of England, their faces so grave. And I

sing this for a saviour with no one to save. Hey,

won't you be naked for me? Hey, won't you be naked

for me? It goes:

Please don't pass me by, oh please don't pass me

by, for I am blind, but you can see, yes, I've

been blinded totally, oh now, please don't pass me

by.

Now there's nothing that I tell you that will help

you connect the blood tortured night with the day

that comes next. But I want it to hurt you, I want

it to end. Oh, won't you be naked for me? Oh now:

Please don't pass me by, oh please don't pass me

by, for I am blind, but you can see, yes, I've

been blinded totally, oh now, please don't pass me

by.

Well I sing this song for you Blonde Beasts, I

sing this song for you Venuses upon your shells on

the foam of the sea. And I sing this for the

freaks and the cripples, and the hunchback, and

the burned, and the burning, and the maimed, and

the broken, and the torn, and all of those that

you talk about at the coffee tables, at the

meetings, and the demonstrations, on the streets,

in your music, in my songs. I mean the real ones

that are burning, I mean the real ones that are

burning

I say, Please don't pass me by, oh now, please

don't pass me by, for I am blind, but you can see,

ah now, I've been blinded totally, oh no, please

don't pass me by.

I know that you still think that its me. I know

that you think that there's somebody else. I know

that these words aren't yours. But I tell you

friends that one day

You're going to get down on your knees, you're

going to get down on your knees, you're going to

get down on your knees, you're going to get down

on your knees, you're going to get down on your

knees, you're going to get down on your knees,

you're going to get down on your knees, you're

going to get down on your knees, you're going to

get down ...

Oh, please don't pass me by, oh, please don't pass

me by, for I am blind, yeah but you can see, yes,

I've been blinded totally, oh, please don't pass

me by.

Well you know I have my songs and I have my poems.

I have my book and I have the army, and sometimes

I have your applause. I make some money, but you

know what my friends, I'm still out there on the

corner. I'm with the freaks, I'm with the hunted,

I'm with the maimed, yes I'm with the torn, I'm

with the down, I'm with the poor. Come on now ...

Ah, please don't pass me by, well I've got to go

now friends, but, please don't pass me by, for I

am blind, yeah but you can see, oh, I've been

blinded, I've been blinded totally, oh now, please

don't pass me by.

Now I want to take away my dignity, yes take my

dignity. My friends, take my dignity, take my

form, take my style, take my honour, take my

courage, take my time, take my time, .. time ..

'Cause you know I'm with you singing this song.

And I wish you would, I wish you would, I wish you

would go home with someone else. Wish you'd go

home with someone else. I wish you'd go home with

someone else. Don't be the person that you came

with. Oh, don't be the person that you came with,

Oh don't be the person that you came with. Ah, I'm

not going to be. I can't stand him. I can't stand

who I am. That's why I've got to get down on my

knees. Because I can't make it by myself. I'm not

by myself anymore because the man I was before he

was a tyrant, he was a slave, he was in chains, he

was broken and then he sang:

Oh, please don't pass me by, oh, please don't pass

me by, for I am blind, yes I am blind, Oh but you

can see, yes, I've been blinded totally, oh,

please don't pass me by.

Well I hope I see you out there on the corner.

Yeah I hope as I go by that I hear you whisper

with the breeze. Because I'm going to leave you

now, I'm going to find me someone new. Find

someone new.

And please don't pass me by.

(Hear it here)

[NewRider]

All I can see is black and white

And white and pink with blades of blue

That lay between the words I think on a page

I was meaning to send to

You I couldn't tell if it'd bring my heart

The way I wanted when I started

Writing this letter to you

But if I could you know I would

Just hold your hand and you'd understand

I'm the man who loves you

All I can be is a busy sea

Of spinning wheels and hands that feel for

Stones to throw and feet that run but

Come back home

It made no difference

Ever known, it made no difference

Ever known to me

But if I could you know I would

Just hold your hand and you'd understand

I'm the man who loves you

All I can see is black and white

And white and pink with blades of blue

That lay between the words I think on a page

I was meaning to send to

You I couldn't tell if it'd bring my heart

The way I wanted when I started

Writing this letter to you

But if I could you know I would

Just hold your hand and you'd understand

If I could you know I would

Just hold your hand and you'd understand

If I could you know I would

Just hold your hand and you'd understand

I'm the man who loves you

[captainsunshine]

Helplessly hoping

Her harlequin hovers nearby

Awaiting a word

Gasping at glimpses

Of gentle true spirit

He runs, wishing he could fly

Only to trip at the sound of good-bye

Wordlessly watching

He waits by the window

And wonders

At the empty place inside

Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams

He worries

Did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?

They are one person

They are two alone

They are three together

They are for each other

Stand by the stairway

You'll see something

Certain to tell you confusion has its cost

Love isn't lying

It's loose in a lady who lingers

Saying she is lost

And choking on hello

They are one person

They are two alone

They are three together

They are for each other