A Song For You. (Lyrics Thread)

[SlowwHand]

All Night Long
Joe Walsh


We get up early and we work all day.
We put our time in 'cause we like to stay up
All night long. All night long.

We keep on grinnin' 'til the weekend comes.
Just a pinch between your cheek and gums.
All night long. All night long.

Start in the morning and get the job done.
Take care of business and we have some fun.
All night long. All night long.

We like a long neck and a good old song.
Turn it up and then we'll sing along. Sing along.
Oh, we're stayin' up all night long.

All night long.
All night long.
All night long.
All night long.

[Clear Skies]

Just had the most amazing birthday party Friday night/Saturday morning. I love all my friends so much...thanks, you lot, for making it such a great one.

The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends

What you would do if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Oh, I get high with a little help from my friends
Oh, I'm going to try with a little help from my friends

What do I do when my love is away?
(Does it worry you to be alone?)
How do I feel by the end of a day?
(Are you sad because you're on your own?)

No, I get by with a little help from my friends
No, I get high with a little help from my friends
Oh, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody?
I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love

Would you believe in a love at first sight?
Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time
What do you see when you turn out the light
I can't tell you, but I know that it's mine

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Oh, I get high with a little help from my friends
Oh, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody?
I just need someone to love?
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Oh, I get high with a little help from my friends
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Yes, I get by with a little help from my friends
With a little help from my friends

[Clear Skies]

Opened Night Ride Home this morning...

Joni Mitchell - Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free)

Magdalene is trembling
Like a washing on a line
Trembling and gleaming
Never before was a man so kind
Never so redeeming

Enter the multitudes
In Exxon blue
In radiation rose
Ecstasy
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free?
(Who're you gonna get)

I am up a sycamore
Looking through the leaves
A sinner of some position
Who in the world can this heart healer be
This magical physician

Enter the multitudes
In Exxon blue
In radiation rose
Misery
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free?
(Who're you gonna get)

Enter the multitudes
The walking wounded
They come to this diver of the heart
of the multitudes
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done

Oh climb down climb down he says to me
From the middle of unrest
They think is light is squandered
But he sees a stray in the wilderness
And I see how far I've wandered

Enter the multitudes
In Exxon blue
In radiation rose
Apathy
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free?
(Who're you gonna get)

Enter the multitudes
The walking wounded
They come to this diver of the heart
of the multitudes
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done

Oh all around the marketplace
The buzzing of the flies
The buzzing and the stinging
Divinely barren
And wickedly wise
The killer nails are ringing

Enter the multitudes
In Exxon blue
In radiation rose
Tragedy
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free?
(Who're you gonna get)


Joni Mitchell - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Based on a poem by WB Yeats

Turning and turning
Within the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart
The center cannot hold
And a blood dimmed tide
Is loosed upon the world

Nothing is sacred
The ceremony sinks
Innocence is drowned
In anarchy
The best lack conviction
Given some time to think
And the worst are full of passion
Without mercy

Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
And the wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born

Hoping and hoping
As if by my weak faith
The spirit of this world
Would heal and rise
Vast are the shadows
That straddle and strafe
And struggle in the darkness
Troubling my eyes

Shaped like a lion
It has the head of a man
With a gaze as blank
And pitiless as the sun
And it's moving its slow thighs
Across the desert sands
Through dark indignant
Reeling falcons

Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
And wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born

Raging and raging
It rises from the deep
Opening its eyes
After twenty centuries
Vexed to a nigcfmare
Out of a stony sleep
By a rocking cradle
By the Sea of Galilee

Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it's the second coming
And wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born

[curtsibling]

Victory Is Mine

By VIRGIN STEELE

Your god isn't here - he is dead
Crushed by your Prophets of Dread
Death-Fire, Mist, Blood and Wine
Torn like a rose from the vine
So you run to the hills to divine
What is left of your fortune and find

VICTORY IS MINE underneath a Savage sky
VICTORY IS MINE from the darkness I have won...

Sad Ghosts of old victories
Come crowding the fields where we cleaved
Locked in Immortal embrace
Handsome as Death's Iron face

I will run to the hills where you hide
Seeking Vengeance for all of my kind

VICTORY IN MINE by the Hammer and the Nine
VICTORY IN MINE from the Mountains to the Sea
VICTORY IN MINE Noble tears and Kingly Pride
VICTORY IN MINE under Shadows I will fly

The Thunder meets at Twilight by the Serpentine
No blood running in these veins
Just the blackened ice of the river Styx
Swirling through a Heart of Stone

VICTORY IS MINE underneath a Savage sky
VICTORY IS MINE by the Power and the Sign
VICTORY IS MINE final Darkness, Kingdoms fall
VICTORY IS MINE under Darkness, Iam all

Oh Emalaith, oh Emalaith,
Sworn by the light of the moon
I will be here with you soon

VICTORY IS MINE

[curtsibling]

Rising Unchaned

BY VIRGIN STEELE

Piercing the veil of Eternity, lashed by the winds of Hades
Titan fists and Gods collide
From the caves of ice the Midgard Serpent roars
As the stars fall from the sky
War kills, we die, with golden tears, Odin falls

You're the deliverer-King Unchained
You're the deliverer-King Unchained

With a twilight kiss upon your frozen brow
Golden Dawn when you awake
You're the first and last whose coming was foretold
Crown of Glory, worlds unfold
Come forth arise, twelve Golden Dreams forge the prize

You're the deliverer-King Unchained
You're the deliverer-He Who Reigns

Meeting on the Twilight Bridge, the Giants of Jotenheim align
against the Hosts of Heaven. The sun turns black and falls,
lightning cracks Bifrost the Rainbow Bridge of three hues,
while time comes to an end.
The wolf Fenrir breaks his chain, Yggdrasil, is laid waste and the
Universe comes crashing down. But after defeat, One will come
beyond the reach of all Evil, greater even than Odin, to create a
new Heaven and Earth set in a Golden Age forevermore.

Don't cry for mercy for you know there will be none
There in your darkness, you've been blinded by the sun
And you'll see me tread the air, crown of fire upon my hair,
you will die
Come forth arise, your time has come, forge the prize

Don't cry for mercy `cause you know there will be none
There in your darkness, you've been blinded by the sun
Crowned in blood I tread the air, worlds are formed within my stare
See them RISE !!!

You're the deliverer-King Unchained
You're the deliverer-King Unchained

You're the deliverer-He Who Reigns !!!

[curtsibling]

The Wine Of Violence

BY VIRGINE STEELE

[ORESTES:]
Like the Talon of Mars I'll tear right through the Wall
Thunder and Lightning in Power the Gods reveal all
In the Black where the Siren Reigns
Ravaging the Spirits of the Brave

THE WINE OF VIOLENCE, breaks our control
See the Madness, Burning Angels Glow
THE WINE OF VIOLENCE, I'll steal your Soul
See the Madness in me grow

I am the Wound and the Scar and the Spear come to Life
Sacred Red Son of the Sun, torn to pieces imbibed
In the Black where the Darkness rains Death
Drowning in the currents of your shame

THE WINE OF VIOLENCE, breaks our control
See the Madness, Burning Angels Glow
THE WINE OF VIOLENCE, I'll steal your Soul
See the Madness in me grow

[ORESTES to AIGISTHOS:]
Fight me you coward, Thief of Stolen Days
Joy is Destruction, driving me insane to Fight
Win the Silence of the Damned, Holy Order, High Command
Eagle tearing Flesh from Bone
Golden Whirlwind, bare the Stars we fly! Fly!!!
Let the Death Mist close your eyes!!!

[ORESTES:]
THE WINE OF VIOLENCE, takes all control
See the Fire Burning down below
THE WINE OF VIOLENCE, I'll steal your Soul
See the God in me Enthroned!

All Dead, Silent and alone
No more Savior carved in Stone
All Dead nobody will Weep
Icy Water, Death runs Deep...
Vengeance is Mine... I regain my Halls...

[Clear Skies]

Tanita Tikaram - Good Tradition

There's a good tradition of love and hate
Staying by the fireside
There's a good tradition of love and hate
Staying by the fireside

And though the rain may fall - your father's calling you
You still feel safe inside
And though your ma's too proud - your brother's ignoring you
You still feel safe inside

Oh, was this solo?
Was this yesterday?
Was this true for you?
'Cos while all the rest have taken time
This didn't do a lot for you

And the corners laced with memories
Tell you how it used to be
Your mother smiles, the children play, and all the bad things happen miles away

And strong feelings never bother you
You hold your head up while the rest of us try to

Oh, call the stations
Call the people
We all want to know
'Cos while all the rest have taken time
You don't wanna know

Well, there's a good tradition of love and hate
Staying by the fireside
There's a good tradition of love and hate
Staying by the fireside

And though the rain may fall - your father's calling you
You still feel safe inside
And though your ma's too proud - your brother's ignoring you
You still feel safe inside

Oh, was this solo?
Was this yesterday?
Was this true for you?
'Cos of all the choices you have made
This didn't do a lot for you

[curtsibling]

A song that sums up the current world at the moment!

This Means War!

BY MORBID ANGEL

Savagery - as judgment days arrive
Long we have waited for this time
How many brothers fallen?
How many kept alive as slaves for the wicked few?
'Tis time for reparations
'Tis time to settle scores
This time we give no warning...this means war!

Savagery - 'tis now our spirit overflows
War - our minds are focused; we are one!
Hear now the winds of change
A force to obviate
All the enemies naked now
All the smoke gone and all their mirrors are broken
Lost - empires crumble; destiny
Behold! I crusader no retreat

Years of complacency on the part of the mob
Feeding on lies...so slothed, so full this is it
Restless...and tolerance nearing its peak
Woe to the next ones who push us to far

Our love is now replaced by war
Lives cannot be spared, our victory at hand
And by my hand I slay the first
And the last will follow as we watch these wickeds bleed
No rest for the soldiers 'till the purge is done
No salvation until we drench this earth

[curtsibling]

Ceasar's Palace

BY MORBID ANGEL

Just close your eyes...can you remember
The generations not so long ago
I feel the shameless urge that we must restore
Our former king to his rightful throne
And with my lords and maidens
We wait for the chosen son's return

I come alive
It's a time for celebration
Our will to restore
Make our past become the futre once more

Still he lives! 2000 years have passed
And still we're yearning for his return
We fulfill a wishful prohecy
And so the chanting begins
Hail Caesar...Hail Caesar...we render unto you
What is still yours

Share the wish as it must be
Our king and palace...mote it be!
Gods enslaved, trators burning
Might and splendor forever return!

[SlowwHand]

Heard It In A Love Song
Marshall Tucker Band

I ain't never been with a woman long enough,
for my boots to get old.
We've been together so long now
they both need re-soled.
If I ever settle down
you'd be my kind
but it's a good time for me
to head on down the line.

Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Can't be wrong.

I'm the kinda man likes to get away,
like to start dreamin about tomorrow today.
Never said that I love you,
even though it's so
Where's that duffle bag of mine?
it's time to go.

Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Can't be wrong.

I'm gonna be leavin at the break of dawn.
Wish you could come
but I don't need no woman taggin' along.
So I'll sneak out that door
couldn't stand to see you cry.
I'd stay another year
if I saw a tear drop in your eye.

Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Can't be wrong.

I never had a damn thing
but what I had, I had to leave it behind.
You're the hardest thing
I ever tried to get off my mind.
Always something greener
on the other side of that hill.
I was born a wrangler and a rambler
and I guess I always will

Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Can't be wrong.

[Clear Skies]

Ronny Jordan - The Jackal

Did I ever tell you about the man who changed my life?
The one I thought, ohhh. Lord, when I saw him walkin' back in that bar
All tall and lean with them broad shoulders, sweeeet lips
I knew that I had died and gone to. . .
Chocolate Heaven. . .

He had a real deep voice, white pearly teeth, his shoe was always shiny.
Long slender fingers manicured perfectly.
The man wore 800-dollar Italian suit, straight from, I dunno, what would they call it,
Milan or Rome or someplace like that?
I knew it wasn't local.
I said, I got to get next to that.
I haven't seen him in a long time.
The man was so fine, he could get any good girl into trouble. . .
Can you guess what his name was?. . .
Well. . . 'The Jackal'. . .
'The Jackal'
Say. 'The Jackal'. . .

He was fat back cat cool like a Friday afternoon martini
Chillin' at a quarter after 5.
Twist of lime, Coke on the side.
The brother loved the high life.
Had a Ph.D. in street stride.
They called him 'The Jackal'.

He was big Mack daddy super black stylin' a diamonds in the back Cadillac.
Fur-lined boards, white wall wheels, cruise control
Built for speed, chrome on every-thang.
And stereophonic speakers, though he really didn't need them.
When they called him. . . 'The Jackal’
Say. 'The Jackal'. . .

Fly boy was in the buttermilk, hard, livin' fast, livin' large
6 foot 4 and not an ounce of fat!
When women asked, 'is you a Cat?' He said 'I did more that that.
I'm the firmest of the firm
And in case you, hadn't known, they call me 'The Jackal'.

Served the 18-year bid First Reicker's Island
Then they hid him in the state penitentiary
Said the charge was Grand Larceny.
That was 1975, and today, if he's still alive, he'd be living in the park.
Hm. The brother whose claim to fame was that they called him 'The Jackal'.
'The Jackal'. . .

[SlowwHand]

I WILL FOLLOW HIM
Little Peggy March

Love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow

I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep me away

I must follow him, ever since he touched my hand I knew
That near him I always must be
And nothing can keep him from me
He is my destiny

I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
He'll always be my true love, my true love, my true love
From now until forever, forever, forever

I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep, keep me away
Away from my love

I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
He'll always be my true love, my true love, my true love
From now until forever, forever, forever

I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep, keep me away
Away from my love

Do-do do-do-do do-do-do and where he goes
I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
I know I'll always love him

[devilmunchkin]

i've just returned from a really bad week at my parents house where i was told over and over what a bad person i was, what a freak i am, how spoiled and self centered i am.....if you can think of a pejorative word, then i was called it...my favorite was when my mother outright said i was a step away from being ted kascynski...this is what i grew up in....and it undoes all the hard work i've put into fixing my broken mind faster that you can blink...and then to return home and find my first grad school rejection letter. i'm pretty low and panicked.

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) by Metallica

Welcome to where time stands still
no one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
just labeled mentally deranged

Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, No windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred

Sleep my friend and you will see
that dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
can't they see it's why my brain says Rage

Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Build my fear of what's out there
and cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
assuring me that I'm insane

They think our heads are in their hands
but violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
he's getting better, can't you tell?

No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
but they think this saves us from our Hell

Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Fear of living on
natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word
seems the only way
for reaching out again.

[self biased]

down, learn from this mistake.

I've come so close, it's almost heard to believe
When you're up close, it blinds you brilliantly
Just one rush, can change your life forever
Just one push, can end it all together
Why can't we learn from this plague that surrounds us-

Learn from my mistake

There's no shoulder to cry on, when you have no shame
There's no finger to point when your are to blame
Open book, in my eyes shone you rain, then storming
I can't lose, when covered by nothing, and the suffering

Learn from my mistake

Believe me all my friends, in the ending of the story-
There's no junkie out there with a happy ending
It consumes you, haunts you like the devil.
It's the art of the process that kills off the rebels-

Learn from my mistake


down, Lies, I Don't Know What They Say But...

Sometimes I feel like a man that has to broken hands
All of this thrown at me sinking me neck deep in sand
They can't kill me no more, I don't know what they say but it's lies
Underneath all this they should see the man that I am
All of my life I've been tried and then persecuted
They can't kill me no more, I don't know what to say cause it's lies
Undenied, cold shackles, inches from the knife
I defy, what's mine shall be but nothing stance,
The time, not surprised, it's the same to sleep as it is to rise

Death or life? Look deeply into my eyes
Fire on fire, way to be and get a ****ing ride
Some desire, a "f*ck you" soars through the sky lies

[SlowwHand]

MACNAMARA'S BAND
(O'Connor, Stanford)


Bing was in an Irish way on Dec. 6, 1945, and one of the tunes he recorded was this rousing Irish dittie. Backed by the Jesters and the Bob Haggart Orchestra, the recording sold more than a million copies and spent 10 weeks in the pop charts, reaching as high as No. 10.

Oh, me name is MacNamara, I'm the leader of the band
Although we're few in numbers, we're the finest in the land
We play at wakes and weddings and at every fancy ball
And when we play the funerals, we play the March from Saul

Oh, the drums go bang and the cymbals clang and the horns they blaze away
McCarthy pumps the old bassoon while I the pipes do play
And Henessee Tennessee tootles the flute and the music is somethin' grand
A credit to old Ireland is MacNamara's band

Right now we are rehearsin' for a very swell affair
The annual celebration, all the gentry will be there
When General Grant to Ireland came he took me by the hand
Says he, "I never saw the likes of MacNamara's Band"

Oh, the drums go bang and the cymbals clang and the horns they blaze away
McCarthy pumps the old bassoon while I the pipes do play
And Henessee Tennessee tootles the flute and the music is somethin' grand
A credit to old Ireland is MacNamara's band

Oh, my name is Uncle Julius and from Sweden I did come
To play with MacNamara's Band and beat the big bass drum
And when I march along the street the ladies think I'm grand
They shout, "There's Uncle Julius playin' with an Irish band!"

Oh, I wear a bunch of shamrocks and a uniform of green
And I'm the funniest lookin' Swede that you have ever seen
There is O'Brians, O'Ryans, O'Sheehans and Meehans, they come from Ireland
But, by yimminy, I'm the only Swede in MacNamara's Band

Oh, the drums go bang and the cymbals clang and the horns they blaze away
McCarthy pumps the old bassoon while I the pipes do play
And Henessee Tennessee tootles the flute and the music is somethin' grand
A credit to old Ireland is MacNamara's band

That's MacNamara