A Song For You. (Lyrics Thread)

[devilmunchkin]

Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

outside there's a box car waiting
outside the family stew
out by the fire breathing
outside we wait 'til face turns blue
i know the nervous walking
i know the dirty beard hangs
out by the box car waiting
take me away to nowhere plains
there is a wait so long
here comes your man

big shake on the box car moving
big shake to the land that's falling down
is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
a big, big stone fall and break my crown
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man

[devilmunchkin]

Cyndi Lauper triple shot!

That's What I think

Sometimes I think
Things are overwhelming
Sometimes I think
I don't know what I'll do
But I forget the world
And everything around me
That's what I think
When I think about you

The streets are filled
With too many babies
Black air in a sky of blue
People pass by
No life in their eyes
The concrete jungle's
Really going crazy

Sometimes I think
Things are overwhelming...

The rent is due
And the pockets are empty
People ask machines
For the truth
No crystal ball
Can help see it all
But where we gonna find
The dreams to feed the babies

Baby life goes on
That's what people say
But I'm nowhere
If you go away
I'd just be looking
For a brighter day

Sometimes I think
Things are overwhelming...
What can I do
Forget about the world
And everything around me
That's what I think
When I think about you

Right Trac, Wrong Train

The train was leaving at 10 after 10
I got to the station just in time to check in
I've been luggin' my bags all around
I'm trying hard to never knock people down
But I see I left a few on the ground
And as the train pulls away I can hear the conductor say
Right track wrong train (echoes)
Right track wrong train (echoes)
I'm not to blame (echo)
Right track wrong train... train
I read my schedule but my train wasn't there
They read my ticket, it said going nowhere
Everybody had the same tatooed face
All the women and men just dressed in lace
Oh I gotta get out of this place
Should got off before the engineer locked the door
Right track wrong train (echoes)
Right track wrong train (echoes)
I'm not to blame (echo)
Right track wrong train, train train train hey !
"Hey that's a neat tatoo you're wearing. By the way where'd you get it ?
Uh huh. Say is this an express train ? Uh huh.
Snack bar ? Uh huh. Uh huh."
Something is happening so familiar to me
Is this the outer limits like on TV ?
Another empty town fading to gray
Another open home sign on the way
Have a cup of coffee, have a nice day
And as the train pushes off,
We're headed for Babylon
Oh no...
Right track wrong train (echoes)
Right track wrong train (echoes)
Right track wrong train...
On the wrong train on the right track
we don't know if she'll ever come back
(Talking) What train is this ?
Something is happening so familiar to me
Is this the outer limits like on tv ?
Have a cup of coffe, have a nice day (talking)
"Yeah, yeah I'll be right there yeah. I'm gonna get the next train
yeah."

She Bop

We-hell-I see them every night in tight blue jeans--
In the pages of a blue boy magazine
Hey I've been thinking of a new sensation
I'm picking up--good vibration--
Oop--she bop--

Do I wanna go out with a lion's roar
Huh, yea, I wanna go south n get me some more
Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine
They say I better stop--or I'll go blind
Oop--she bop--she bop


She bop--he bop--a--we bop
I bop--you bop--a--they bop
Be bop--be bop--a--lu--she bop,
I hope He will understand
She bop--he bop--a--we bop
I bop--you bop--a--they bop
Be bop--be bop--a--lu--she bop,
Oo--oo--she--do--she bop--she bop


(whistle along here)...


Hey, hey--they say I better get a chaperone
Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone
No, I won't worry, and I won't fret--
Ain't no law against it yet--
Oop--she bop--she bop--


She bop--he bop--we bop...

[devilmunchkin]

Boys don't Cry by The CUre

Click on this text
I would say I'm sorry
If I thought that it would change your mind
But I know that this time
I've said too much
Been too unkind
I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
Cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry
I would break down at your feet
And beg forgiveness
Plead with you
But I know that
It's too late
And now there's nothing I can do
So I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
Cause boys don't cry
Boys don`t cry
I would tell you
That I loved you
If I thought that you would stay
But I know that it's no use
That you've already
Gone away
Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
I thought that you needed me more
Now I would do most anything
To get you back by my side
But I just
Keep on laughing
Hiding the tears in my eyes
Cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

[Ted Striker]

Hey devil do that Notorious BIG stuff you are good at it.

Escargo
My car go
160
Swiftly...

[MRT144]

[Clear Skies]

Guess which album I got today for £1...

Ace of Base - Everytime It Rains

I see dark clouds out my window
I know the storm is coming any minute
and the thunder just confirms my fears
and I know the tears are in it
I'll be cryin unable to stop
look here comes the very first drop

'Cuz every time it rains
I fall to pieces
so many memories the rain releases
I feel you
I taste you
I cannot forget
everytime it rains
I get wet

Darlin I am still in love with you
as time passes by it just intensifies
I know I'll never be with you again
I'll never find another with that kindness in his eyes
I'll be trying unable to stop
look here comes the very first drop

'Cuz every time it rains
I fall to pieces
so many memories the rain releases
I feel you
I taste you
I cannot forget
everytime it rains
I get wet

On sunny days I'm all right
I walk in the light
and I try not to think about
the love I live without

But every time it rains
I fall to pieces
so many memories the rain releases
I feel you
I taste you
I cannot forget
everytime it rains
I get wet

'Cuz every time it rains (every time it rains)
I fall to pieces (every memory)
so many memories the rain releases
I feel you
I taste you
I cannot forget
everytime it rains (every time it rains)
I get wet

'Cuz every time it rains (every time it rains)
I fall to pieces (every memory)
so many memories the rain releases
I feel you
I taste you
I cannot forget
everytime it rains (every time it rains)
I get wet


Ace of Base - Travel to Romantis

Funny how everything changes for me
Memories take me away
Each time I open the door to my room
Where I must stay in all day

I don't want to be here, I'm much too tired
So I close my eyes and, 'snap', I'm with you
We are on vacation, you and me together
Lying in the sunshine

I travel to Romantis
I travel to Romantis
Where nothing but the blue skies
Will tell me that the time flies
I travel to Romantis
Everytime I think of you
You're giving me my life back
I travel to Romantis

One day I'll give you myself in a ring
Bounded by law and by heart
(Bounded by law and by heart)
It's you and me against the world
That is the way it should be
(That is the way it should be)

I don't want to be here, I'm much too tired
So I close my eyes and, 'snap', I'm with you
We are on vacation you and me together
Lying in the sunshine

I travel to Romantis
I travel to Romantis
Where nothing but the blue skies
Will tell me that the time flies
I travel to Romantis
Everytime I think of you
You're giving me my life back
I travel to Romantis

Give me my life back

You are the best
You are the best that has happened to me
You're giving me my life back
I travel to Romantis

You are the best that has happened to me
Please, God, let it be

I travel to Romantis
I travel to Romantis
Where nothing but the blue skies
Will tell me that the time flies
I travel to Romantis
(I travel to Romantis)
Everytime I think of you
You're giving me my life back
I travel to Romantis

I travel to Romantis
I travel to Romantis
Where nothing but the blue skies
Will tell me that the time flies
I travel to Romantis
Everytime I think of you
You're giving me my life back
I travel to Romantis

[devilmunchkin]

ted: huh?

[Pekka]

Toto - Africa


I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in twelve-thirty flight
Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say: "Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you"
[Chorus:]
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become
[Repeat chorus]
[Instrumental break]
Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you
[Repeat chorus]

[SlowwHand]

Two For Tuesday; Bruce Springsteen

10th Avenue Freeze-Out

Tear drops on the city, Bad Scooter searching for his groove
Seem like the whole world walking pretty and you can't find the room to move
Well, everybody better move over, that's all
'Cause I'm running on the bad side and I got my back to the wall
Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze-out

Well, I was stranded in the jungle trying to take in all the heat they was giving
The night is dark but the sidewalk's bright and lined with the light of the living
From a tenement window a transistor blasts
Turn around the corner, things got real quiet real fast
I walked into a Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze-out

And I'm all alone, I'm all alone
(And kid, you better get the picture)
And I'm on my own, I'm on my own
And I can't go home

When the change was made uptown and the Big Man joined the band
From the coastline to the city, all the little pretties raise their hands
I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half
With the Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze
I'm talking 'bout a Tenth
Oh, nothing but a Tenth
I'm talking 'bout a Tenth
I'm talking bout a Tenth, Tenth, Tenth, Tenth, Tenth, Tenth, Tenth, Tenth
Tenth, Tenth, Tenth, Tenth, Tenth, I'm talking 'bout a
Tenth Avenue freeze-out

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Thunder Road

The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside, darling, you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're alright
Oh, and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now, I ain't no hero, that's understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey, what else can we do now?
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
Well, the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, heaven's waiting on down the tracks

Oh oh, come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Road
Oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey, I know it's late, we can make it if we run
Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Road
Sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road

Well, I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride ain't free
And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be broken

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines rolling on
But when you get to the porch, they're gone on the wind
So Mary, climb in
It's a town full of losers, I'm pulling out of here to win

[Richelieu]

RUSH

Manhattan Project

Imagine a time when it all began
In the dying days of a war
A weapon that would settle the score
Whoever found it first would be sure to do their worst.
They always had before...

Imagine a man where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation, always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick.
But this was something more...

Chorus
The big bang took and shook the world
Shot down the rising sun
The end was begun and it hit everyone
When the chain reaction was done
The big shots tried to hold it back
Fools tried to wish it away
The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say

Imagine a place where it all began
Gathered from across the land
To work in the secrecy of the desert sand
All of the brightest boys
To play with the biggest toys
More than they bargained for...

Chorus

Imagine a man when it all began
The pilot of "Enola Gay"
Flying out of the shockwave on that August day
All the powers that be, and the course of history,
Would be changed forevermore...

[SlowwHand]

Nice & Slow
Usher


Ah
What cha doing
Really
You know I'm coming over right
(now baby tell what you wanna do with me)
Now you got it hot for me already baby
Okay
I'll be there in about uh, give me ten minutes
Be ready
Ah
Wear that little thing I like

(Now baby tell what you wanna do with me)
It's seven o'clock
On the dot
I'm in my drop top
Cruisin' the streets - Oh yeah
I gotta real pretty, pretty little thang that's waiting for me
I pull up
Anticipating good love
Don' keep me wating
I got plans to put my hands in places
I never seen girl you know what I mean

Let me take you to a place nice and quiet
There ain't no one there to interrupt
Ain't gotta rush
I just wanna take it nice and slow
(now baby tell me what you wanna do with me)
See I've been waiting for this for so long
We'll be makin' love until the sun comes up
Baby
I just wanna take it nice and slow
(now baby tell me what you wanna do with me)
Now here we are
Drivin' round town
Contemplating where I'm gonna lay you down
Girl you got me sayin'
My, my, my - My
I wish that I - I
Could pull over
And get this thing started right now
I wanna do something freaky to you baby
I don't think they heard me
I, I wanna do something freaky to you baby
So call out my name

They call me US-HER-RA-YM-OND
Now baby tell me what you wanna do with me
Gotta nigga feenin' like Jodeci
Every time that you roll with me, holdin' me
Tryin' to get control of me
Nice and slowly
You know
Never lettin' go
Never messin' up the flow

Now tell me
Do you wanna get freaky
Cause I'll freak you right I will
I'll freak you right I will
I'll freak you like no one has ever, ever made
you feel
I'll freak you right I will
I'll freak you right I will
I'll freak you, freak you like no one has ever, ever made you feel -
yeah
(now baby tell me what you wanna do with me)

[Clear Skies]

Joan Osborne - Spider Web


I dreamed about Ray Charles last night
And he could see just fine
Dreamed about Ray Charles last night
And he could see just fine you know
I asked him for a lullaby
He said "Honey I don't sing no more"
No more no more no more
Ray don't sing no more

He said "Since I got my eyesight back
my voice has just deserted me.
No 'Georgia On My Mind' no more...
I stay in bed with MTV."
Then Ray took his glasses off
And I could look inside his head
Flashing like a thunderstorm
I saw a shining spider web

Spider web
Spider web
Spider web
In Ray Charles' head

I dreamed about Ray Charles last night
He took me flying in the air
Showed my own spider webs
Said, "Honey, you had best take care.
The world is made of spider webs
The threads are stuck to me and you
Be careful what you're wishing for
'Cause when you gain you just might lose"
You just might lose your...

Spider web
Spider web
Spider web
What Ray Charles said

When you're feelin' lonely
When you're hidin' in your bed
Don't forget your string of pearls
Don't forget your spider web
When I go to sleep tonight
Don't let me dream of brother Ray
No, no, no, don't...
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he sees
Just like him best the other way

Spider web
Spider web
Spider web
What Ray Charles said...
In Ray Charles head
All I got's my spider web
Keepin' me alive
C'mon Ray

[devilmunchkin]

Sin by Nine Inch Nails

You give me the reason
You give me control
I gave you my Purity
My Purity you stole

Did you think I wouldn't recognize this compromise
Am I just too stupid to realize
Stale incense old sweat and lies lies lies

It comes down to this
Your kiss
Your fist
And your strain
It get's under my skin
Within
Take in the extent of my sin

You give me the anger
You give me the nerve
Carry out my sentence
Well I get what I deserve
I'm just an effigy to be disgraced
To be defaced
Your need for me has been replaced
And if I can't have everything well then just give me a taste

It comes down to this
Your kiss
Your fist
And your strain
It get's under my skin
Within
Take in the extent of my sin

You give me the reason
You give me control
I gave you my Purity
My Purity you stole

Did you think I wouldn't recognize this compromise
Am I just too stupid to realize
Stale incense old sweat and lies lies lies

It comes down to this
Your kiss
Your fist
And your strain
It get's under my skin
Within
Take in with my sin it comes down to this
Your kiss
Your fist
And your strain
It get's under my skin
Within
Take in the extent of my sin

[SlowwHand]

Triple Shot Thursday; Rick Nelson

Garden Party


I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again
When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name
No one recognized me, I didn't look the same

CHORUS
But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well.
You see, ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself

People came from miles around, everyone was there
Yoko brought her walrus, there was magic in the air
'n' over in the corner, much to my surprise
Mr. Hughes hid in Dylan's shoes wearing his disguise

CHORUS

lott-in-dah-dah-dah, lot-in-dah-dah-dah

Played them all the old songs, thought that's why they came
No one heard the music, we didn't look the same
I said hello to "Mary Lou", she belongs to me
When I sang a song about a honky-tonk, it was time to leave

CHORUS
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Believe What You Say

I believe what you say when you say you're goin' steady with nobody else but me
I believe what you say when you say you don't kiss nobody else but me
I believe (I believe), do believe (do believe), I believe (I believe)
Yeah, I believe, pretty baby, believe you're goin' steady with nobody else but me

Well, there's-a one thing, baby, that I wantcha to know
When you're rockin' with me don't rock too slow
a-Move on in, get toe-to-toe
We're gonna rock till we can't rock no more

I believe (I believe), do believe (do believe), I believe (I believe)
Yeah, I believe, pretty baby, believe you're goin' steady with nobody else but me

SPOKEN: Well, let's dig it now.



Well, I believe what you say when you say you don't miss nobody else but me
I believe what you say when you say you don't kiss nobody else but me
I believe (I believe), do believe (do believe), I believe (I believe)
Yeah, I believe, pretty baby, believe you're goin' steady with nobody else but me

Well, when you kiss me, baby, then you roll your eyes
I get a funny feelin' that I'm hypnotized
Chills run all up and down my spine
I'm tellin' everybody that you're mine, all mine

I believe (I believe), do believe (do believe), yeah believe (yeah believe)
Oh, believe, pretty baby, believe you're goin' steady with nobody else but me

SPOKEN: Oh, yeah!!

Well, I believe, do believe, yeah believe
Well, believe, pretty baby, believe you're goin' steady with nobody else but me
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Poor Little Fool

I used to play around with hearts that hastened at my call,
But when I met that little girl I knew that I would fall.

(chorus)
Poor little fool, oh yeah, I was a fool, uh huh..

She played around and teased me with her carefree devil eyes,
She'd hold me close and kiss me but her heart was full of lies.

(chorus)

She told me how she cared for me and that we'd never part,
And so for the very first time I gave away my heart.

(chorus)

The next day she was gone and I knew she'd lied to me,
She left me with a broken heart and won her victory.

(chorus)

I'd played this game with other hearts but I never thought I'd see,
The day that someone else would play love's foolish game with me.

(chorus)

[redbaron]

Brought to mind by the Depressing Music thread...


The Letter - Melanie Harrold

My Dearest Old Dad
Feeling utterly wretched
loafing around the garden - I'm going back to it
Back to the excitement - may go tomorrow
Back to the monotony and glory of war

My Dearest Old Dad
Two of our fellows came in today
Both had legs and eyes done in
How did they come down at all?
Old Gillespie's dead - went west on a Camel
Fought like the devil with fourteen - now he's gone home

The honour of it wrankles in my mind like some loathsome disease
and I can't seem to shake it off me
It's in the hospitals the glory fails - tell me where's the glory?
Four souls gone and I'm sending more before me
Isn't it an honour as they laugh - good God, laugh as they murder
and shout as they fight - I always shout as I fight
To deaden my better centres. Oh.....

My Dearest Old Dad
Coming home in September - or first week in October
I always try and think of September
Depends how many get done in - or how many go home
We're all going home - one home or the other

How I shall enjoy a spin along the Weys Road on a little motorbike with trees and peace
How's the shop and the biz? - No one knows what war is like
Even I forget when I come home - except at odd times, then I shudder
And I always can write like this, it takes my mind away - tell Mother
And I'm the only flying officer left who's 23 years old
I must try and hang on for the next four weeks - go carefully what?
It's all incendiary ammunition now - thank God Phil's too young for flying
and I'm frightened of my own tank with 40 gallons of petrol
They can't do me in...... eight to one they didn't get me
They can't do me in...... like Old Nick behind the machine gun
They can't do me in...... God this war is bloody
and I'll sit at home and talk to you - take Major out for walks
and it's all incendiary ammunition now - Old Gillespie's dead
I can't stand it.