A Song For You. (Lyrics Thread)

[Sprayber]

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Free Bird

If I leave here tomorrow
would you still remember me
For I must be travelling on now
there's too many places I gotta see

And if I stay here with you girl
things just wouldn't be the same
For I'm as free as a bird now
and this bird you cannot change
and the bird you cannot change
and the bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can't change

Bye bye it's been sweet love
though this feeling I can't change
Please don't take it so badly
Lord knows I must play

And if I stay here with you girl
things just couldn't be the same
For I'm as free as a bird now
and this bird you cannot change
and the bird you cannot change
and the bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can't change

[devilmunchkin]

Silence by Sarah McLachlan

Give me release
witness me
I am outside
give me peace

Heaven holds a sense of wonder
and I wanted to believe
that I'd get caught up
when the rage in me subsides

Passion choke the flower
'til she cries no more
possessing all the beauty
hungry still for more
Heaven holds a sense of wonder...

I am sinking
in this silence
in this white wave
in this silence
I believe

I can't help this longing
comfort me
I can't hold it all in
if you won't let me

Heaven holds a sense of wonder...

In this white wave
I am sinking
in this silence
in this white wave
in this silence
I believe

I have seen you
in this white wave
you are silent
you are breathing
in this white wave
I am free

[SlowwHand]

Dedicated To Boris, Chegitz, and The Merciless Ferret Brothers; The Regional Bigots.

I Wont Back Down
Tom Petty




Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down

No I'll stand my ground, won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin me down
gonna stand my ground
... and I won't back down

Chorus:
(I won't back down...)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(and I won't back down...)
hey I will stand my ground
and I won't back down

Well I know what's right, I got just one life
in a world that keeps on pushin me around
but I'll stand my ground
...and I won't back down

(I won't back down...)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(and I won't back down...)
hey I will stand my ground
(I won't back down)
and I won't back down...

(I won't back down...)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
hey I won't back down
(and I won't back down)
hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(and I won't back down)
hey I will stand my ground
(and I won't back down)
and I won't back down
(I won't back down)
No I won't back down...

[FadedReality111]

Kidney Thieves
Crazy

crazy, i'm crazy for feeling so lonely
i'm crazy, crazy for feeling so blue
i knew, you'd love me as long as you wanted
and someday, you'd leave me for somebody new


worry, why do i let myself worry
wondering, what in the world should i do
crazy for thinking that my love could hold you


i'm crazy for trying, crazy for trying, and i'm crazy for loving you



Stabbing Westward
Hold On

Back when you were in my life
You gave me something that I could live for.
Now everything's changed and you're
Gone but I'm still here waiting.

So how can I hold on
With nothing to hold on to....
Why should I hold on
When there's nothing to hold on to

Sex made me feel alive but now I'm
So bored with mindless passion.
Drugs were someplace to hide but
They've left me feeling cold and empty.

So how can I hold on
With nothing to hold on to....
Why should I hold on
When there's nothing to hold on to

I thought you were my friend that you
Were someone I could turn to
But now I realize you were a
Friend when you needed something

So how can I hold on
With nothing to hold on to....
Why should I hold on
When there's nothing to hold on to

[Ramo]

Estimated Prophet
Grateful Dead

My time coming, any day, don't worry bout me, no
Been so long I felt this way, ain't in no hurry, no
Rainbows end down that highway where ocean breezes blow
My time coming, voices saying, they tell me where to go
Don't worry bout me, no no, don't worry bout me, no
And I'm in no hurry, no no no, I know where to go.

California, preaching on the burning shore
California, I'll be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine

My time coming, anyday, don't worry bout me, no
It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin' slow
Still I know I lead the way, they tell me where I go

Don't worry bout me, no no, don't worry bout me, no
And I'm in no hurry, no no no, I know where to go

California, a prophet on the burning shore
California, I'll be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine

You've all been asleep,
You would not believe me
Them voices telling me,
You will soon receive me
We're standing on the beach,
The sea will part before me
(Fire wheel burning in the air)
And you will follow me,
And we will ride to glory
(Way up the middle of the air)

And I'll call down thunder
And speak the same
And my word fills the sky with flame
And might and glory gonna be my name
And men gonna light my way

My time coming, anyday, don't worry bout me, no
It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin slow
My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no

Don't worry about me...

[Ramo]

Life is ****
Dead Milkmen

i ran into a friend of mine said he was gonna take some words and make them rhyme i said "you can fool some of them some of the time, but you can only fool half them all of the time" he said "yes i do believe this is true, would you like to come and sniff some glue? and we'll fly to where the skies are blue and look for things both bright and new" and on a pretty sunday morning a bunch of pretty baptist girls linked their pretty hands and they sang life is ****, life is **** the world is ****, the world is **** this is life as i know it this is life as i know it and in the sky i saw richard nixon smoking a lacey with mr. dickson he said "son there's something i must say, i do believe i've found a better way" and a vision came and i new it was bob crane and bob sang: life is ****, life is **** the world is ****, the world is **** this is life as i know it this is life as i know it and when my friend and i were done we went to rest upon the sun cause life takes from us the things we love and it robs us of the special ones and it puts them high where we can't climb and we only miss them all the time and we sing: life is ****, life is **** the world is ****, the world is **** this is life as i know it this is life as i know it this is life as i know it this is life as i know it this is life as i know it 

[SlowwHand]

Ball and Chain ( in album Live at Winterland '68 )
Janis Joplin

Yeah! Alright!

Sittin' down by my window,
Honey, lookin' out at the rain.
Lord, Lord, Lord, sittin' down by my window,
Baby, lookin' out at the rain.
Somethin' came along, grabbed a hold of me,
And it felt just like a ball and chain.
Honey, that's exactly what it felt like,
Honey, just dragging me down.

And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now hon', tell me why,
Why does every single little tiny thing I hold on goes wrong ?
Yeah it all goes wrong, yeah.
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now babe, tell me why,
Why does every thing, every thing.
Hey, here you gone today, I wanted to love you,
Honey, I just wanted to hold you, I said, for so long,
Yeah! Alright! Hey!

Love's got a hold on me, baby,
Feels just like a ball and chain.
Now, love's just draggin' me down, baby, yeah,
Feels like a ball and chain.
I hope there's someone out there who could tell me
Why the man I love wanna leave me in so much pain.
Yeah, maybe, maybe you could help me, come on, help me!

And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, now hon', tell me why,
Now tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me why, yeah.
And I say, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, when I ask you,
When I need to know why, c'mon tell me why, hey hey hey,
Here you've gone today,
I wanted to love you and hold you
Till the day I die.
I said whoa, whoa, whoa!!

And I say oh, whoa, whoa, no honey
It ain't fair, daddy it ain't fair what you do,
I see what you're doin' to me and you know it ain't fair.
And I say oh, whoa whoa now baby
It ain't fair, now, now, now, what you do
I said hon' it ain't fair what, hon' it ain't fair what you do.
Oh, here you gone today and all I ever wanted to do
Was to love you
Honey an' I think there can be nothing wrong with that,
Only it ain't wrong, no, no, no, no, no.

Sittin' down by my window,
Lookin' at the rain.
Lord, Lord, Lord, sittin' down by my window,
Lookin' at the rain, see the rain.
Somethin' came along, grabbed a hold of me,
And it felt like a ball and chain.
Oh this can't be in vain
And I'm gonna tell you one just more time, yeah, yeah!

And I say oh, whoa whoa, now baby
This can't be, no this can't be in vain,
And I say no no no no no no no no, whoa!
And I say whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Now now now now now now now now now no no not in vain
Hey, hope there is someone that could tell me
Hon', tell me why,
Hon', tell me why love is like
Just like a ball
Just like a ball
Baaaaaaalllll
Oh daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy
And a chain.
Yeah!

Oh honey you don't know how nice it is to be back home, thank you. Alright. "Harry" ? No, no. "It's a Deal". No. "Down on Me", we'll do it.

[Abdul-Aziz]

O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM by Duo Doloroso:

O Little Town of Bethlehem, in fear we see thee lie,
We hear thee weep in fitful sleep, as tanks and planes go by,
And in thy shattered streets is shown, the Palestinian plight.
The hopes and fears of all the years, are dashed for thee tonight.

How violently, how violently the pre-dawn raids begin,
The soldiers shout, "All men get out, leave now your house of tin".
No ear may hear the desperate cries, for in their world of sin
Israeli soldiers brutalize, and torture those within.

O ghostly town of Bethlehem, in curfew do you lie,
Your streets are dead, the people dread to wander lest they die
No pilgrims visit your hallowed square, for Christians have been banned
A crueller plight upon this night, has ne'er on Earth been planned.

[Eli]

JERUSALEM OF GOLD
by Naomi Shemer

The mountain air is clear as wine
And the scent of pines
Is carried on the breeze of twilight
With the sound of bells.

And in the slumber of tree and stone
Captured in her dream
The city that sits solitary
And in its midst is a wall.

Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze, and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.

How the cisterns have dried
The market-place is empty
And no one frequents the Temple Mount
In the Old City.

And in the caves in the mountain
Winds are howling
And no one descends to the Dead Sea
By way of Jericho.

Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze, and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.

But as I come to sing to you today,
And to adorn crowns to you (i.e. to tell your praise)
I am the smallest of the youngest of your children (i.e. the least worthy of doing so)
And of the last poet (i.e. of all the poets born).

For your name scorches the lips
Like the kiss of a seraph
If I forget thee, Jerusalem,
Which is all gold...

Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze, and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.

We have returned to the cisterns
To the market and to the market-place
A ram's horn (shofar) calls out (i.e. is being heard) on the Temple Mount
In the Old City.

And in the caves in the mountain
Thousands of suns shine -
We will once again descend to the Dead Sea
By way of Jericho!

Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.

[HolyWarrior]

Interior Lulu--Marillion 15:14

As you lie there on your bed
beneath the face of Louise Brooks
With your makeup and your teddy bear
And your C.S. Lewis books
Bad seed --You're a bad seed
You're a decadent in chrysalis
Waiting sleepily to emerge
When you'll visit every seedy need
Of your random obsessive urge

All the ruses that you use
All the food that you refuse
All the dust and tired air that feeds Interior Lulus
All the poisoned attitudes
And the lust for the unknown
And the second best that devils use
To make this world their own Interior Lulu
Interior Lulu

Every rainy day by e-mail
As you lie there on your bed
Another virtual page arrives
There will be times when you remember me
Of the chapters you'll be writing
As the voices echo in your head
In the book called wasted lives
As you read Henry and Anais

All the lost weekends and booze
All the finger-and-thumb screws
All the sleepless worn out blues that bruise Interior Lulus
Interior Lulu Interior Lulu

Use the anger-paint a picture of it
Throw the colours--Use the pain, use the pain
Scream back a brand new emotion
As it runs across the skin
Fire across paper--Burn and curl, burn and curl

You thought you couldn't feel like this
But it's happening again and you're waking up in pain
Tattooed in that private place
Microsoft and tears, intimately pierced
Discovering and remembering
You felt like this somewhere before
Stirrin' up the bed of the river
Somewhere you don't like to go

You wrote this down so many times
But you get up anyway and you write it down again
You've bored us all to death with this
Well who you gonna tell
When you've nothing left to sell
She says she's lonely, She says she knows me
But she's a one-way street
She told me what I already know

"If you can carry it out you can take it away
If you can carry it out you can take it away
If you can buy it, it can be bought
If you can buy it, it can be stolen
If you can break it, it's already broken"

Lately, I can't stand to hear other people talking
So many empty conversations--what a waste of lips
Lately I can't stand to stand on Primrose Hill
Look down upon the city--a heart pumping the roads

In our racing stripes we rejoice at being "connected"
Without touching--Thank God for the internet
We stare at our screens all our lives
What a waste of eyes
'Till the electrical storm blows our fuses
And we gaze, dumbfounded, at the rain

All the trust and tired care
Left to rust and go nowhere
All this gold beneath my skin
Sparklin' like sin somewhere within
In so deep, in so deep that
I can't sleep for these interior Lu lu lu lu lus

[reismark]

I don't care if this one's up already... gotta put it up again just to really top off the night. I've got nothing to criticize in the Grammys tonight - they finally decided to honor somebody who's gonna change music as we know it.

Don't Know Why
Norah Jones

I waited 'til I saw the sun
I don't know why I didn't come
I left you by the house of fun
I don't know why I didn't come
I don't know why I didn't come

When I saw the break of day
I wished that I could fly away
Instead of kneeling in the sand
Catching teardrops in my hand

My heart is drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind forever

Out across the endless sea
I would die in ecstasy
But I'll be a bag of bones
Driving down the road along

My heart is drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind forever

Something has to make you run
I don't know why I didn't come
I feel as empty as a drum
I don't know why I didn't come
I don't know why I didn't come
I don't know why I didn't come

[Drogue]

Ode to Bush
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

You said I'm gonna buy this place and burn it down
I'm gonna put it six feet underground
I'm gonna buy this place and watch it fall
Stand here beside me baby in the crumbling walls

Oh I'm gonna buy this place and start a fire
Stand here until I fill all your hearts desire
Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn
And do back the things it did to you in return

Huuuhhhh
Huuuhhhh
Huuuhhhh
Huuuhhhh

You said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war
If you can tell me something worth fighting for
Oh and I'm gonna buy this place is what I said
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head

Honey, all the movements you're starting to make
See me crumble and fall on my face
And I know the mistakes that I've made
See it all disappear without a trace
And they call as they beckon you on
They say start as you need to go on
Start as you need to go on

Said I'm gonna buy this place and see it go
Stand here beside me baby, watch the orange glow
Some'll laugh and some just sit and cry
You just sit down there and you wonder why

So I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war
If you can tell me something worth fighting for
I'm gonna buy this place is what I said
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head
Oh to the head

Honey, all the movements you're starting to make
See me crumble and fall on my face
And I know the mistakes that I've made
See it all disappear without a trace
And they call as they beckon you on
They say start as you need to go on
As you need to go on
As you need to go on

So meet me by the bridge, meet me by the lane
When am I gonna see, that pretty face again
Oh meet me on the road, meet me where I said
Blame it all upon a rush of blood to the head



I'm always amazed how many people have never heard of Idlewild: A fantastic band, and they come from Shetland
Idlewild - In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction

in the beginning there were answers
then they came along and changed
all these questions and there answers seemed to change

so ill wait ‘til i find the remote part of your heart
for nowhere else will let us choose a comfortable start

we stop in every passing place to watch the world move faster than we do
watch it pass with out eyes closed the way we usually choose to

so ill wait ‘til i find the remote part of your heart
for nowhere else will let us choose a comfortable start
and even if the breath between us smells of alcohol
we call it confusion in the best way possible

it isn’t in the mirror
it isn’t on the page
it's a red hearted vibration
pushing through the walls of dark imagination
finding no equation
there’s a red road rage but its not road rage
its asylum seekers engulfed by a grudge
Scottish friction, Scottish fiction

it isn’t in the castle
it isn’t in the mist
its a calling of the waters as they break
to show you the new black death
with reactors aglow
you think your security
can keep you in purity
you will not shake it off
above or below
Scottish friction, Scottish fiction



Moby - The Great Escape

I'll use a lock that has no key
Bind you with chains
That no one else can see

Let the water creep over your face
I'll send it in waves
Just to watch you perform the great escape

How long can you hold your breath?
While you hold mine, I'll come and wait
Just to watch you perform the great escape

I'll pull your arms tight behind your back
Use myself as weight
And wonder while you fade

How long can you hold your breath?
While you hold mine, I'll come and wait
Just to watch you perform the great escape



And finally, one of my favourite songs (legally) released after years of waiting, absolute genius
Radiohead - True Love Waits

I'll drown my beliefs
To have you be in peace
I'll dress like your niece
An’ wash your swollen feet

Just don't leave
Don't leave

I'm not living
I'm just killing time
Your tiny hands
Your crazy kiss and smile

Just don't leave
Don't leave

And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love lives
On lollipops and crisps

Just don't leave
Don't leave

Just don't leave
Don't leave

[devilmunchkin]

Primitive Notion by New Order

Primitive Notion

It doesn't take a lot to confuse me
I'm not aware of the passing of time
And I'd like to say to those who accuse me
Could you do it while you looked in my eye

If you hold on primitive notion
And if you think you'd like to try
You can drink this magic potion
And you can do it 'til the day that you the day that you die

I've done it before and I'll do it again
A judgement of life that I'll burn 'til the end
How can it be that we're so far apart
I want it to be like it did at the start

I'm doing my best to confound? you
Your behaviour is so volatile
Not even a zoo would impound you
Don't look at me with your criticle smile

Well I've been driving in the wrong gear
It's been a long and lonely ride
It's been winter for a whole year
But you couldn't hurt me if you tried

I've done it before and I'll do it again
Charged with a life that'll burn 'til the end
How can it be that we're so far apart
I want it to be like it did at the start

I've done it before and I'll do it again
A judgement of life that I'll burn 'til the end
How can it be that we're so far apart
I want it to be like it did at the start

I've got a message that I need to send
It's coming to you straight from a friend
I wanted to see what's inside my heart
I wanted to be like it was in the start

[Frozzy]

America's Cup time... but good lyrics too (sorry if someones already done this... it is a common kiwi song).

Dave Dobbyn - Loyal

i can't remember last time i thanked you
keeping my distance unintentionally
too close for comfort just ain't close enough
if i could have more time we would brainstorm
and i love you tender but we must walk away
keeping you on my greeting card file
and if it were different - did you know it ain't
let's get on with it love
call me loyal - i'll say you're loyal too
know you're loyal - i feel your loyal truth
call me loyal - i'll hold you loyal too
and we are loyal - keep it that way
out in the battle flung far and used
where does allegiance lie sometimes
when all of your hopes and all of your dreams
are too much to value in one moment
and all of us anxious but why hurry love
history's here and now
oh and why are you waiting - waiting for what?
the history of some love?
call me loyal - i'll say you're loyal too
know you're loyal - i feel your loyal truth
call me loyal - i'll hold you loyal too
and we are loyal - keep it that way
we are loyal - haven't you known me long enough girl?
if i could see your heart right now
maybe there'd be a change or two
call me loyal - i'll say you're loyal too
know you're loyal - i feel your loyal truth
call me loyal - i'll hold you loyal too
and we are loyal - keep it that way

[Hueij]

Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday

I knew it...