Your Favorite Song Lyrics

The path is clear
Though no eyes can see
The course laid down long before.
And so with gods and men
The sheep remain inside their pen,
Though many times they've seen the way to leave.

He rides majestic
Past homes of men
Who care not or gaze with joy,
To see reflected there
The trees, the sky, the lily fair,
The scene of death is lying just below.

The mountain cuts off the town from view,
Like a cancer growth is removed by skill.
Let it be revealed.
A waterfall, his madrigal.
An inland sea, his symphony.

Undinal songs
Urge the sailors on
Till lured by sirens' cry.

Now as the river dissolves in sea,
So Neptune has claimed another soul.
And so with gods and men
The sheep remain inside their pen,
Until the Shepherd leads his flock away.

The sands of time were eroded by
The river of constant change.

Firth of Fifth by Genesis

Grapefruit
A bathin' suit
Chew a little Juicy Fruit
Wash away the night

Drive in
You guzzle gin
Commit a little mortal sin
It's good for the soul

Bridge:
And oh it gets so damn lonely
When you're on a plane alone
And if I had the money, honey
I'd strap you in beside me
And never ever leave you
Leave you at home all alone and cryin'

Ten speed
No need
My pickup gets me where I please
Chuggin' down the street

But I'll be leavin'
In a little while
So close your eyes and I'll
I'll be back real soon

Bridge:
Yes and if I had that money, honey
I'd strap you in beside me (in your strapless)
And never ever leave you
Leave you at home all alone and cryin'

Grapefruit
A bathin' suit
You chew a little Juicy Fruit
Wash away the night
Yeah you chew a little Juicy Fruit
It's good for ya soul

Grapefruit JuicyFruit Jimmy Buffet

Great song!

The First Taste
Fiona Apple

I lie in an early bed, thinking late thoughts
Waiting for the black to replace my blue
I do not struggle in your web,
Because it was my aim to get caught
But daddy long legs, I feel I'm finally growing weary
Of waiting to be consumed by you

Give me the first taste, let it begin
Heaven cannot wait forever
darling, just start the chase-I'll let you win
But you must make the endeavor

Oh, your love gives me a heart contusion
Adagio breezes fill my skin with sudden red
Your hungry flirt borders on intrusion
I'm building memories on things we have not said
Full is not heavy as empty, not nearly my love, not nearly my love

Give me the first taste
Let it begin, heaven cannot wait forever
Forever
Darling, just start the chase-I'll let you win
But you must make the endeavor...

Since Toose is in a Buffett-y mood:

Now, I don't know, I don't know where I'm a gonna go
when the volcano blow.
Let me say it now,
I don't know, I don't know where I'm a gonna go
when the volcano blow.

Ground, she movin' under me.
Tidal waves out on the sea.
Sulphur smoke up in the sky.
Pretty soon we learn to fly

Chorus
Let me hear you, now
I don't know, I don't know where I'm a gonna go
when the volcano blow.
Let me hear you now.
I don't know, I don't know where I'm a gonna go
when the volcano blow.

My girl quickly say to me,
"Mon you better watch your feet."
Lava come down soft and hot.
"You better lava me now or lava me not.

Chorus

No time to count what I'm worth,
cause I just left the planet Earth.
Where I go I hope there's rhum.
Not to worry mon soon come.

Chorus

But I don't want to land in New York City,
I don't want to land in Mexico.
I don't want to land on no Three Mile Island;
I don't want to see my skin a-glow.

Don't want to land in Comanche Sky Park,
or in Nashville, Tennessee.
I don't want to land in no San Juan airport or
the Yukon Territory.

Don't want to land no San Diego.
Don't want to land in no Buzzards Bay.
I don't want to land on no Ayatolla.
I got nothin' more to say.

Hah! I'm boppin to the island beat beat mon!

I think I'm sophisticated
'Cos I'm living my life like a good homosapien
But all around me everybody's multiplying
Till they're walking round like flies man
So I'm no better than the animals sitting in their cages
in the zoo man
'Cos compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees
I am an ape man
I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilized
'Cos I'm a strict vegetarian
But with the over-population and inflation and starvation
And the crazy politicians
I don't feel safe in this world no more
I don't want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
I'm an ape man, I'm an ape ape man
I'm an ape man I'm a King Kong man I'm ape ape man
I'm an ape man
'Cos compared to the sun that sits in the sky
compared to the clouds as they roll by
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies
I am an ape man
In man's evolution he has created the cities and
the motor traffic rumble, but give me half a chance
and I'd be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle
'Cos the only time that I feel at ease
Is swinging up and down in a coconut tree
Oh what a life of luxury to be like an ape man
I'm an ape, I'm an ape ape man, I'm an ape man
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voo-doo man
I'm an ape man
I look out my window, but I can't see the sky
'Cos the air pollution is fogging up my eyes
I want to get out of this city alive
And make like an ape man
Come and love me, be my ape man girl
And we will be so happy in my ape man world
I'm an ape man, I'm an ape ape man, I'm an ape man
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voo-doo man
I'm an ape man
I'll be your Tarzan, you'll be my Jane
I'll keep you warm and you'll keep me sane
and we'll sit in the trees and eat bananas all day
Just like an ape man
I'm an ape man, I'm an ape ape man, I'm an ape man
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voo-doo man
I'm an ape man.
I don't feel safe in this world no more
I don't want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore
And make like an ape man.

Apeman by The Kinks

Does it GET any better than the Kinks? I think not.

Oh wait...yes it does...David Bowie

Glass Spider
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Up until one century ago, there lived
In the Zi Duang provence of an Eastern Country
A glass-like spider
Having devoured it's prey,
It would drape the skeltons over it's web
In weeks, creating a macarbe
Shrine of remains
It's web was also unique,
In that it had many layers
Like floors in a building
At the top of this palace like place
Assembled with almost apparent care
Were tiny shining objects, glass, beads, dew-drops
One could almost call it an altar
When the breeze blew through this construction
It produced sounds of wailing, crying
Tiny wails...tiny cries
The baby spiders would get scared
And search frantically for their mother
But the glass spider would have been long gone
Having known that the babies would survive
all on their own
Oh...the glass spider had blue eyes, almost like a human's
They shed tears at the wintered turn of the centuries
Don't you hear this wasted cry, life is over for you
Mummy come back... because all the water's gone
But you've seen what's in heaven
Is there anyone in hell?
Mummy come back...it's dark now...
Take care, take care
Mummy come back...because all the water's gone now
Somewhere she glows devine
Somewhere she walks alone
But you, you've promised in your lovin' eye...God, it's dark now
Jah...Jah...Jah...Jah
Jah...Jah...Jah...Jah

Gone, gone all the water is gone now
Mummy come back...because all the water's gone now
Stay low to the ground, Fire can drive you...savage and afraid
Spitting the dawn
Come, come, come..before the animals awake
Run, run, we've been moving all night, river to the left
If your mother don't love you, then the river just might
Gone, gone...the water's all gone
Mummy come back...
Jah...Jah...Jah...Jah
Jah...Jah...Jah...Jah

I'd have to say, this song brings back a lot of drug induced conversations I've had...smokin' and debating over David Bowie lyrics...what does it all mean....????

I believe them bones are me
Some say we're born into the grave

I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them bones

Dust rise right on over my time
Empty fossil of the new scene

I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them bones

Toll due bad dream come true
I lie dead gone under red sky

I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them...
I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them...
I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them bones

**Nothing like a mortality check... eh?**
Dem Bones Alice in Chains

I love that song "Come Dancing".


Also "Paranoia"

As long as i'm feeling a bit dark...

In the darkest hole
You'd be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the body dies
Come the morning light
It's a see-through show
What you may have heard and what you think you know

Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside

Sure to play a part
So you love the game
And in truth your lies become one and same
I could set you free
Rather hear the sound
Of your body breaking as I take you down

Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside

In the darkest hole
You'd be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the body dies

Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside
Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside

Grind Alice in Chains

yummy. Love the song even more now.

Placebo - "Every You Every Me"

Sucker love is heaven sent
You pucker up, our passion's spent
My heart's a tart
Your body's rent
My body's broken
Yours is spent

Carve your name into my arm.
Instead of stressed, I lie here charmed.
Cuz there's nothing else to do,
Every me and every you.

Sucker love, a box I choose.
No other box I choose to use.
Another love I would abuse,
No circumstances could excuse.

In the shape of things to come.
Too much poison come undone.
Cuz there's nothing else to do,
Every me and every you.
Every me and every you,
Every Me...he

Sucker love is known to swing.
Prone to cling and waste these things.
Pucker up for heavens sake.
There's never been so much at stake.

I serve my head up on a plate.
It's only comfort, calling late.
Cuz there's nothing else to do,
Every me and every you.
Every me and every you,
Every Me...he

Every me and every you,
Every Me...he

Like the naked leads the blind.
I know I'm selfish, I'm unkind.
Sucker love I always find,
Someone to bruise and leave behind.

All alone in space and time.
There's nothing here but what here's here's mine.
Something borrowed, something blue.
Every me and every you.
Every me and every you,
Every Me...he

OK, this is the best song of all time (well, it's my favorite anyway):

"Everlong" by Foo Fighters

Hello, I've waited here for you, Everlong.
Tonight I throw myself into,
And out of the red, out of her head she sang.

Come down and waste away with me. Down with me,
Slow how, you wanted it to be,
I'm over my head, out of her head she sang.

And I wonder when I sing along with you,
If everything could ever be this real forever.
If anything could ever be this good again,
The only thing I'll ever ask of you.
You gotta promise not to stop when I say when.
She sang:

Breathe out, so I can breathe you in,
Hold you in, and now, I know you've always been.
Out of your head, out of my head I sing.

And I wonder when I sing along with you,
If everything could ever be this real forever.
If anything could ever be this good again,
The only thing I'll ever ask of you.
You gotta promise not to stop when I say when.
She sang:

And I wonder when I sing along with you,
If everything could ever be this real forever.
If anything could ever be this good again,
The only thing I'll ever ask of you.
You gotta promise not to stop when I say when.

Peeps:
Please post name of song and artist... so we who don't recognize the words can go listen to them...

Thanks

Warm Love
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Look at the ivy on the cold clinging wall
Look at the flowers and the green grass so tall
It's not a matter of when push comes to shove
It's just an hour on the wings of a dove

I dig it when you're fancy dessed up in lace
I dig it when you have a smile on your face
This inspiration's got to be on the flow
This invitation's got to see it and know

It's just warm love
It's just warm love
And it's everpresent everywhere
And it's everpresent everywhere
That warm love

To the country I'm going
Lay and laugh in the sun
You can bring, your guitar along
We'll sing some songs, and have some
F-uh-uh-uhn

The sky is crying and it's time to go home
And we shall hurry to the car from the foam
Sit by the fire and dry out our wet clothes
It's raining outside from the sky up above.

Inside
It's warm love
Inside
It's warm love
And it's everpresent everywhere
And it's everpresent everywhere
Warm Love
Warm Love



~ Van morrison
simple lyrics make the best love songs.

i have always been awed by people who know song lyrics word for word? how do you guys and gals do this? do you have to look them up? i couldn't write the lyrics to any song if my life depended on it......BUT once a song starts i magicallly seem to know "most" of the words, and i just make up the rest.
SO what am i doing on this thread? i'm listing a few songs that i've decided are my favorite songs to sing..... to SING AT THE TOP OF MY LUNG CAPACITY........ TO BELT OUT WHILE DRIVING, etc. i may not get the titles exactly right- so if i screw up, be GENTLE!! if you have to laugh, laugh with me.....if i annoy you, go away.


CHER - Gypsy (gypsies, tramps and thieves)
RAY CHARLES - Georgia
DAVID BOWIE - Space Odyssey
EAGLES - Hotel California
DON MCLEAN - Bye, Bye, Miss American pie
and singer?? of Hey There Little Red Riding Hood, you sure are looking good........you're everything that a big bad wolf would want.....

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on dance seul, on dance seul.....

I can memorize songs and such pretty well, if I enjoy them. If the song is "just right," I'll go look up the lyrics (assuming that there are a few I can't understand...which is almost always the case), read them once or twice (maybe more...usually while listening to the song at the same time), and It'll usually stick with me.

I just look them up on the net and copy/paste them...

Do What You Have To Do
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What ravages of spirit conjured this temptuous rage
Created you a monster, broken by the rules of love
And fate has led you throught it, you do what you have to do
You do what you have to do...and I have the sense
To recognize, that I don't know how to let you go
Every moment marked with apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving, trying to escape this desire
The yearning to be near you, I do what I have to do
But i have the sense to recognize, that I don't know
How to let you go, I don't know how to let you go
Glowing ember...burning hot...burning slow
Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of exsisting for only you
I know I can't be with you...I do what I have to do
And I have the sense to recognize, that I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go....
~Sarah McLachlan