Give us a Song! (lyrics thread)

[Oz]

Seahorses - Blinded by the Sun

How would you feel if I was to kneel right down,
at your feet, right now?
Is the way it’s going to be from
now until to forever,
Let's have less of getting clever with me

Who would you blame for blowing the flame right out?
Is it me?
There is no doubt I can do what I want to do from
now until forever,
Let's have less of getting clever with me

You’re wasting your time
and my time as well la la la living a lie,
I guess that time will tell.
You’re making excuses
'bout the things you never done.
Walking in circles, blinded by the sun.
Blinded the sun.

Who would you blame for blowing the flame right out?
Is it me?
There is no doubt I can do what I want to do from
now until forever,
Let's have less of getting clever with me

You’re wasting your time
and my time as well la la la living a lie,
I guess that time will tell.
You’re making excuses
'bout the things you never done.
You’re walking in circles, blinded by the sun.
Blinded the sun.

I don’t mean to sound unkind,
to you.
You just have to go and find
something else to do.
And don’t ask me what went wrong –
the list goes on and on and on and on.
The list goes on and on and on and on.
The list goes on and on.

 

[Camelyn]

The Offspring
The Kids Aren't Alright

When we were young the future was so bright
The old neighborhood was so alive
And every kid on the whole damn street
Was gonna make it big and not be beat

Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives

Chances thrown
Nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams

Jamie had a chance, well she really did
Instead she dropped out and had a couple of kids
Mark still lives at home cause he's got no job
He just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot

Jay committed suicide
Brandon OD'd and died
What the hell is going on
The cruelest dream, reality

 

[Camelyn]

This song brings me back...to my wasted youth I was never really sure if these guys were just seriously tripping on acid, or if their songs had some deeper meaning that went right over my head...

SNFU
Cannibal Café

Funny! I'm not familiar with this taste
Well I said are these ribs or is this steak?
Well I'd sure like to know what the hell this is I'm chewing
Well I said holy fuck! It's another human!

Come with me, I'm on my way
To the Cannibal Café
Won't you come to the only place
Where you can be the "Special Of The Day"?

Well there I was choking this thing back
When I realized that it was someone's hand
Only way that I could possibly tell
Careless chef did not remove the fingernails

Come with me, I'm on my way
To the Cannibal Café
Won't you come to the only place
Where you can be the "Special Of The Day"?

The food ain't bad and the food ain't good
Don't dare order the "Leper's foot"
I recommend the "Ass of a farmer's wife"
Very tender, not too juicy, heavy on the cellulite

Come with me, I'm on my way
To the Cannibal Café
Won't you come to the only place
Where you can be the "Special Of The Day"?
The Cannibal Café, The Cannibal Café
The Cannibal Café

 

[AlphaTroll]

Good Riddance (Time of your Life) - Green Day

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why.
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.
I hope you had the time of your life.

I hope you had the time of your life.

 

[AlphaTroll]

Comfort in Sound - Feeder

We fall right in and suffer the sins
Try to pull things round when the air starts to thin
We nurse regrets, restricted in our own belief
A new disease

We shake new hands, the victims of fate
We tread new ground misfortune conveys
You tear yourself apart
Wishing to be born again
A different man

[Chorus:]
Comfort in sound
Its all around
Ease back the strain
Come heal your pain
Comfort in sound
Its all around you now

Comfort in sound

We suffer love together as one
An empty heart with nowhere to turn
We find ourselves looking back another way
A brand new day

[Chorus]
Yeah

Solution gone, emotions ablaze
A life so strong just faded away
You find yourself searching for a quick release
A new belief

[Chorus]

Comfort in sound

 

[tonksy]

Good Riddance (Time of your Life) - Green Day

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why.
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.
I hope you had the time of your life.

I hope you had the time of your life.

<sigh> this song always makes me sad....

 

[Oricon]

Evanescence - Tourniquet

[font=Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial][size=-1]I tried to kill the pain,
But only brought more.
(So much more)
I lay dying,
And I'm pouring, crimson regret, and betrayal.

I'm dying,
Praying,
Bleeding,
Screaming.
Am I too lost to be saved ?
Am I too lost ?
My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.
My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.

Do you remember me ?
Lost for so long.
Will you be on the other side ?
Will you forgive me ?

I'm dying,
Praying,
Bleeding,
Screaming.

Am I too lost to be saved ?
Am I too lost ?

My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.
My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.

(Return to me salvation)
(I want to DIE!)

My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.
My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.

My wounds cry for the grave.
My soul cries, for deliverance.
Will I be denied ?
Christ! Tourniquet! My suicide.[/size][/font]

 

[AlphaTroll]

Halleluja - Jeff Buckley

I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
but you don't really care for music do ya
Well it goes like this the fourth the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the baffled king composing hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
she tied you to a kitchen chair
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah.

Hallelujah,hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
You know, I used to live alone before I knew ya
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
and love is not a victory march
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah,hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Well there was a time when you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show that to me do ya
but remember when I moved in you
and the Holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah

Well maybe there's a God above
but all I've ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah

 

[tonksy]

this song speaks to my soul, every time...and uncle kracker didn't do a bad remake either...

drift away

day after day i'm more confused
still i look for the light through the pouring rain
you know that's a game that i hate to lose
and i'm feeling the strain, ain't it a shame?

(chorus)
OH, give me the beat boys and free my soul
i wanna get lost in your rock and roll
and drift away
give me the beat boys and free my soul
i wanna get lost in your rock and roll
and drift away
won't you take me away...

beginning to think that i'm wasting time
and i don't understand the things i do
the world outside looks so unkind
and i'm counting on you to carry me through

(chorus)

and when my mind is free
you know your melody can move me
and when i'm feeling blue
the guitars coming through to soothe me

thanks for the joy that you've given me
i want you to know i believe in your song
and rhythm and rhyme and harmony
you helped me along, you're making me strong

(chorus) x2

 

[chcr]

Ooh, Dobie Gray. I love singing that song, tonks.

 

[chcr]

Here's one by Tom Lehrer to make you laugh.

Masochism Tango

I ache for the touch of your lips, dear,
But much more for the touch of your whips, dear.
You can raise welts
Like nobody else,
As we dance to the masochism tango.

Let our love be a flame, not an ember,
Say it’s me that you want to dismember.
Blacken my eye,
Set fire to my tie,
As we dance to the masochism tango.

At your command
Before you here I stand,
My heart is in my hand. ecch!
It’s here that I must be.
My heart entreats,
Just hear those savage beats,
And go put on your cleats
And come and trample me.
Your heart is hard as stone or mahogany,
That’s why I’m in such exquisite agony.

My soul is on fire,
It’s aflame with desire,
Which is why I perspire
When we tango.

You caught my nose
In your left castanet, love,
I can feel the pain yet, love,
Ev’ry time I hear drums.
And I envy the rose
That you held in your teeth, love,
With the thorns underneath, love,
Sticking into your gums.

Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches.
The last time I needed twenty stitches
To sew up the gash
That you made with your lash,
As we danced to the masochism tango.

Bash in my brain,
And make me scream with pain,
Then kick me once again,
And say we’ll never part.
I know too well
I’m underneath your spell,
So, darling, if you smell
Something burning, it’s my heart.
Excuse me!

Take your cigarette from it’s holder,
And burn your initials in my shoulder.
Fracture my spine,
And swear that you’re mine,
As we dance to the masochism tango.

 

[tonksy]

Ooh, Dobie Gray. I love singing that song, tonks.

it's prolly my favorie song....if i absolutely had to pick. the original, that is.

 

[tonksy]

another really good song....

i believe in you- don williams

i don't believe in superstars
organic food or foriegn cars
i don't believe the price of gold
the certainty of getting old
that right is right and left is wrong
that north and south can't get along
that east is east and west is west
and being first is always best

but i believe in love, i believe in babies
i believe in mom and dad and i believe in you.

well, i don't believe that heaven waits
for only those who congregate
i like to think of god as love
he's down below, he's up above
he's watching people everywhere
he knows who dies and doesn't care
and i'm an ordinary man
sometimes i wonder who i am

but i believe in love, i believe in music
i believe in magic and i believe in you

i know with all my certainty
whats going on with you and me
is a good thing, its true
i believe in you.

i don't believe virginity is
as common as it used to be
on working days and sleeping nights
that black is black and white is white
that superman and robin hood
are still alive in hollywood
that gasoline's in short supply
the rising cost of getting by

but i believe in love, i believe in old folks
i believe in children and i believe in you.
i believe in love, i believe in babies
i believe in mom and dad and i believe in you.

 

[Roxy]

Coldplay Lyrics

The Scientist Lyrics

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are

I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
Oh let's go back to the start

Running in circles
Coming up tails
Heads on a silence apart

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh take me back to the start

I was just guessing
At numbers and figures
Pulling your puzzles apart

Questions of science
Science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart

Tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start

Running in circles
Chasing our tails
Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard

I'm going back to the start

 

[tonksy]

a womans anthem.

did i shave my legs for this? deanna carter.

flowers and wine
are what i thought i would find
when i came home from workin' tonight
but now here i stand
over this fryin' pan
and you want a cold one again

i bought these new heels
did my nails
had my hair done just right
i thought this new dress
was a sure bet
for romance tonight

well, it's perfectly clear
between the tv and beer
i won't get so much as a kiss
as i head for the door
i turn around to be sure
did i shave my legs for this?

now when we first met
you promised we;d get
a house on the hill with a pool
but this trailer stays wet
and we're swimming in debt
and you want me to go back to school

i bought these new heels
did my nails
had my hair done just right
i thoughtthis new dress was a sure bet
for romance tonight

well, it's perfectly clear
between the tv and beer
i won't get so much as a kiss
as i head for the door
i turn around to be sure
did i shave my legs for this?

 

[AlphaTroll]

Protect me from what I want - Placebo

It's that desease of the age
It's that desease that we crave
Alone at the end of the race
We catch the last bus home

Corporate America wakes
Coffee republic in case
We open the latch on the gate
Of the hole that we call our home

Protect me from what I want...
Protect me protect me

Maybe we're victims of fate
Remember when we'd celebrate
We'd drink and get high until late
And now we're all alone

Wedding bells ain't gonna chime
With both of us guilty of crime
And both of us sentenced to time
And now we're all alone

Protect me from what I want...
Protect me protect me
Protect me from what I want...
Protect me protect me

Protect me from what I want...
Protect me protect me
Protect me from what I want...
Protect me protect me

 

[tonksy]

these are words to live by...

outside the palace - the violent femmes

i've been outside the palace
i've been outside the gate
i still don't feel that i've made any mistake
when i got off that train
i felt my feet hit the ground
i didn't wanna go
where that gravy train was bound
god help me to see i've been loved all along
and not to get too confused
between the moonlight and the dawn
if i go back to the palace
i'll walk right through the gate
nobody knows how much here was at stake
i might get on that train
move it up on the mountain like a forgone fact
god help me to know
i've been in love my whole life
and not to get too confused
between the struggle and the strife.

 

[AlphaTroll]

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead

Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself

It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out

She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins

It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out

She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run

It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out

If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted all the time

 

[AlphaTroll]

God's Own Medicine - The Mission

I see your dancing, laughing, naked
Sweet and pretty face
And the promise, burning brightly
In your crystal-shot eyes
Your savage, and violent flesh,
The cut that bleeds, the kiss that stings
We're shooting up stars and desperate snows
That fall from shimmering skies, So

(chorus)
Take my hand and lead me
To the Garden of Delight
Take my hand and lead me
To the Garden of Delight

Revelation is laid, and reflects
On the windswept liquid mirror
Of this breathless world, this Happy Death
This elegance in charm
The treasured first fleeting touch of a gracious stranger
In-charmed me and entranced me
I know you can do me no harm, so

(chorus)

We're playing with fire, dancing in the flames
And we're covered in burns that may never heal
And angels may come, and angels may go
But it's heaven on earth when you

(chorus)

 

[AlphaTroll]

Heaven on Earth - The Mission

Ever, there's oceans between us, take to the sea, take to the sea
There's heaven before us, float on the waves, float on the waves

Pale moon lay belief on me, mother come give me birth
You give me heaven, and I'll give you the earth

Heaven lays on your pillow, sleep in your eyes,sleep in your eyes
Lays in the waiting, steal every moment, hold every breath

Gentle heart beat as one, dream for the beuty of birth
You give me heaven and I'll promise you the earth

I'll die for you, if the time ever came, I'll kill for you
And shoulder the blame, I'd cry for you and never feel shame
For the child is within you, for the child is within

Precious, I want the earth for you
Precious, I hold out my hands to touch the sky
And only the pure go to heaven, suffer the child into you
Forever more, heaven on earth


Bless me my godess of love, for all your blessing is worth
You give me heaven and I promise you the earth
I pray for the second coming, worship you for the first
You give me heaven and I give you the earth
You give me heaven and I give you the earth