Give us a Song! (lyrics thread)

Where do the children play?

Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes.
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train.
Switch on summer from a slot machine.
Yes, get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything.

I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass.
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas.
And you make them long, and you make them tough.
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off.

Oh, I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air.
But will you keep on building higher
'til there's no more room up there?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?

I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?
 
The Get Up Kids - "Close To Me" (from "Eudora")

I've waited hours for this
I made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
thought this day would never end
I never thought tonight could ever be
so close to me

Just try to see in the dark
Just try to make it work
i feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out
Hold my breath
And wait til I shake

But if I had your faith
I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
my HEAD on the door was a dream

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought this day would end
I never thought tonight could ever be
This close to me

But if I had your faith
I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
my HEAD on the door was a dream

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- DFisherman
 
GREEN DAY:
"American Idiot"

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.
 
"Kill The Poor"

Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done

Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home...

The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonite

Gonna
Kill kill kill
Kill the poor
Kill the poor ...
Tonite

Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate's gone
Feel free again
O' life's a dream with you, Miss Lily White

Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it's okay
So let's get dressed and dance away the night

While they
Kill the poor
Kill the poor ... Tonite

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PORTISHEAD - Wandering Star

Please could you stay awhile to share my grief
For its such a lovely day
To have to always feel this way
And the time that I will suffer less
Is when I never have to wake

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever

... Those who have seen the needles eye, now tread
Like a husk, from which all that was, now has fled
And the masks, that the monsters wear
To feed, upon their prey

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever

[INSTRUMENTAL]

(always) doubled up inside
Take awhile to shed my grief
(always) doubled up inside
Taunted, cruel.... ...

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever
 
Moron -- the Dead Milkmen

Hangin' out in the commode
Listening to Depeche Mode
You look like some kind of toad
Why are you a moron?

Got a skateboard "gnarly rad"
With money from your mom and dad
Take a bath 'cause you smell bad
Why are you a moron?

Walkin' down on old South Street
Say "Hello" to the kids you meet
If knowing you is such a treat
Then why are you a moron?

Got kicked out of public school
Make a waste of our gene pool
Face it asshole, you're a fool
Why are you a moron?

"I'm starin' at a wall doin' nothin' at all
Gotta get out a' here I could use some beer
Wish I could get some beer
I could use some beer tonight"

In and out of trendy clubs
With a pair of dayglow gloves
You're the only one you love
Why are you a moron?

Tell us you've got somethin' to say
Then bore us with your anarchy
We just wish you'd go away
Why are you a moron?

A trendy loser's what you are
It's your scene and your its czar
I'd like to see you covered with tar
Why are you a moron?

Creeps like you should be wiped out
You've got a face just like a trout
Listen to everybody shout
Why are you a moron?

"I'm followin' the trends 'cause I wanna
have some friends. I wanna be somebody.
Don't wanna be nobody, I wanna be
somebody. I wanna be with someone tonight"

I swear that you are Hitler's clone
You spread disease wherever you roam
Got the brains of a garden gnome
Why are you a moron?

Voted for Reagan not once but twice
Think that Jerry Falwell's nice
Do you keep your brains on ice?
Why are you a moron?

In the end you're all alone
No one calls you on the phone
Got no job you've got no home
Why are you a moron?

Hangin' out in the commode
Listenin' to Depeche Mode
You look like some kind of toad
You're just a fuckin' moron!

"I'm freezed up inside. All my brain cells
have died. I'm gonna get out a' here. I'm
gonna get out a' here. I'm gonna get out
a' here. I'm gonna get out a' here tonight."
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I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves;
I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves and this is how it goes........

I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves;
I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves and this is how it goes........

I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves;
I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves and this is how it goes........

I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves;
I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves and this is how it goes........

I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves;
I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves and this is how it goes........

I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves;
I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves and this is how it goes........

I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves;
I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves and this is how it goes........

I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves;
I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves and this is how it goes........

I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves, everybodys nerves;
I know a song that gets on everybodys nerves and this is how it goes........


[cont.]
 
Get rid of the "and this is how it goes" line. Doing so would break up the evenness and continuity and make the song much more annoying.
 
Inkara1 said:
Get rid of the "and this is how it goes" line. Doing so would break up the evenness and continuity and make the song much more annoying.
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:grinno: ah, but my dear, - you have not yet heard the tune...
 
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Crumbs From Your Table

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From the brightest star
Comes the blackest hole
You had so much to offer
Why did you offer your soul?
I was there for you baby
When you needed my help
Would you deny for others
What you demand for yourself?

Cool down mama, cool off
Cool down mama, cool off

You speak of signs and wonders
I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table

You were pretty as a picture
It was all there to see
Then your face caught up with your psychology
With a mouth full of teeth
You ate all your friends
And you broke every heart thinking every heart mends

You speak of signs and wonders
But I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table

Where you live should not decide
Whether you live or whether you die
Three to a bed
Sister Ann, she said
Dignity passes by

And you speak of signs and wonders
But I need something other
I would believe if I was able
I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table
 
Inkara1 said:
Get rid of the "and this is how it goes" line. Doing so would break up the evenness and continuity and make the song much more annoying.
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Do it to Mary Had A Little Lamb, you'll get it.

I still think that The Song That Never Ends has that one beat.
 
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Sonny Rhodes, "Firefly Theme" (from Joss Whedon's series "Firefly")

Take my love. Take my land.
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free.
You can't take the sky from me.

Take me out to the black.
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back.
Burn the land And boil the sea.
You can't take the sky from me.

Have no place I can be since I found Serenity.
But you can't take the sky from me.

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Cheers,

- DFisherman
 
Steely Dan said:
We're gonna break out the hats and hooters
When Josie comes home
We're gonna rev up the motor scooters
When Josie comes home to stay
We're gonna park in the street
Sleep on the beach and make it
Throw down the jam till the girls say when
Lay down the law and break it
When Josie comes home

When Josie comes home
So good
She's the pride of the neighborhood
She's the raw flame
The live wire
She prays like a Roman
With her eyes on fire

Jo would you love to scrapple
She'll never say no
Shine up the battle apple
We'll shake 'em all down tonight
We're gonna mix in the street
Strike at the stroke of midnight
Dance on the bones till the girls say when
Pick up what's left by daylight
When Josie comes home

When Josie comes home
So bad
She's the best friend we ever had
She's the raw flame
The live wire
She prays like a Roman
With her eyes on fire

When Josie comes home
So good
She's the pride of the neighborhood
She's the raw flame
The live wire
She prays like a Roman
With her eyes on fire
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"Lush Life" -- Billy Strayhorn (sung by Ella Fitzgerald)

I used to visit all the very gay places
Those come-what-may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life
From jazz and cocktails

The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distingue traces
That used to be there
You could see where they'd been washed away
By too many through the day
Twelve o'clock tales

Then you came along with your siren song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for awhile that your poignant smile
Was tinged with the sadness
Of a great love for me
Ah yes, I was wrong
Again, I was wrong

Life is lonely again
And only last year
Everything seemed so sure
Now life is awful again
A trough full of hearts could only be a bore

A week in Paris could ease the bite of it
All I care is to smile in spite of it

I'll forget you, I will
While yet you are still
Burning inside my brain
Romance is mush
Stifling those who strive
So I'll live a lush life in some small dive
And there I'll be, while I rot with the rest
Of those whose lives are lonely too
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"I Need a Man to Love"
Janis Joplin

Whoa, I need a man to love me.
Don’t you understand me, baby ?
Why, I need a man to love.
I gotta find him, I gotta have him like the air I breathe.
One lovin’ man to understand can’t be too much to need.

You know it
Can’ be now
Oh no
Can’t be now
Oh no
Can’t be now
Oh no
Can’t be now
Oh no
Can’t be now
Oh no
Can’t be this loneliness
Baby, surrounding me.

No, no, know it just can’t be
No it just can’t be
There’s got to be some kind of answer.
No it just can’t be
And everywhere I look, there’s none around
No it just can’t be
Whoa, it can’t be
No it just can’t be, oh no!
Whoa, hear me now.

Whoa, won’t you let me hold you ?
Honey, just close your eyes.
Whoa, won’t you let me hold you, dear ?
I want to just put my arms around ya, like the circles going ‘round the sun.
Let me hold you daddy, at least until the morning comes.

Because it
Can’t be now
Oh no
Can’t be now
Oh no
Can’t be now
Oh no
Can’t be now
Oh no
Can’t be now
Oh no
Can’t be this loneliness
Baby, surrounding me.
No, no, no it just can’t be.
No it just can’t be
Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby, just can’t be.
No, no, no
No it just can’t be

And why can’t anyone ever tell me, now ?
No it just can’t be
I wake up one morning, I realize
No it just can’t be
Whoa, it can’t be.
No it just can’t be
Now go!

Whoa, I need a man to love me
Oh, maybe you can help me, please.
Why, I need a man to love.
But I believe that someday and somehow it’s bound to come along
Because when all my dreams and all my plans just cannot turn out wrong.

You know it
Can’t be now Oh no
Can’t be now Oh no
Can’t be now Oh no
Can’t be now Oh no
Can’t be now Oh no
Can’t be just loneliness
Baby, surrounding me

No, no, no, it just can’t be
No it just can’t be
Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby, it just can’t be
No it just can’t be
And who could be foolin’ me ?
No it just can’t be
I’ve got all this happiness
No it just can’t be
Come, come, come on, come on, come on, and help me now.
No it just can’t be
Please, can’t you hear my cry ?
No it just can’t be
Whoa, help ...
 
Free music released under GPL

Soundtrack To The Rebellion
Written by Machinae supremacy


in this place we find each other
a tribute to the wise
who view with open eyes
expose the lies of our brothers
misled and lost between
the surface and the screen

We are not alone to defy
we stand and those who push us down will die

Under a blackened sky
We light the torches and we hear the sound
of the soundtrack to the rebellion
We break the silence and we make the sound
of the soundtrack to the rebellion

they sit and suck the tit of power
they claim it for us all
but keep it within walls
these men aim to slowly devour
and they lock you into sleep
while silently they reap

They lie! Don't hear their blinded words of dread
The phantoms you fear they put inside your head

It fuels the flames throughout the night


Legion of Stoopid
Written by Machinae supremacy


It's time to choose
just don't fall for another ruse
you only lose
watch as they abuse
You keep it up
And you're only asking for Moore
you need to stop
believing they work for (you)

As time goes
The lies unfold
But once you know
you forget what you were told

They twist and redefine
The truth they tell is true to them only
They claim divine
And assemble at the frontlines
You're out of line
if you question or speak your mind
they want you blind
Stupid and behind

What to believe?
Nowhere in sight in industry
can you receive
without being deceived
This is your brain
and this is your brain on Fox news
you are insane
if you buy their sell-out truth

Don't be stoopid now!

Just like the (R)ecording (I)ndustry (A)ssholes of (A)merica
They promote mass ignorance cause that's what floats their aerials

Don't let them turn you into legion of stoopid
Don't let them turn you into drones
Right now, knowledge is the one weapon
that you can not throw away
Or else we all will pay
 
"You And I" -- Stevie Wonder

Here we are on earth together,
It's you and I,
God has made us fall in love, it's true,
I've really found someone like you,

Will it say the love you feel for me, will it say,
That you will be by my side
To see me through,
Until my life is through,

Well, in my mind, we can conquer the world,
In love you and I, you and I, you and I,

I am glad at least in my life I found someone
That may not be here forever to see me through,
But I found strength in you,
I only pray that I have shown you a brighter day,
Because that's all that I am living for, you see,
Don't worry what happens to me.

Cause' in my mind, you will stay here always,
In love, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I
In my mind we can conquer the world
In love, you and I, you and I, you and I.
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