Give us a Song! (lyrics thread)

Broken glass everywhere
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to loose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
Crazy lady, livin' in a bag
Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
Search and test a tango, skips the life and then go
To search a prince to see the last of senses
Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
She went to the city and got so so so ditty
She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to loose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

My brother's doing fast on my mother's T.V.
Says she watches to much, is just not healthy
All my children in the daytime, Dallas at night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
Bill collectors they ring my phone
And scare my wife when I'm not home
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Me on King Kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
Midrange, migrained, cancered membrane
Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane!

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to loose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

My son said daddy I don't wanna go to school
Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
They push that girl in front of a train
Took her to a doctor, sowed the arm on again
Stabbed that man, right in his heart
Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after the dark
Keep my hand on the gun, cause they got me on the run
I feel like an outlaw, broke my last fast jaw
Hear them say you want some more, livin' on a seasaw

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to loose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

A child was born, wih no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
Got a smile on you with these burning tooth
Cause only god knows what you go through
You grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way
You'll admire all the numberbook takers
Dogpitchers, pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like them
Smuygglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers and even pan-handlers
You say I'm cool, I'm no fool
But then you wind up dropping out of highschool
Now you're unemployed, all null 'n' void
Walking around like you're pretty boy Floyd
Turned stickup kid, look what you done did
Got send up for a eight year bid
Now your man hood is took and you're a Maytag
Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
Being used and abused, and served like hell
Till one day you was find hung dead in a cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to loose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
 
George Michael and Aretha Franklin said:
Like a warrior that fights
And wins the battle
I know the taste of victory
Though I went through some nights
Consumed by the shadows
I was crippled emotionally
Somehow I made it through the heartache
Yes I did, I escaped
I found my way out of the darkness,
Kept my faith (I know you did)
Kept my faith

When the river was deep I didn´t falter
When the mountain was high I still believed
When the valley was low iit didn´t stop me, no no
I knew you were waiting
I knew you were waiting for me

With and endless desire I kept on searching
Sure in time our eyes would meet
Like the bridge is on fire
The hurt is over, one touch and you set me free
No, I don´t regret a single moment
No I don’t looking back
When I think of all those disappointments
I just laugh (I know you do), I just laugh

When the river was deep I didn´t falter
When the mountain was high I still believed
When the valley was low iit didn´t stop me, no no
I knew you were waiting
I knew you were waiting for me

So we were drawn together through destiny
I know this love we share was meant to be
I knew you were waiting, knew you were waiting
I knew you were waiting, knew you were waiting for me
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BE STIFF B-ABIES BE STIFF
FRUIT OOZE IS WETLY LEWD
STAY DRY IN RUBBER BOOTS AND
CUCUMBERS RIPE AND RUDE
BEND OVER FIXED TO SHOOT AND
BREATH HARD IN METAL SUITS
LIVE RIGHT MAKE LOTS OF LOOT
WET WOMEN WASTE YOUR FOOD
GO SOLO NO NO TWO'S AND
DEEP SLEEPERS JERK THE ROOT
WATCH OUT FOR FRUITS AND MUTES AND

Devo
 
"I Think You Know What I Mean", as recorded by Gov't Mule

He was a cowboy in an Indian bar
Not a real cowboy - but I think you know what I mean
She wasn't no movie star, but then again
She wasn't exactly green

He said "like it hot?"
She said "I like it on fire"
He said "ready or not"
She said "I'm ready, baby
Come on, I'm ready, baby, make me out a liar"
And the walls exploded into a white smoke-screen
Well, not exactly - but I think you know what I mean

She was a country girl - never been no where
Straight from the woods - I think you know what I mean
Told her sister she was out of there
Next stop Hollywood - barely seventeen

And a voice said "Need a job?"
She cried "desperately"
It whispered "bow your head"
She said "oh Lord,
I never thought that this could happen to me"
And her spirit kind of floated away in a muddy slip stream
Well, not exactly - but, I think you know what I mean

He was a movie star turned president, not like Eisenhower or DeNiro
But, I think you know what I mean
Tried to convince us he was heaven sent
With that carny smile and a missile in his sleeve

He says "feed the poor" yeah, feed 'em to the lions
We're screaming "even up the score"
He's screaming back, now, "we're number one, and we ain't even trying
And, now, ain't you proud to be part of the American dream?"
Well, not exactly - I think you know what I mean
I think you know what I mean
I think you know what I mean
 
Come ride the little train that is rolling down the tracks to the junction.

Forget about your cares, it is time to relax at the junction.

Lotsa curves, you bet - be more when you get to the junction. (Petticoat Junction)

There’s a little hotel called the Shady Rest at the junction. (Petticoat Junction)

It is run by Kate, come and be her guest at the junction. (Petticoat Junction)

And that’s Uncle Joe, he’s a movin’ kind of slow at the junction. (Petticoat Junction)

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It's so easy, easy
When everybody's tryin' to please me baby
It's so easy, easy
When everybody's tryin' to please me
So easy
But nothin' seems to please me
It all fits so right
When I fade into the night
So come with me
Don't ask me where 'cause I don't know
I'll try ta please you
I ain't got no money but it goes to show
It's so easy

GnR
 
yer tune reminded me of:
It's so easy to fall in love
It's so easy to fall in love
People tell me love's for fools
Here I go breaking all the rules

Seems so easy
Yeah, so doggone easy
Oh it seems so easy
Yeah where you're concerned
My heart can learn
It's so easy to fall in love
It's so easy to fall in love

Look into your heart and see
What your lovebook has set aside for me

It seems so easy
Yeah, so doggone easy
Oh it seems so easy
Yeah where you're concerned
My heart can learn
Oh it's so easy to fall in love
It's so easy to fall in love

It seems so easy
Oh so doggone easy
Yeah it seems so easy
Oh where you're concerned
My heart can learn
Oh it's so easy to fall in love
It's so easy to fall in love
It's so easy to fall in love
It's so easy to fall in love
It's so easy to fall in love
Oh-ooh It's so easy to fall in love

Linda Ronstadt (1977)
Simple Dreams
written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty © 1958
 
i know i let you tell me what to do
you were confident you know best
now things aren't working like you want them to
your confidence is what i detest
you got me lookin' up high
you got me searchin' down low
you got me i know you know
you got me jerkin' back 'n' forth
you told me people like to suffer
you told me that's the way it is
you said that things were getting better
you said i should expect all this
you think it's funny
but what i say is true
the reason that i live like this
is all because of you
there is a thought that keeps me thinking
like a stone inside my shoe
it is a vision reoccurring
a dirty window i can see you through

Devo - Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth
 
wow that's depressing.

Back to easy...

Well here I am in the wind again, floating where it takes me
Laughin' and a splashin' in the summer sun, until the alarm clock awakes me
Then it's coffee and a kiss and two cigarettes, and I'm back out in the cold, cold weather
Chasin' my dream but I just can't seem to rub two coins together
(Sing it)

Life ain't easy, they never said it would be
Life ain't easy, whoever said it should be
Life ain't easy, and nothing comes free, free, free, free
Life ain't easy, tell me all about it
Life ain't easy, no, no, no, no
Life ain't easy, and nothing comes free, for you or me

That woman she don't understand, the way my mind keeps driftin'
And the Lord don't always lend a hand, when my poor heart needs liftin'
Is home and kids really all there is, or is there something better?
And how much soul must a poor man sell to rub two coins together?

Don't you know that
Life ain't easy, no, no, no, no
Life ain't easy, whoever said it would be
Life ain't easy, and nothing comes free, free, free, free
Life ain't easy, can you hear me
Life ain't easy, tell me all about it
Life ain't easy, and nothing comes free, free, free, free
Life ain't easy, tell me all about it
Life ain't easy, no, no, no, no
Life ain't easy, and nothing comes free, for you or me
Life ain't easy
Life ain't easy...
 
Jimmy Buffett
God's Own Drunk
Written by - Lord Buckley
From - Living and Dying In 3/4 Time




Well, like I explained to y'all before I ain't no drinkin' man.
I tried it once, and it got me highly irregular and I swore I'd never
do it again. But I promised my brother-in-law that I'd go up and watch
his still while he went into town to vote.

It was up there on the mountain where the map said it would be. Friends
let me tell you one thing though, it wasn't no ordinary still. It stood
up that mountainside like...like a huge golden opal.

God's yellar moon was a' shinin' on the cool clear evenin', God's little
lanterns just a' twinklin' on and off in the heavens and, like I explained
to you once before, I ain't no drinkin' man, But, temptation got the best
of me, and I took a slash...(Washew!...whoa...) That yellar whiskey runnin'
down my throat like honeydew vine water, and I took another slash. Took
another and another and another. 'Fore you knew it I'd downed one whole
jug o' that shit and commenced to get hot flashes.

Goosepimples was runnin' up and down my body and a feelin' came over me
like, somethin' I'd never experienced before, It's like, like I was in
love...

('Why don't we have a little love Mike')

In love for the first time, with anything that moved...animate, inanimate
it didn't matter. It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on and off
in my brain sayin, 'Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'...'
'Cause I was drunk.

Now I wasn't, uh, knee-crawlin', slip-slidin', reggy-youngin', commode-
huggin' drunk, I was God's own drunk, and a fearless man; And that's when I first saw the bear.

He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout 19 feet tall he rambled up over the
hill 'spectin' me to do one of two things: flip or fly, I didn't do either
one. It hung him up. He starts sniffin' 'round my body tryin' to smell fear,
but he ain't gonna smell no fear, 'cause I'm God's own drunk and a fearless
man. It hung him up. He looked me right in my eyes and my eyes was a lot
redder than his was. It hung him up.

So I approached him and I said, 'Mr. Bear, I love every hair on your
27 acre body. I know you got a lotta friends over there on the other side
of the hill. There's ole' Rear Bear, Tall Bear, Freddy Bear, Kelly Bear,
Relly Bear, Smelly the Bear, Smokey the Bear, Pokey the Bear; I want you
to go back over there tonight and tell 'em I'm feelin' right. You tell 'em
I love each and every one of 'em like a brother and a sister...but if they
give me any trouble tonight, I'm gonna run every Goddamned one of 'em off
the hill.'

He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think. Neither did I,
but, being charitable and cautious, well hell, I approached him again. I
said, 'Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts
when it comes right down to it. So I want you to be my buddy, Buddy Bear.'
So I took ole' Buddy Bear by his island sized paw and I led him over to the
still. Now he's a' sniffin' around that thing 'cause he's smellin' somethin'
good. I gave him one of them jugs of honeydew vine water, he downed it
upright, (looked like one of them damn bears in the circus sippin'
sasparilly in the moonlight.) I gave him another and another and another
'fore I knew it, he'd downed eight of 'em and commenced to do the 'bear
dance.' Two sniffs, a snort, a fly, a turn and a grunt...and it was so
simple like the jitterbug it plumb evaded me.

And we worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar and I's awful tired, went
over to the hillside, and I laid down, went to sleep, slept for four hours,
and dreamt me some tremulous dreams And when I woke up, Oh, there was God's yellar moon a' shinin' on the clear cool evenin'. And God's little lanterns
just a' twinklin' on and off in the heavens...And my buddy the bear was a'
missin'...Yeah, you want to know somethin' else friends and neighbors, so
was that still.

'That's a take. Wait, could uh...you missed it?'
 
Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll
And drift away

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll
And drift away

And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me
And when I’m feeling blue
The guitar’s coming through to soothe me

Thanks for the joy that you’re given me
I want you to know I believe in your song
Your rythm and rhyme and harmony
You’ve helped me along
Makin’ me strong

Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll
And drift away

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I want to get lost in your rock and roll
And drift away

Na, na, now won’t ya
Won’t ya take, oh ha ..take me
 
Stevie Ray Vaughn said:
Well you've heard about love givin' sight to the blind
My baby's lovin' cause the sun to shine
She's my sweet little thing, she's my pride and joy
She's my sweet little baby, I'm her little lover boy

Yeah I love my baby, my heart and soul
Love like ours won't never grow old
She's my sweet little thing, she's my pride and joy
She's my sweet little baby, I'm her little lover boy

Yeah I love my baby, she's long and lean
You mess with her, you'll see a man gettin' mean
She's my sweet little thing, she's my pride and joy
She's my sweet little baby, I'm her little lover boy

Well I love my baby like the finest wine
Stick with her until the end of time
She's my sweet little thing, she's my pride amd joy
She's my sweet little baby, I'm her little lover boy

Yeah I love my baby, my heart and soul
Love like ours will never grow old
She's my sweet little thing, she's my pride and joy
She's my sweet little baby, I'm her little lover boy
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*party* :band: *party*
 
Somebody by Depeche Mode

I want somebody to share
Share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts
Know my intimate details
Someone who'll stand by my side
And give me support
And in return
She'll get my support
She will listen to me
When I want to speak
About the world we live in
And life in general
Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
She'll hear me out
And won't easily be converted
To my way of thinking
In fact she'll often disagree
But at the end of it all
She will understand me
I want somebody who cares
For me passionately
With every thought and
With every breath
Someone who'll help me see things
In a different light
All the things I detest
I will almost like
I don't want to be tied
To anyone's strings
I'm carefully trying to steer clear of
Those things
But when I'm asleep
I want somebody
Who will put their arms around me
And kiss me tenderly
Though things like this
Make me sick
In a case like this
I'll get away with it
 
My Dingaling


When I was young there was a girl next door..
Always played with her yoyo..
Played with her yoyo on a string
Then she played with my dingaling!

My dingaling oh my dingaling
My dingaling is the cutest thing
My dingaling, my dingaling
I want you to play with my dingaling!

When I was young I went to Sunday school
The teacher taught me the golden rule..
but when the choir stood up to sing..
They caught me playing with my dingaling!!

My dingaling oh my dingaling
My dingaling is the cutest thing
My dingaling, my dingaling
I want you to play with my dingaling!

I used to drive steel on the railroad track
An accident sent me flat on my back
I took a big swing but I missed that thing
I wish it would have missed my poor dingaling!

My dingaling oh my dingaling
My dingaling is the sweetest thing
My dingaling, my dingaling
I want you to play with my dingaling!

When I was long I lived on a farm
I was a-hiding out in the barn
Papa came looking just what he seen
He caught me a-playing with my dingaling!

My dingaling oh my dingaling
My dingaling is the cutest thing
My dingaling oh my dingaling
I want you to play with my dingaling!
 
Aunt Martha's Sheep

Come gather all around me and I'll sing to you a tale,
About the boys in Carmenville who almost went to jail.
It happened on a November's night when all hands were asleep,
We crept up over Joe Tulk's hill and stole Aunt Martha's sheep.

Now if you pay attention I know I'll make you laugh,
They never went to steal the sheep, they went to steal the calf.
The old cow she got angry 'cause they woke her from her sleep,
We couldn't take any chances so we had to steal the sheep.

We caught the wooly animal and dragged her from her pen,
She sais good-bye to the little lamb she'd never see again.
She knew that those dark strangers soon would take her life,
In less than half an hour she felt that dreadful knife.

Aunt Martha she got angry when she heard about the loss,
She said she'd catch the robbers no matter what the cost.
Next morning just at sunrise she to the office went,
And to the R.C.M.P. a telegram she sent.

The Mountie got the message and started in to read,
This is from Aunt Martha telling an awful deed.
Last night my sheep was stolen by whom I cannot tell,
I'd like for you to catch them and take them off to jail.

Just a short time later about twelve o'clock that night,
We had the sheep a-cooking and everyone feeling tight.
The smell of mutton and onions no man could ask for more,
We were chug-luggin' Dominion when a Mountie walked in the door.

Said sorry boys, your party I really don't mean to wreck.
I smelled the meat a-cookin' and I had to come in and check.
You see the sheep was stolen and the thief is on the loose.
I said come right in and join us, sir, we're having a piece of moose.

He said thanks a lot and he sat right down and I gave him a piece of the sheep.
This is the finest piece of moose I knows I ever eat.
About two o'clock in the morning he bid us all good-day,
If we get any clues on the sheep, sir, we'll phone you right away.

He said thanks a lot, you're a darn fine bunch, and your promise I know you'll keep.
And if everyone was as as good as you she wouldn't have lost her sheep.
After he left we had the piece we had in the oven to roast,
We might have stole the sheep, boys, but the Mountie ate the most.
 
Weird Girl/Dead People Ain't Suposed to Fart.
by J.A.C.

Weird girl don't poop on me
Don't pee don't poop on me
Weird girl don't poop on me
Don't pee don't poop on me

I know you dye your pubes
I know you dye your pubes
I know you dye your pubes
I know you dye your pubes

Weird girl don't poop on me
Don't pee don't poop on me

Dead people ain't suposed to fart
Dead people ain't suposed to fart
Dead people ain't suposed to fart
Dead people ain't suposed to fart
Dead people ain't suposed to fart
Dead people ain't suposed to fart
Dead people ain't suposed to fart
Dead people ain't suposed to fart

Weird girl don't poop on me
Don't pee don't poop on me
 
I was born and raised down in Alabama
On a farm way back up in the woods
I was so ragged the folks used call me patches
Papa used to teas me about it
But deep down inside
He was hurt because he done all he could do
My papa was a great old man
I can see him with a shovel in his hand digging
Education he never had
But he did wonders when the time got bad
A little money from the crops he raised
Helped pay the bills we made
For months he'd been sick and down in the dumps
When he tried to get up life would kick him back down
One day papa called me to his dyin bed
Put his hands on my shoulders And in tears he said
Patches, I'm depending on you son
To pull the family through My son, it's all left up to you

SPOKEN:
Two days later papa passed away
I became a man that day
So I told mama I was gonna quit school
But she said that was daddys strictest rule
So every morning before I went to school
I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too
Sometimes I felt that I couldn't go on
I wanted to leave and run away from home
But I would remember what my daddy said
With tears in his eyes on his dyin bed
He said, "Patches, I'm depending on you son
To pull the family through. My son its all left up to you

SPOKEN:
Then one day a strong rain came
And washed all the crops away
And at the age of thirteen I thought I was carrying
The weight of the whole world on my shoulders
And you know, mama knew what I was going through, Cause
Everyday I had to work the fields
Cause that's the only way we got our meals
You see, I was the oldest of a family
And everybody else depended on me
Every night I heard my mama pray
Lord, give him the strength to face another day
Though years have passed and all the kids have grown
The Angels took mama to a brand new home
But, No people,I never quit
My daddy's voice still rings through the fields
Sayin, "Patches, I'm depending on you son
To pull the family through My son, it's all left up to you
Patches, I'm depending on you son
 
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