Favourite Lyrics

Speedway

Not really sure if this should be in the creative writing section but thought it would get some good lyrics going

what are your fave lyrics by artists/bands or maybe your own?

mine are:

1)
I get so nervous - I'm shaking
It's so I got no pride at all
It gets so bad but I just keep coming back for more
Guess I just get off on that stuff
I'm thinking about taking some time
I'm thinkin about leavin soon
I got some things I can't tell anyone
I got some things I just can't say
They're the kinda things that no one knows about
just need somebody to talk to me

(from "Speedway" by the Counting Crows - where i got my name)

2)
Another day in the arms of the real thing
Another day in the eyes of a fool
I called today just to make me feel hopeless
Lie to me and I'll try to believe

(from "HoneyScrew" by Hootie and the Blowfish)

3)
so please hand me the bottle, I think I’m lonely now and please
give me direction, I think the hurt set in and I don’t feel nothing

(from "Kody" by Matchbox 20)

4)
How's it going to be, When you don't know me,
How's it going to be, When you're sure I'm not there,
How's it going to be, When there is no one there to talk to,
Between you and me, 'Cause I don't care,
How's it going to be,

(from "How's it gonna be" by Third Eye Blind)

5)
And there's a memory of a window, Looking through I see you.
Searching for something, I could never give you,
There's someone who understands you more than I do.
A sadness I can't erase. All alone on your face.

(from "God of Wine" by Third Eye Blind)

ShriekingSheet

hmmmm so many!

when I first heard track ten on the new snow patrol album i thought he said-

"Is there a t-shirt I can wear?
Cos I'm so gay - look at me!"

which i thought was hilariously brilliant (im not gay and neither is gary lightbody)

but turns out he says

"Cos im SOAKING - look at me!" which was a bit of a let down! ha ha!


also i like

"true love waits
in haunted attics
and true love lives
on lolipops and crisps"

by radiohead - seems crap when u just write it down like that- but sounds good!

Suaimhneach

"cuz when I'm in your lovin arms, its when I'm at my very best" - Rory Gallagher -As the crow flies.

Because when there is someone who makes you feel so good. It's just magic.

projectmayhem

anything by tool or the deftones. thought provoking and fascinating lyrics

I am MAN

1. Stones thought me to fly,
love thought me to lie,
life thought me to die.
Damien Rice - Cannonball

2. Use just once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy

I love you for what I am not,
I did not want what I have got.
Nirvana - Radiofriendly Unit shifter

LegacyUser

vast - i don't have anything
what can i buy to make the sky turn blue again

i seriously wanna know the answer ?

Senor_Fudge

This is the end beautiful friend the end this is the end my only friend the end
of our elaborate plans the end of everything that stands
the end
no safety or surprise the end ill never look into your eyes again

Can you picture what will be so limitless and free
desperately in need of some strangers hand
in a desperate land

thank god for jim morrison and drugs ^_^

ShriekingSheet

On a more serious note

That song Paul Noonan wrote for Uaneen which he played at the IRMA's on his own and is on the Bellx1 album has cool and really appropriate lyrics...

"standing on a black Ulster hill
I never feel the chill 'cause everybody's holding
everybody's holding

I will sparkle in the medusa
with snakes of cerise and blue
and though our prayers are soft now
It was worth it for you

I wouldn't swap the pain for never knowing you
I wouldn't swap the pain
It was worth it for you

And we're still watching the rainbow through the shower
And we still see you
In every sunflower"

qBot

Originally posted by I am MAN

2. Use just once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy

I love you for what I am not,
I did not want what I have got.
Nirvana - Radiofriendly Unit shifter

omg... when i saw the name of the thread i immediately thought of these lyrics... spot on.

Ebony

"I am covered in skin no one gets to come in
pull me out from inside"
I am ready, I am ready I am fine"

counting crows-colourblind

I think every line in that song is amazing and all their songs are touching

"did I dream this belief
or did I belive this dream"

Peter Gaberial-I grieve

40crush41

there are soo many lyrics that just blow my mind away.. most coming from dmb, dave matthews' words are.. ooh, no words to describe.

#41
Come see, i swear by now im playing time against my troubles, oh I'm coming slow but speeding. ... I will go in this way and find my own way out, I wont tell you to stay
but I'm coming to much more, Me. ... I'm only this far and only tomorrow leads my way. > great song about leaving the known and heading to the unknown in life.

rapunzel
Blood through my veins for you, you alone have all of me, i give my world to u, to u i will be true. > =D

crush
am i right side up or upside down, is this real or am i dreaming?.. lovely lady, i will treat u sweetly, i mean u crush me, don't u know that its times like these when i know just how i love you. > =D

pig
look here are we, on this starry night starring into space and i must say, i feel as small as dust lying down here.

dancing nancies
I am who I am, who I am, well who am I? requesting some enlightenment, could have i been Anyone other than me?... then i look up at the sky, my mouth is opened why, whats the use in worrying? whats the use in hurring? turn turn we almost become dizzy.

cry freedom
How can I turn away, brother sister go dancing through my head, human as to human, the future is no place to place ur better days.

Pay for what you get
Work ourselves, fingers to the bone Suck the marrow, drain my soul Pay your dues, and your debts Pay your respect, everybody tells you You pay for what you get

k, i better quit while im ahead, b/c i could go on forever...

Great idea for a thread
~beth

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"She smiled sweetly across the lunch time smoke
And I loved her for a second"

Ocean Colour Scene

The whole song gets me, but that one piece is just gorgeous.

Jammer

Speedway....Guess the songs...


1. I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes,
'cause i know theres little things about me,
that would sing in the silence of so much rejection -
in every connection that i make

2. all at once you look across a crowded room,
to see the way that light attaches to a girl...

3. The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings

4. IF dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

oscarBravo

Socially at the platform that the timetable forgot
Picking up used tickets in a station of have-nots
When you're on that train of thought you pass some pretty funky stops...

"Pockets" by The Beautiful South.

MrJoeSoap

I found a new way, a new body to give
I'm asleep at the wheel and my heart's going to steer
This decision was mine, I made it myself
Without reason, conjecture, all reasons come from you
Take me, burn my heart and melt my hand
This is, another start of another
I found a new star

bus77

Midnight chillin' at A.M P.M.
Coolin' drinkin' apple juice
In Evil's BM
The sound's up loud
To attract attention
rmoraled tires
On a lowered suspension
Nardi to steer with
Alpine deck was glowin'
Bumpinn' Big Daddy
And the nigga was definitely flowin'
I was ridin' shotgun
Donald and Hen in back
Look thru the tint recognized a jack
Two brothers strolled up
Talkin' bout get out
Donald D blazed
Shot one fool thru his ****in' mouth
Why would they step
When they know we're strapped?
I never cruise L.A.
Without a Gat in my lap
The other fool shot
Caut the E in the shoulder blade
I busted thru the ca door
That's where the nigga laid
Hen jumped out
Dropped two nines in his forehead
Evil was bleedin' bad
The car seats were turnin' red
Looked to my left
There were two more carloads
Niggas in hats and hoods
In an attack mode
And they hadn't yet begun to fight
E hit the gas
It was one past midnight!

scuzzy

Maybe I didn¡¦t treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn¡¦t love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn¡¦t died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied

Maybe I didn¡¦t hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
I¡¦m so happy that you¡¦re mine
If I make you feel second best
Girl, I¡¦m sorry I was blind

You were always on my mind


Elvis - Always on my mind

Lorddrakul

“I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life,
I know you’ll be a sun in somebody else’s sky,
Why oh why, can’t it be mine?”

Pearl Jam - Black


"Sitting here like uninvited company
Wallowing in my own obscenities
I share a cigarette with negativity
Sitting here like wet ashes
With X's in my eyes and drawing flies "

Sound Garden - Drawing Flies


"I fall to my kness alone,
to read her name in stone."

Tain - Fly My Love


Minor correction to jesjes, As the Crow Flies is wonderfully performed by Rory Gallagher, but was written by Tony Joe White.

LD

elly

"then all you have to do is give
give me that look again"

your face by the frames

i love the whole song, but that line makes me smile where the rest of them make me sad!!
hehe

Dun

Originally posted by Lorddrakul
"Sitting here like uninvited company
Wallowing in my own obscenities
I share a cigarette with negativity
Sitting here like wet ashes
With X's in my eyes and drawing flies "

Sound Garden - Drawing Flies

Love that one..

G'n'R's "Coma" really hit home to me, but I'll not post it cause it's too long. Linkage.
Ultra Bra - Mitä on Taivas (What's Heaven)

Sinä tartut käteeni
kuiskaat korvaani
ihminen on unen varjo
yksinäinen unen varjo

You take my hand
Whisper in my ear
Man is a shadow of a dream
A lonely shadow of a dream

I also love their lyrics to "Kirjoituksia" (has translation).

da_deadman

What have I become, my sweetest friend?
Everyone I know, goes away in the end

And you could have it all,
my empire of dirt,
I will let you down,
I will make you hurt

'Hurt' by Nine Inch Nails, and sung brilliantly by Johnny Cash

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down

And I hope you're thinking of me
As you lay down on your side
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

'The drugs don't work' by the verve. Many of richard ashcrofts lyrics are beautiful and meaningful.

And of course, the essential mention of Kurt Cobain:

never met a wise man, if so it's a woman......
Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you

'Territorial Pissings' by Nirvana

there is plenty more, but that is enough for now :cool: