Best/Worst Lyrics of All Time

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  1. RENTfan87

    RENTfan87 Member

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    Best lyrics of all time? I'm sure I'll think of better ones later & post them, bur right now, what comes to mind is Joe Diffie's "Third Rock From The Sun". When you first listen to it, it sounds like just a fun party song, but then you listen to the lyrics, you get this really cool storyline of a chain reaction starting with a woman walking into a bar & ending with the entire town losing power lol.

    "Third Rock From The Sun"
    She walks into Smokey's, one hip at a time
    Like a broken field runner, slipping through the line
    He likes the way she looks, so he calls the little wife
    And says "Don't wait up for me, I'll be working late tonight"
    Wife hangs up the phone, bursts into tears
    Calls her sister up & cries "Get over here!"

    Sister tells her boyfriend "Be back in awhile"
    Boyfriend wants a beer, the store is just a mile
    He leaves the motor running, he'll only be a minute
    His car drives away with teenagers in it
    The driver tells his buddies "Got one life to live"
    They scream into the night "Let's get it over with!"

    Cause & effect, chain of events
    All of the chaos makes perfect sense
    When your spinning 'round, things come undone
    Welcome to Earth, third rock from the sun

    The kid guns the gas, car starts to swerve
    Heads for a semi, car jumps the curb
    Truck hits a street sign in the Shoney's parking lot
    It flies through the air, takes out the bank clock
    Clock strikes a lightpole, transformer sparks
    Lines go down, town goes dark

    Waitress calls the cops, says she saw it all
    Swears a giant alien has landed at the mall
    Cops ring up the mayor, say "There's panic in the streets
    We hate to wake you up but we can't find the chief"
    Mayor says "Use your heads! If he ain't in his car
    He's hiding from his wife down at Smokey's Bar"

    Cause & effect, chain of events
    All of the chaos makes perfect sense
    When your spinning 'round, things come undone
    Welcome to Earth, third rock from the sun

    Cause & effect, chain of events
    All of the chaos makes perfect sense
    When your spinning 'round, things come undone
    Welcome to Earth, third rock from the sun

    Welcome to Earth, third rock from the sun

    Welcome to Earth, third rock from the sun
     
  2. nevaeh_

    nevaeh_ Member

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    "i jerk off inside books and give life to words
    leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard
    i love it when people think i'm psychologically disturbed
    cuz it means i overloaded their neurological nerves"
    -immortal technique

    i love basically anything by immortal technique.
     
  3. RENTfan87

    RENTfan87 Member

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    I love the last part of the second verse of Tim McGraw's "Just To See You Smile"

    And yesterday I knew just what you wanted
    When you came walking up to me with him
    So I told you that I was happy for you
    And given the chance, I'd lie again

    I just love the simple honesty in that line :)
     
  4. Kinky Ramona

    Kinky Ramona Back by popular demand!

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    I like country music that comes from that era of country, RENT, but I still hate that song I talked about earlier. Sorry, I just think that country music bombed after about '99 and has yet to make any sort of return. It just gets worse and worse.
     
  5. jmt

    jmt Ezekiel 25:17

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsjRG7onE8M"]YouTube - Porcupine Tree - I Drive The Hearse

    songs so depressing et so good!

    truly poetry
     
  6. RENTfan87

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    "This Ain't Nothing" by Craig Morgan was an AWESOMELY powerful song that was out this past summer, about what's really important in life...

    "This Ain't Nothing"
    He was standing in the rubble
    Of an old farmhouse outside Birmingham
    When some on-the-scene reporter
    Stuck a camera in the face of that old man
    He said "Tell the folks, please mister
    What are you gonna do
    Now that this twister
    Has taken all that's dear to you?"
    The old man just smiled
    And said "Boy, lemme tell you something:
    This ain't nothing"

    He said "I lost my daddy
    When I was 8 years old
    That cave-in at the Kincaid Mine
    Left a big old hole
    And I lost my baby brother
    My best friend, & my left hand
    In a no-win situation
    In a place called 'Vietnam'
    And last year I watched my loving wife
    Of 50 years waste away & die
    And I held her hand
    Til her heart of gold stopped pumping
    So this ain't nothing"

    He said "I learned at an early age
    There's things that matter & things that don't
    So if you're waiting here for me to cry
    I hate to disapoint you, boy, but I won't"
    Then he reached down in the rubble
    And picked up a photograph
    Wiped the dirt off of it
    With the hand that he still had
    He put it to his lips
    And said "Man, she was something
    But this ain't nothing"

    He said "I lost my daddy
    When I was 8 years old
    That cave-in at the Kincaid Mine
    Left a big old hole
    And I lost my baby brother
    My best friend, & my left hand
    In a no-win situation
    In a place called 'Vietnam'
    And last year I watched my loving wife
    Of 50 years waste away & die
    We were holding hands
    When her heart of gold stopped pumping
    So this ain't nothing"

    He said "This ain't nothing time won't erase
    And this ain't nothing money can't replace"
    He said "You sit & watch your loving wife
    Of 50 years fighting for her life
    Then you hold her hand
    Til her heart of gold stops pumping
    Well, boy that's something
    So this ain't nothing"
     
  7. Sam_Stoned

    Sam_Stoned Senior Member

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    I got the winner. Some song on the Hip Radio Reggea station right now.

    It's not a joke, I really heard it.
     

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