Random lyrics thread part II

Hard working people from another land
looking for a little more
Coming to this country for a helping hand
You know they sail their ships upon these shores
And they are lookin for a freedom
that most of us don't appreciate
But you know man we can't let them in
Coz the government's full of racial hate

And then they go the nerve to say
They be takin our culture away
even though our ancestors tried to do the same to the Aborigine
Seems strange to me man strange to me
Don't it seem strange to you
That a country founded on immigration
is so damned racist too

And i say Home
Home is where the heart is
yeah Home

And then they go the nerve to say
they be takin our jobs away
Even though half the jobs that we're working for
are owned from overseas
and the other half of the companies
Yes Yes that they say that we rightly own
They operate on aisle three third world
That's right yeah the sweat shop zone

And I say I don't know what's going on
Don't know what the hell to say
The government decides on letting refugees in
and when they get here yes they are detained

And i don't know what's going on
Don't know the reason why
We live in an educated so called democracy
Where everybody decides to believe in lies
Believe in lies

Home is where the heart is yeah
Home.

 

The Man I Killed - NoFX

When they tightly strap me in, give me lethal injection,
Just a few moments to live, no remorse for what I did,
It was for the betterment of man, I gave the utmost sacrifice,
Before more damage could be done I took his life.

There was a split second of silence when the dart punctured the skin,
Beady eyes rolled back in head, the body dropped from the poison,
They could incapacitate me, but could not erase my sneer,
I heard a thousand people screaming, while three billion others cheered,
He was gone, and I would soon be...

Executed by the state, all appeals would be in vain,
I was not criminally insane, in fact, I was found to be,
An otherwise caring and respectable member of society,
A minor threat, except for that one man I killed.

As the sedatives take effect, I just smile, close my eyes,
There's a priest kneeling next to me, he asks me if I realize,
I was going straight to hell, and he thought that I should know,
That the man I killed's replacement planned this whole scenario,
And what I did had no significance at all.

 

Coco Rosie- Butterscotch

Black widow and white wood
The darkness of a forest eerily returns
To stagger drunk like mud
Taking swings at your woman
Run!!!

Why does butterscotch taste so good
And we can't have any
But we must we should
Why does sugar cane taste so good
Even though sugar can only do ya harm

You remind me of baseball
Tow trucks and the movies
Look sweet as to deliver me milk
Almost frozen on those wintry mornings
Don't slip mr. Mail man
Watch out for my dog!!!

Why does kissin' you feel so good
Even though it ain't alowed
I know we shouldn't should
Why does holdin' hands feel so right
Got a bruise on my pinky ring from holdin' too tight

Black diamonds swoon the corner
Make it sparkle
Its all for sale
Pushin' snow on the summer kids
Lewd remarks lowering

Lick the lips mischievous
Lick the lips mischievous

Skittles are the rainbow
And every color's popular though
Red gets the most invitations
To the Jr. High celebrations
And I'll go alone i don't care
'Cause rainbow's not my favorite color

I'll go alone i don't care
It's not my favorite color

Why does butterscotch taste so good
And we can't have any
But we must we should
And why does sugar cane taste so good
Even though sugar can only do ya harm

I'll go alone i don't care
It's not my favorite color
Black widow and white wood

 

With A Smile - Eraserheads

Lift your head
Baby don't be scared
Of the things that could go wrong along the way

You'll get by
With a smile
You can't win at everything but you can try

Baby you don't have to worry
Coz there ain't no need to hurry
No one ever said that there's an easy way

When they're closing all their doors
And they don't want you anymore
This sounds funny but I'll say it anyway

Girl I'll stay
Through the bad times
Even if I have to fetch you everyday

You'll get by
If you smile
You can never be too happy in this life

In a world where everybody
Hates a happy-ending story
It's a wonder love can make the world go round

But don't let it bring you down
Or turn your face into a frown
You'll get along with a little prayer and a song

Too doo doo doo....(2x)
Too doo doo doo doo doo... let me hear you sing it (Repeat)

In a world where everybody
Hates a happy ending story
It's a wonder love can make the world go round

But don't let it bring you down
Or turn your face into a frown
You'll get along with a little prayer and a song

Lift your head
Baby don't be scared
Of the things that could go wrong along the way

You'll get by
With a smile
Now it's time to kiss away those tears goodbye

 

AQUALUNG by Jethro Tull

Sitting on a park bench
eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Snot running down his nose
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
Sun streaking cold
an old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
the only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
as he bends to pick a dog-end
he goes down to the bog
and warms his feet.

Feeling alone
the army's up the rode
salvation à la mode and
a cup of tea.
Aqualung my friend
don't start away uneasy
you poor old sod, you see, it's only me.
Do you still remember
December's foggy freeze
when the ice that
clings on to your beard is
screaming agony.
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
with deep-sea-diver sounds,
and the flowers bloom like
madness in the spring.

I love this song so much!

 

Oh yes, that's a great song!
I totally love this song, the lyrics are kind of cheesy maybe, but they're just great:

"Space Pilot"



Space pilot, flying through the night
As fast as the speed of light
Space pilot will take you to the stars
Across the universe I travel far
I pick you up and we go for a ride
Every now and then I flip on to the other side

Space pilot
Space pilot, somewhere out there

There’s something here driving me mad
Thoughts are racing, my mind is alive
Spaceways seem to intertwine
Space pilot, have you got a brain?
Astral travel has driven you insane
All kinds of madness takes it’s hold on you

Space pilot
Space pilot, somewhere out there

Space pilot is so lonely
Space pilot hides his misery
Space travel has taken it’s toll on you
Time to park it and give it away
Space pilot has had his day
Drift off into space and fade away

Space pilot
Space pilot, somewhere out there

 

All the lyrics in this song are good but my favourite part is the last paragraph. Positive but realistic at the same time.


Crass - Big A little a

External control are you gonna let them get you?
Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you?
They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you

Hello, hello, hello, this is the Lord God, can you hear?
Hellfire and damnation's what I've got for you down there
On earth I have ambassadors, archbishop, vicar, pope
We'll blind you with morality, you'd best abandon any hope,
We're telling you you'd better pray cos you were born in sin
Right from the start we'll build a cell and then we'll lock you in
We sit in holy judgement condemning those that stray
We offer our forgiveness, but first we'll make you pay

External control are you gonna let them get you?
Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you?
They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you

Hello, hello, hello, now here's a massage from your queen
As figurehead of the status quo I set the social scene
I'm most concerned about my people, I want to give them peace
So I'm making sure they stay in line with my army and police
My prisons and my mental homes have ever open doors
For those amongst my subjects who dare to ask for more
Unruliness and disrespect are things I can't allow
So I'll see the peasants grovel if they refuse to bow

External control are you gonna let them get you?
Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you?
They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you

Introducing the Prime Sinister, she's a mother to us all
Like the dutch boy's finger in the dyke her arse is in the wall
Holding back the future waiting for the seas to part
If Moses did it with his faith, she'll do it with an army
Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there
Guarding national heritage no matter what or where
Palaces for kings and queens, mansions for the rich
Protection for the wealthy, defence of privilege
They've learnt the ropes in Ireland, engaged in civil war
Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle against the poor
So Ireland's just an island? It's an island of the mind
Great Britain? Future? Bollocks, you'd better look behind
Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984
Guardian of the future, he'll implement the law
He's there as a grim reminder that no matter what you do
Big brothers system's always there with his beady eyes on you
From God to local bobby, in home and street and school
They've got your name and number while you've just got their rule
We've got to look for methods to undermine those powers
It's time to change the tables. The future must be ours

Big A, little A, bouncing B
The system might have got you but it won't get me

Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do
I am he and she is she but you're the only you
No one else has got your eyes, can see the things you see
It's up to you to change your life and my life's up to me
The problems that you suffer from are problems that you make
The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take
If you don't like the life you live, change it now it's yours
Nothing has effects if you don't recognise the cause
If the programme's not the one you want, get up, turn off the set
It's only you that can decide what life you're gonna get
If you don't like religion you can be the antichrist
If your tired of politics you can be an anarchist
But no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steeple
And you'll never change the system by bombing number ten
Systems just aren't made of bricks they're mostly made of people
You may send them into hiding, but they'll be back again
If you don't like the rules they make, refuse to play their game
If you don't want to be a number, don't give them your name
If you don't want to be caught out, refuse to hear their question
Silence is a virtue, use it for your own protection
They'll try to make you play their game, refuse to show your face
If you don't want to be beaten down, refuse to join their race
Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do
I am he and she is she but you're they only you

 

If you're going to San Francisco,
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
If you're going to San Francisco,
You're gonna meet some gentle people there.

All those who come to San Francisco,
Ssummertime will be a love-in there.
In the streets of San Francisco,
Gentle people with flowers in their hair.

All across the nation, such a strange vibration,
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People in motion,
There's a whole generation, with a new explanation,
People in motion, people in motion.

All those who come to San Francisco,
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
If you come to San Francisco,
Summertime will be a love-in there

 

This song was written by a very awesome traveler I met at Ghost Ranch. (Please see her MySpace: http://myspace.com/stickyvico) I totally love the lyrics, they're silly and sweet and describe exactly how I felt when I first fell in love.

"Since You" - Victoria Jacobs

Since you
my bathwater has gotten hotter
and my laugh's louder
and baby powder
My ear drums deeper and salt is sweeter
Since you

Since you
I own my moans; I take out loans
I train a tribe; I surface dive
Chew marrow bones and living stones
Since you

You taught me how to tag a bumblebee
You brought the sounds and syllables of trees
You dared my baby chair to climb up the Andes
And since you, every color looks like green

Since you
swang on through my swinging doors
and knocked my Stetson to the floor
I can't taste olives anymore
Since you

Since you
I learned to throw my temper out
and stomp and shake and wiggle out
Of every trap we'd splashed into
Since you

You taught me how to see the northern lights
In the neon subway streets of European nights
You dared my summer flair to stretch into the spring
and since you, every color looks like green
every color looks like green
every color looks like green
I wanna be your turnip queen.

 

Sweet! I dig it


What about me - Quicksilver Messenger Service:

You poisoned my sweet water.
You cut down my green trees.
The food you fed my children
Was the cause of their disease.

My world is slowly fallin' down
And the airs not good to breathe.
And those of us who care enough,
We have to do something.......

What you gonna do about me?
What you gonna do about me?

Your newspapers,
They just put you on.
They never tell you
The whole story.

They just put your
Young ideas down.
I was wonderin' could this be the end
Of your pride and glory?

I work in your factory.
I study in your schools.
I fill your penitentiaries.
And your military too!

And I feel the future trembling,
As the word is passed around.
"If you stand up for what you do believe,
Be prepared to be shot down."

And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live like an outlaw.
And I'm always on the run

And Im always getting busted
And I got to take a stand
I believe the revolution
Must be mighty close at hand

I smoke marijuana
But I cant get behind your wars.
And most of what I do believe
Is against most of your laws

I'm a fugitive from injustice
But I'm goin' to be free.
Cause your rules and regulations
They dont do the thing for me

And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live just like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run.

 

Phil Ochs - One more parade

Hup, two, three, four, marchin' down the street
Rollin' of the drums and the trampin' of the feet
General salutes and the mothers wave and weep
Here comes the big parade
Don't be afraid, price is paid
One more parade

[Chorus:]
So young, so strong, so ready for the war
So willin' to go an' die upon a foreign shore
All march together, everybody looks the same
So there is no one you can blame
Don't be ashamed, light the flame
One more parade

Listen for the sound and listen for the noise
Listen for the thunder of the marching boys
Few years ago their guns were only toys
Here comes the big parade
Don't be afraid, price is paid
One more parade

[Chorus]

Medals on their coats and guns in their hands
Trained to kill as they're trained to stand
Ten thousand ears need only one command
Here comes the big parade
Don't be afraid, price is paid
One more parade

[Chorus]

Cold hard stares on faces so proud
Kisses from the girls and cheers from the crowd
And the widows from the last war cry into their shrouds
Here comes the big parade
Don't be afraid, price is paid
Don't be ashamed, war's a game
World in flames
So start the parade!!

 

Wow, those lyrics are awesome, don't think I know that actual song though. *seeks soul*

 

So Benny Andersson's son (Benny being one of the guys from ABBA), Ludvig, has gotten into music too... doing awesome at it too, look up his band Ella Rouge.

Anyway, on his first CD ("SRO") he wrote a lot of songs which I love, and this is one of them.


1968 - Ludvig Andersson

Back in the day somewhere around the San Francisco Bay
A voice was raised and echoed out across the U.S.A.
And carried upon the ocean's waves its message could be heard
The noise kept gaining strength and power all around the world

And the people fought for each other's rights
Everyone's beliefs, the flower power life
And most of all they fought for love

In 1968 the revolution began
Now we must carry the weight
Until the world has succumbed
To the message we bring
The prophesies of the young will make them sing
So c'mon people unite
And half our battle is won
We'll bring our love and our light
Until the world has succumbed
To the message we bring
The prophesies of the young will make them sing

But as it turned out the wave rolled back, and silently we fell
The noise became an ancient story that no one lived to tell
So now we the young the chosen ones with flowers in our hair
Must carry on the songs they sang back in the day somewhere

When the people fought for each other's rights
Everyone's beliefs, the flower power life
And most of all they fought for love!

In 1968 the revolution began
Now we must carry the weight
Until the world has succumbed
To the message we bring
The prophesies of the young will make them sing
So c'mon people unite
And half our battle is won
We'll bring our love and our light
Until the world has succumbed
To the message we bring
The prophesies of the young will make them sing

Imagine all the people sharing all the world
Let's come together, let's make love and spread the word
That there's a whole new generation creating all new good vibrations
So come on, turn on, tune in, drop out
This time we'll make them sing

In 1968 the revolution began
Now we must carry the weight
Until the world has succumbed
To the message we bring
The prophesies of the young will make them sing
So c'mon people unite
And half our battle is won
We'll bring our love and our light
Until the world has succumbed
To the message we bring
The prophesies of the young will make them sing

 

The law is for protection of the people - Kris Kristofferson



Billy dalton staggered on the sidewalk
Someone said he stumbled and he fell
Six squad cars came screaming to the rescue
Hauled old Billy Dalton off to jail

Because the law is for protection of the people
Rules are rules and any fool can see
We don’t need no drunks like Billy Dalton
Scarin’ decent folks like you and me, no siree

Charlie watson wandered like a stranger
Showing he had no means of support
Police man took one look at his pants cuffs
Hustled Charlie Watson off to court.

Because the law is for protection of the people
Rules are rules and any fool can see
We don’t need no bums like Charlie Watson
Scarin’ decent folks like you and me, no siree.

Homer Lee Hunnicut was nothing but a hippy
Walking thru this world without a care
Then one day, six strapping brave policeman
Held down Homer Lee and cut his hair

Because the law is for protection of the people
Rules are rules and any fool can see
We don’t need no hairy headed hippies
Scarin’ decent folks like you and me, no siree

So thank your lucky stars you’ve got protection
Walk the line, and never mind the cost
And don’t wonder who them lawmen was protecting
When they nailed the savior to the cross.

Because the law is for protection of the people
Rules are rules and any fool can see
We don’t need no riddle speaking prophets
Scarin’ decent folks like you and me, no siree.

 

Spiderpig, spiderpig
Does whatever a spiderpig does
Can he swing from a web?
No he can't, cause he's a pig

:tongue:

 

I've got the poontang blues
From the top of my hip
to my cowboy shoes

Whole lotta money
nothing to loose
I've got the poontang blues

 

I think this song is beautiful. Also speaks alot of truth.

Within Temptation - Never Ending Story Lyrics

Armies have conquered
And fallen in the end
Kingdoms have risen
Then buried by sand
The Earth is our mother
She gives and she takes
She puts us to sleep and
In her light we'll awake
We'll all be forgotten
There's no endless fame
But everything we do
Is never in vain

We're part of a story, part of a tale
We're all on this journey
No one is to stay
Where ever it's going
What is the way?

Forests and deserts
Rivers, blue seas
Mountains and valleys
Nothing here stays
While we think we witness
We are part of the scene
This never-ending story
Where will it lead to?
The earth is our mother
She gives and she takes
But she is also a part
A part of the tale

We're part of a story, part of a tale
We're all on this journey
No one is to stay
Where ever it's going
What is the way?
We're part of a story, part of a tale
Sometimes beautiful and sometimes insane
No one remembers how it began

 

Led Zeppelin-Kashmir

Oh let the sun beat down upon my face
Stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait
All will be revealed

Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace
Whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate
The story was quite clear

Oh, I been flying... mama, there ain't no denyin'
I've been flying, ain't no denyin', no denyin'

All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find where I've been.

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like thoughts inside a dream
Heed the path that led me to that place
Yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon
I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June
When movin' through Kashmir

Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails
Across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face
Along the straits of fear

When I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah
When I see, when I see the way, you stay-yeah

Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down...
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, well I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, oooh, my baby, let me take you there

Let me take you there. Let me take you there

 

(male)
Oh my perfect princess
hard and cold as stone
I shall trace your lips
with crimson
I'll protect you
They can't have you
to bury, to leave me
Slay all who dare touch my pretty doll
It will be a bloody paradise,
a misanthropes ball

(female)
I hear you and beseech you
find a way to understand
Kill them for my body and be
left with grains of sand
Do not waste your life in vain
Protecting that wich feels
happiness nor pain

Willothewisp my love
is forever now what be
Willothewisp my darkened darling
can not be taken away from thee

(male)
I feel your essence all around me
and see you dead on the floor
Realize it would kill me to see
you dragged out like a rotting whore

The dead are not theirs to take
fuck their reality
I seek revenge
fuck their stupidity
Your death will be avenged

My princess is not their dead slave
to tear apart and fit inside
a holy lonesome grave

(female)
Ahh! you torment me with endless worry
A doll is what left of me
To kill for it, insanity!
Wake up live your life
do not waste it in my name

(male)
No! why? your body comforts me
Please understand
it is a willothewisp my love
But at least I would have command

Help! help! ahh! I can not take this
My heart was black to all but you
and now you're dead
I need you in any form
I want you
Seperation is what permeates
The fear of death ahh! ahh! come back

(female)
My essence is always with you
Hovering over you and what was I
Of my love my perfect self
I never meant to die

It's alright do as you wish
I want my body to be with you

(male)
I see them coming
my pulse quickens
my long blade smiles

Get away from her
bastards, pawns
die, you are worth nothing die!

They are dead as well
now bags of worthless flesh
How dare they try and take you ha! ha! ha!
We are free together

(female)
You shiver like a broken child before me
Clutching my cold hand wet with tears
You kiss my hands and lips
and I feel nothing

(male)
A presence looms about me
whispering like morning dew
My perfect death doll princess
I stay here forever with you

(female)
He has won my body but
now he is insane
I reach to dry his tears
only to find out I am like wind to rain

Ancient

 

Although your world wonders me
with your mysterious and superior cackling hen
your people i do not understand
so to you i shall put and end
and youll never hear surf music again

-from third stone from the sun-hendrix