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Offline sweetandy

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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #30 on: Jan 26, 2012, 12:39:57 PM »
Frank Zappa's album "You Are What You Is" (1981) is chocked full of awesomeness, but here's some snippets from some songs on the continuous medley that is Side 3.

Quote from: The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Those Jesus Freaks, well, they're friendly but
The shit they believe has got their minds all shut
An' they don't even care when the church takes a cut
Ain't it bleak when you got so much nothin'

(So whaddya do? Hey!)
Eat that pork, eat that ham
Laugh till ya choke on Billy Graham
Moses, Aaron 'n Abraham . . .
They're all a waste of time
'N it's your ass that's on the line
(IT'S YOUR ASS THAT'S ON THE LINE)

Do what you wanna, do what you will
Just don't mess up your neighbor's thrill
'N when you pay the bill, kindly leave a little tip
And help the next poor sucker on his one way trip

Quote from: Heavenly Bank Account
That's right, you asked for it, remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over...

He's got twenty million dollars in his Heavenly Bank Account
All from those chumps who was born again
Oh yeah, oh yeah

He's got seven limousines and a private plane
All for the use of his Special Friends
Oh yeah, oh yeah

He's got thousand-dollar suits and a Wembley Tie
Girls love to stroke it while he's on the phone
Oh yeah, oh yeah

At the House of Representatives he's a groovy guy
When he Gives Thanks he is not alone...

He is dealin', he is really dealin'
IRS can't determine where The Hook is
It is easy with the Bible
To pretend that you're in Show Biz
They won't get him, they will never get him
For the naughty stuff that he did
It is best in cases like this
To pretend that you are stupid

He's got Presidential Help all along the way
He says the grace while the lawyers chew
Oh yeah

And the Governors agree to say: "He's a lovely man!"
He makes it easier for them to screw
All of you!
Yes, that's true!

'Cause he helps put The Fear of God in the Common Man
Snatchin' up money everywhere he can
Oh yeah, oh yeah

He's got twenty million dollars in his Heavenly Bank Account
You ain't got nothin', people
You ain't got nothin', people
You ain't got nothin', people
Thank the man . . . oh yeah

It's pretty critical of religion and fairly politicized, but even if that's not your cup of tea, the music rules.
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #31 on: Jan 27, 2012, 12:48:41 AM »
"At the end of the day a Rambler who doesn't ramble is lost just the same."
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #32 on: Jan 27, 2012, 11:35:23 PM »
"The meaning of life has been lost in the wind. And some people thinking that the end is close by. Stead of learning to live, they are learning to dye."
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #34 on: Jan 31, 2012, 11:13:42 AM »
Ozzy Osbourne

There are no unlockable doors, there are no unwindable wars
There are no unrightable wrongs or unsingable songs
There are no unbeatable odds, there are no believable Gods
There are no unnameable names, shall I say it again, yeah?

There are no impossible dreams, there are no invisible seams
Each night when the day is through

I don't ask much
I just want you
I just want you

There are no uncriminals crimes there are no unrhymable rhymes
There are no identical twins or forgivable sins
There are no incurable ills there are no unkillable thrills
One thing and you know it's true

I don't ask much
I just want you
I just want you
I just want you
I just want you

I'm sick and tired of begin' sick and tired
(From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/o/ozzy-osbourne-lyrics/i-just-want-you-lyrics.html)
I used to go to bed so high and wired, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I think I'll buy myself some plastic water
I guess I should have married Lennon's daughter, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

There are no unachievable goals there are no unsaveable souls
No legitimate Kings or Queens do you know what I mean, yeah
There are no indisputable truths and there ain't no fountain of youth
Each night when the day is through

I don't ask much
I just want you
I just want you
I just want you
I just want you
I just want you
I just want you
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I just want you
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #35 on: Feb 02, 2012, 06:56:02 AM »
Quote
She had four white stallions coming up
around the bend;
Four strong angels at her
command to send;
Four more seasons
for all that's broken to mend.

And I got four more reasons why I
can't go back there again.

She had skin like a statue
milky white and pure;
carved by an artist
whose hand is demure;
got a mind like a saber
razor sharp and sure.

And god how I hate myself for
still wanting her.
Counting Crows - Four White Stallions
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #36 on: Feb 03, 2012, 12:16:22 AM »
My moral standing is lying down.  -NIN


Dance to the tension of a world on edge.  - GNR
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #37 on: Feb 03, 2012, 12:29:47 PM »
Alice Cooper - Pick up the Bones.

Collecting pieces of my family
In an old pillow case
This one has a skull

But it don't have a face
These look like the arms of father so strong
And the ring on this finger

Means my Grandma is gone
Here's some legs in a cloud
Where my sister once played

Here's some mud made of blood
And these teeth are decayed
The ear of my brother

The hand of a friend
And I just can't
Put them back together again

Pick up the bones
And set them on fire
Follow the smoke going higher and higher
Pick up the bones
And wish them goodnight
Pray them a prayer and turn out the light

There are stains on the floor
Where kitchen once stood
There are ribs on the fire place
Mixed with the wood

There are forces in the air
Ghosts in the wind
Some bullets in the back
And some scars on the skin

There were demons with guns
Who marched through this place
Killing everything that breathed
They're an inhuman race

There are holes in the walls
Bloody hair on the bricks
And the smell of this hell
Is making me sick

Pick up the bones
And set them on fire
Follow the smoke going higher and higher
Pick up the bones
And wish them goodnight
Pray them a prayer and turn out the light

Now maybe someday
The suns gonna shine
Flowers will bloom
And all will be fine

But nothing will grow
On this burnt cursive ground
Cuz the breathe of the death
Is the only sound
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #38 on: Feb 03, 2012, 10:33:14 PM »
Is it enough to have some love?
Small enough to slip inside a book
Small enough to cover with your hand
Because everyone around you wants to look
Is it enough to have some love?
Small enough to fit inside the cracks?
The pieces don't fit together so good
For all the breaking and all the gluing back

I am still not getting what I want
I want to touch the back of your right arm
I wish you could remind me who I was
Because everyday I'm a little further off

But you are my love the astronaut
Flying in the face of science
I would gladly stay an afterthought
Just bring back some nice reminders

Is it getting harder to pretend
that life goes on without you in the wake?
Can you see the means without the end
In the random frantic action that we take?
And is it getting easy not to care
Despite the many rings around your name?
It isn't funny and it isn't fair
You traveled all this way it's the same...

...

I would tell them anything to see you split the evening
But as you see I do not have an awful lot to tell
Everybody's sick for something that they can find fascinating
Everyone but you but even you aren't feeling well...

...

Yes you are my love the astronaut
Crashing in the name of science
Just my luck they found your upper half
It's a very nice reminder, it's a very nice reminder...

...

You may be acquainted with the night
But I have seen the darkness in the day
But you must know it is a terrifying sight
Because you and I are living the same way...
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #39 on: Feb 04, 2012, 03:23:22 PM »
Quote from: Anders on Jan 31, 2012, 11:13:42 AM
Ozzy Osbourne

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No the thread is called Lyrics worth a quote.  ;)
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #40 on: Feb 05, 2012, 07:31:15 PM »
Quote from: SQ the ΣΛ/IGMд on Feb 04, 2012, 03:23:22 PM
Quote from: Anders on Jan 31, 2012, 11:13:42 AM
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No the thread is called Lyrics worth a quote.  ;)


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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #41 on: Mar 06, 2012, 03:20:18 AM »
"Computers infest the hotels."

Mark E. Smith (The Fall) - Hit the North (1987)
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #42 on: Mar 11, 2012, 02:20:02 PM »
Rollins Band - Low Self Opinion

If you could see the you that I see
When I see you seeing me
You'd see yourself so differently
Believe me
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #43 on: Mar 13, 2012, 04:40:45 PM »
Gotta have some Leonard Cohen.

'Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes'

'Like a baby, stillborn,
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.'

 From Everybody Knows and Bird on a Wire
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Re: Lyrics worth a quote
« Reply #44 on: Mar 13, 2012, 04:59:20 PM »
I'm very fond of Concrete Blonde's recording of "Everybody Knows."
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