Favourite Song Lyrics/verses

[igotworms]

Sorry about the length...but I had some time to kill, and I can't get enough of this kind of stuff. Cheers.

"If God controls the land and disease,

keeps a watchful eye on me,

If he's really so _bloody mighty,

my problem is I can't see,

well who would wanna be?

Who would wanna be such a control freak?"

"Bukowski" by Modest Mouse

"Now that we've hammered the last spike

and we've punched the railroad through,

thought there'd be more to say

thought there'd be more to do.

I love your paintings-don't take your colors away.

I've grown more fearful of them every day.

Swimming up their dark rivers to discover your source,

a source of strange and unrequited remorse.

And I found the end of the world, of course,

but it's not the end of the world, of course.

It's just a Vancouver divorce.

It's just a Vancouver divorce."

"Vancouver Divorce" by Gordon Downie

"I had this dream where I relished the fray

and the screaming filled my head all day.

It was as though I'd been spit here, settled

in, into the pocket of a lighthouse on some

rocky socket, off the coast of France, dear.

One afternoon, four thousand men died in

the water here and five hundred more were

thrashing madly, as parasites might in your

blood. Now I was in a lifeboat designed for

ten and ten only, anything that systematic

would get you hated. It's not a deal nor a

test nor a love of something fated. The

selection was quick, the crew picked and

those left in the water got kicked off our

pantleg and we headed for home.

Then the dream ends when the phone rings,

you doing alright he said it's out there most

days and nights, but only a fool would

complain. Anyway Susan, if you like, our

conversation is as faint as a sound in my

memory, as those fingernails scratching on

my hull. "

"Nautical Disaster" by the Tragically Hip (about the Allied forces failed attempt at landing at Dieppe, which was the precursor to D-Day)

[Harry Palmer]

the participants of this forum only respond to bg threads... surely you have at least learnt that much by now!

[Head Snake]

This song reminded me of my college gf. Now, I can apply it to bgs.

Don't Run Wild as written and recorded by The Del Fuegos

>From the album: Boston Mass.

If you have never heard this song, you won't understand how good this

really is even though it is incredibly simplistic. However, I am very

dissapointed that OLGA has no other Del Fuego's posts, so I am fixing

that.

The trick to getting main riff of this song is playing an F# barre chord

and alternating playing the low E string open and in the 2nd positon.

Quite simple actually!!

Chords:

Verse:

F# B F# E

F# B F# G# B

Pre chorus:

B F# B F# B F# B C#

Chorus:

B C# B C# F# C#

Verse:

Oh baby whats goin' on

you don't laugh on the phone like you used to

Have I been gone too long

Where's the love that I've gotten used to

Pre chorus:

All the good times we had

seems my dream might take awhile

so baby don't you run

don't run wild

Verse:

Trees fly by in a far away car

Wonderin' when I'll see you again

The TV's on the sound is turned down

All the letters that I tried to send

Pre chorus:

All the good times we had

seems my dream might take awhile

so baby don't you run

don't run wild

Chorus:

Don't run wild,

Don't run wild,

Don't run wild,

Don't leave me child

Solo (over verse chords):

-2-2-2-2-|-22-00 | etc.. --

-2-2-2-2-|-22-00 |-

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---------|-------|-

---------|-------|-

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End with a nifty Low E string pick slide!!!

Chorus:

Don't run wild,

Don't run wild,

Don't run wild,

Don't leave me child

Repeat Repeat etc...

[LAW PHOO CHAAI]

Sorry, her is a bg song ........ "Soi Cowboy" by the Getaway People. She was the apple of her father's eye, Nobody told her it would take her away to a,paying her dues in a sleazy gogo bar like a butterfly stuck in jar, Soi Cowboy, with a pocket full of dollars, cheaplipstick on his collar, But he don't care, she's just a Thai girl with a head full of dreams, But let me tell you honey that nothin is what it seems, Oh no, she's just a Thai girl, that is all she is, she's just a Thai girl, He said he'd make a her honest girl, that they would getaway and see the world someday, There's a problem with a pearl from grand(?) without the other there's a grain of sand , Soi Cowboy, with a pocket full of dollars,cheaplipstick on his collar, but he don't care, She's just a Thai girl with a head full of dreams, but let me tell you honey that nothin what it seems,oh no, she's just a Thai girl,is all she is,she is just a Thai girl, If you think that it is true love, he is lookin for, lookin for, into the sea that's the only thing it'll ever be,ever be, Soi Cowboy.......................but let me tell you honey, let me tell you honey,let me tell you honey, nothin's what it seems.

[elsie]

the participants of this forum only respond to bg threads... surely you have at least learnt that much by now!

And it's you who has had so much to say on most of BG's threads.

[Head Snake]

From The Cult, Wild Flower

Hey you

You're a wild honey child

I'm out of control

Every time you are near me

I'm a wolf child, baby

And I'm howlin' for you

My heart beats faster, hrrrr

Hey hey, and it's overpowered, wow

I'm a wolf child, girl

Howlin' for you

Wild flower

Star of my dreams

The most beautiful thing, yeah

Yeah you

Sweet sensation of a nation

Oh, my soul

You're a perfect creation

You're an angel, baby

And I'm cryin' for you

My heart beats faster, hrrrr

Yea hey, and I'm overpowered

I'm a wolf child, girl

Howlin' for you

Wild flower

Star of my dreams

The most beautiful thing

Wild flower

I love you every hour

Wild flower

Burning down the night

Set the world alight, yeah

Wild flower

I'm a wolf child, girl

Howlin' for you

Wild flower

You're the star of my dreams

Most beautiful thing

Wild flower

I love you every hour

Wild flower

I love you every hour

Crazy 'bout you, yeah

Crazy 'bout you, girl

Crazy 'bout you, yeah

Crazy 'bout

Crazy 'bout you, yeah

[triplegee]

Can't go past an absolute Aussie classic from Hunters & Collectors:

We may never meet again

So shed your skin and let's get started

From Throw Your Arms Around Me....

Give me that song and a few beers and I am anyones.....

[Girlfrombar]

"Little Baby Nothing"

No one likes looking at you

Your lack of ego offends male mentality

They need your innocence

To steal vacant love and to destroy

Your beauty and virginity used like toys

My mind is dead, everybody love's me

Wants a slice of me

Hopelessly passive and compatible

Need to belong, oh the roads are scarey

So hold me in your arms

I wanna be your only possession

Used, used, used by men

Used, used, used by men

All they leave behind is money

Paper made out of broken twisted trees

Your pretty face offends

Because it's something real that I can't touch

Eyes, skin, bone, contour, language as a flower

No god reached me, faded films and loving books

Black and white TV

All the world does not exist for me

And if I'm starving, you can feed me lollipops

Your diet will crush me

My life just an old man's memory

Little baby nothing

Loveless slavery, lips kissing empty

Dress your life in loathing

Breaking your mind with Barbie Doll futility

Little baby nothing

Sexually free, made-up to breakup

Assassinated beauty

Moths broken up, quenched at last

The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by

You are pure, you are snow

We are the useless sluts that they mould

Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany

Culture, alienation, boredom and despair

You are pure, you are snow

We are the useless sluts that they mould

Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany

Culture, alienation, boredom and despair***

--Manic Street Preachers.

[britmaveric]

Look at the stars,

Look how they shine for you,

And everything you do,

Yeah, they were all yellow.

I came along,

I wrote a song for you,

And all the things you do,

And it was called "Yellow."

So then I took my turn,

Oh what a thing to have done,

And it was all "Yellow."

Your skin Oh yeah,

your skin and bones, Turn into something beautiful,

You know, you know I love you so,

You know I love you so.

I swam across,

I jumped across for you,

Oh what a thing to do.

'cause you were all "Yellow,"

I drew a line,

I drew a line for you,

Oh what a thing to do,

And it was all "Yellow."

Your skin,

Oh yeah your skin and bones,

Turn into something beautiful,

And you know for you,

I'd bleed myself dry for you,

I'd bleed myself dry.

It's true, look how they shine for you,

Look how they shine for you,

Look how they shine for,

Look how they shine for you,

Look how they shine for you,

Look how they shine.

Look at the stars,

Look how they shine for you,

And all the things that you do.

-Cold Play

[igotworms]

Can't go past an absolute Aussie classic from Hunters & Collectors:

We may never meet again

So shed your skin and let's get started

From Throw Your Arms Around Me....

Give me that song and a few beers and I am anyones..... 

Very nice indeed. *Mental Note: Get some Victoria Bitter, some Hunter's and Collector's tunes and head for the nearest Sheila.

Let's change this post in the direction of best lines or verse...opposed to the whole song. I posted a whole song as well. But, I think those one or two liners stand out the best.

i.e.

"We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves"

"I've changed my mind so much I cant even trust it

My mind changed me so much I cant even trust myself."

"I had a drink the other day

Opinions were like kittens

I was giving them away."

All by Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse.

[drunken monkey]

theese mist covered mountains are home now for me , but my home is the lowlands and always will be.

someday you will return to your valley and your farm, and you will no longer burn to be brothers in arms.

brothers in arms by dire straits

[Darlek]

the participants of this forum only respond to bg threads... surely you have at least learnt that much by now!

"Oh give me a home

where the prostitutes roam

and the meechais grow on the treeeeeeees

where seldom was heard

a disparaging word

now we're up to our eyeballs in sleaze

home - home on the range .....

"

[dr_Pat_Pong]

the participants of this forum only respond to bg threads... surely you have at least learnt that much by now!

"Oh give me a home

where the prostitutes roam

and the meechais grow on the treeeeeeees

where seldom was heard

a disparaging word

now we're up to our eyeballs in sleaze

home - home on the range .....

"

Darlek is a most willing contributor in the matters of BG's. Too willing IMHO.

[britmaveric]

Dr. ...Darlek - might be singing "Vacation" these days.

[Spee]

"You gotta fight ...

for your right ...

to parrrrrrrty ..."

The Beastie Boys

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Dr. ...Darlek - might be singing "Vacation" these days.

Good upon you Brit. I hear that others feel a bit like that about him too.

[stroll]

Black night baby

Past the midnight hour yeah

All around me, all around me, all around me

Butterfly women

No time for trouble

A time of joy

I'm far from home

Don't care anymore

Fallin' down Bangkok rain keeps

...(4x)

I love that sound

Sittin' in a bar in Bangkok

Waitin' for the rain to stop

All around me butterfly women talkin'

Just talkin' and singing

No time for trouble

......

Bangkok rain keeps on fallin' down

I love that sound

I'm a free spirit

A traveling man

Round the world I like to lurk

When the rain comes down

In a Bangkok town

My heart is in my gut

Baby won't you please take me home

I ain't got nowhere to go

No trouble freaky city

Freaky city feeling city

Bangkok Rain, by The Cult

[stroll]

She's got it and I want it

Yeah I want it bad

The way she moves across the floor

She's the sweetest thing I've had

I must be livin'

In a house of love

Sweet thing you move my way

And I know that I'm hungry enough

Oh, I need you baby, Lord I need you know

Do what you want, do it anyhow

God's too late to safe me

'Cos I'm already gone

I'm hooked into your love machine

Honey turn it on

She destoys me

She destroys my soul

She destroys me

Oh, and I want it all

............

Destroyed, by The Almighty

[stroll]

Are you going to close this thread as well, dark creature of the night?

[The Gentleman Scamp]

I know I'm unloveable

You don't have to tell me

I don't have much in my life

But take it - it's yours

I don't have much in my life

Take it - it's yours

I know I'm unloveable

You don't have to tell me

Oh, message received

Loud and clear

Loud and clear

I don't have much in my life

But take it - it's yours

Banjo solo.

And if I seem a little strange

Well, that's because I am

If I seem a little strange

That's because I am

But I know that you would like me

If only you could see me

If only you could meet me

I don't have much in my life

But take it - it's yours

I don't have much in my life

But take it - it's yours

Edited October 1, 2004 by The Gentleman Scamp

[Head Snake]

I know I shouldn't be posting about them. I don't want this thread locked. I just couldn't resist. hehe

4-11. How tall are the Bee Gees?

A. I was surprised to discover how hard it's been to get an

answer to this one! Even the "official" reports have changed

over the years, and differ substantially from guesses hazarded by

fans who have met them and posed for photos with them. I was

hopeful that the Official Bee Gees Web Experience would settle

the matter once and for all, but now I see that they use the very

same estimates that I've always been using. Good heavens,

doesn't SOMEBODY have a tape measure over there? Anyway, fans

estimates have been as follows:

Barry: between 5' 10" and 6' 1"

Robin: between 5' 8" and 5' 11"

Maurice: between 5' 6" and 5' 9"

Further, it is interesting to note that the Official Bee

Gees Web Experience lists Andy as having been between 5' 7" and

5' 9" in height.

[stroll]

For Scampy:

Bury me softly in this womb

I give this part of me for you

Sand rains down and here I sit

Holding rare flowers

In a tomb...in bloom

Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved

See my heart I decorate it like a grave

You don't understand who they thought I was supposed to be

Look at me now a man

Who won't let himself be

Down in a hole, losin' my soul

Down in a hole, losin' control

I'd like to fly,

But my wings have been so denied

Down in a hole, and they've put all

The stones in their place

I've eaten the sun so my tongue

Has been burned of the taste

I have been guilty

Of kicking myself in the teeth

I will speak no more

Of my feelings beneath

Oh I want to be inside of you

Down in a hole, losin' my soul

Down in a hole, feelin' so small

Down in a hole, losin' my soul

Down in a hole, out of control

I'd like to fly but my

Wings have been so denied

'Down in a hole", by Alice in Chains

[elsie]

Your Song

Music by Elton John

Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

It's a little bit funny this feeling inside

I'm not one of those who can easily hide

I don't have much money but boy if I did

I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor, but then again, no

Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show

I know it's not much but it's the best I can do

My gift is my song and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss

Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross

But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song

It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting but these things I do

You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue

Anyway the thing is what I really mean

Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

[Boon Mee]

Going back a few years..

The Who with the song "My Generation"

w/the line "Here Comes The New Boss, Same as The Old Boss"

...reflective of today's politics...

[paulfr]

Here is one for everyone who's love for music

cannot be described in words ........

But music was his life

It was not his livlihood

And it made him feel so happy

It made him feel soooo goood

And he sang from his heart

And he sang from his soul

He did not know how well he sang

It just made him whole

Mr Tanner by Harry Chapin

[fatter than harry]

Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake

Time has told me you're a rare, rare find. A troubled cure for a troubled mind.

And time has told me not to ask for more for someday our ocean will find its shore.

So I’ll leave the ways that are making me be what I really don't want to be.

Leave the ways that are making me love what I really don't want to love.

Time has told me you came with the dawn, a soul with no footprint, a rose with no thorn.

Your tears they tell me there's really no way of ending your troubles with things you can say.

And time will tell you to stay by my side, to keep on trying till there's no more to hide.

So leave the ways that are making you be what you really don't want to be.

Leave the ways that are making you love what you really don't want to love.

Time has told me you're a rare, rare find. A troubled cure for a troubled mind.

And time has told me not to ask for more for someday our ocean will find its shore.

[The Gentleman Scamp]

This famous person wears the same size waterskis as me

She's got two eyes - as many years I've lived in this city

Her hair is black and mine is brown - they both start with a 'B'

But when the phone inside her ribcage rings - it's not for me

But when the phone inside her ribcage rings it's not for me.

[meadish_sweetball]

Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake

Time has told me you're a rare, rare find. A troubled cure for a troubled mind.

And time has told me not to ask for more for someday our ocean will find its shore.

So I’ll leave the ways that are making me be what I really don't want to be.

Leave the ways that are making me love what I really don't want to love.

Time has told me you came with the dawn, a soul with no footprint, a rose with no thorn.

Your tears they tell me there's really no way of ending your troubles with things you can say.

And time will tell you to stay by my side, to keep on trying till there's no more to hide.

So leave the ways that are making you be what you really don't want to be.

Leave the ways that are making you love what you really don't want to love.

Time has told me you're a rare, rare find. A troubled cure for a troubled mind.

And time has told me not to ask for more for someday our ocean will find its shore.

Golddarnit, FTH, I was going to choose that one!!!

There's really no way of improving upon Nick Drake, is there...

Here's a try though.

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Money can't buy back your youth when you're old

Or a friend when you're lonely, or a love that's grown cold

The wealthiest person is a pauper at times

Compared to the man with a satisfied mind

When my life is ended, my time has run out

My trials and my loved ones, I'll leave them no doubt

But one thing's for certain, when it comes my time

I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind

I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind

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Satisfied Mind Rhodes & Hayes

The Jeff Buckley version is simply moving.

[paulfr]

Latest edit .....

My apologies. It appears that Richard Farina did not write

this song. I was sure he did, but I cannot find any

confirmation of it anywhere.

Sorry !!

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I am fairly sure that Richard Farina wrote this,

not Rhodes & Hayes.

Richard Farina married Joan Baez's sister Mimi.

He died tragically in a motorcycle accident very young.

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Money can't buy back your youth when you're old

Or a friend when you're lonely, or a love that's grown cold

The wealthiest person is a pauper at times

Compared to the man with a satisfied mind

When my life is ended, my time has run out

My trials and my loved ones, I'll leave them no doubt

But one thing's for certain, when it comes my time

I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind

I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind

Satisfied Mind Rhodes & Hayes

[Girlfrombar]

UNDERWORLD LYRICS

"Born Slippy"

Drive boy dog boy

Dirty numb angel boy

In the doorway boy

She was a lipstick boy

She was a beautiful boy

And tears boy

And all in your innerspace boy

You had

hands girl boy

and steel boy

You had chemicals boy

I've grown so close to you

Boy and you just groan boy

She said comeover comeover

She smiled at you boy.

Drive boy dog boy

Dirty numb angel boy

In the doorway boy

She was a lipstick boy

She was a beautiful boy

And tears boy

And all in your innerspace boy

You had

hands girl boy

and steel boy

You had chemicals boy

I've grown so close to you

Boy and you just groan boy

She said comeover comeover

She smiled at you boy.

Let your feelings slip boy

But never your mask boy

Random blonde bio high density rhythm

Blonde boy blonde country blonde high density

You are my drug boy

You're real boy

Speak to me and boy dog

Dirty numb cracking boy

You get wet boy

Big big time boy

Acid bear boy

Babes and babes and babes and babes and babes

And remembering nothing boy

You like my tin horn boy and get

Wet like an angel

Derail

You got a velvet mouth

You're so succulent and beautiful

Shimmering and dirty

Wonderful and hot times

On your telephone line

And god and everything

On your telephone

And in walk an angel

And look at me your mom

Squatting pissed in a tube-

hole at Tottenham Court Road

I just come out of the ship

Talking to the most

Blonde I ever met

Shouting

Lager lager lager lager

Shouting

Lager lager lager lager

Shouting...

Lager lager lager

Shouting

Mega mega white thing

Mega mega white thing

Mega mega white thing

Mega mega

Shouting lager lager lager lager

Mega mega white thing

Mega mega white thing

So many things to see and do

In the tube hole true

Blonde going back to Romford

Mega mega mega going back to Romford

Hi mom are you having fun

And now are you on your way

To a new tension

headache

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let's slip&shake the ass off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this song always good reminding of the last scene of 'Trainspotting'

classic junkies ever!