Post your favorite song lyrics and your reasons for doing so.
I've been hiding for a while but this whole debacle we're calling a football season in Cleveland and the subsequent release of the new Metallica album has me fired up these days. So in the spirit of the underdawgs we've once again become, I submit...
Broken, Beat & Scarred
You rise. You fall. You’re down, then you rise again. What don’t kill ya make ya more strong. Rise, fall, down, rise again What don’t kill ya make ya more strong. Rise, fall, down, rise again What don’t kill ya make ya more strong.
Through black days Through black nights Through pitch black insides
Breaking your teeth on the hard life comin’. Show your scars. Cutting your feet on the hard earth runnin’. Show your scars. Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred But we die hard.
The dawn, The death, The fight to the final breath. What don’t kill ya make ya more strong. Dawn, death, fight, final breath. What don’t kill ya make ya more strong. Dawn, death, fight, final breath. What don’t kill ya make ya more strong.
They scratch me They scrape me They cut and rape me
Breaking your teeth on the hard life comin’. Show your scars. Cutting your feet on the hard earth runnin’. Show your scars. Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred But we die hard
Breaking your teeth on the hard life comin’. Show your scars. Cutting your feet on the hard earth runnin’. Show your scars. Bleeding your soul in a hard luck story. Show your scars. Spilling your blood in the hot sun’s glory. Show your scars. Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred We die hard.
Can't you see I'm easily bothered by persistence One step from lashing out at you You want in to get under my skin And call yourself a friend I've got more friends like you What do I do?
Is there no standard anymore? What it takes, who I am, where I've been Belong You can't be something you're not Be yourself, by yourself Stay away from me A lesson learned in life Known from the dawn of time Respect, walk
Run your mouth when I'm not around It's easy to achieve You cry to weak friends that sympathize Can you hear the violins playing you song? Those same friends tell me your every word
Are you talking to me? No way punk
Our honor defend, we will fight to the end, for OHIO! GO BUCKS!
Rubber Ducky, you're the one. You make bath time lots of fun Rubber Ducky, I'm awfully fond of you. Rubber Ducky, joys of joys When I squeak you, you make noise Rubber Ducky, you're my very best friend, it's true!
Everyday when I make my way to the tubby I find a little fella who' cute, yellow, and chubby. (rub-a-dub-a-dubby)
Rubber Ducky you're so fine And I'm lucky that you're mine Rubber Ducky, I'm awfully fond of you.
Everyday when I make my way to the tubby I find a little fella who's cute, yellow, and chubby. (rub-a-dub-a-dubby)
Rubber Ducky, you're so fine And I'm glad that you're mine Rubber Ducky I'm awfully fond of... Rubber Ducky I'd like a whole pond of . . . Rubber Ducky I'm awfully fond of you.
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
Can't take it, never could Time to end it, wish you would Friends and family, they're all gone Life for you is just a con Dig yourself a hole in the ground Push up daisies six feet down Take a dirt nap, buy the farm Inject a bubble in your aim
CHORUS: Kill yourself, kill yourself! Why don't you kill yourself? Don't rely on no one else End it all just kill yourself!
Life is just a one way ticket Everyone must go around Here's bucket go and kick it Slit your wrists without a sound When you go don't make a big deal No dramatics, don't overplay Cause don't you know that we'll all feel Better once you're gone away
You're a loser, there's nothing left for you A worthless loser, at everything you do
I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars
Look at me, look at me hands in the air like it's good to be ALIVE and I'm a famous rapper even when the paths're all crookedy I can show you how to do-si-do I can show you how to scratch a record I can take apart the remote control And I can almost put it back together I can tie a knot in a cherry stem I can tell you about Leif Ericson I know all the words to "De Colores" And "I'm Proud to be an American" Me and my friend saw a platypus Me and my friend made a comic book And guess how long it took I can do anything that I want cuz, look:
I can keep rhythm with no metronome No metronome No metronome
I can see your face on the telephone On the telephone On the telephone
Look at me Look at me Just called to say that it's good to be ALIVE In such a small world All curled up with a book to read I can make money open up a thrift store I can make a living off a magazine I can design an engine sixty four Miles to a gallon of gasoline I can make new antibiotics I can make computers survive aquatic conditions I know how to run a business And I can make you wanna buy a product Movers shakers and producers Me and my friends understand the future I see the strings that control the systems I can do anything with no assistance I can lead a nation with a microphone With a microphone With a microphone I can split the atoms of a molecule Of a molecule Of a molecule
Look at me Look at me Driving and I won't stop And it feels so good to be Alive and on top My reach is global My tower secure My cause is noble My power is pure I can hand out a million vaccinations Or let'em all die in exasperation Have'em all healed of their lacerations Have'em all killed by assassination I can make anybody go to prison Just because I don't like'em and I can do anything with no permission I have it all under my command I can guide a missile by satellite By satellite By satellite and I can hit a target through a telescope Through a telescope Through a telescope and I can end the planet in a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust
I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handle bars No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars
-Best album EVER, imo. Always gets me through bad times... good old Dylan.
"Trying To Get To Heaven"
Bob Dylan 1997 Album: Time Out Of Mind
The air is getting hotter, there's a rumblin' in the skies I've been wading through the high muddy water With the heat risin' in my eyes Every day your memory grows dimmer It doesn't haunt me like it did before I've been walking through the mirror to nowhere Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
When I was in Missouri they would not let me be I had to leave there in a hurry I only saw what they let me see You broke a heart that loved you Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore I've been walkin' that lonesome valley Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
People on the platforms, waitin' for the trains I can hear their hearts a-beatin' Like pendulums swinging on chains When you think that you've lost everything You find out you can always lose a little more I'm just goin' down the road feeling bad Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
I'm goin' down the river, down to New Orleans They tell me everything is gonna be all right But I don't know what all right even means I was ridin' in a buggy with Miss Mary Jane Miss Mary Jane got a house in Baltimore I've been all around the world, boys And I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
Gonna sleep down in the parlor and relive my dreams I close my eyes and I wonder If everything is as hollow as it seems Some trains don't pull no gamblers No midnight ramblers, like they did before I've been to sugar town, I shook the sugar down Now I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door.
Don't don't don't let's start This is the worst part Could believe for all the world That you're my precious little girl But don't don't don't let's start I've got a weak heart And I don't get around how you get around
When you are alone you are the cat, you are the phone You are an animal The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account But don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound
D, world destruction Over and overture N, do I need Apostrophe T, need this torture?
Don't don't don't let's start This is the worst part Could believe for all the world That you're my precious little girl But don't don't don't let's start I've got a weak heart And I don't get around how you get around
No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful They want what they're not and I wish they would stop saying, Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
D, world destruction Over and overture N, do I need Apostrophe T, need this torture?
Don't don't don't let's start This is the worst part Could believe for all the world That you're my precious little girl But don't don't don't let's start I've got a weak heart And I don't get around how you get around
I don't want to live in this world anymore I don't want to live in this world
Don't don't don't let's start This is the worst part Could believe for all the world That you're my precious little girl But don't don't don't let's start I've got a weak heart And I don't get around how you get around
"Don't be burdened by regrets or make your failures an obsession or become embittered or possessed by ruined hopes"
"Give me the fortune, keep the fame," said my man Louis I agreed, know what he mean because we live the truest lie I asked him why we follow the law of the bluest eye He looked at me, he thought about it Was like, "I'm clueless, why?" The question was rhetorical, the answer is horrible Our morals are out of place and got our lives full of sorrow And so tomorrow comin later than usual Waitin' on someone to pity us While we findin beauty in the hideous They say money's the root of all evil but I can't tell YouknowhatImean, pesos, francs, yens, cowrie shells, dollar bills Or is it the mindstate that's ill? Creating crime rates to fill the new prisons they build Over money and religion there's more blood to spill The wounds of slaves in cotton fields that never heal What's the deal? A lot of cats who buy records are straight broke But my language universal they be recitin my quotes While R&B singers hit bad notes, we rock the boat of thought, that my man Louis' statements just provoked Caught up, in conversations of our personal worth Brought up, through endangered species status on the planet Earth Survival tactics means, bustin gats to prove you hard Your firearms are too short to box with God Without faith, all of that is illusionary Raise my son, no vindication of manhood necessary
Not strong Only aggressive Not free We only licensed Not compassioniate, only polite Now who the nicest? Not good but well behaved Chasin after death so we can call ourselves brave? Still livin like mental slaves Hidin like thieves in the night from life Illusions of oasis makin you look twice Hidin like thieves in the night from life Illusions of oasis makin you look twice
Yo, I'm sure that everbody out listenin agree That everything you see ain't really how it be A lot of jokers out runnin in place, chasin the style Be a lot goin on beneath the empty smile Most cats in my area be lovin the hysteria Synthesized surface conceals the interior America, land of opportunity, mirages and camoflauges More than usually -- speakin loudly, sayin nothin You confusin me, you losin me Your game is twisted, want me enlisted -- in your usary Foolishly, most men join the ranks cluelessly Buffoonishly accept the deception, believe the perception Reflection rarely seen across the surface of the lookin glass Walkin the street, wonderin who they be lookin past Lookin gassed with them imported designer shades on Stars shine bright, but the light -- rarely stays on Same song, just remixed, different arrangement Put you on a yacht but they won't call it a slaveship Strangeness, you don't control this, you barely hold this Screamin brand new, when they just sanitized the old [censored] Suppose it's, just another clever Jedi mind trick That they been runnin across stars through all the time with I find it's distressin, there's never no in-between We either or Kings We either [censored] or Queens The deadly ritual seems immersed, in the perverse Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts Long barrel automatics released in short bursts The length of black life is treated with short worth Get yours first, them other secondary That type of illin that be fillin up the cemetary This life is temporary but the soul is eternal Separate the real from the lie, let me learn you Not strong, only aggressive, cause the power ain't directed That's why, we are subjected to the will of the oppressive Not free, we only licensed Not live, we just excitin Cause the captors.. own the masters.. to what we writin Not compassionate, only polite, we well trained Our sincerity's rehearsed in stage, it's just a game Not good, but well behaved cause the ca-me-ra survey most of the things that we think, do, or say We chasin after death just to call ourselves brave But everyday, next man meet with the grave I give a damn if any fan recall my legacy I'm tryin to live life in the sight of God's memory Like that y'all
Not strong Only aggressive Not free We only licensed Not compassioniate, only polite Now who the nicest? Not good but well behaved Chasin after death so we can call ourselves brave? Still livin like mental slaves Hidin like thieves in the night from life Illusions of oasis makin you look twice Hidin like thieves in the night from life Illusions of oasis makin you look twice Hidin like thieves in the night from life Illusions of oasis makin you look twice Hidin like thieves in the night from life Illusions of oasis makin you look twice
Stop hidin, stop hidin, stop hidin yo' face Stop hidin, stop hidin, cause ain't no hidin place
Grand Funk Railroad,..The "Red" Album (their second) Circa 1969
"Winter and My Soul"
I see a pear falling down from the tree Winter is coming and it seems to me I spend the cold nights in my lonely room Is it the winter to which I am doomed ?
I got a letter from the government, the other day I opened and read it, it said they were suckas They wanted me for they army or whatever Picture me giving a damn, I said NEVER! Here is a land that never gave a damn About a brother like me and myself because they never did I wasn't wit it, but just that very minute it Occurred to me, the suckas had authority Cold sweating as I dwell in my cell How long has it been, they got me sittin in a state penn I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before I contemplated a plan on the cell floor I'm not a fugitive on the run But a brother like me begun, to be another one Public Enemy serving time They drew the line y'all, to criticize me for some crime Nevertheless, they could not understand That I'm a black man, and I could never be a veteran On the strength the situation's unreal I got a raw deal, so I'm lookin for the steel...
Don't ya know, they got me rotting in the time that I'm servin Tellin you what's happened, the same time they throwin 4 of us packed in cell like slaves, oh well The same m****f**** got us livin in his hell You have to realize, that's it's a form of slavery organized Under a swarm of devils, straight up, word I'm up on the level The reasons are several, most of them federal Here is my plan, anyway and I say, I got gusto, but only some I can trust yo Some do a bid from 1 to 10 But I never did, and plus I never been I'm on a tier, where no tears should ever fall Cell block and locked, I never clock it y'all Cause time and time again, time they got servin To those, to them, I'm not a citizen But ever when I catch a CO Sleepin on the job my plan is on go ahead On the strength, I'm a tell you the deal I got nothin to lose Cause I'm goin for the steel
Don't ya know I caught a CO Fallin asleep on death row I grabbed his gun, and he did what I said so And every man's demand got served Along with the time they served, decency was deserved To understand my demands I gave a warnin I wanted the governor y'all, and plus the warden to know That I was innocent, because I'm militant Posin a threat, you bet it's f'in up the government My plan said I had to get out and break north Just like Oliver's neck, I had to get off My boys had the feds in check they couldn't try, nothin We had the force to instigate a prison riot Just what it takes for peace, so I just took a piece Black for black in tide, time to cut the leash Freedom to get out to the ghetto, no sell out 6 CO's we got, we oughta put their head out But I'll give em a chance cause I'm civilized As for the rest of world, they can't realize A cell is hell, I'm a rebel, so I rebel Between bars got me thinkin like a animal Got a woman CO to call me a copter She tried to get away, so I popped her Twice right, now who wanna get nice I had 6 CO's, but now it's 5 to go And I'm serious, call me delirious But I'm still a captive, I gotta rap this Time to break as time grows intense I got my steel in my right hand, now I'm lookin for the fence
As I ventured into the courtyard Followed by 52 brothas, bruised, battered, and scarred but hard Goin out with a bang, ready to bang out But power from the sky, from the tower shots rang out I high number in dose, yes, and some came close I figured I'd trigger my steel, stand and hold my post This is what I mean, a anti-n**** machine If I come out alive, then they won't come clean Then I threw up, my steel bullets flew up And to my surprise the wall and tower blew up Who shot? What? Who? What? The bazooka was who? And to my rescue, it was the S1W's Secured my getaway, as I just got away The joint broke, from the black some Then the saw it was rougher, than the average bluffer Cause the steel was black, the attitude exact Now the chase is on, tellin you to come on 53 brothas on the run, and we are GONE!
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good" Thomas Paine
I love anything by Jimmy Buffett because of the beach/ocean/pirate lifestyle, but the ones below are 2 of my favorites:
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall You've seen it all, you've seen it all Watched the men who rode you switch from sails to steam And in your belly you hold the treasures few have ever seen Most of 'em dreams, most of 'em dreams Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder I'm an over-forty victim of fate Arriving too late, arriving too late I've done a bit of smugglin', I've run my share of grass I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast
Never meant to last, never meant to last And I have been drunk now for over two weeks I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks But I got stop wishin', got to go fishin' Down to rock bottom again Just a few friends, just a few friends
I go for younger women Lived with several awhile And though I ran away They'll come back one day And I still can manage a smile It just takes a while Just takes a while
Mother, mother ocean After all these years I've found My occupational hazard being My occupation's just not around I feel like I've drowned Gonna head uptown
I also love one:
ONE PARTICULAR HARBOUR Jimmy Buffett & Bobby Holcomb
IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI
Nature lives (life to nature) Have pity for the Earth (Love the Earth)
I know I don't get there often enough But God knows I surely try It's a magic kind of medicine That no doctor could prescribe
I used to rule my world from a pay phone And ships out on the sea But now times are rough And I got too much stuff Can't explain the likes of me
Chorus: But there's this one particular harbour So far but yet so near Where I see the days as they fade away And finally disappear
But now I think about the good times Down in the Caribbean sunshine In my younger days I was so bad Laughin' about all the fun we had
I've seen enough to feel the world spin Mixin' different oceans meetin' cousins Listen to the drummers and the night sounds Listen to the singers make the world go 'round
IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI
Lakes below the mountains Flow into the sea Like oils applied to canvas They permeate through me
And there's that one particular harbour Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within
Most mysterious calling harbour So far but yet so near I can see the day when my hair's full gray And I finally disappear
IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI IA ORA TE NATURA E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI
UA PAU TE MAITAI NO TE FENUA RE ZAI NOA RA TE ORA O TE MITIE
Bounty of the land is exhausted But there's still abundance on the sea
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. -Derek Jeter
My dad told me to get up & mow the yard once, & I told him that line, His responce was: If found it on the end of my foot and I can easily place it back into your body from your back side......The yard got mowed that day
Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon
Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon
Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen, Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy, Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy
Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June In a Kenworth, pullin' logs Cabover Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin' hogs We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh 'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck An' I'm about to put the hammer on down
Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck Uh, you wanna back off them hogs 10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here
By the time we got into Tulsa-Town We had eighty-five trucks in all But they's a road block up on the clover leaf An' them bears 'as wall to wall Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper They even had a bear-in-the-air I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck We about to go a huntin' bear
Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen? Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten
Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four Like a rocket sled on rails We tore up all a our swindle sheets An' left 'em settin' on the scales By the time we hit that Chi-Town Them bears was a gittin' smart They'd brought up some reinforcements From the Illinois National Guard There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps An' rigs of every size Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears An' choppers filled the skies Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke With a thousand screamin' trucks And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus In a chartreusse microbus
Hey Sod Buster, listen You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey? Yeah, he's haulin dynamite He needs all the help he can git
Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore An' prepared to cross the line I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears But I didn't have a doggone dime I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck We just ain't a gonna pay no toll So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4
Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA Convoy... Convoy...
Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20? Omaha?! Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure Well mercy sakes alive good buddy We gonna back on outta here So keep the bugs off yer glass An' the bears off yer... tail We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop This here's the Rubber Duck on the side We gone Bye, Bye...
The other classic from the same year, by Rick Dees:
[DD - Donald Duck voice] [BS - background singers] [EP - Elvis voice]
Went to a party the other night All the ladies were treating me right Moving my feet to the disco beat How in the world could I keep my seat
All of a sudden I began to change I was on the dance floor acting strange Flapping my arms I began to cluck Look at me.. I'm the disco duck
[DD:] Ah, get down, mama I've got to have me a woman, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha [BS:] Disco, disco duck [DD:] Got to have me a woman [BS:] Disco, disco duck [DD:] Oh, get down, mama [BS:] Try your luck, don't be a cluck, disco [DD:] Disco [BS:] Disco [DD:] Disco [BS:] Disco [DD+BS] Disco [BS:] Disco, disco duck [DD:] All right [BS:] Disco, disco duck [DD:] Ah, get down mama, Oh mama, shake your tail feather, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
When the music stopped I returned to my seat But there's no stoppin' a duck and his beat So I got back up to try my luck Why look
[DD:] Everybody's doin' the [DD+BS] Disco, disco duck [DD+BS] Disco, disco duck [BS:] Try your luck [DD:] Wave to me [BS:] Don't be a cluck [DD:] Disco [BS:] Disco [DD:] Disco [BS:] Disco [DD+BS] Disco [BS:] Disco, disco duck [DD:] My, oh my [BS:] Disco, disco duck [DD:] Ah, get down mama, ha, ha, ha, ha [BS:] Try your luck, don't be a cluck [DD:] Disco [BS:] Disco [DD:] Disco [BS:] Disco [DD+BS] Disco [BS:] Disco, disco duck [BS:] Disco [BS:] Disco, disco duck [BS:] Try your luck, don't be a cluck [EP:] Thank you duck [BS:] Disco [EP:] For gettin' down [BS:] Disco disco disco [EP:] Thank you so very much [BS:] Disco duck [DD:] You're welcome [BS:] Disco Disco Duck [BS:] Try your luck, don't be a cluck Disco, disco, disco
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
White Town - Your Woman (keep in mind, it's sung by a man)
Just tell me what you've got to say to me I've been waiting for so long to hear the truth It comes as no surprise at all you see So cut the crap and tell me that we're through
Now I know your heart, I know your mind You don't even know you're bein' unkind So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways Just use me up and then you walk away Boy, you can't play me that way
Well I guess what you say is true I could never be the right kind of girl for you
CHORUS:
I could never be your woman I could never be your woman I could never be your woman I could never be your woman
When I saw my best friend yesterday She said she never liked you from the start Well me, I wish that I could claim the same But you always knew you held my heart
And you're such a charming, handsome man Now I think I finally understand Is it in your genes? I don't know But I'll soon find out, that's for sure Why did you play me this way
Well I guess what you say is true I could never be the right kind of girl for you
I could never be your woman I could never be your woman I could never be your woman I could never be your woman
Well I guess what they say is true I could never spend my life with a man like you
I could never be your woman I could never be your woman I could never be your woman I could never be your woman