Behad quoted some Rush lyrics in the Favorite Drummers thread that described a part of his life. Does any one else here have lyrics they'd like to share that captured how they felt at a point in time? "Summers going fast Nights growing colder. Children growing up Old friends growing older Freeze this moment a little bit longer Make each impression a little bit stronger" -N. Peart ...from Time Stand Still by Rush still gets me. I'm 35 now and for the past 10 years or so those lyrics have made me stop and look around at the people in my life. Watching my friends get married, buy houses, have babies, etc... really makes me relate to those words! Sometimes we are so busy just existing that we forget to live a little and appreciate what's around us now. Sorry for being so sappy! Chase
God, there's so many from DMB, which is one of the reasons I love them so much. "Don't burn the day away" "Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters" "Celebrate we will, cause life is short but sweet for certain" "I will go in this way, but find my own way out" or my absolute favorite..."I did it" Just to name a few.
Nobody on the road Nobody on the beach I feel it in the air The summer's out of reach Empty lake, empty streets The sun goes down alone I'm drivin' by your house Though I know you're not at home But I can see you Your brown skin shinin' in the sun You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong After the boys of summer have gone I never will forget those nights I wonder if it was a dream Remember how you made me crazy? Remember how I made you scream Now I don't understand what happened to our love But babe, I'm gonna get you back I'm gonna show you what I'm made of I can see you Your brown skin shinin' in the sun I see you walkin' real slow and you're smilin' at everyone I can tell you my love for you will still be strong After the boys of summer have gone Out on the road today, I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back." I thought I knew what love was - what did I know? Those days are gone forever I should just let them go but- I can see you Your brown skin shinin' in the sun You got that top pulled down and that radio on, baby And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong After the boys of summer have gone I can see you Your brown skin shinin' in the sun You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby I can tell you my love for you will still be strong After the boys of summer have gone
I like big butts and I can not lie You other brothers can't deny That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waste And a round thing in your face You get sprung Wanna pull up front Cuz you notice that butt was stuffed Deep in the jeans she's wearing I'm hooked and I can't stop staring Oh, baby I wanna get with ya And take your picture My homeboys tried to warn me But with that butt you got Me so horney Ooh, all of that smooth skin You say you wanna get in my benz Well use me use me cuz you aint that average groupy I've seen them dancin' The hell with romancin' Sweat, sweat, got it goin like a turbo vette I'm tired of magazines Saying flat butts are the thing Take the average black man and him that She gotta pack much back Fellas (yeah) Fellas(yeah) Has your girlfriend got the butt (hell yeah) Well shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake that healthy butt Baby got back (LA face with Oakland booty) I like'em round and big And when I'm throwin a gig I just can't help myself I'm actin like an animal Now here's my scandal I wanna get you home And UH!, double up UH! UH! I aint talkin bout playboy Cuz silicone parts were made for toys I wannem real thick and juicy So find that juicy double Mixalot's in trouble Beggin for a piece of that bubble So I'm lookin' at rock videos Watchin' these bimbos walkin like hoes You can have them bimbos I'll keep my women like Flo Jo A word to the thick soul sistas I wanna get with ya I won't cus or hit ya But I gotta be straight when I say I wanna (mmmm) Til the break of dawn I got it goin on Alot of pimps won't like this song Cuz them punks lie to hit it and quit it But I'd rather stay and play Cuz I'm long and I'm strong And I'm down to get the friction on So ladies (yeah), Ladies (yeah) If you wanna role in my Mercedes (yeah) Then turn around Stick it out Even white boys got to shout Baby got back (LA face with the Oakland booty) Yeah baby When it comes to females Cosmo and got nothin to do with my selection 36-24-36 Only if she's 5'3" So your girlfriend throws a Honda Playin workout tapes by Fonda But Fonda and got motor in the back of her Honda My anaconda don't want none unless you've got buns hon You can do side bends or sit-ups, but please don't lose that butt Some brothers wanna play that hard role And tell you that the butt and gold So they toss it and leave it And I pull up quick to retrieve it So cosmo says you're fat Well I aint down with that Cuz your waste is small and your curves are kickin And I'm thinkin bout stickin To the beanpole dames in the magazines You aint it miss thing Give me a sista I can't resist her Red beans and rice didn't miss her Some knucklehead tried to dis Cuz his girls were on my list He had game but he chose to hit 'em And pulled up quick to get with 'em So ladies if the butt is round And you wanna triple X throw down Dial 1-900-mixalot and kick them nasty thoughts Baby got back
Bob Marley's "So much trouble in the world" So much trouble in the world now (repeat) Bless my eyes this morning JAH sun is on the rise once again The way earthly things are going Anything can happen You see men sailing on their ego trips Blast off on their spaceships Million miles from reality No care for you, no care for me So much trouble in the world now (repeat) All you've got to do is give a little Give a little, give a little One more time ye-a-h! ye-ah! So you think you have found the solution But it's just another illusion So before you check out your tide Don't leave another cornerstone standing there behind We have got to face the day, ooh we come what may We the street people talking, we the people struggling Now they are sitting on a time bomb Now I now the time has come What goes up must come down Goes around comes around So much trouble in the world So much trouble in the world So much trouble in the world There is so much trouble, there is so much trouble There is so much trouble There is so much trouble in the world There is so much trouble in the world
DMB has lots of good lines in the lyrics: "Come and relax now Put your troubles down No need to bear the weight of your worries Yeah, let them all fall away." - Pantala Naga Pampa "Come in from the cold for a while . . . Everything will be alright . . . Come in from the noise for a time . . . Everything will be alright . . . For now . . . Goodbye . . . Friend . . . Goodbye . . ." - End of "Spoon" on BTCS "Could I have been anyone other than me?" - Dancing Nancies "I can't believe that we would Lie in our graves Wondering if we had Spent our living days well I can't believe that we would Lie in our graves Dreaming of things that we Might have been Would you not like to be I can't believe that you Would not like to be Would you not like to be Ok, ok, ok" - Lie in Our graves "Lean upon me, I'll lean upon you, We'll be okay Lie about it, Cry about it, Soon fade away" - #34 (it does have words, just not on the studio version) "Oh, colder grow the days Oh, much faster pass the years by 'Til we die" - Help Myself I could go through and post more, but that'd probably get annoying to the non-DMB fans . . .
thank you A-train for making me laugh again... Burn One Down (Ben Harper) Let us burn one from end to end and pass it over to me my friend burn it long, we'll burn it slow to light me up before I go if you don't like my fire then don't come around cause I'm gonna burn one down yes I'm gonna burn one down my choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you your choice is who you choose to be and if your causin' no harm then you're alright with me if you don't like my fire then don't come around cause I'm gonna burn one down yes I'm gonna burn one down herb the gift from the earth and what's from the earth is of the greatest worth so before you knock it try it first you'll see it's a blessing and not a curse if you don't like my fire then don't come around cause I'm gonna burn one down yes I'm gonna burn one down
I'm Only Sleeping (Lennon/McCartney) When I wake up early in the morning Lift my head, I'm still yawning When I'm in the middle of a dream Stay in bed, float up stream (float up stream) Please, don't wake me, no, don't shake me Leave me where I am - I'm only sleeping Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need (there's no need) Please, don't spoil my day, I'm miles away And after all I'm only sleeping Keeping an eye on the world going by my window Taking my time Lying there and staring at the ceiling Waiting for a sleepy feeling... Please, don't spoil my day, I'm miles away And after all I'm only sleeping Keeping an eye on the world going by my window Taking my time When I wake up early in the morning Lift my head, I'm still yawning When I'm in the middle of a dream Stay in bed, float up stream (float up stream) Please, don't wake me, no, don't shake me Leave me where I am - I'm only sleeping
I posted this 2805 posts ago (#1000): NOBODY KNOWS I may get around...I may laugh alot... Now you'd think that I'd be happy with the life I got Nobody knows...nobody sees Ain't nobody really knows the inner side o'me... I may seem secure...I could have it made... You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade Nobody knows what dreams I see Ain't nobody really sure just who they wanna be... But everybody has a place and time... A chance to live...a need to find We all got somethin' that we care about I propose you find it out... It's not in a book...or a magazine... Or the stars who guide our fortunes on the silver screen Nobody knows...it's up to me Ain't nobody who can say it like it outght to be... I see my future at the rainbow's end Happy hours...timeless friends And if I ever chance to find my way Rest assured...I will stay... You may see your life as a compromise You may live to find the promise dancin' in your eyes Nobody knows...it's meant to be... Let the magic of the moment say it all to me
This is a sappy one from teenwolf but: When you're shooting for the moon and finally make it, you know that your dream has come true. The candle on the cake is yours so take it and make another wish come true.
"Limits", Sweet Pickle Salad. This song is me and my ex. Describe to me darling The reasons I was banished The man who could not come in with his coat Once was attractive Now holds a different reaction A piece of this underworld Now alone with no negotiating By myself without the might of nations Solitary is not confinement at all Well no textbook definition It's not me I'm missing And it's not you, it's something that never was CHORUS: Well it's not funny is it So preoccupied with limits Well I like songs that are sad and long I don't sleep with envy My eyes are mean, I'm not too friendly Strange I wish I'd wanted more, can't let go Well if you remember that long ago You say it's 4:30 And you have to be up so early And you wish you didn't have to go Yeah, get on home, he's waiting And this is no time for intimidating But, if you were mine, I'd never leave you alone CHORUS So yeah, wake up and tell me something's wrong Yeah, it's time to take a minute and think of where we started from And one day One bright sunny day We can rejoice... Well don't you know the urges to just want a girl always come One girl's all anybody wants And I think too much these days till it gets me down Instead of feelin' and believin' and seein' what goes around Comes around and around and around, yeah
and I believe in the future we shall suffer no more maybe not in my lifetime but in yours I feel sure song dogs barking at the break of dawn lightning pushes the edges of the thunderstorm and these streets quiet as a sleeping army send their battered dreams to heaven, to heaven for the mother's restless son who is a witness to, who is a warrior who denies his urge to break and run who says: hard times? I'm used to them the speeding planet burns I'm used to that my life's so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears -- paul simon the cool, cool river
I have to go with 2Pac's "Keep Ya Head Up". In that song he talks about a lot of serious things as he does in a lot of songs. That's why he is the greatest rapper, lyricist, etc. of all-time. Artist: 2Pac Album: Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. Song: Keep Ya Head Up Little somethin for my godson Elijah and a little girl named Corinne [Verse One] Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots I give a holler to my sisters on welfare Tupac cares, if don't nobody else care And uhh, I know they like to beat ya down a lot When you come around the block brothas clown a lot But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up And when he tells you you ain't nuttin don't believe him And if he can't learn to love you you should leave him Cause sista you don't need him And I ain't tryin to gas ya up, I just call em how I see em You know it makes me unhappy (what's that) When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy And since we all came from a woman Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman I wonder why we take from our women Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it's time to kill for our women Time to heal our women, be real to our women And if we don't we'll have a race of babies That will hate the ladies, that make the babies And since a man can't make one He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one So will the real men get up I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up [Chorus - repeat 2X] Keep ya head up, oooo child things are gonna get easier ooooo child things are gonna get brighter [Verse Two] Aiyyo, I remember Marvin Gaye, used to sing ta me He had me feelin like black was tha thing to be And suddenly tha ghetto didn't seem so tough And though we had it rough, we always had enough I huffed and puffed about my curfew and broke the rules Ran with the local crew, and had a smoke or two And I realize momma really paid the price She nearly gave her life, to raise me right And all I had ta give her was my pipe dream Of how I'd rock the mic, and make it to tha bright screen I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent And in the end it seems I'm headin for tha pen I try and find my friends, but they're blowin in the wind Last night my buddy lost his whole family It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity It seems tha rain'll never let up I try to keep my head up, and still keep from gettin wet up You know it's funny when it rains it pours They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor Say there ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is it ain't no hope for tha future And then they wonder why we crazy I blame my mother, for turning my brother into a crack baby We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup And even though you're fed up Huh, ya got to keep your head up [Chorus] [Verse Three] And uhh To all the ladies havin babies on they own I know it's kinda rough and you're feelin all alone Daddy's long gone and he left you by ya lonesome Thank the Lord for my kids, even if nobody else want em Cause I think we can make it, in fact, I'm sure And if you fall, stand tall and comeback for more Cause ain't nuttin worse than when your son wants to kno why his daddy don't love him no mo' You can't complain you was dealt this hell of a hand without a man, feelin helpless Because there's too many things for you to deal with Dying inside, but outside you're looking fearless While tears, is rollin down your cheeks Ya steady hopin things don't all down this week Cause if it did, you couldn't take it, and don't blame me I was given this world I didn't make it And now my son's getten older and older and cold From havin the world on his shoulders While the rich kids is drivin Benz I'm still tryin to hold on to my survivin friends And it's crazy, it seems it'll never let up, but please... you got to keep your head up
Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete Under skies all smokey blue-green I can't forsake a dixie dead-shake So we danced the sidewalk clean My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in? New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim Colonel Tom, What's wrong? What's going on? You can't tie yourself up for a deal He said, "Hey north you're south shut your big mouth, You gotta do what you feel is real" Ain't got no picture postcards, ain't got no souvenirs My baby, she don't know me when I'm thinking bout those years Pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire Sucking up to someone just to stoke the fire Picking out the highlights of the scenery Saw a little cloud that looked a little like me I had my hands in the river My feet back up on the banks Looked up to the lord above And said, "Hey man thanks" Sometimes I fell so good, I gotta scream She said Gordie baby I know exactly what you mean She said, she said, I swear to god she said... My memory is muddy what's this river that I'm in? New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim New Orleans is Sinking by the Tragically Hip
I met this girl She's walking through one of my dreams She kissed my eyes And everything that she said Made so much sense to me That I still feel like I'm half asleep My dark angel She gave me diamonds for eyes She walked by Now I'm hypnotised By this dream That just won't stop And I feel Like I've always been lost in this dream The rumours of heaven Only speed the truth on earth My dark angel Shine your light on my curse You are the other that I have to find Until I do I guess I'll see you 'round my mind So Colorado Is a place I have to go I heard a rumour She loves the mountains and the snow My dark angel She gave me diamonds for eyes My dark angel I offer you my heart My dark angel I think I loved you from the start 'Cause there is this face I know That I've never seen Sometimes I feel I'm living in Someone else's dream Still I'd like to thank you For stopping to talk And I wonder Just into who's dream did who walk Oh my dark angel Shine your light on me Shine your light Shine your light Shine your light on me Dark Angel--Blue Rodeo
"I don't mean to brag-I don't mean to boast, but, I like hot butter on my breakfast toast." --Rappers Delight by The Sugar Hill Gang "I like the Whopper, f**k the Big Mac." --It Takes Two by Rob Base
"Well I would not feel so all alone, Everybody must get stoned"... Bob Dylan, Rainy Day Women. I sure hope Dylan plays it at the Rodeo. I'm going to be there, and I would like to see the reactions on the cowboys' faces!
of course, like rm95, i find a ton of dave matthews lyrics to be meaningful...the entire words from Two Step remind me of my wife. "you came to me like wine comes to this mouth..grown tired of water all the time, you quench my heart..." from crush..."so much, you have, given up...that i would give you back again and again..." from sting/police's every little thing she does is magic: "it's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet." from barely breathing by duncan sheik (a song that describes with amazing accuracy a relationship i had with a girl i thought was "the one!") "i only taste the saline, when i kiss away your tears...you really had me going, wishing on a star. the black holes that surround you, are heavier by far. i believed in your confusion, so completely torn..must have been that yesterday, was the day that i was born. not much to examine..nothing left to hide...you really can't be serious, if you have to ask me why i say goodbye."
