What's your all time favorite rock lyrics???

[gturner200561]

Something To Believe In
Will I see him on the TV
Preachin' 'bout the promised land
He tells me to believe in Jesus
And steals the money from my hand
Some say he was a good man
But Lord I think he sinned, yeah
Twenty-two years of mental tears
Cries a suicidal Vietnam vet
Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore
To find his country didn't want him back
Their bullets took his best friend in Saigon
Our lawyers took his wife and kids, no regrets
In a time I don't remember
In a war he can't forget
He cried "Forgive me for what I've done there
Cause I never meant the things I did"
Chorus:
And give me something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
And give me something to believe in
Oh, Lord arise
My best friend died a lonely man
In some Palm Springs hotel room
I got the call last Christmas Eve
And they told me the news
I tried all night not to break down and cry
As the tears rolled down my face
I felt so cold and empty
Like a lost soul out of place
And the mirror, mirror on the wall
Sees my smile it fades again
Chorus
Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
The things I didn't know then
Road you gotta take me home
Solo
I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street
Like bodies in an open grave
Underneath the broken old neon sign
That used to read JESUS SAVES
A mile away live the rich folks
And I see how they're living it up
While the poor they eat from hand to mouth
The rich is drinkin' from a golden cup
And it just makes me wonder
Why so many lose, so few win
Chorus
You take the high road
And I'll take the low road
Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
The things I didn't know then
And give me something to believe in

Song by Poison

Very moving, very true, but very good

[dwain-dibley]

Re: What's your all time favorite rock lyrics???

t.rex= children of the revoloution...ive got a rolls royce cause its good for my voice
the doors-roadhouse blues...i got up this morning and got myself a beer
ac/dc-shot down in flames..she was standing alone over by the jukebox like she had something to sell! said baby whats the going price she told me to go to hell...shot down in flames

[branny]

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G n R - With your bitch slap rappin and your cocaine tongue you get nothin done.

[Austin Maxi]

Re: What's your all time favorite rock lyrics???

I've always quite liked "I saw two shooting stars last night, I wished on them, but they were only satellites, it's wrong to wish on space hardware." from Billy Bragg's 'A New England' (covered of course, by Kirsty McColl).

[Techno]

Re: What's your all time favorite rock lyrics???

The thread does say "rock lyrics" and the only rock band I ever really liked were Ultravox, although they barely qualify as a rock band in many people's eyes, but they did write great lyrics. It's difficult to choose but I'll go for New Europeans from the Vienna album:

On a crowded beach washed by the sun
He puts his headphones on
His modern world revolves around
The synthesizer's song

[Jacqueline]

Re: What's your all time favorite rock lyrics???

Town Called Malice - The Jam

Better Stop dreaming of the quiet life cos it's the one we'll never know
And quit running for that runaway bus cos those rosy days are few
And stop apologising for the things you never done
Time is short and life is cruel
but it's up to us to change this town called malice.

Rows and rows of disused milkers that will die in the dairy yard
And a hundred lonely housewives clutch empty milk bottles to their hearts
Hanging out their old love letters on the line to dry
It's enough to make you stop believing when tears come fast and furious
In a town called malice, yeah


Struggle after struggle, year after year
The atmosphere's a fine blend of ice
I'm almost stone cold dead in a town called malice
Ooh yeah

A whole streets belief in Sunday's roast beef
Gets dashed against the Co-Op
To either cut down on beer or the kids new gear
It's a big decision in a town called malice
Ooh yeah

Ghost of a steam train echoes down my track
Its at the moment bound for nowhere just going round and round,Ohh
Playground kids and creaking swings, lost laughter in the breeze
I could go on for hours and I probably will but,
I'd sooner put some joy back in this town called malice.
Yeah

Weller writes such excellent songs.

[mazzer]

Re: What's your all time favorite rock lyrics???

Favourite lyric of all time is from Nothing But Flowers by the Talking Heads, a song imagining a future world where modern trappings have been sacrificed in favour of a return to nature, where factories, parking lots and real estate have disappeared and people live an idyllic lifestyle off the land, eating nuts, berries and rattlesnakes

"If this is paradise I wish I had a lawnmower"

[Falco]

Re: What's your all time favorite rock lyrics???

Quite a few, so gonna post them mainly as links, if that's OK for people. Will give you a snippet of them, then link, how 'bout that?

Spite - The Rainmakers
In spite of you, In spite of me,
Oh yeah in spite of everything it's pretty good to be alive...
http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/r...cs-577792.html

Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through - Jim Steinman (later butchered by Meatloaf)
Once upon a time was a backbeat,
Once upon a time all the chords came to life,
And the angels had guitars even before they had wings,
If you hang on to a chorus, it can get you through the night...
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/meat+lo..._20091254.html

Hammer To Fall - Queen
Here we stand or here we fall
History won't care at all
Make the bed, light the light
Lady mercy won't be home tonight
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.n...25689400042619

Ach, that'll do for now. Maybe more later ;o)

[smc4761]

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Stewart

[scotchmist]

Re: What's your all time favorite rock lyrics???

"The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things" - There There My Dear, Dexy's Midnight Runners.

[Wil]

Re: What's your all time favorite rock lyrics???

'You don't need to be well to be wealthy but you've got to be whole to be holy' - Hallowed Be Thy Name - Gregg Lake. Not my favourite song by a long shot but that line has always stuck with me.

[tillywickler]

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Your Daddy works in porno,now that Mommys not around.
She used to love her heroine but now she's underground.

Guns n Roses.....My Michelle.

[Cartimand]

Re: What's your all time favorite rock lyrics???

Good call for Bowie's 'Five Years' - a poetic elegy about the end of the world. Check out also 'Cygnet Committee' - Bowie at his most visionary!

Many of Jethro Tull's compositions are worthy of note on the lyrical front - I particularly like 'Thick as a Brick'. It's too long to copy here, so just Google it.

But the master of the lyric has to be the legendary Roy Harper. Here's a couple of verses from 'Commune' and 'The Monster';


"And I watched her making her first daisy chain
As her nipples hung hard in suggestion
And naked, gnat-bitten we drifted the plain
In the hazy dessert of sensation
And we dreamt of all the loves we'd known
And we never never thought of the sorrow
With forelocks wound on the primrose down
In the wood by the empty long barrow."

"The revolution's always over
The apocalypse is now
All hands are on the keyboard
Hardly any on the plough"