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  • #16
    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

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    • #17
      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

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      • #18
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        G n R - With your bitch slap rappin and your cocaine tongue you get nothin done.
        "GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER"

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        • #19
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          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).
          "We're the Sweeney son, and we haven't had any dinner!"

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          • #20
            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

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            • #21
              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.
              "She moves in such an exciting world!"

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              • #22
                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"

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                • #23
                  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)

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                  • #24
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                    SUPPERS READY by GENESIS
                    Fabulous lyrics the only thing about these lyrics are what the f**k is this about. Lyrics are too long to put here but check out a faboulous website, www.songmeanings.net for lyrics

                    Stewart

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                    • #25
                      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.

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                      • #26
                        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.

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                        • #27
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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.
                          Wake up it's time to get high!

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                          • #28
                            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"

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