# classic rock lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 21, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478 "2004-03-21T00:28:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/41 "2004-03-23T17:29:42Z")
_Only time will tell if we stand the test of time._ :rolleyes: Its writing like that that will get you into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/42 "2004-03-23T17:58:16Z")
Words to live by: Snips of Captain Beefheart’s Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish > [@](#): > > Lucid tenacles test 'n sleeved 'n joined 'n jointed jade pointed diamond back patterns… > > Artifact on rose petals 'n flesh petals 'n pots fack 'n feast 'n tubes tubs bulbs > In jest incest infest injust in feast incest 'n specks 'n spreckled, spreckled, speckled speculation… > > Mucus mules twat trot tra la tra la…Whale bone fields 'n belts. Whale bone farmhouse. Cavorts girdled ‘n latters uh lite…Dipped amidst squirmin’ serum 'n semen 'n syrup 'n semen 'n serum. Stirrupped in syrup. > > Neon meate dream of a octafish. Oh man, that’s so heavy ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/43 "2004-03-23T18:20:16Z")
> [@Another Primate](#): > > Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce! > “You ain’t a beauty, but, hey, you’re all right. And that’s all right with me” Not to bring politics into the Cafe, but Robert Wuhl pointed it out first: [Back in 1984, The NJ State assembly debated a bill to change the official State Song](http://alumni.princeton.edu/~cl1984/PAWnotes/2003/09_10_03_issue.htm) to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run” > [@](#): > > …Baby this town rips the bones from your back > It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap > We gotta get out while we’re young > `cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run… In my opinion, No other comments are necessary ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/44 "2004-03-24T02:34:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by verbenabeast > and the piece of resistance > > Either I got swooshed, or you need this. Call it a VERY mild swoosh **furt** … combination me being silly, expecting everyone to realize it, and an old inside joke… sorry ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/45 "2004-03-24T02:49:05Z")
_“Lather was 30 years old today. They took away all of his toys.”_ Jefferson Airplane from Crown of Creation written by Grace Slick ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/46 "2004-03-24T04:16:39Z")
I love this thread, because rock music has always been cheap therapy to me. I used to catch myself quoting lyrics when I used to counsel college students: "Y’know, it’s like Jackson Browne said, _‘No matter how close to yours another’s steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you do alone.’"_ So I loved it that one of Bob Weir’s songs (from my fave solo album of his, ACE) started with him saying: _“Look out now, cuz here comes some … Free Advice …!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/47 "2004-03-24T04:34:04Z")
“It’s always funny until someone gets hurt And then it’s just hilarious” - **Faith No More** , _Ricochet_ “Looking so long at these pictures of you But I could never hold on to your heart” - **The Cure** , _Pictures of You_ “Early morning, April four Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride” - **U2** , _Pride (In the Name of Love)_ All of those are kinda iffy as “classic rock” selections, I guess, but dammit, they’re good lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/48 "2004-03-24T04:54:05Z")
Every once in a while you hear great truth – and, well, poetry-- coming out of rock ‘n’ roll. There have only been a couple of times that I’ve stopped what I was doing and just … listened. REM’s had that effect on me, U2, Dylan, Bruce Cockburn. And I had to sit down and pull out the lyric sheet to my first 10,000 Maniacs album. ## I mean, using “four poster dull torpor” is brilliant. Other remembrances: “We knee-skinned that river red” REM, Cuyahoga “We’dcircleandwe’dcircleandwe’dcircletostopandconsider and Centeredonthepavementstackedupallthetrucksjackedupand Ourwheelsinslushandorangecrushinpocketandallthisherecounty Hellanycountyit’sjustlikeheavenhereandIwasrememberingandi Wasjustinadifferentcountyandallthenthiswhirlybirdthati HeadedforI hadmygogglespulledoffIknewitallIkneweveryback Roadandeverytruckstop… Follow me, don’t follow me, I’ve got my spine, I’ve got my orange crush.” REM, Orange Crush “I can see the master’s hand In every sparrow fallen, In every grain of sand.” Dylan, every grain of sand “The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter is that his name wasn’t Henry Porter…” Dylan (w/ Sam Shephard), Brownsville Girl She said, “Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt.” ibid "If you twist and turn away If you tear yourself in two again If I could, yes I would If I could, I would Let it go… This desperation Dislocation Separation Condemnation Revelation In temptation Isolation Desolation Let it go" U2, Bad “Broken bottles under children’s feet Bodies strewn across the dead end street But I won’t heed the battle call It puts my back up Puts my back up against the wall” U2, Sunday Bloody Sunday ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/49 "2004-03-24T05:00:29Z")
_You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine You can dance, you can jiii-iive, having the time of your life…_ Ha. Just thought we should cleanse our palettes. Now let’s get back to good lyrics. Quick. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/50 "2004-03-24T05:10:56Z")
\*In my time of dying, don’ want nobody to mourn All I want for you to do is take my body home Well, well, well, so I can die easy Well, well, well, so I can die easy Jesus, gonna make up… somebody, somebody… Jesus gonna make up… Jesus gonna make up my dyin’ bed. ~ ~ ~ Leaves are falling all around, It’s time I was on my way. Thanks to you, I’m much obliged For such a pleasant stay. But now it’s time for me to go, The autumn moon lights my way… ~ ~ ~ Many times I loved Many times been bitten Many times I’ve gazed Along the open road.\* ~ ~ ~ Led Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![chefIL11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chefIL11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chefIL11)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478/51 "2004-03-24T05:33:56Z")
Since I started this thread I felt it appropriate to throw my two cents in… by the way… incredible quotes everyone. keep it going… “All that foreign oil controlling American soil.” - Bob Dylan, Slow Train “Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.” - The Kinks, Superman “And if I win election day, I may give you a job.” - The Byrds, I Wanna Grow Up To Be A Politician [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-lyrics/235478.md?page=2)