Standing at the crossroads, trying to read the signs
To tell me which way I should go to find the answer,
And all the time I know,
Plant your love and let it grow.
Eric Clapton
Why are we here?
Because we’re here,
roll the bones.—Rush
“Those were the days my friend, I thought they’d never end”
by Mary Hopkins. Ah yes.
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight-
Gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight.
(From Lovers in a Dangerous Time- Bruce Cockburn)
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight-
Gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight.
(From Lovers in a Dangerous Time- Bruce Cockburn)
“If you should die before me ask if you can bring a friend.”
(Still Remains - by Stone Temple Pilots)
let’s get a party going
let’s get a party going
when it’s time to party
we will always party hard
–andrew w.k.
“Time carves initials into the prison of your face”
– Firewater
“I’m not living; I’m just killing time”
–Radiohead (fits my life right now to a T)
“Does it diminish your super-capacity to love?..Does it exhibit your natural tendency to hate?”
–The Tragically Hip (whoo, Emperor Penguin!)
Waaay too many Tom Waits’ lines to list…
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straights
“I can’t do the talk like they talk it on the tv,
and I can’t do a love song like the way its meant to be.
I can’t do everything but I’d do anything for you.
I can’t do anything 'cept be in love with you.”
“I don’t pretend to know what you want
But I offer love”
-Neil Finn, Distant Sun
“Sometimes you’re better off dead
there’s a gun in your hand
and its pointed at your head”
-West end girls- Pet Shop Boys
I don’t know why but the begining of that song gives me chills
Up on cripple creek, she sends me
If I spring a leak, she mends me
I don’t have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one…
Up on Cripple Creek by The Band
A bit homier than most that have been posted so far, but them’s some wonderful lyrics–a beautiful sentiment and a triple double rhyme!
“Lucky my breasts are small and humble
So you don’t confuse them with mountains.”
- Shakira
Whenever, Wherever
Hey, they can’t all be deep and meaningful - this one makes me laugh.
Susan
Another one from Coldplay:
“For you I’d bleed myself dry”- Yellow
Robert Palmer, Simply Irresistable:
“She’s so fine, there’s no tellin’ where the money went”
Not a great song, but what a lyric.
There are any number of more worthy songs, and lyrics, that have actual gravity to them, that also come to mind (by Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Prince and others) but when I read the thread title, that lyric came to mind.
Always nice to meet another hip fan. Good choice of song too!
“And you’re restless, but I’m naked,
And you’ve gotta get out, you can’t stand to see me shaking.”
-Something Corporate; Konstantine
Killswitch Engage-self revolution
this is the quest of life
fulfill your destiny
slow down the fast paced world
and you will see past the illusion
Kenna- Hell Bent
Am I awake
the morning star
that brings me here
since everything in me
between pluto and god
all is hell bent
my walls are closing in
Local H- Hands on the bible
smashed on the pavement
stunned in amazement
everything you make comes crawling back to you
“There’s a boy who fogs his world and now he’s getting lazy
There’s no motivation and frustration makes him crazy
He makes a plan to take a stand but always ends up sitting
Someone help him up or he is gonna end up quitting”
“Who Wrote Holden Caulfield”- Green Day
“I’ve seen this happen in other people’s lives,
But now it’s happening in mine.”
-The Smiths, “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore”
“Ambition makes you look pretty ugly,
Kicking, screaming, gucci little piggy.”
-Radiohead, “Paranoid Android”