Life is short and love is always over in the morning.-Temple of Love
Sisters of Mercy
once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest places
if you look at it right
Great topic, some nice words here. Wow.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, to a woman he’s getting over:
“I won’t be comin’ back forever, but I’ll be comin’ back for more.”
(They aren’t Jimmie’s best lyrics, but these words epitomize relationships that never really end, I think.)
Back and Forth - VENT
“Looking back and forth at you,
Should I, Should I,
Waste my time?”
Pushing me Away - Hybrid Theory/Linkin Park
"The sacrifice of hiding in a lie,
The sacrifice is never knowing…
Why I never walked away,
Why I played myself this way.
Now I see,
Your testing me,
Pushes me away…"
God is dead
And no one cares
If there is a hell
I’ll see you there.
-Nine Inch Nails
This is especially amusing when sung at a religious youth convention.
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Hey moral soldier you’ve got righteous proclamations,
and precious tomes to fuel your palpy conflagrations!
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Bad Religion, “I Want to Conquer the World”
Jewel sings in one of her songs
(but I don’t remember exactly what she sings - I’m terrible with the punch lines to jokes, too) something like:
Be careful with my heart
You're holding it in your hand.
And when the Doors sing:
Come on, Baby, light my fire...
It seems like one truly excellent suggestion!
Harry Nilson, the very best! sings to his lost love:
You're breakin' my heart
So, fuck you!The next night he’s over and over and under
And after he’s finished she lies there and wonders
Just why does she need him, and why does she stay here,
And then in the darkness, he’ll quietly say, “Dear,
You’ve never really known.
That when the white flag is flown,
No one, no one, no one has won the war.”
“The Flag”, BNL
And I love this line:
“I’m a conscientious objector to the war inside my mind.”
-“Castaway”, Green Day
Jman
“You’re going so fast,
you’re never ever gonna get down here
where the heroes sit by the river
with a magic in their music as they eat raw liver” -Black Sabbath, “Zero the Hero”
“So we put her on the hit list
of a common, cunning linquist,
a master of many tongues” -Deep Purple, “Knocking at Your Back Door” I must have listened to this song a thousand times before the realization hit me…
“Between the velvet lies
there’s a truth as hard as steel” - Dio, “Holy Diver”
“There were plants and birds and rocks and things” – A Horse With No Name
“Someone left the cake out in the rain…” — MacArthur Park
But seriously…
“Voulez vous coucher avec moi?” 
DRY wins. Anyone who can bring Patti LaBelle into the discussion wins mucho points from me.
Some somewhat obscure Mid-Atlantic bands…
“Ivana’s a scuptor, she’s tending bar
She piercing her nipples in the name of art
And Ricks an accountant that likes tattoos
Keeps 'em all hidden so his boss approves!”
-Arlington by Emmet Swimming
“What mood is that you wear this time?
Why do you get high?
To change the scene you’re in
In time you won’t come back again”
- High by Jimmy’s Chicken Shack
“Hippy Hell awaits you jack
Unless you get that tie-dye off your back
And make a run for Punk Rock Heaven!”
- Punk Rock Heaven by Mary Prankster
And lets not forget the holy triumvirate of Rush:
“How can anybody be enlightened
Truth is, after all, so poorly lit”
Boy there are so many Rush songs to choose from…
Or Woody Guthrie or Leadbelly…
Must exercise control…
And if I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
And if I shiver
Please give me a blanket, keep me warm,
Let me wear your coat
-The Who, Behind Blue Eyes
I can’t give it away on 7th Avenue
This town’s been wearing tatters
-Rolling Stones, Shattered
4th of July - X (John Doe)
Amanda Ruth - Rank and File
Lesson number one in homicide is emotional murder’s no crime
–The Wallflowers, “Witness”
I’m a highway junkie and I need that old white line
–Gary Allan, “Highway Junkie”
Don’t you ever get tired of the noise
Don’t you ever get tired of the crowd
If they had so much to say
Would they have to talk so loud
–Jack Ingram, “Hey You”
Ain’t it funny how we come in screamin’ giddy-up
And go out hollerin’ whoa
Lord we never wanna be here
But we sure don’t ever wanna go
–Garth Brooks, “Kickin’ And Screamin’”
Children with no vision do exactly what they’re told
–Creed, “Say I”
And if California slides into the ocean,
Like the mystics and statistics say it will,
I predict this motel will be standing,
Until I pay my bill.
- Warren Zevon, "Desperadoes Under the Eaves"
Ignorance and Prejudice,
And Fear walk hand in hand.
- Rush, "Witch Hunt"
Now there’s no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw
- Rush, "The Trees"You know that old trees just grow stronger,
And old rivers grow wilder every day,
Old people just grow lonesome,
Waiting for someone to say,
Hello in there.
- John Prine, "Hello in There"
There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm
Where all the money goes
And Jesus Christ died for nothing
I suppose.
- John Prine, "Sam Stone""Having lovers and friends is all good and fine, but I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
–“Promises” by Eric Clapton
“She blew my nose and then she blew my mind.”
–“Honky Tonk Women” by the Rolling Stones
And let’s not forget Jimmy Buffett’s great masterpiece:
“Why don’t we get drunk and screw?
I’ve got a waterbed
It’s filled up for me and you
Well, they call you a slut queen
but I don’t thing that’s true
So why don’t we get drunk and screw”
–“Why Don’t We Get Drunk” by Jimmy Buffett
Oh Slythe, great moderator and god of editing, could you please change “thing” to “think” in my last post? Thanks a bunch. Humbly bows before Slythe
Faith alone won’t substain us no more.
Bad Religion-“Faith Alone”
Make believe in magic,
Make believe in dream,
Make believe impossible is nothing as it seems"
The Cure- “More than This”
You can make it all true
You can make it undo
Cat Stevens-“If you want to sing out, sing out”
My mommy’s on Valium, so ineffectual…
I don’t know how to live, but I got alot of toys
Bad Religion-“21st century digital boy”
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