Save yourself a penny for the ferryman
Save yourself and let them suffer
In hope
In love
This world ain’t ready for The Ark
Save yourself a penny for the ferryman
Save yourself and let them suffer
In hope
In love
Mankind works in mysterious ways
She moves in mysterious ways, oh.
Johnny, take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can’t explain.
To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal.
If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel
On your knees, boy!
Well, she’s walking through the clouds,
With a circus mind that’s running wild,
Butterflies and Zebras,
And Moonbeams and fairy tales.
That’s all she ever thinks about.
Riding with the wind.
When I’m sad, she comes to me,
With a thousand smiles she gives to me free.
It’s alright, she says it’s alright,
Take anything you want from me,
Anything.
Fly on little wing.
Damn – some of these four-line quotes seem to go on forever…
But I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay.
We never did too much talkin’ anyway –
But don’t think twice, it’s all right
But, Baby, if you say you want me to stay
I’ll change my mind
'Cause I don’t wanna know I’m walking away
If you’ll be mine
Darling you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine
I’ll be here 'til the end of time
So you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
[Since the other thread got abandoned months ago, this has become the de facto lyric thread. The reason I often quote longer chunks is because a short snippet often doesn’t do them full justice and/or equate to an adequate response to the previous reply, esp. if an additional “echo” is present in the followup stanza. I will try to keep them down to no more than 2 stanzas tho, but no absolute promises…]
[Hey, more Clash…]
The Shareef don’t like it
Rockin’ the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The Shareef don’t like it
Rockin’ the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
Come on take pride, be wise, spottin’ the fools
No more big shots, crackpots bending the rules
A fair shot here for me and for you
Knowing that we can’t lose
And we’ll be rockin’ in Paradise
Rockin’ the Paradise tonight
Rockin’ in Paradise
Rockin’ the Paradise tonight
Tonight, tonight
R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.
R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.
R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A., Yeah, Yeah!
Rockin’ in the U.S.A.
Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann
You’ve got me rockin’ and a-rollin’
Rockin’ and a-reelin’
Barbara Ann
Are you reelin’ in the years
Stowin’ away the time
Are you gatherin’ up the tears
Have you had enough of mine
Yearbooks with their autographs
From friends you might have had
These are your important years, you’d better make them last
Falling in and out of love just like
Well, these are your important years, your life, oh
It’s never happening
It’s never happening to you
Glory days, well, they’ll pass you by
Glory days, in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory days, glory days
Walter, you are just an echo of a world I knew so long ago.
Walter, if you saw me now, you wouldn’t even know my name.
I bet you’re fat and married,
And you’re always home in bed by half past eight.
And if I talked about the old times, you’d get bored
And you’d have nothing more to say.
Yes, people often change.
But memories of people can remain.
But I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers
Still crazy after all these years
I’m in my room I’m looking sideways
I look up and I look down
They told my friends it was a secret
But it’s rumored that some of us went crazy
So I packed all my clothes and I went on back home
I was standing on the tarmac ready to go
Then I looked all around and I looked all around
And I looked all around and I went crazy
People say I’m crazy
Doing what I’m doing
Well, they give me all kinds of warnings
To save me from ruin
When I say that I’m okay, well they look at me kinda strange
“Surely you’re not happy now, you no longer play the game”
Games people play, you take it or you leave it
Things that they say are not right
If I promise you the moon and the stars, would you believe it?
Games people play in the middle of the night
So keep on playing those mind games together
Faith in the future out of the now
You just can’t beat on those mind guerrillas
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind
Well, my mind is goin’ through them changes
I feel just like committin’ a crime
Every time you see me goin’ somewhere
I know I’m goin’ outta my mind, yeah