Favorite Lyrics!

What lyrics make you sing it out load even though you hate singing?

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Band:
Song:

(insert lyrics here. As if you didn't know that already.)

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I'll do mine now!

Band: System of a Down
Song: Boom

Modern globalization,
Coupled with condemnations,
Unnecessary death,
Matador corporations,
Puppeting your frustrations,
With the blinded flag,
Manufacturing consent
Is the name of the game,
The bottom line is money,
Nobody gives a fuck.
4000 hungry children die per hour,
from starvation,
while billions spent on bombs,
create death showers.



[Edited on May 15, 2005 by Chaz]

"once upon a time i was falling in love,
but now i'm only falling apaaaaart..."

band: talking heads
song: love goes to building on fire

"When my love
Stands next to your love
I can't define love
When it's not love
It's not love
It's not love
Which is my face
Which is a building
Which is on fire"

Band: Postal Service

Song: Nothing Better

Will someone please call a surgeon
Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart
That your're deserting for better company?
I can't accept that it's over...
I will block the door like a goalie tending the net
In the third quarter of a tied-game rivalry

So just say how to make it right
And i swear i'll do my best to comply

Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together

I feel must interject here you're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself
With these revisions and gaps in history
So let me help you remember.
I've made charts and graphs that should finally make it clear.
I've prepared a lecture on why i have to leave

So please back away and let me go
I can't my darling i love you so...

Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together
Don't you feed me lines about some idealistic future
Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures

I admit that i have made mistakes and i swear
I'll never wrong you again
You've got a lure i can't deny,
But you've had your chance so say goodbye
Say goodbye

who do you need, who do you love, when you come undone... Also for you I would have shaken down the stars from the sky .....

We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield
We are strong, no one can tell us we’re wrong
Searchin’ our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield

I totally agree with the Wu Tang, so here's my contribution to the thread:

Artist: Method Man
Song: Bring The Pain

(Only the first verse for space's sake)

I came to bring the pain hardcore from the brain
Let’s go inside my astral plane
Find out my mental’s based on instrumental
Records hey, so I could write monumental
Methods, I’m not the king
But niggaz is decaf I stick em for the cream
Check it, just how deep can shit get
Deep as the abyss and brothers is mad just accept it
In your cross colour, clothes you’ve crossed over
Then got totally crossed out like kris kross
Who da boss? niggaz get tossed to the side
And I’m the dark side of the force
Of course it’s the method, man from the wu-tang clan
I be hectic, and coming for the head piece protect it
Fuck it, two tears in a bucket, niggaz want the ruckus
Bustin at me punk now bust it
Styles, I gets buckwild
Method man on some shit, pullin niggaz files
I’m sick, insane crazy, drivin miss daisy
Out her fuckin mind now I got mine I’m swayze

Jimmy Pop from Bloodhound Gang is pretty much the best lyricist ever. Some of my favorites:

"Death is certain so it's definitely worth flirtin'
Don't expect a bright light no just curtains
Life is like a penis most people don't know it
But most people suck so they usually blow it"
-from 'take the long way home'

"Have you seen my will to live?
Because I seem to have lost it
Lovelife? No but Mom thinks I'm handsome
Couldn't get off if I held a pimp for ransom
Feel like Jimmy Stewart no one sees my Harvey
Toxic Shock Syndrome gets more girls than me
Like Pee Wee Herman spermin' I can
See the future in the palm of my hand"
-from 'magna cum nada'

band: Death Threat
song: Faded

Can't help but think about the times we've had
Those memories - they make me sad
Good times gone bad
I pick it up I got to move ahead
Old friends where have they gone?
I'm getting older - but I still feel young
Hardcore keeps me alive
A way of life and it's my pride
And we make the best of what we've got
Do what we can so it will never fall apart
New bands new friends and new ideas
Has kept me going - for all these years
But I miss my old friends
And all the good times that we had
And I thought that it would never end
But it did so it's time to move ahead
I can't dwell on the past
I got to live for today
Cause time passes so fast
It seems like yesterday
Now all we have in common is - the memories
Now all we have in common is - the memories
Where have they gone?
To all my friends who faded over the years
Best of luck - on your own way
To all my brothers who are still here
I hope that you - I hope you're here to stay
Good times, old friends
Where have they gone?
Where have they gone?

Band: A Perfect Circle
Song: Passive

“Dead as dead can be,” my doctor tells me
But I just can’t believe him, ever the optimistic one
I’m sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, “You disappoint me,”
Maybe you’re better off this way

Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability
To become…my perfect enemy…

Wake up (we'll catch you) and face me (come one now),
Don’t play dead (don't play dead)
Cause maybe (because maybe)
Someday I’ll (someday I'll) walk away and say, “You disappoint me,”
Maybe you’re better off this way

Maybe you’re better off this way
Maybe you’re better off this way
Maybe you’re better off this way
You’re better of this; you’re better off this;
Maybe you’re better off!

Wake up (can't you) and face me (come on now),
Don’t play dead (don't play dead)
Cause maybe (because maybe)
Someday I’ll (someday I'll) walk away and say, “You fucking disappoint me!”
Maybe you’re better off this way

Go ahead and play dead
I know that you can hear this
Go ahead and play dead
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
You fucking disappoint me!

Passive aggressive bullshit

Nice pick dude. i love that song.

If we took a Holiday
If we took a holiday
Took some time to celebrate
Just one day out of life
It would be, it would be so nice

Everybody spread the word
We're gonna have a celebration
All across the world
In every nation
It's time for the good times
Forget about the bad times, oh yeah
One day to come together
To release the pressure
We need a holiday

You can turn this world around
And bring back all of those happy days
Put your troubles down
It's time to celebrate
Let love shine
And we will find
A way to come together
And make things better
We need a holiday


Holiday Celebrate
Holiday Celebrate


Holiday Celebrate
Holiday Celebrate

Holiday, Celebration
Come together in every nation

'I Want You to Want Me' - Cheap Trick....I'll sing to these lyrics every damn time I hear the song...I like Letters To Cleo's rendition


I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'll shine up the old brown shoes, put on a brand-new shirt.
I'll get home early from work if you say that you love me.

Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Feelin' all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dyin'.
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.
I'll shine up the old brown shoes, put on a brand-new shirt.
I'll get home early from work if you say that you love me.

Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Feelin' all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dyin'.
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Feelin' all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dyin'.
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.
I want you to want me.
I want you to want me.
I want you to want me.
I want you to want me.

Ani Difranco - 32 Flavors

Squint your eyes and look closer
I’m not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I’m beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
Cause someday you’re going to get hungry
And eat most of the words you just said

Both my parents taught me about good will
And I have done well by their names
Just the kindness I’ve lavished on strangers
Is more than I can explain
Still there’s many who’ve turned out their porch lights
Just so I would think they were not home
And hid in the dark of their windows
Til I’d passed and left them alone

And God help you if you are an ugly girl
Course too pretty is also your doom
Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
For the prettiest girl in the room
And God help you if you are a pheonix
And you dare to rise up from the ash
A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
While you are just flying back

I’m not trying to give my life meaning
By demeaning you
And I would like to state for the record
I did everything that I could do
I’m not saying that I’m a saint
I just don’t want to live that way
No, I will never be a saint
But I will always say

Squint your eyes and look closer
I’m not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I’m beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
Cause someday you might find you’re starving
And eating all of the words you said

[Edited on May 16, 2005 by crazybeautiful]

Band: Ween
Song: Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)

Don't quiver little boy, your daddy's with you now
It won't be long anyhow
It's just around the corner
The destiny that I embrace with you

Don't get too close too my fantasy
Don't be afraid to clutch the hand of your creator
Stare into the lion's eyes and if you taste the candy
You'll get to the surprise

Stay calm little dreamer and drift off into dreams
The gentle kiss of night is better than it seems
It's just around the corner
Close your eyes and soon you'll be with me

Don't get too close to my fantasy
Don't be afraid to clutch the hand of your creator
Stare into the lion's eyes and if you taste the candy
You'll get to the surprise

.hopesfall. - "Only The Clouds"


sleep never comes quick enough to protect us
there is no shelter in the present from the ghosts of the past
like well driven nails
memories dig their claws in our backs
revealing our black hearts
unable to forgive ourselves
our parched mouths pray for rain
and only the clouds bear witness as we wither away

Yeah, Ok, Who are the consumers?
what are you consuming?
why are you not filtering the poison they are spooning?
where you gonna be when the murder rate starts ballooning?
comin' to your senses on some "who the fuck made you king?"
fame is a ghostly hope, when every hero is a number to the rotary folk
that's why the low brow plow through a government name
you can trace the moniker if you can chase the train
I place blame with a grotesque, enemy, bloody idol
leavin' it to the innocent to remedy the cycle
my centipedes agree that every pedigree's entitled
to that food, clothes, medicine recipe of the vital..

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You put the boom boom into my heart!
You send my soul sky high when your loving starts!
JITTERBUG into my brain!
Goes a bang bang bang till my feet do the same!
If something's bugging you!
If something ain't right!
My best friend told me what you did last night!!
Left me sleeping in my bed!
I was dreaming but I should have been with you instead!!!!!!

WAKE ME UP before you go-go
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
WAKE ME UP up before you go-go
I don't want to miss it when you hit that high
WAKE ME UP before you go-go
'Cause I'm not planning on going solo
WAKE.ME.UP. before you go-go
Take me dancing toniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
I wanna hit that hiiiiggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

You put the grey skies out of my way!
You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day!
You turn a bright spark into a flame!
My beats per minute never been the same!
'Cause you're my lady I'm your fool!
It makes me crazy when you act so cruel!
Come on baby lets not fight!
We'll go dancing everything will be alright!

WAKEMEUP before you go-go!
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo!
WAKEMEUP before you go-go!
I don't want to miss it when you hit that high!
WAKEMEUP before you go-go!
'Cause I'm not planning on going solo!
WAKE ME UP before you go-go!
Take me dancing toniiiiiiiight!
I wanna hit that HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


:snap: :snap: :snap: :snap:
Cuddle up baby move in tight
:snap: :snap: :snap: :snap:
We'll go dancing tomorrow night
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It's cold out there but its warm in bed
:snap: :snap: :snap: :snap:
They can dance, we'll stay home instead!

Wake me up! before you go-go!
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo!
Wake me up! before you go-go!
I don't want to miss it when you hit that high!
Wake me up! before you go-go!
'Cause I'm not planning on going solo!
WAAAKKKEEE MMEEEEE UPPPPP before you go-go!
Take me dancing toniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!
I wanna hit that hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhdfkghdsfjhgldhjfg

Koppel, you ignorant slut.

Time can never mend the careless whispers, of a good friend
To the heart and mind, ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find

Should've known better

I feel so unsure
As I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor
As the music dies, something in your eyes
Calls to mind the silver screen
And all its sad good-byes

I'M NEVER GONNA DANCE AGAIN!
GUILTY FEET HAVE GOT NO RHYTHM!!!
THOUGH IT'S EASY TO PRETEND,
I KNOW YOU'RE NOT A FOOOOL.

SHOULDA KNOWN BETTER THAN TO CHEAT A FRIEND
AND WASTE THE CHANCE THAT I'VE BEEN GIVEENN.
SO I'M NEVER GONNA DANCE AGAIN
THE WAY I DANCED WITH YOUUUUUUUUU-OOOOH-OOOOOOH...

Time can never mend
The careless whispers of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find

I'M NEVER GONNA DANCE AGAIN!
GUILTY FEET HAVE GOT NO RHYTHM!!!
THOUGH IT'S EASY TO PRETEND,
I KNOW YOU'RE NOT A FOOOOL.

SHOULDA KNOWN BETTER THAN TO CHEAT A FRIEND
AND WASTE THE CHANCE THAT I'VE BEEN GIVEENN.
SO I'M NEVER GONNA DANCE AGAIN
THE WAY I DANCED WITH YOUUUUUUUUU-OOOOH-OOOOOOH...

Never without your love

Tonight the music seems so loud
I wish that we could lose this crowd
Maybe it's better this way
We'd hurt each other with the things we'd want to say

We could have been so good together
We could have lived this dance forever
But no one's gonna dance with me
Please stay

AND I'M NEVER GONNA DANCE AGAIN!
GUILTY FEET HAVE GOT NO RHYTHM!!!
THOUGH IT'S EASY TO PRETEND,
I KNOW YOU'RE NOT A FOOOOL.

SHOULDA KNOWN BETTER THAN TO CHEAT A FRIEND
AND WASTE THE CHANCE THAT I'VE BEEN GIVEENN.
SO I'M NEVER GONNA DANCE AGAIN
THE WAY I DANCED WITH YOUUUUUUUUU-OOOOH-OOOOOOH...

(Now that you're gone) Now that you're gone
(Now that you're gone) What I did's so wrong
That you had to leave me alone.

[Edited on May 16, 2005 by _DictionaryGirl_]

Stone Sour - Bother

Okay, I'm not sure I want to try to top another cheesy 80s song. Sincerely, I just don't know how to categorize these things and have a hard time picking my favorite. But this one never fails to get me, as I mentioned earlier in some other thread:

"I'm Still Here" by Tom Waits

You haven't looked at me that way in years
You dreamed me up and left me here
How long was I dreaming for
What was it you wanted me for

You haven't looked at me that way in years
Your watch has stopped and the pond is clear
Someone turn the lights back off
I'll love you til all time is gone

You haven't looked at me that way in years
But I'm still here

Simple, and at least in context, really beautiful. It's too brief to make me cry, but it's all the more powerful to me because it's so to the point.

Edit: by the way, thanks to Podlebote for her rendition of "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" which I blatantly stole from her livejournal because I'm a terrible friend.

[Edited on May 16, 2005 by TedKoppel]

Rip them down
Hold them up
Tell them that
I'm your gun
Pull my trigger
I am bigger than-

Mr. Prez in his big White House
Listen he says we're comin' out
Infiltration-we're numbin' your minds
Concentration-we've done time

Over there the Queen she says
Let's stamp them out and dry those tears
Saturation-we want in taxes
Flagelation-we've got gashes

In the cold, the czars claimin'
Just protectin', rockets aimin'
Alteration-Earth is changin'
Observation-we want action

I the Emperor proclaim
Us the masters we rule the game
Inclination-somethin' to dream on
Deprivation-we are sons

*applauds............................GREAT choice*