Favorite Song Lyrics (Snippets)

[Argonne69]

I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are never gonna keep me down

 

He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times

(Oh Danny Boy, Danny Boy, Danny Boy)

 

I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are never gonna keep me down

 

- Chumbawamba, Tubthumping

 

[Argonne69]

Six o'clock already
I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissin' Valentino
By a crystal-blue, Italian stream

 

But I can't be late
'Cause then I guess I just won't get paid
These are the days
When you wish your bed was already made

 

It's just another manic Monday (Woah, woah)
I wish it was Sunday (Woah, woah)
'Cause that's my fun day (Woah, woah, woah, woah)
My I don't have to run day (Woah, woah)
It's just another manic Monday

 

- The Bangles 

 

[Soloman1]

I’ve been talkin’ to you all night long,

tryin’ to let you know.

I don’t mean to be cruel when I say,

I gotta’ let you go.

 

’Cause I don’t love you,

oh no, I don’t love you.

 

I been working’ oh so hard each day,

I just can’t take no more.

I guess there’s nothin’ left for me to say,

so I’ll just leave out the back door.

 

I don’t love you,

Oh oh I don’t love you.

 

— Soloman1

 

Edited April 11, 2023 by Soloman1

[Soloman1]

Another night, another round of lies.

Another drink, another dollar buys.

And just like that, another evening behind her,

just like that.

 

It’s getting late, and he’s had his fill.

He’ll find the door  when he finds the bill.

And just like that, another evening behind him,

just like that.

 

Chorus

From behind, she asks him the time.

His watch died at ten after nine.

The music’s loud, but it’s always that way.

Heard them before, that’s all they can play.

You come here often, say, what do you do?

I’ve got two cats, and I like Chinese food, too.

 

Just like that. Just like that.

Just like that. Just like that.

 

Boy sees girl and girl sees guy.

Man and woman see eye to eye.

And just like that, they're gonna see it together,

just like that.

 

The stories old, but the players new.

Love it or leave it, they just don’t know who.

And just like that, another story begins,

just like that.

 

Chorus.

 

— Soloman1

 

[nitram]

… Years grow shorter, not longer,
The more you've been on your own.
Feelin's for movin' grow stronger'
So you wonder why you ever go home,
Wonder why you ever go home.

… People are movin' so quickly.
Humor's in need of repair.
Same occupations and same obligations;
They've really got nothing to share,
Like drivin' around with no spare.

… River gets deeper not shallow,
The further you move down the stream.
Wonderin'if I can keep her as I
Race to keep up with my dreams.
How they shine and glitter and gleam.

… Years grow shorter, not longer,
The more you've been on your own.
Feelin's for movin' grow stronger'
So you wonder why you ever go home,
Wonder why you ever go home.

[nitram]

Well, I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it, mhm

Well, I never been to England
But I kinda like the Beatles
Well, I headed for Las Vegas
Only made it out to Needles
Can you feel it?
Must be near it
Feels so good
Whoa, feels so good

Well, I never been to heaven
But I been to Oklahoma
Oh, they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter?
What does it matter?

 

-Hoyt Axton
 

[JungleJimbo]

1 hour ago, nitram said:

… Years grow shorter, not longer,
The more you've been on your own.
Feelin's for movin' grow stronger'
So you wonder why you ever go home,
Wonder why you ever go home.

… People are movin' so quickly.
Humor's in need of repair.
Same occupations and same obligations;
They've really got nothing to share,
Like drivin' around with no spare.

… River gets deeper not shallow,
The further you move down the stream.
Wonderin'if I can keep her as I
Race to keep up with my dreams.
How they shine and glitter and gleam.

… Years grow shorter, not longer,
The more you've been on your own.
Feelin's for movin' grow stronger'
So you wonder why you ever go home,
Wonder why you ever go home.

Wasn't familiar with this song... had to google it!

"Paying it forward", via this Link... to save others a google-search!

 

 

[nitram]

You need to take the whole album for a spin. 

 

It's one of my go-to's when I need to decompress.

[touch]

I especially enjoy the piano in this song. 

 

 

 

Then you walk to the window and stare at the moon
Riding high and lonesome through a starlit sky
And it comes to you how it all slips away
Youth and beauty are gone one day
No matter what you dream or feel or say
It ends in dust and disarray

Like wind on the plains, sand through the glass
Waves rolling in with the tide
Dreams die hard and we watch them erode
But we cannot be denied
The fire inside

 

Bob Seger

[touch]

12 hours ago, nitram said:

Well, I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it, mhm

Well, I never been to England
But I kinda like the Beatles
Well, I headed for Las Vegas
Only made it out to Needles
Can you feel it?
Must be near it
Feels so good
Whoa, feels so good

Well, I never been to heaven
But I been to Oklahoma
Oh, they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter?
What does it matter?

 

-Hoyt Axton
 

 

And I thought that song was the other band's.   Thanks nitram for educating me that Three Dog Night only covered it. 👍

[Argonne69]

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango!

 

Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnificoo

 

I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity

 

Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me,
For meee

 

Nothing really matters, Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows...

 

- Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody 

 

[NCLancer]

Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality beyond the gilded cage

 

Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers to keep oneself intact

 

Living in the limelight, the universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be, must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation, the underlying theme

 

Rush

[drumdude96]

Probably my favorite song ever.  "Aenima" by Tool.  Sorry, not in "snippet" form, but I love it all.

I edited the lyrics so as not to tick off the WRX gods, I mean mods.  The words "poop", "freaking", and "fork" are not really in the song, so use your imagination.  However, the word "freaks" is in the song.

 

Some say the end is near
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bull poop three-ring
Circus sideshow of
Freaks here in this hopeless freaking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away
Any freaking time, any freaking day
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay

 

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your Prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car

It's a
Bull poop three-ring
Circus sideshow of
Freaks here in this hopeless freaking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away
Any freaking time, any freaking day
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay

 

Some say a comet will fall from the sky
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipsticks

And some say the end is near
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this
Stupid spit, silly spit, stupid spit

One great big festering neon distraction
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied
Learn to swim, learn to swim, learn to swim
'Cause Mom's gonna fix it all soon
Mom's comin' 'round to put it back the way it ought to be

Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim

Fork L. Ron Hubbard and
Fork all his clones
Fork all these gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes

Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim

Fork retro anything
Fork your tattoos
Fork all you junkies and
Fork your short memories

Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim

Yeah, fork smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas
Fork these dysfunctional
Insecure actresses

Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim

'Cause I'm praying for rain
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way
I wanna watch it all go down

Mom, please flush it all away
I wanna see it go right in and down
I wanna watch it go right in
Watch you flush it all away

Yeah, time to bring it down again
Yeah, don't just call me pessimist
Try and read between the lines
I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend

I wanna see it come down
Put it down
Suck it down
Flush it down

Edited April 23, 2023 by drumdude96

[drumdude96]

There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am  Supertramp "The Logical Song"

[drumdude96]

3 minutes ago, drumdude96 said:

 

Double post

Edited April 14, 2023 by drumdude96

[Argonne69]

You know that a man ain't supposed to cry
But these tears I can't hold inside
Losin' you would end my life you see
'Cause you mean that much to me

You could have told me yourself
That you found someone else
Instead I heard it through the grapevine

Not much longer would you be mine
Ooo I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind

 

Honey, honey yeah

 

- Gladys Knight & the Pips (1967) / The Miracles (1968) / Marvin Gaye (1968)

 

[nitram]

and please don't forget Credence Clearwater Revival . . .

[touch]

It's the same kind of story
That seems to come down from long ago
Two friends having coffee together
When something flies by their window
It might be out on that lawn
Which is wide, at least half of a playing field
Because there's no explaining what your imagination
Can make you see and feel

Seems like a dream
They got me hypnotized

 

Seems like a dream
They got me hypnotized
Seems like a dream
They got me hypnotized
Seems like a dream
They got me hypnotized
Got me hypnotized

 

Bob Welch/ Fleetwood Mac 

 

[touch]

I met him in a cell in New Orleans I was
Down and out
He looked to me to be the eyes of age
As he spoke right out

He talked of life
He talked of life
He lightly slapped his leg instead

He said the name Bojangles and he danced a lick
Across the cell
He grabbed his pants for a better stance
He jumped so high
He clicked his heels

He let go a laugh
He let go a laugh
Shook back his clothes all around

Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Bojangles
Dance

 

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 

Songwriter: Jerry Jeff Walker

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by touch

[touch]

Ooh, you make me live
Whenever this world is cruel to me
I got you to help me forgive
Ooh, you make me live now, honey
Ooh, you make me live

Oh, you're the first one when things turn out bad
You know I'll never be lonely
You're my only one
And I love the things
I really love the things that you do
Oh, you're my best friend, oh

 

Queen 

Songwriter: John Deacon

 

 

 

[Soloman1]

Isabella

 

The woman on the bow

is every inch a lady.

She holds her head up high

never turning from the sea.

 

She does not close her eyes

at the salty insults thrown her.

She keeps her chin held high

looking out across the sea.

 

Chorus

Through the sun and the wind and the rain.

In a life filled with fear and with pain.

They search the earth for the gold that they claim

in her name.

 —

 

Slowly past a fallen friend,

a jagged grim reminder

of dangers to be faced again

before her journey’s over.

 

Loaded with her precious ore,

a weight to make her weary.

She slowly lifts the sails again

for the queen and all her glory.

 

Chorus

 

— more stuff from my wasted youth

[CarlLipbaum]

He took little Suzie to the junior prom

Excitable Boy they all said

And he raped her and killed her then he took her home

Excitable Boy they all said

Well he's just an Excitable Boy

[DLeightonReid]

Bob Seger - Roll Me Away

 

Stood alone on a mountain top
Starin' out at the Great Divide
I could go east, I could go west
It was all up to me to decide
Just then I saw a young hawk flyin'
And my soul began to rise
And pretty soon
My heart was singin'

[touch]

Levon sells cartoon balloons in town
His family business thrives
Jesus blows up balloons all day
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly

And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus
Leave Levon far behind
Take a balloon and go sailing
While Levon, Levon slowly dies

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day
When the New York Times said, "God is dead
And the war's begun"
Oh, Alvin Tostig has a son today

And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
And he shall be Levon
In tradition with the family plan, woo
And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
He shall be Levon

And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
And he shall be Levon
In tradition with the family plan, woo
And he shall be Levon
And he shall be a good man
He shall be Levon

 

Elton John / Bernie Taupin

[TiScape]

On 4/13/2023 at 9:48 PM, drumdude96 said:

Probably my favorite song ever.  "Aenima" by Tool.  Sorry, not in "snippet" form, but I love it all.

 

Some say the end is near
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this

Bulls*** three-ring
Circus sideshow of
Freaks here in this hopeless fu***** hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away
Any fu***** time, any fu***** day
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay

 

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your Prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car

It's a
Bulls*** three-ring
Circus sideshow of
Freaks here in this hopeless fu***** hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away
Any fu***** time, any fu***** day
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay

 

Some say a comet will fall from the sky
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipsh***

And some say the end is near
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this
Stupid sh**, silly sh**, stupid sh**

One great big festering neon distraction
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied
Learn to swim, learn to swim, learn to swim
'Cause Mom's gonna fix it all soon
Mom's comin' 'round to put it back the way it ought to be

Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim

F*** L. Ron Hubbard and
F*** all his clones
F*** all these gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes

Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim

F*** retro anything
F*** your tattoos
F*** all you junkies and
F*** your short memories

Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim

Yeah, f*** smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas
F*** these dysfunctional
Insecure actresses

Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim
Learn to swim, learn to swim

'Cause I'm praying for rain
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way
I wanna watch it all go down

Mom, please flush it all away
I wanna see it go right in and down
I wanna watch it go right in
Watch you flush it all away

Yeah, time to bring it down again
Yeah, don't just call me pessimist
Try and read between the lines
I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend

I wanna see it come down
Put it down
Suck it down
Flush it down

Unofficially giving you the award for the most ‘disguised profanity’ in a single post on WRX!! Fortunately ppl like you. I’d be turned in and permanently banned!! 

🤣

Edited April 22, 2023 by TiScape

[touch]

It's a shame, the way you mess around with your man
It's a shame the way you hurt me
It's a shame, the way you mess around with your man
I'm sitting all alone, by the telephone
Waiting for your call, when you don't call at all

It's a shame (shame) the way you mess around with your man
It's a shame (shame) the way you play with my emotions
It's a shame (shame) the way you mess around with your man
You're like a child at play, on a sunny day
'Cause you play with love, and then you throw it away

Why do you use me, try to confuse me
How can you stand, to be so cruel
Why don't you free me, from this prison
Where I serve my time as your fool

 

Songwriter: Stevie Wonder

The Spinners 

[nitram]

He's a wino, tried and true.
Done about everything there is to do.
He worked on freighters, he worked in bars.
He worked on farms, 'n he worked on cars.

 

It was white port, that put that look in his eye
That grown men get when they need to cry
And he sat down on the curb to rest
And his head just fell down on his chest

 

He said "Every single day it gets
A little bit harder to handle and yet"
And he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered
And the words just rolled off down in the gutter

 

Well he was elevator man in a cheap hotel
In exchange for the rent on a one room cell
He's old in years beyond his time
Thanks to the world, and the white Port wine

 

So he says "Son, " he always called me son
He said, "Life for you has just begun"
And he told me a story that I heard before
How he fell in love with a Dallas whore

 

Well he could cut through the years to the very night
When it ended, in a whore house fight
And she turned his last proposal down
In favor of being a girl about town

 

Now it's been seventeen years right in line
And he ain't been straight none of the time
Too many days of fightin' the weather
And too many nights of not being together

 

So he died

 

Well when they went through his personal affects
In among the stubs from the welfare checks
Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door
An address in Dallas, and nothin' more

 

The welfare people provided the priest
A couple from the mission down the street
Sang Amazing Grace, and no one cried
'Cept some woman in black, way off to the side

 

We all left and she was standing there
Black veil covering her silver hair
And 'ol One-Eyed John said her name was Alice
And she used to be a whore in Dallas

 

Let him roar, Lord let him roll
Bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his soul
Lord, let him roll, Lord let him roar
He always said that heaven
Was just a Dallas whore.

 

-Guy Clark

[Bubb]

The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound 

And a wave broke over the railing 

And every man knew, as the captain did too

T’was the witch of November come stealin’

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait 

When the gales of November came slashin’

When the afternoon came, it was freezing rain 
In the face of a hurricane west wind

 

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin’

”Fellas, it’s too rough to feed ya”

At seven PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said 

“Fellas it’s been good to know ya”

The captain wired in he had water comin’ in

And the good ship and crew was in peril 

And later that night when it’s lights went outta sight 

Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 

[drumdude96]

On 4/21/2023 at 10:58 PM, TiScape said:

Unofficially giving you the award for the most ‘disguised profanity’ in a single post on WRX!! Fortunately ppl like you. I’d be turned in and permanently banned!! 

🤣

Hey, I didn't write the song.  And I had to go through it MANY times to make sure I didn't miss anything.  That was one of the scariest copy and pastes I've ever done in my life!  LOL. 

[MtlJeff]

Probably NAS's best song "I gave you power"....Which is a song about a gun. This is the first verse

 

I seen some cold nights and bloody days

they grab me , bullets spray

They use me wrong , so i sing this song to this day

My body is cold steel for real

I was made to kill, that's why they keep me concealed

Under car seats, they sneak me in clubs, been in the hands of mad thugs

They feed me when they load me with mad slugs

17 precisely, one in my head, they call me desert eagle

semi auto with lead

i'm 7 inches 4 pounds been through so many towns

Ohio to little rock to canarsie, living harshly

Beat up and battered, they pull me out i watch as ****** scattered

Making me kill but what i feel it never mattered