lyrics thread ( not silly or trite)

[ringbearer]

Originally Posted by Menelvagor

He Played Real Good for Free
Joni Mitchell

I slept last night in a good hotel,
I went shopping today for jewels.
The wind rushed around in the dirty town;
And the children let out from the schools.

I was standing on a noisy corner,
Waiting for the walking green.
Across the street he stood,
and he played real good,
On his clarinet, for free.

Now me, I play for fortune,
and those velvet curtain calls.
I've got a black limosine,
and two gentlemen,
escorting me to those halls.

And I play if you have the money,
Or if your a friend to me.
But the one man band
by the quick lunch stand,
he was playin' real good, for free.

Nobody stopped to hear him,
though he played so sweet and high.
They knew he had never been on their tv,
so they passed his music by.

I meant to go over and ask for a song,
maybe put on a harmony.
I heard his refrain as the signal changed.
He was playin' real good, for free.

ONE OF THE BEST

[BeardofPants]

Heart-shaped Box
Nirvana

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

(chorus)
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice

....your advice

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on Angel Hair and baby's breath
Broken Hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back

(chorus)
...Your advice

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar-pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

(chorus)

Your advice
Your advice
Your advice

[littleadanel]

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you?
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
Its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

[E, LoR]

Originally Posted by littleadanel

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you?
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
Its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

That is one of my favorite songs EVER!!! I stole it off my older sisters iTunes program...heehee..........

[Tamuril Sirfalas]

can anyone tell me the lyrics??
its by savage garden and starts off with violins
its a bitter sweet sympony...

[Farimir Captain of Gondor]

Originally Posted by Tamuril Sirfalas

can anyone tell me the lyrics??
its by savage garden and starts off with violins
its a bitter sweet sympony...

It's actually by a band called The Verve Pipe . Here's a link to a page that has the lyrics on it.

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Ver...-Symphony.html

Good song, I havn't heard it for awhile.The band got sued over this song for using a beat from another song and not giving credit for it. I can't remember who it was, I wanna say David Bowie but I don't think thats right.

[Grey_Wolf]

Here's a lyrics search engine which I use quite often:

http://lyrics.astraweb.com/

[Grey_Wolf]

I tried to find a blues song called Ain't no sunshine something or other.

[littleadanel]

It's Bill Withers; an AWEsome song! I love it.

Here ya go:

Ain't No Sunshine

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
It’s not warm when she's away
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And she always gone too long
Anytime she goes away

Wonder this time where she’s gone
Wonder if she's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away

I know [36times]

Hey, I oughtta leave the young thing alone but
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
Only darkness everyday
Ain't no sunshine when she’s gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away
Anytime she goes away
Anytime she goes away
Anytime she goes away


What I usually use, btw, is http://www.sing365.com/.

[Grey_Wolf]

Thanks, Littleadanel. I've heard that tune off and on on tv and thought about finding the artist.

I love it, too. Especially that rolling rythm.

[Farimir Captain of Gondor]

Mazzy Star
Fade Into You

I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take a breathe that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Color's your eyes with what's not there

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew

A stranger's light comes on slowly
A stranger's heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then a smile covers your heart

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
X2
I think it's strange you never knew



BTW, I love Ain't No Sunshine. It's going to be stuck in my head for days now.

[E, LoR]

Originally Posted by BeardofPants

Heart-shaped Box
Nirvana

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

(chorus)
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice

....your advice

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on Angel Hair and baby's breath
Broken Hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back

(chorus)
...Your advice

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar-pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

(chorus)

Your advice
Your advice
Your advice

I love that song too! but azlyrics.com says that evanescence did it ?

[Snowdog]

Maria Muldaur - Don't You Make Me High
(Written by Blue Lu Barker)


Don't you feel my leg
don't you feel my leg
'cause if you feel my leg
you gonna feel my thigh
and if you feel my thigh
you gonna go up high
So don't you feel my leg

Don't ya buy no rye
don't ya buy no rye
'cause if ya buy me rye
you gonna make me high
if you make me high
you get a big suprise
So don't you buy no rye

You say you'll take me dancing
buy me gin and wine
but I know different
you got something else on your mind
You say we'll ball and have a lovely time
what I got is mine o mine

Don't you feel my leg
don't you feel my leg
'cause if you feel my leg
you wanna feel my thigh
and if you feel my thigh
you gonna make me high
So don't you feel my thigh

(musical interlude)

Don't you feel my leg
don't you feel my leg
'cause if you feel my leg
you'll wanna feel my thigh
if you feel my thigh
you gonna make me high
So don't you feel my leg

Don't you feel my leg
Don't you feel that leg...
unh umm

[littleadanel]

Elton John - Mansfield

It's a case I guess of paradise lost
Ten years back on the hands of the clock
In that little house on Mansfield
On your old block
Sometimes the magic of the past is all we've got

Just you and me at a crossroads then
Ain't it funny how we were old friends
Accidentally thrown together
Did we intend
To be the romantic novel you never want to end

And it's the contact of the eye that meets across a crowded room
And how I kind of wound up the lyrics to your tune
You said, 'Funny but it feels like I've known you all my life
And how it might feel to kiss you on the mouth tonight'

In between the Star of David and the California moon
The Santa Ana winds blew warm into your room
We were crazy, wild and running
Blind to the change to come
In that little house on Mansfield
We'd wake at the break of dawn
In an Indian summer gone

In the candlelight I can recall
Your naked shadow looking ten feet tall
Like a wild pony dancing
Along the wall
Off balance I found love the only place to fall

And it's the contact of the eye that meets across a crowded room
And how I kind of wound up the lyrics to your tune
You said, 'Funny but it feels like I've known you all my life
And how it might feel to kiss you on the mouth tonight'

In between the Star of David and the California moon
The Santa Ana winds blew warm into your room
We were crazy, wild and running
Blind to the change to come
In that little house on Mansfield
We'd wake at the break of dawn
In an Indian summer gone
Wake at the break of dawn
In an Indian summer gone

[Pytt]

Originally Posted by littleadanel

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you?
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
Its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Beautiful song! Though, it is Leonard Cohen originaly And I think Jeff Buckleys version is the best.

[littleadanel]

I didn't know that. See, that one was the first (and only) version I've heard... anyways, I love it.

[Pytt]

Originally Posted by littleadanel

I didn't know that. See, that one was the first (and only) version I've heard... anyways, I love it.

Aye, it is a favourite of mine aswell.

Do you Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do You Realize - Oh - Oh - Oh
Do You Realize - that everyone you know
Someday will die -

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize

[Draken]

Songs of Love by the Divine Comedy

Pale, pubescent beasts
Roam through the streets
And coffee-shops,
Their prey gather in herds
In stiff knee-length skirts
And white ankle-socks,
But while they search for a mate
My type hibernate
In bedrooms above,
Composing their songs of love

Young, uniform minds
In uniform lines
And uniform ties
Run 'round
With trousers on fire
And signs of desire
They cannot disguise,
While I try to find words
As light as the birds
That circle above
To put in my songs of love

Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice,
So sing while you have time
Let the sun shine down from above
And fill you with songs of love

Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
So let's sing while we still can
While the sun hangs high up above
Wonderful songs of love,
Beautiful songs of love

[brownjenkins]

With God on Our Side ~ Bob Dylan

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.

Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.

Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.

I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

[Nerdanel]

Girls by Beastie Boys

Girls - all I really want is girls
And in the morning its girls
Cause in the evening its girls

I like the way that they walk
And its chill to hear them talk
And I can always make them smile
From white castle to the nile

Back in the day
There was this girl around the way
She liked by home-piece m.c.a.
He said he would not give her play
I asked him, please? - he said, you may.
Her pants were tight and thats ok
If she would dance - I would d.j.
We took a walk down to the bay

I hope shell say, hey me and you should hit the hay!
I asked her out - she said, no way!
So I broke north with no delay
I heard she moved real far away
That was two years ago this may
I seen her just the other day
Jockin mike d. to my dismay

Girls - to do the dishes
Girls - to clean up my room
Girls - to do the laundry
Girls - and in the bathroom
Girls - thats all I really want is girls
Two at a time - I want girls
With new wave hairdos - I want girls
I ought to whip out my - girls, girls, girls, girls, girls!