Favorite song lyrics

[Glennron]

I'm not sure the song or artist, but my all-time favorite song line is:

 

"Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding"

It's a song by Harvey Danger, I don't know why I can't think of the name of it but it's one of the most annoying songs from the 1990s.

 

Not necessarily my favorite lyric, but "Only in Dreams" is my favorite Weezer song. I love how it starts with:

 

"You can't resist her.

She's in your bones.

She is your marrow

And your ride home."

 

Now that I think of it every line in that song is awesome.

[thebruce44]

When I'm at war I insist on slaughter

and getting it on with the hangman's daughter.

She needs release.

She needs to feel at peace...

with her father, the ***** maniac

 

Pretty much anything by Destroyer. I could probably fill up this whole page.

75% of it confuses me or goes over my head, but I know I like it and trying to figure out what its about. There is even a Destroyer Wiki there people collectively try to figure his songs out.

[saget]

The Bends - Radiohead, love the lyrics in this song

[Schlitz001]

"You can't resist her.

She's in your bones.

She is your marrow

And your ride home."

 

It's a good thing

that you float in the air,

that way there's no way

I will crush your pretty toenails

into a thousand pieces.

[Brewtacular]

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old

Africa is far too hot

And Canada's too cold

And South America stole our name

Let's drop the big one

There'll be no one left to blame us

-Randy Newman

[sbrylski]

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old

Africa is far too hot

And Canada's too cold

And South America stole our name

Let's drop the big one

There'll be no one left to blame us

-Randy Newman

Except the Aussies.

 

[Brewtacular]

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old

Africa is far too hot

And Canada's too cold

And South America stole our name

Let's drop the big one

There'll be no one left to blame us

-Randy Newman

Except the Aussies.

 

indeed

 

 

We'll save Australia

Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo

We'll build an All American amusement park there

They got surfin', too

[uecker9]

She was just six when she turned her first trick

Now she's thirteen and it don't make her sick

And she does lots of crystal and she owns her own pistol

Got a goldfish named Silver and a pimp who's named Rick

 

And some are like customers and some are like patients

She'd have gone back to school if she'd just had the patience

But she saw the world through the eyes of a child

None of the nightmares, and nothing to deny

[PKBadger]

Fat man with his kids and dog

Drove in through the morning fog

Hey there Rover, come on over...

 

Red headed lady, reaching for an apple

Gonna take a bite, nope, nope,

She gonna breathe on it first, wipe it on her blouse.

She takes a bite, chews it once, twice, three times, four times, Stops!

Saliva workin', takes a hard long look at Randy ...five times

Fat old husband walking over

 

They're walking down the road

Left foot, right foot

Left foot, right foot

 

--Randy Newman

[lukevan]

[spoken] Modern Globalization

Coupled with Condemnation,

Unnecessary death.

Matador corporations

Puppeting your frustrations with a blinded flag

Manufacturing consent is the name of the game

The bottom line is money nobody gives a ****

Four thousand hungry children

Leave us per hour from starvation

While billions are spent on bombs

Creating death showers. - SOAD "Boom"

 

 

I'm coming over but it never was enough;

I thought it through and my worst brings out the best in you.

Well I got a bad feeling about this, I got a bad feeling about this.

 

- Taking Back Sunday "A Decade under the Influence"

 

angels on the sideline puzzled and amused

why did Father give these humans free will?

now they're all confused

don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around?

playing in this holy garden, silly old monkeys

well there's one who's bound to divide it right in two

angels on the sideline baffled and confused

father blessed them all with reason

and this is what they choose

monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground

silly monkeys given thumbs they forge a blade

and then theres one bound to divide it right in two right in two

 

monkey killing monkey killing monkey

over pieces of the ground

silly monkeys give them thumbs they make a club

and beat their brother down

how they survive so misguided is a mystery

repugnant, dismal creature who would squander the ability to live, to die, and have a conscience

 

- Tool "Right in Two"

[logan82]

I met a boy

wearing vans

501's

with a dope

beastie tee

nipple rings

and new tatoos

that claimed that he

was OGT

from '92

our first EP

and in between

sips of Coke

he told me that he though we

were selling out

laying down

sucking up

to the man

[Oldcity]

I'm not sure the song or artist, but my all-time favorite song line is:

 

"Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding"

It's a song by Harvey Danger, I don't know why I can't think of the name of it but it's one of the most annoying songs from the 1990s.

Flagpole Sitta!

 

You're So Last Summer - Taking Back Sunday

You could slit my throat, and with my one last gasping breath I'd apologize, for bleeding on your shirt

Sweet deal. I was going to use that one too.

[Crazyk1294]

I don't take much stock in song lyrics. I'm much more interested in the musical arrangement of a song--that's usually what gets me into a song. The lyrics are secondary and personally being a songwriter, I personally don't take too much meaning into lyrics because they aren't audible at a live show anyway. They lyrical melody, however, can be an enormous attraction for me...

Having said all of that, lyrics have different meanings to different people and can be interpreted differently by almost anyone. If lyrics to a song give you a different perspective on things or make you think, more power to you,,,

[Bert55]

Harry Nilsson

Your breaking my heart
Tearing it apart, so **** You
All I want to do is have a good time,
So I'm blue

 

I hope I don't get kicked out for this one.....sorry in advance

[valpocrewsader]

"Nothing here is guaranteed, nothing's understood.

Now that I am beyond beginning to belong,

Maybe I don't understand the sequence as I should.

Can't tell left from right from wrong -

God from bad from good"

 

IQ : Peter Nicholls- "The Sense in Sanity"

[RoseBowlMtg]

A sample of the great story telling of Todd Snider:

 

he tried to look like he had a little bit of money

a grifter with a southern drawl

well i could tell right away by the the way he was looking

that this boy was not begging to crawl

at least a junkie knows what he needs

he'll get a man all strung out on green

he'll give up everything he's got for just one shot of having it all

 

he took every cent of his savings

on a trip to the local track

he got a tip from a friend bet it all down to win

on a horse named heart attack

well now he ain't no fool boys he didn't bet it all

so everything was cool when that horse took a fall

but then he turned around and throwed the rest

trying to win it all back

 

COURUS

he wants that easy money

it's sad but it's true

everybody wants the most they can possibly get

for the least they could possibly do

they want that easy money

i don't understand

if you sceem and you plan you can't get your hands

on no easy money

 

now she's been watching him from the table

not to soft but not tough

she figured by the money he'd been throwing around

that he was damned shure good looking enough

so she made her way over she shout him a wink

he took his last five bucks and bought her a drink

by the time they hit the motel six

they figured they were in love love love love

 

CHOURUS

she loved that easy money...

 

now it must have been about two weeks later

he get a call from a business friend

who got a shure fire steel of investment deal

and honey guess what he's gonna let both of us in

so they took all of their savings out of the bank

and on the way home they stopped to gas up the tank

she stepped in for some ciggs and she never saw that ****** again

 

CHOURUS

he got that easy money...

[gypcasino]

Speaking of Todd Snider, this one's a bit dated, but not really since you could just apply it to whatever the hot new "scene" is. Definitely still funny and worth a listen.

 

 

"Talkin' Seatlle Grunge Rock Blues"

 

hey, hey, my, my

rock and roll will never die

just hang your hair down in your eyes

you'll make a million dollars

 

well i was in this band goin' nowhere fast

we sent out demos but everybody passed

so one day we finally took the plunge

moved out to seattle to play some grunge

washington state that is

space needle

eddie vedder

mudnhoney

 

now to fit in fast we wear flannel shirts

we turn our amps up until it hurts

we've got bad attitudes and what's more

when we play we stare straight down at the floor

wowee

pretty scary

how pensive

how totally alternative

 

now to fit in on the seattle scene

you've gotta do somethin' they ain't never seen

so thinkin' up a gimmick one day

we decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note

under any circumstances

silence

music's original alternative

root's grunge

 

well we spread the word through the underground

that we were the hottest new thing in town

the record guy came out to see us one day

and just like always we didn't play

it knocked him out

he said he loved our work

he said he loved our work but he wasn't sure if he could sell a record

with nothing on it

i said tell 'em we're from seattle

he advanced us two and a half million dollars

 

(chorus)

 

well they made us do a video but that wasn't tough

'cuz we just filmed ourselves smashin' stuff

it was kinda weird 'cuz there was no music

but mtv said they'd love to use it

 

the kids went wild, the kids went nuts

rolling stone gave us a five-star review, said we played with guts

we're scorin' chicks, takin' drugs

then we got asked to play mtv unplugged

you should have seen it

we went right out there and refused to do acoustical versions of the

electrical songs we had refused to record in the first place

then we smashed our ----

 

well we blew 'em away at the grammy's show

by refusing to play and refusing to go

and then just when we thought fame would last forever

along come this band that wasn't even together

now that's alternative

now that's alternative to alternative

i feel stupid

AND contagious

 

well our band got dropped and that ain't funny

'cuz we're all hooked on drugs but we're outta money

so the other day i called up the band

i said boys i've taken all i can

shave off your goatees

pack the van

we're goin' back to athens

[RU Rah Rah]

"Was it a millionaire who said, 'Imagine no possessions'?"

-- Elvis Costello

[RoseBowlMtg]

Speaking of Todd Snider, this one's a bit dated, but not really since you could just apply it to whatever the hot new "scene" is. Definitely still funny and worth a listen.

 

 

"Talkin' Seatlle Grunge Rock Blues"

 

space needle

eddie vedder

mudnhoney

gypcasino I like his live version when he replaces mudnhoney for Ichirooooooooooo Suzuki! Good for this baseball site!

[gypcasino]

gypcasino I like his live version when he replaces mudnhoney for Ichirooooooooooo Suzuki! Good for this baseball site!

Sweet. I'm gonna search for it tonight.

I forgot I had Snider on my iPod until I saw him mentioned here.