Favorite Song Lyrics (Snippets)

[DArnie]

Never been this blue
Never knew the meaning of a heartache
But then again, I never lost at love before
Somewhere down the road

 

I just can't believe I could throw it all away
Sometimes late at night
When there's nothing here except my piano
I'd almost give my hands to make you see my way

Stand tall, don't you fall
For God's sake don't go and do something foolish
All you're feeling right now is silly human pride
Oh, stand tall, don't you fall

 

Burton Cummings

[touch]

Wait a minute baby
Stay with me a while
Said you'd give me light
But you never told me about the fire

Drowning
In the sea of love
Where everyone would love to drown
But now it's gone
It doesn't matter what for
When you build your house
Then call me home

And he was just like
A great dark wing
Within the wings of a storm
I think I had met my match
He was singing

And undoing

And undoing

Ooh, the laces
Undoing the laces

Said Sara
You're the poet in my heart
Never change
Never stop
But now it's gone
It doesn't matter what for
But when you build your house
Oh, then call me home

 

 Stephanie Nicks

[touch]

Whenever I need to leave it all behind
Or feel the need to get away-ay-ay
I find a quiet place, far from the human race
Out in the country

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the night-time
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin'

Whenever I feel them closing in on me
Or need a bit of room to move
When life becomes too fast, I find relief at last
Out in the country

Before the breathin' air is gone
Before the sun is just a bright spot in the night-time
Out where the rivers like to run
I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin'

 

Songwriters: Paul H. Williams / Roger S. Nichols

Three Dog Night 

[eagles1]

"Send lawyers, guns and money - the sh!t has hit the fan"

 

"Lawyers, Guns & Money"

Warren Zevon

Edited June 28, 2023 by eagles1

[Argonne69]

No one knows what it's like

To be the bad man

To be the sad man

Behind blue eyes

 

No one knows what it's like

To be hated

To be fated

To telling only lies

 

But my dreams

They aren't as empty

As my conscience seems to be

 

I have hours, only lonely

My love is vengeance

That's never free

 

- The Who 

 

[Argonne69]

Stacy, can I come over after school?
We can hang around by the pool
Did your mom get back from her business trip?
Is she there, or is she tryna give me the slip?

 

You know, I'm not the little boy that I used to be
I'm all grown up now, baby, can't you see?

Stacy's mom has got it goin' on
She's all that I want and I've waited for so long
Stacy, can't you see? You're just not the girl for me
I know it might be wrong but I'm in love with Stacy's mom 

 

- Fountains of Wayne 

 

[nitram]

Well, Jackie, he got married, but his ends they wouldn't meet
His wife worked at the Texas Commerce Bank just up the street
Well, Jackie got an idea to get him outta debt
And they could live the good life and drive a new Corvette
If he'd rob the bank, he said, 'cause these are desperate times

Well, he had planned the whole thing, and while his baby worked
He came in after hours in a black ski mask and shirt
She told him where the money was, and that's just where he went
The minute that he saw it, he already had it spent
Well, it wasn't easy, but these are desperate times

Well, he drove off to Bandera, 'cause that was his hometown
He had it in his mind just where he'd lay that money down
He went out to his mom's house, and Jack went up the hill
To bury that old suitcase full of hundred dollar bills
Well, he'd let it sit a while, 'cause these are desperate times

Well, the bank, they called the G-men, 'cause they were insured by the Fed
And Jill, she rolled on Jack, 'cause she was in above her head
The G-men gave Jack wind of this when they made his arrest
And he asked her why she turned on the one that she loved best
Well, it wasn't easy, Jack, but these are desperate times

Yeah, ain't that what she always said
These are desperate times

 

-Charlie Robison

Edited June 4, 2023 by nitram

[MikeW2]

I wish that I knew what I know now

When I was younger

I wish that I knew what I know now

When I was stronger 

 

the Faces…always liked this song and randomly heard it a couple times in the last week and this line just hit differently for some reason.

[DArnie]

Girl, you're gettin' that look in your eyes
And it's startin' to worry me
I ain't ready for no family ties
Nobody's gonna hurry me

Just keep it friendly, girl
'Cause I don't wanna leave
Don't start clingin' to me, girl
'Cause I can't breathe

Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me
Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me
'Cause I'll just use you then I'll set you free
Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me

 

Mac Davis
 

[DArnie]

Gypsy lady
You're a miracle work for me
You set my soul free
Like a ship sailing on the sea

She is the sunlight when the skies are grey
She treats me so right lady take me away

My Maria (oh Maria I love you girl, oh my Maria)
Maria (oh Maria I love you girl, Maria I love you)
I love you

 

Brooks & Dunn

[Argonne69]

I've got your picture, I've got your picture
I'd like a million of you, all 'round my cell
I want a doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
You've got me turning up and turning down
And turning in and turning 'round

 

No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a psyched Lone Ranger, everyone

 

- The Vapors, Turning Japanese 

 

[Argonne69]

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine

Singin' joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

 

- Three Dog Night 

 

[gripandrip]

AN oldy but a goodie from Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen

 

Wound it up to a hundred-and-ten
My speedometer said that I hit top end.
My foot was blue, like lead to the floor.
That's all there is and there ain't no more.

 

Now the boys all thought I'd lost my sense
And telephone poles looked like a picket fence.
They said, "Slow down! I see spots!
The lines on the road just look like dots."

[DArnie]

He take the thunder from the mountain
He take a lightning from the sky
He bring a strong man to his begging knee
He make the young girl's mama cry

You got to hidey-hide
You got to jump and run
You got to hidey-hidey-hide
The old man is down the road

 

John Fogerty

[DArnie]

But tell me, did the wind sweep you off your feet?
Did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day
And head back to the Milky Way?
And tell me, did Venus blow your mind?
Was it everything you wanted to find, and did you miss me
While you were looking for yourself out there?

 

Train

[DArnie]

Yeah, they ran through the briars
And they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes
Where the rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast
That the hounds couldn't catch 'em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

 

Johnny Horton

[AngryGilmore]

I never wanted to know

Never wanted to see

I've wasted my time

Till time wasted me

Never wanted to go 

Always wanted to stay

Cause the persons I am 

Are the parts that I play 

 

So I plot and I plan

I hope and I scheme 

To the lure of a night 

Filled with unfinished dreams

I'm holding on tight 

To a world gone astray

As they charge me for years

I can no longer pay.

 

-Savatage  "When the Crowds are Gone"

 

[Argonne69]

I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK

I sleep all night and I work all day

 

I cut down trees, I eat my lunch

I go to the lavatory

On Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea

 

He's a lumberjack and he's OK

He sleeps all night and he works all day

 

I cut down trees, I skip and jump

I like to press wild flowers

I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars

 

- Monty Python 

 

[NCLancer]

Looking back its hard to tell why they stood while others fell
spend your life working it out
all I know's one cloudy day, they both just ran away
rain on the windshield headed south
oh she loved the lines around his mouth

 

sometimes the world begins to set you up on your feet again
and no one wipes the tears from your eyes
how will you ever know the way that circumstances go
its gonna hit you by surprise
but i know my past you were there
everything I've done, you are the one

 

Blue Rodeo   5 Days in May

[Triple Lindy]

Been a minute since I tuned into this thread. It’s going deep!
 

Spotcheck Billy got down on his hands and knees
He said, "Hey momma, hey let me check your oil all right?"
She said "No, no honey, not tonight
Will you comeback Monday
Will you comeback Tuesday, oh, and then I might"

 

Fat Man in the Bathtub - Little Feat

[Argonne69]

Ever hit a drive 40 yds past your playing partner, and refer to it as a "Linda Rondstadt"? That's because it Blue Bayou. Lol. 

 

I feel so bad, I got a worried mind
I'm so lonesome all the time
Since I left my baby behind
On Blue Bayou

Saving nickles, saving dimes
Working 'til the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times
On Blue Bayou

I'm going back someday
Come what may to Blue Bayou
Where the folks are fine 
And the world is mine on Blue Bayou

Where those fishing boats with their sails afloat
If I could only see
That familiar sunrise through sleepy eyes
How happy I'd be

 

[touch]

Wailin' down the freeway
Adjust the cruisin' power
The state trooper clocked me at ninety miles an hour
It wasn't me
No no sheriff it wasn't me
Well you must have met some other body,
No, no it wasn't me

 

I met a German girl in England
Who was goin' to school in France
Said we danced the Mississippi at an Alpha kappa dance
It wasn't me
Woo, it wasn't me
Yeah, you must've met some other body,
No, no child it wasn't me

 

George Thorogood & The Destroyers

Songwriter: Chuck Berry

[Triple Lindy]

But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity,
 

Rush

[Triple Lindy]

The future’s uncertain and the end is always near

 

- The Doors

[Argonne69]

Twenty twenty twenty four hours to go

I wanna be sedated

Nothing to do, no where to go o,

I wanna be sedated

 

Just get me to the airport, put me on a plane

Hurry hurry hurry, before I go insane

I can't control my fingers,

I can't control my brain

Oh no oh oh oh oh

 

- Ramones 

 

[touch]

Last night, as I got home about a half past ten
There was the woman I thought I knew
In the arms of another man
I kept my cool, I ain't no fool
Let me tell ya what happened then
I packed some clothes and I walked out
And I ain't goin' back again

So, take a letter, Maria, address it to my wife
Say I won't be coming home, gotta start a new life
Oh, take a letter Maria, address it to my wife
Send a copy to my lawyer, gotta start a new life

 

Ronald Bertram Greaves

[touch]

They might fade and turn to stone
Let's get crazy all alone
Hold me closer than you'd ever dare
Close your eyes and I'll be there

And after all is said and done
After all you are the one
Take me up your stairs and through the door
Take me where we don't care anymore

Love, look what you've done to me
Never thought I'd fall again so easily
Oh love, you wouldn't lie to me, would you?
Leading me to feel this way

 

David W. Foster / Boz Scaggs

[signats]

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first; 'round here, anyway
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
I came home with a brand new plan
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico
I just plant it up a holler down Copperhead Road
And now the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air
I wake up screaming like I'm back over there
I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don't you know?
You better stay away from Copperhead Road

 

Steve Earle

Edited June 21, 2023 by signats

[bscinstnct]

Why you all coming down on me
Tryin' to tell me how my life is supposed to be

I know you're only trying to help me out
Tryin' to show me what life is really about

But this time I'm gonna make it on my own
So why dontcha fellaz just leave me alone

Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike
If I like the girl who cares who you like

 

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New Edition 

[miamistomp]

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth