Favorite Song Lyrics (Snippets)

[touch]

1 hour ago, DArnie said:

If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel      Mungo Jerry

 

I got a freaky old lady
Named Cocaine Katy
Who embroiders all my jeans.
Got my poor old grey-haired daddy
Drivin' my limousine.              Dr. Hook

 

 

You're a rich girl, and you've gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money              Hall & Oates

 

Money talks
But it can't sing and dance
And it can't walk              N. Diamond

 

 

 

Well done DA!

Nice. 

Edited February 27, 2023 by touch

[touch]

 

 

I spent so much time
Believing all the lies
To keep the dream alive
Now it makes me sad
It makes me mad at truth
For loving what was you

 

Eyes without a face
Eyes without a face
Eyes without a face
Got no human grace
You're eyes without a face

 

When you hear the music, you make a dip
Into someone else's pocket then make a slip
You steal a car and go to Las Vegas
Oh, gigolo pool
I'm on this bus on a psychedelic trip
Reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip
I'm thinkin' of you, you're out there so

 

Eyes without a face
Eyes without a face
Eyes without a face
Got no human grace
You're eyes without a face

 

Billy Idol

 

 

[ThinkingPlus]

My back to the wall
A victim of laughing chance
This is for me
The essence of true romance
Sharing the things we know and love with those of my kind
Libations, sensations
That stagger the mind

 

I crawl like a viper
Through these suburban streets
Make love to these women
Languid and bittersweet
I'll rise when the sun goes down
Cover every game in town
A world of my own
I'll make it my home sweet home

 

Learn to work the saxophone
(I) I play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
(I) I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues
(Deacon Blues)

 

[Argonne69]

One pill makes you larger 

And one pill makes you small 

And the ones that mother gives you 

Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice 

When she's ten feet tall. 

 

- Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit 

 

[Petethreeput]

I tend to gravitate toward lyrics with a message beyond love and scorned love, and these have popped into my head since this thread started.

 

And if these words you do not heed
Your pocketbook just kinda might recede
When some man comes along and claims a godly need
He will clean you out right through your tweed

("That's right, you asked for it, remember there is a big difference
Between kneeling down and bending over . . .")

--- Frank Zappa, Heavenly Bank Account

 

I first felt a fist, and then a kick
I could now smell their breath
They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs
And too many right wing meetings
My life swam around me

It took a look and drowned me in its own existence
The smell of brown leather
It blended in with the weather
It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth

--- The Jam, Down in the Tube Station at Midnight

 

All about that, personality crisis, you got it while it was hot
But now frustration and heartache is what you got
That's why they talk about personality

--- NY Dolls, Personality Crisis

 

 

[NCLancer]

3 hours ago, Petethreeput said:

I tend to gravitate toward lyrics with a message beyond love and scorned love, and these have popped into my head since this thread started.

 

And if these words you do not heed
Your pocketbook just kinda might recede
When some man comes along and claims a godly need
He will clean you out right through your tweed

("That's right, you asked for it, remember there is a big difference
Between kneeling down and bending over . . .")

--- Frank Zappa, Heavenly Bank Account

 

I first felt a fist, and then a kick
I could now smell their breath
They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs
And too many right wing meetings
My life swam around me

It took a look and drowned me in its own existence
The smell of brown leather
It blended in with the weather
It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth

--- The Jam, Down in the Tube Station at Midnight

 

All about that, personality crisis, you got it while it was hot
But now frustration and heartache is what you got
That's why they talk about personality

--- NY Dolls, Personality Crisis

 

 

Are you saying this doesn't work so well for you?😜

 

She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[touch]

Hail (hail)

What's the matter with your head, yeah

Hail (hail)

What's the matter with your mind

And your sign an-a, oh-oh-oh

Hail (hail)

Nothin' the matter with your head

Baby find it, come on and find it

Hail, with it baby

'Cause you're fine

And you're mine, and you look so divine

 

Come and get your love

Come and get your love

Come and get your love

Come and get your love

 

 Redbone

 

[DArnie]

Twenty four years, just waitin' for a chance
To tell her how I'm feeling, maybe get a second glance
Now I've gotta get used to not living next door to Alice       Smokie

 

Please, Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please, Mrs. Avery, I just want to tell her goodbye    

 

And the operator says forty cents more
For the next three minutes                     Dr. Slice

     

 

Hello, how are you?
Have you been alright through all those lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights?
That's what I'd say, I'd tell you everything
If you pick up that telephone,                    ELO

 

Operator, oh, could you help me place this call?
'Cause I can' t read the number that you just gave me
There's something in my eyes, you know it happens every time
I think about the love that I thought would save me

But isn't that the way they say it goes?                  J. Croce

[Jayjay_theweim_guy]

On 2/26/2023 at 2:32 PM, ThinkingPlus said:

Well, I woke up Sunday mornin'
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
So I had one more for dessert
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
Then I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day

 

I'd smoked my mind the night before
With cigarettes and songs I'd been pickin'
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playin' with a can that he was kickin'
Then I walked across the street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone's fryin' chicken
And Lord, it took me back to somethin' that I'd lost
Somewhere, somehow along the way

 

On a Sunday mornin' sidewalk
I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned
'Cause there's somethin' in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone
And there's nothin' short a' dyin'
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleepin' city sidewalk
And Sunday mornin' comin' down

 

 

Kris is just so obscenely talented. 

 

Helicopter pilot good enough?  Nah, I'm going to write hits for Nashville. (And sing a few---his ballad of Ira Hayes is fantastic!).

 

Songwriter is a fine career.  Satisfied?  Nah, I'll try acting...  And so on.

 

One of the more memorable characters in New Vegas, if we're going to also consider voice acting.

 

EDIT:  And for petethreeputt:

 

"What a catalyst you turned out to be
Loaded the guns, then you run off home for your tea
Left me standing like a guilty schoolboy"

 

Their set with Joy Division is one of the best half hours of live music on TV I've ever seen.  Edit^2:  Eh, let's not get crazy here.  Something Else isn't, say, Queen at Live Aid.  But it is great for GenX Joy Division--what would be New Order---and fans of The Jam.  Definitely of its time.

 

"That's entertainnnnment...."

Edited February 28, 2023 by Jayjay_theweim_guy

[Jayjay_theweim_guy]

On 2/26/2023 at 6:55 PM, Triple Lindy said:

Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit?
Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?
You oughta know not to stand by the window
Somebody see you up there
 

The Talking Heads

Life During Wartime

Still one of the best songs about how much it can suck to be a touring, famous musician.

[Argonne69]

But you'll come back each time you leave

'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream

 

- Taylor's Swift, Blank Space 

 

[JungleJimbo]

On 2/22/2023 at 12:39 AM, Argonne69 said:

Well, you wore out your welcome with random precision 

- Pink Floyd, Shine on You Crazy Diamond 

 

If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?! 

- Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall 

 

@Argonne69 Pls forgive the slightly-off-piste reply ... but given you like this Pink Floyd song ... i thought you might also like BBC's "Soul Music" podcast (typically <30mins duration, in which folks explain why that song means something to them/ share personal stories). Available on BBC website/ Spotify etc.

 

BBC Link: See all episodes from Soul Music 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001r7h 

 

 

[PNWGuy]

Move over, Rover

And let Jimi take over

 

Jimi Hendrix, Fire

Edited February 28, 2023 by PNWGuy

[fore_life]

Call me Beavis cuz I get nothing but head 

-Big L

[PNWGuy]

I'll tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn

 

The Doors, The WASP

 

Edited February 28, 2023 by PNWGuy

[Triple Lindy]

This thread is addicting. Saw some Zappa a few posts up. Since someone went there….

From Yellow Snow

 

And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go,
And don't you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go,
And don't you eat that yellow snow

 

From Moving to Montana 

 

I might be movin' to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of
Dental Floss
Raisin' it up
Waxen it down
In a little white box
I can sell uptown
 

From Dinah-Moe Hum

 

 

I whipped off her bloomers'n stiffened my thumb
An' applied rotation on her sugar plum

I poked 'n stroked till my wrist got numb
But I still didn't hear no Dinah-Moe Humm

 

[Triple Lindy]

Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box
Religion is the smile on a dog
I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know, if you know what I mean

 

Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

[Triple Lindy]

You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
 

Bob Dylan

[PNWGuy]

Teach your children well
Their father's hell did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick's the one you'll know by

 

Don't you ever ask them, "Why?"
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you

 

CSNY, Teach Your Children

[TiScape]

[touch]

Who's that knockin' on my door?
It's gotta be a quarter to four
Is it you again, comin' round for more?
Well, you can love me tonight if you want
But in the morning make sure you're gone
I'm talkin' to you
Hot legs, you're wearin' me out
Hot legs, you can scream and shout
Hot legs, are you still in school?
I love you honey

 

Rod Stewart

 

 

Edited March 1, 2023 by touch

[touch]

In the beginning, yeah,
There was something of love that was mine,
Now that it's gone, whoa, I'm cryin'

Oh, the time that it takes for a love to grow cold is a wonder to me,
I'm walkin' around with my head hangin' down
Tell me where is she?

Give me silver, blue and gold,
The colour of the sky I'm told,
My ray-ay-ain-bow is overdue

 

 

 Bad Company

 

 

 

 

 

[Argonne69]

"Relax, " said the night man
"We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave"

 

- The Eagles, Hotel California 

 

[DArnie]

Oh, won't you take me home tonight?
Oh, down beside your red fire light
Oh, and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go 'round
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go 'round     Queen

He's got this dream about buying some land
He's gonna give up the booze and the one-night stands
And then he'll settle down
In some quiet little town
And forget about everything     G. Rafferty

Now Leroy he a gambler
And he like his fancy clothes
And he like to wave his diamond rings
In front of everybody's nose
He got a custom Continental
He got an Eldorado too
He got a thirty two gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe       J. Croce

 

[touch]

The way you walk and talk
Really sets me off to a four-alarm, child (yes it does, uh, uh)
The way you squeeze and tease knocks me to my knees
'Cause you're smokin', baby, baby

The way you swerve and curve really wracks my nerves
And I'm so excited, child (yeah) woo, woo
The way you push, push lets me know that you're ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
(You're gonna get your wish) Oh, Lord, oh

Fire (what I say, child, ow)
Fire (uh-huh)
Got me burnin', got me burnin' (woo)
Got me burnin', got me burnin' (no, no)
Got me burnin', got me burnin' (whoa)

 

Ohio Players

 

 

[touch]

He met Marmalade down in old Moulin Rouge
Struttin' her stuff on the street
She said, "Hello, hey Joe, you wanna give it a go?"
Oh, uh-huh

Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, da-da (hey, hey, hey)
Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, here (here)
Mocha Chocolata, ya-ya (ooh, yeah)
Creole Lady Marmalade
(What-what? What-what?)
Ooh, oh

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

 

Patti Labelle 

[touch]

Now once I was downhearted
Disappointment was my closest friend
But then you came and he soon departed
And you know he never showed his face again

That's why your love (Your love keeps liftin' me)
Keep on liftin' me (Your love keeps liftin' me)
Higher (Liftin' me, liftin' me), higher, and higher (Higher)
I said your love (Your love keeps liftin' me)
Keep on (Liftin' me, liftin' me)
Liftin' me (Liftin' me) higher and higher (Higher)
Alright

 

 Jackie Wilson

 

 

[ThinkingPlus]

Bound in a nutshell
Lost in our weary eyes
We're tumbledown people
Leading our tumbledown lives
Breath of life (breath of life)
Could make our engines roar

We're far from power, north of desire
High and dry, hoping you'll send us
From your mouth instead of lies
A kiss of life for sleeping giants

 

Lightning Seeds

[Argonne69]

New car, caviar, four star, daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team

Money
Get back
I'm alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack

 

- Pink Floyd, Money

 

[PNWGuy]

She's got a chicken to ride
She's got a chicken to ride
She's got a chicken to ride
And it's in her hair!

The Beatles, Ticket to Ride

 

Excuse me while I kiss this guy

Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze

 

And someone shaved my wife tonight...
Sugar bear! 

Elton John, Someone Saved My Life Tonight

 

Jose, can you see?

National Anthem of the USA