Lyrics you like a lot.

• I Wear Pants

  I listen to a lot of music and have my tastes but sometimes there are parts or verses or passages or whathaveyou in songs that I really like or relate to at the time. The following is one of them. I'll post more when I remember/recognize them.
  

  And I watch the debates till I can't think straight. Take abortion away, and both sides they felt the same, so I knew sure how we'd vote... but I just don't know what difference it ever made. It seems to me we get the same shit from them both. Reforms don't work - I think it's time for work revolt; but I don't got the guts to jump up and shoot first, so I'll just shout until my throat hurts, and I curse and I curse...
  
  And well we fucked up in Iraq, you say "support the troops" - I do, I want them all brought back - but then your drums beat and it's back to Afghanistan and that's the change I can't believe in. So if you really go and reinstate the draft, just straight away just split the country straight in half; so try arresting everyone who sends their draft cards back. I'll be returning mine in no time flat.

  also
  

  I won't remember to remember to forget you forgot me.

  The lyrics are from Kevin Devine and Modest Mouse respectively.
• Swamp Fox

  Tears In Heaven........................................ Eric Clapton
  
  Folsom Prison Blues................................... Johnny Cash
  
  Crazy ....................................................... Patsy Cline
  
  Bridge Over Troubled Waters...................... Simon and Garfunkel
• SQ_Crazies

  

  DMB has A LOT of great lyrics.
  
  There are so many songs with great lyrics though.
  
  A random DMB sample:
  

  Look at this big eyed fish
  swimming in the sea
  Oh how it dreams to be a bird
  swooping, diving through the breeze
  So one day
  caught a big old wave
  up on to the beach
  Now the fish is dead, you see
  cause fish should know stay down in the sea
  
  But oh God
  Under the weight of life
  Things seem brighter on the other side
  
  Story of this man, who decided not to breathe
  He turned red then blue then purple, colorful indeed
  No matter how his friends begged and pleaded, he would not concede
  Now the man is dead you see
  Cause every man should know you got to breathe
  
  But, oh God,
  Under the weight of life,
  Things seem brighter on the other side

• UANyg

  idk about DMB. they have a lot of great music......but lyrics, im not too sure.
  
  one of my all time favorite lyrics is by the lyricist of them all, bob dylan. it goes
  
  May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May your song always be sung, May you stay forever young.
  
  simply the greatest lyricist of all time IMO
• SQ_Crazies

  

  UANyg wrote: idk about DMB. they have a lot of great music......but lyrics, im not too sure.
  

  LOL SMH...I could prove you wrong but it'll kill the thread.
• power i

  

  Buy me a drink,
  Sing me a song,
  Take me as I am cuz I can't stay long. - Tom Petty
• BR1986FB

  "Sometimes I get ridiculous, I'll eat up all your crackers and your licorice."
• ksig489

  "Hey yo fat girl, come here are you ticklish?"
  
  Humpty Dance was the song!
• ksig489

  Start to finish...every word of Piano Man by Billy Joel
• ohiotiger33

  

  My favorite verse of all time in music. Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles.
  
  Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
  It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
  It doesn't matter much to me.
  
  My favorite chorus is also the Beatles. Hey Jude:
  
  And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain
  Don't carry the world upon your shoulders
  For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
  By making his world a little colder
  
  
  My favorite complete song is Time by Pink Floyd:
  
  Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
  Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
  Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
  Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
  
  Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
  And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
  And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
  No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
  
  And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
  Racing around to come up behind you again
  The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
  Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
  
  Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
  Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
  Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
  The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
  
  BREATHE REPRISE
  Home, home again
  I like to be here when I can
  And when I come home cold and tired
  It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
  Far away across the field
  The tolling of the iron bell
  Calls the faithful to their knees
  To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
• Hb31187

  

  Slob on my knob, like corn on the cob.
  Check in with me, And do your job.
• ksig489

  Also like Garth Brooks "Standing Outside the Fire" and "Much Too Young".
• justincredible

  

  Shooter Jennings - Summer of Rage
  
  Chaos is hangin' around, put your ear to the ground and shutter from the sound
  The death machine ain't slowing down it's gaining pound for pound
  a gas mask is the couture in the summer of rage
  they're building mass graves for their mistakes, you and i they'll vaccinate
  they're preparing us for an all out police state
  
  hush, hush little child, your world is going wild
  can't trust nothing but the love in your momma's eyes
  hush, hush little child
  salvation's in your smile, just wish that i could be alive to see the hole in your eyes
  
  our only weapon is total defiance, let our love for our neighbors guide us
  speak loud when they try to silence, withhold when they try to fight us
  
  hush, hush little child, your world is going wild
  can't trust nothing but the love in your momma's eyes
  hush, hush little child
  salvation's in your smile, just wish that i could be alive to see the hole in your eyes
  
  hush, hush little child, your world is going wild
  can't trust nothing but the love in your momma's eyes
  hush, hush little child
  salvation's in your smile, just wish that i could be alive to see the hole in your eyes
• vball10set

  Aerosmith's "Dream On"
• Zoltan

  +1 for Time by Pink Floyd
• stroups

  

  Against the Wind - Bob Seger
• darbypitcher22

  

  I Drive by the homeless sleepin on a cold dark street,
  their bodies in an open grave,
  underneath the broken old neon sign,
  that used to read Jesus Saves...
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Nightswimming - R.E.M.
  
  Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
  The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago,
  Turned around backwards so the windshield shows.
  Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse.
  Still, it's so much clearer.
  I forgot my shirt at the water's edge.
  The moon is low tonight.
  
  Nightswimming deserves a quiet night.
  I'm not sure all these people understand.
  It's not like years ago,
  The fear of getting caught,
  Of recklessness and water.
  They cannot see me naked.
  These things, they go away,
  Replaced by everyday.
  
  Nightswimming, remembering that night.
  September's coming soon.
  I'm pining for the moon.
  And what if there were two
  Side by side in orbit
  Around the fairest sun?
  That bright, tight forever drum
  Could not describe nightswimming.
  
  You, I thought I knew you.
  You I cannot judge.
  You, I thought you knew me,
  this one laughing quietly underneath my breath.
  Nightswimming.
  
  The photograph reflects,
  Every streetlight a reminder.
  Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night.
  
  
  BTW, I also think DMB has some very underrated lyrical songs. Two Step, #41, Say Goodbye, etc....
• Woollums9

  Imagine - John Lennon
• vball10set

  R.E.M.--loved that band...
• Heretic

  

  Dismember -- "Let the Napalm Rain". Sums up my opinion of religion nicely!
  
  Indoctrination since early youth
  murder of the free thinking mind
  religion the root of all evil
  the source of all suffering
  
  Deeper and deeper into the void
  across the wasteland of your mind
  lying to live, living their lie
  they make you betray your own kind
  
  Life of agony
  you have chosen your way
  self induced misery
  you are led astray
  
  The free will shall carry the day
  drop the bomb and wash the filth away
  let the napalm rain
  
  Step into the sickening light
  into ruins of heavenly might
  embide yourself in their moral vanity
  sell your soul to insanity
  
  Religion is an excuse
  for a lack of character
  something to fall back on
  when all else fails
  
  Islam, Hindu, Christianity
  it's all based on lies
  there is no key to paradise
  believe in yourself and all gods die
• Heretic

  

  And of course, who can forget the single greatest lyric of all time: MAGIC EVERYWHERE IN THIS BITCH!
• BR1986FB

  "White trash get down on your knees....time for cake and sodomy.
  
  Cake & Sodomy by Marilyn Manson
• justcompete

  "Cat's In the Cradle" - whole song
  
  "You've got to believe in yourself,
  or no one will believe in you."
  Ozzy
• bwcomet89

  Pink Floyd- Dogs, Have a Cigar
  
  Don McLean- American Pie
  
  P.O.D.- Youth of a Nation
  
  Simon&Garfunkel- The Boxer, I am a Rock
  
  Everlast- What it's like