Favourite line from a song
Gonzo @ Thu Sep 09, 2004 9:30 pm
I love music. I play guitar and write songs, the music part anyway. Lyrically I'm challenged, but I admire good lines. Here is a band that I just recently discovered (from the SARS concert DVD) and the song is brilliant.
Do you realise?
That happiness makes you cry
Do you realise?
That everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realise
The Flaming Lips
CanuckChick @ Sat Sep 11, 2004 8:14 am
I'm a huge Black Crowes fan, and one of my favourite tunes is My Morning Song, off the Southern Harmony and Musical Companion album.
Part of the song goes,
If music's got to free your mind,
Just let it go baby, let it go, cause you never know, you'll never know,
If your rhythm ever falls out of time, you can bring it tome and I promise I will make it fine, yes I will.
If you're heart is beating free, for the very first time, it will be alright, yes it will...
If your soul is let go, baby you'll never know
Will you let your soul go, let your mind go, let your heart go, let your soul go?
It's such a cool song. To me it meant, music should become a part of you and speak to you.
Okay, now that I sound like a total nut case.............. 
lol...
Indelible @ Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:43 pm
take the only tree that's left and stuff it up the hole in your culture
--Leonard Cohen--
$1:
democracy
It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.
It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.
It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we'll be making love again.
We'll be going down so deep
the river's going to weep,
and the mountain's going to shout Amen!
It's coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Sail on, sail on ...
I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.
It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.
It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we'll be making love again.
We'll be going down so deep
the river's going to weep,
and the mountain's going to shout Amen!
It's coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Sail on, sail on ...
I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
leonard cohen again
Indelible @ Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:45 pm
$1:
the future
Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant.
You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide ...
There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'.
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide ...
When they said REPENT REPENT ...
Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant.
You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide ...
There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'.
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide ...
When they said REPENT REPENT ...
www.leonardcohen.com
polemarch1 @ Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:36 pm
$1:
I am alive, Places inside, My Heart screams inside with pride, Once I cried, Now I wipe away the tears, Once I died, But now I'm ALIVE!
Korn, Alive, Take A Look In The Mirror
WestieLee @ Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:05 pm
what do i know about good music...there's so many different kinds of music i like and so many cd's that i have warn out already, i really don't know what my favorite song is. A lot of music can touch some one in any way that's for sure. A lot of songs were made to be songs that tie with every feeling there is to feel. Here's a little bit of one of my many favorite songs.
George Leach - Young Enough
$1:
'cause I'm old enough to say I've done it/young enough to do it again
Ralph @ Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:39 pm
She blew my nose and then she blew my bind.
Optinum @ Sun Sep 26, 2004 11:38 am
this song is the best of french quebec group, every line are good
Les cowboys fringants( www.cowboysfringants.com )
En Berne
Chu né "dins" années soixante-dix
Dans un Québec en plein changement
Où l'emblème de la fleur de lys
Donnait un peu d'espoir aux gens
Mais quand je r'garde ça aujourd'hui
Chu donc pas fier de ma patrie
Ça dort au gaz dins bungalows
Le cul assis su'l statut quo
En s'gavant de téléromans
Et des talks-shows les plus stupides
Se laissant mourir su'l divan
Avec leur petit air candide
Dans ce royaume de la poutine
On s'complait dans' médocrité
Bien satisfaits de notre routine
Et du bonheur pré-fabriqué
"Prendrais-tu un p'tit gratteux?"
Me dit l'caissier au dépanneur
"Enweye le gros, sors ton p'tit deux
Être millionnaire c'est le bonheur"
Y's'met à rêver le samedi
Qu'y va p't'être quitter son taudis
Espère toujours maudit moron
T'as une chance sur quatorze millions
Dans l'stationnement du casino
Un gars s'tire une balle dans la tête
Ayant tout "flobé" son magot
Y'avait pu trop l'coeur à la fête
Mais l'gouvernement s'en balance
Y's'nourrit à même les gamblers
En exploitant leur dépendance
Un peu comme le f'rait un pusher
Si c'est ça l'Québec moderne
Ben moi j'mets mon drapeau en berne
Et j'emmerde tous les bouffons qui nous gouvernent!
Si tu rêves d'avoir un pays
Ben moi j'te dis qu't'es mal parti
T'as ben plus de chances de gagner à' loterie...
On a été pendant des années
Un petit peuple de yes-man
Qui marchait les fesses serrées
Quand arrivait le foreman
Aujourd'hui ça' un peu changé
Les gars sont tous syndiqués
Ça jase trois-quatre autour d'une pelle
En r'gardant le plus jeune faire du zèle
Mais faudrait pas s'réjouir trop vite
On est encore des porteurs d'eau
À la solde des gens de l'élite
Et des pleins d'marde en tuxedo
Quand l'boss d'une grosse corporation
Ferme son usine en Gaspésie
'Te d'mandera pas ton opinion
Y' va t'slaquer sans t'dire merci!
Un robineux quête dans la rue
Au pied d'un grand building en verre
Y va passer inaperçu
À la sortie des actionnaires
C'qui compte pour eux c'est les revenus
Et non les problèmes de la terre
"C'pas d'ma faute si t'es un trou d'cul
Moi l'important c'est que j'prospère"
Et l'premier-ministre fait semblant
Qui s'en fait pour les pauvres gens
Alors qu'on sait qu'y est au service
Des fortunés et d'leurs business
L'environnement, la pauvreté
Ç'pas des sujets prioritaires
On n'entend pas beaucoup parler
Derrière les portes des ministères
Si c'est ça l'Québec moderne
Ben moi j'mets mon drapeau en berne
Et j'emmerde tous les bouffons qui nous gouvernent!
Si t'es content de ce pays
Ben ça mon homme c'est ton avis
Tu dois être le PDG d'une compagnie
Quand on apprend que dans le nord
Y's'passe de quoi d'pas catholique
Que nos forêts sont mises à mort
Ça jase dans l'opinion publique
Deux s'maines et ça sombre dans l'oubli
L'histoire est morte et enterrée
Et dans le parc d'la Vérendrye
Ils continuent à tout raser
C'est ça l'problème de ma patrie
Y'a pas personne pour s'indigner
Contre la fausse démocratie
Qui sert les riches et les banquiers
Dans cette contrée peuplée d'ignares
'Faut pas trop s'rappeler d'son histoire
Ici y'a juste les plaques de char
Qu'y ont encore un ti-peu d'mémoire...
Si c'est ça l'Québec moderne
Ben moi j'mets mon drapeau en berne
Et j'emmerde tous les bouffons qui nous gouvernent!
Si c'est ça qu't'appelles une nation
Probable que tu sois assez con
T'es mûr pour te présenter aux élections...
Si c'est ça l'Québec moderne
Ben moi j'mets mon drapeau en berne
Si c'est ça l'Québec moderne
Ben moi j'mets mon drapeau en berne
and here de clip from the song
http://www.cowboysfringants.com/media/en_berne.html
Twila @ Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:01 pm
my current favourite line from a song is from Matt Good
"Christmas is for shopping and the shopping god is everything."
Tomorrow I'll probably have a different favourite, but for today.......
Streaker @ Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:34 am
....Jazz Police.
Can you tell me why the bells are ringing? Nothing's
happened in a million years. I've been sitting here
since Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning
can't believe my ears.
Jazz Police are looking through my folders. Jazz
Police are talking to my niece. Jazz Police have
got their final orders. Jazzer, drop your axe, it's
Jazz Police!
Jesus taken serious by many. Jesus taken joyous
by a few. Jazz Police are paid by J.P. Getty. Jazzers
paid by J.P. Getty II.
Jazz Police I hear you calling. Jazz Police I feel so
blue. Jazz Police I think I'm falling, falling for you.
Wild as any freedom loving racist, I applaud the
actions of the Chief. Tell me now, o beautiful and
spacious: Am I in trouble with the Jazz Police?
Jazz Police are looking through my folders. Jazz
Police are talking to my niece. Jazz Police have
got their final orders. Jazzer, drop your axe, it's
Jazz Police!
They will never understand our culture. They'll never
understand the Jazz Police. Jazz Police are
working for my mother. Blood is thicker margarine
than grease.
Let me be somebody I admire. Let me be that
muscle down the street. Stick another turtle on
the fire. Guys like me are mad for turtle meat.
Samfeld @ Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:36 pm
Tool
[Hooker with a Penis]
I,
met a boy!,
wearing Vans!,
501s!,
and a dope,
beastie-tee!,
nipple rings!,
new tattoos,
that claimed tha he
was OGT!,
back from '92!,
from the first EP!.
And in between
sips of coke
he told me
that he thought we
were sellin' out!,
layin' down,
suckin' up
to the man.
Well now I've got some advice for you, little buddy.
Before you point your finger you should know that I'm the man,
and if I'm the man, then you're the man, and he's the man as well
so you can point that fuckin' finger up your aaaaaaaaaaass!
All you know about me is what I've sold you,
Dumb fuck.
I sold out long before you ever even heard my name.
I sold my soul to make a record,
Dip shit,
and then you bought ooone!.
I've got some Advice for you, little buddy.
Before you point your finger you should know that I'm the man!.
If I'm the fuckin' man then you're the fuckin' man as well!,
So you can point that fuckin' finger up your aaaaaaaaaaaaaass!!!!!
smokinjoe @ Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:27 pm
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there’s a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that they’re all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to awake.
Seems that the wrath of the gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I’ll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.
To find a queen without a king;
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings.
La la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin’ to find a woman who’s never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it’s not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.
Infamous_Canadian @ Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:34 pm
I may have spelt some of this wrong but Rockin' The Suburbs by Ben Folds..Rocks!
Lemme tell ya all what its like
Bein male, middle class, and white
Its a bitch if you dont belive
Listen up to my new cd, sham on...
Ive got shit runnin through my brain
So intense that i cant explain
All alone in my white boy pain
Shake your booty while the band complains...
I'm rockin the suburbs..
Just like Micheal Jackson did
I'm rockin the suburbs
Except that he was talented
I'm rockin the suburbs
I take the cheques and face the facts
That some producerwith computers mixes all my shitty tracks...
misanthropic @ Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:10 am
from 'Lovers In a Dangerous Time' Bruce Cockburn
'You got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight '
HockeyBabe @ Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:35 pm
Oo! Oo! My turn! loll
my favourite line is: "DON'T WANNA BE AN AMERICAN IDIOT! ONE NATION CONTROLLED BY THE MEDIA!"
Well I love the whole song!!! 