The Lyrics Thread-Part VI

Counting Bodies Like Sheep- A Perfect Circle

Don’t fret precious I’m here,
Step away from the window
Go back to sleep
Safe from pain and truth and choice
And other poison devils
See, they don’t give a fuck about you,
Like I do

Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

I’ll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons
I’ll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reason
I’ll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices son
One in the same,
I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself

The Red Telephone
By: Love

Verse 1:
Sitting on a hillside
Watching all the people die
I’ll feel much better on the other side
I’ll thumb a ride

Verse 2/3:
I believe in magic
Why, because it is so quick
I don’t need power when I’m hypnotized
Look in my eyes
What are you seeing (I see…)
How do you feel?
(…you)

I feel real phony when my name is phil
Or was that bill?

Bridge:
Life goes on here
Day after day
I don’t know if I am living or if i’m
Supposed to be
Sometimes my life is so eerie
And if you think I’m happy
Paint me (white)(yellow)

I’ve been here once
I’ve been here twice
I don’t know if the third’s the fourth or if the -
The fifth’s to fix
Sometimes I deal with numbers
And if you wanna count me
Count me out

Verse 4:
I don’t need the time of day
Anytime with me’s ok
I just don’t want you using up my time
'cause that’s not right

Coda:
[repeat 3x:]
Ahh…
[repeat 3x:]
They’re locking them up today
They’re throwing away the key
I wonder who it’ll be tomorrow, you or me?
We’re all normal and we want our freedom
Freedom… freedom… freedom… freedom
Freedom… freedom… freedom… freedom
[continue with am - a progression as above, to fade]
(spoken:) alla god’s chilluns gotta have dere freedom

Blind Guardian- “Mordred’s Song”

I’ve lost my first battle before it starts
My first breath wasn’t done
My spirit’s sunken deep into the ground
Why am I alone
I can hear my heartbeat
Silence all around

See hate will rise
So don’t come closer
Fear your child
Born with a king’s heart
But fate fooled me
And changed my cards
No one asked if I want it
If I like it

Pain inside is rising
I am the fallen one
A figure in an old game
No Jokers on my side
I plunged into misery
I’ll turn off the light and murder the dawn
Turn off the light and murder the dawn

Nothing else, but laughter is around me
Forevermore
No one can heal me
No one can save me
No one can heal me
I’ve gone beyond the truth
It’s just another lie
Wash away the blood on my hands
My father’s blood
In agony we’re unified
I never wanted to be
What they told me to be
Fulfill my fate then I’ll be free
God knows how long
I tried to change fate

Pain inside is rising
I am the fallen one
A figure in an old game
No Jokers on my side
I plunged into misery
I’ll turn off the light and murder the dawn
Turn off the light and murder the dawn

Pain inside is rising
I am the fallen one
A figure in an old game
No Jokers on my side
I plunged into misery
I’ll turn off the light and murder the dawn
Turn off the light and murder the dawn

Mykonos
Fleet Foxes @ Sun Giant
MUSIC VIDEO.

The door slammed loud and rose up a cloud of dust on us
Footsteps follow down through the hollow sound, torn up

And you will go to Mykonos,
With a vision of a gentle coast
And a sun to maybe dissipate
Shadows of the mess you made

How did any holes in the snow tipped pines, I find
Hatching from the seed of your thin mind, all night?

And you will go to Mykonos,
With a vision of a gentle coast
And a sun to maybe dissipate
Shadows of the mess you made

Brother you don’t need to turn me away:
I was waiting down at the ancient gate

You go—
Wherever you go today,
You go today

I remember how they took you down
As the winter turned the meadow brown

You go—
Wherever you go today,
You go today

When I’m walking brother, don’t you forget:
It ain’t often you’ll ever find a friend

You go—
Wherever you go today,
You go today

We’re all living in America,
America is wunderbar.
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.

Rammstien - Amerika

Visions of Johanna
Bob Dylan

Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet ?
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handfull of rain, tempting you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there’s nothing really nothing to turn of
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman’s bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the D-train
We can hear the night watcman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it’s him or them that’s really insane
Louise she’s all right she’s just near
She’s delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna’s not here
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I’m in the hall
Oh, how can I explain ?
It’s so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn.

Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, “Jeeze
I can’t find my knees”
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel.

The peddler now speaks to the countess who’s pretending to care for him
Saying, “Name me someone that’s not a parasite and I’ll go out and say a prayer for him”
But like Louise always says
"Ya can’t look at much, can ya man "

As she, herself prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev’rything’s been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.

Low -R.E.M.

Dusk is dawn is day
Where did it go?
I’ve been laughing
Fast and slow
Moving in a still frame
Howling at the moon
Morning found me laughing
Up and down, down
Low low low
Night suits me fine
and morning suits me fine
I’ve been so happy
Way up high, high
In between
Down below
Low low low

I skipped the part about love
It seems so silly and low
Low low low
Low low low

I said the morning
It isn’t your time
Barefoot naked
I can see your lines
It doesn’t bother me
That you are right
Your grass is grassy wet
Your light white is bright
Light white light

I skipped the part about love
It seems so shallow and low
Low low low
Low low low

You and me
We know about time
We know how things go
They come and go
They live and grow
They pass and go
And glow and glow
Up and down
High and low
Low low low
Low low low

I skipped the part about love
It seems so silly and low
I skipped the part about love
It seems so shallow and low
Low low low
Low low low

I like your hands
All full of glory
All full of glory

A Day in the Life
The Beatles
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I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grave
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They’d seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords.

I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
but I just had to look
Having read the book
I’d love to turn you on

Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in second splat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
and Somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
I’d love to turn you on

Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.

Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.

You were caught in the cross fire of childhood and stardom.
Blown on the steel breeze.

Come on you target for faraway laughter.
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine.

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.

Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.

Well you wore out your welcome with random precision.
Rode on the steel breeze.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions.
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

Love Song of the Fly- Mirah

I take offer of your open window, oh
and permit myself the nearness of you
even just the scent of what you’ve left behind
drives me in circles of lust
oh your crumbs and your dust

I enter each room and perform for you
might you love me alone for my skill and grace
how we tease and chase
this song for you I hum in your favorite key
please render me adoringly

But sweet ribbons you vex me
when your treachery holds me fast
my adoration only led me straight into your trap
I beheld them a gift for me
never dreamed they would extinguish me
though perfumed, my wings are torn
a fallen warrior

Oh why do you despise me
Only criticize me
your wrath collides with the love that resides
in kaleidoscope eyes
you care not for my speed and bravery
you only think me base and dirty
but I love you still darling
multiplying in my eyes

I wished only to care for you
make beautiful your castaways
you see all life is bound with this grace
I regenerate hope with
every morsel on which I feed
and in return all I ask is compassion and tenderness
that’s all any lover really needs

And now you know
I cherished you so
I’ll perish, though
become your dust

Teach Your Children - CSNY

You, who are on the road
Must have a code
That you can live by.
And so, become yourself
Because the past
Is just a goodbye.

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 die
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.

And you (Can you hear and)
Of tender years (Do you care and)
Can’t know the fears (Can you see we)
That your elders grew by (Must be free to)
And so please help (Teach your children)
Them with your youth (You believe and)
They seek the truth (Make a world that)
Before they can die (We can live in)

Teach your parents well
Their children’s hell
Will 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.

A Simple Mistake - Anathema

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Think for yourself you know what you need in this life
see for yourself and feel your soul come alive tonight
here in moments we share, trembling between the worlds we stare
out at starlight enshrined, veiled like diamonds in…

…time could be the answer, take a chance, lose it all
it’s a simple mistake to make to create love and to fall
so rise and be your master you don’t need to be a slave
of memory ensnared in a web, in a cage

I’ve found my way to fly free from the constraints of time
I have soared through the sky seen life far below in mind
breathed in truth, love, serene, sailed on OCEANS OF BELIEF
searched and found life inside, we’re not just a moment in time…

…could be the answer, take a chance lose it all
it’s a simple mistake to make to create love and to fall
so rise and be your master you don’t need to be a slave
of memory ensnared in a web, in a cage

Moonlight Drive - The Doors

Let’s swim to the moon, uh huh
Let’s climb through the tide
Penetrate the evenin’ that the
City sleeps to hide
Let’s swim out tonight, love
It’s our turn to try
Parked beside the ocean
On our moonlight drive

Let’s swim to the moon, uh huh
Let’s climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side

Nothin’ left open
And no time to decide
We’ve stepped into a river
On our moonlight drive

Let’s swim to the moon
Let’s climb through the tide
You reach your hand to hold me
But I can’t be your guide

Easy, I love you
As I watch you glide
Falling through wet forests
On our moonlight drive, baby
Moonlight drive

Come on, baby, gonna take a little ride
Down, down by the ocean side
Gonna get real close
Get real tight
Baby gonna drown tonight
Goin’ down, down, down

CLoSeR by Anathema

This would have to be one of my all time favourite songs… it takes me away… enjoy!

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dream world is a very scary place
the dream world is a very scary place
the dream world is a very scary place
to be trapped in

dream world is a very scary place
the dream world is a very scary place
the dream world is a very scary place
to be trapped inside
trapped inside
trapped inside
all your life

shine in time
shine in time
shine in time
´til you find

you’re closer
you’re closer
to the truth

within you
within you
within you
is the truth

that your dream world is a very scary place
your dream world is a very scary place
your dream world is a very scary place
to be trapped in

your dreams is such a lonely lonely place
your dreams is such a lonely lonely place
your dreams is such a lonely lonely place
to be trapped inside
trapped inside
trapped inside
all your life

shine in time
shine in time
shine in time
´til you die

you’re closer
you’re closer
you’re closer
to the truth

within you
within you
within you
is the truth

I go,I go,I go closer x4

closer,closer,closer
to the truth

within you,
within you,
within you,
is the truth…

Collapse the light into Earth - Porcupine Tree

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One of the most beautiful songs to me…

I won’t shiver in the cold
I won’t let the shadows take their toll
I won’t cover my head in the dark
And I won’t forget you when we part

Collapse the Light Into Earth

I won’t heal given time
I won’t try to change your mind
I won’t feel better in the cold light of day
But I wouldn’t stop you if you wanted to stay

Collapse the Light Into Earth

Half Light - Porcupine Tree

And just a song for when I am feeling a little sentimental… or is that semi-mental?
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Such a pale light
Such a long night
Pick up that key
Don’t drop your gaze in your coffee
Is it me?
Do I look beautiful in the half light?

It’s been so long
Years have gone
Since I belonged
Hold me please
Stay with me

And I will sleep

I will go now
But I will be with you
Hold my gaze
Hold me inside you

Dogs - Pink Floyd
Part I - Part II

You got to be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes and when you’re on the street
You got to be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking

And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You’ll get the chance to put the knife in

You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know, it’s going to get harder, and harder, and harder
As you get older
Yeah, and in the end you’ll pack up and fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer

And when you lose control, you’ll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it’s too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down all alone
Dragged down by the stone

Gotta admit that I’m a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if I’m just being used
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise
If I don’t stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze

Deaf, dumb and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone’s expendable, and no one has a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
Everything’s done under the sun
But you believe at heart everyone’s a killer

Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a pat on the back
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone
Who was dragged down by the stone

The Light -Mirah

What’s the use of holding out a work-sore hand
to catch some when it turns up empty-
all is dry and all you ever wanted some rain…

If heaven is the future why is it that you refuse to go there now?
With all you have you really should do more than just complain.

Such a rotten taste is left when you don’t think to say that,
It’s just such a sorry waste to take the easy way out of the pain.

When the end shines from the deep
and all the hate and all the hell
that history has released
will tremble before your valor
if you just get down on your knees
and promise to all your children true
that you will live in peace…

Where’s the light to shine on me?
Oh, send me something, send me please.
Cleanse my body, close my eyes,
all naked and prepared to die.

In the starry atmosphere
when all the questions disappear
and pressure with a salty taste
exalts the tears that soak your face.

If - Pink Floyd
Waters

If I were a swan, I’d be gone.
If I were a train, I’d be late.
And if I were a good man,
I’d talk with you
More often than I do.

If I were to sleep, I could dream.
If I were afraid, I could hide.
If I go insane, please don’t put
Your wires in my brain.

If I were the moon, I’d be cool.
If I were a rule , I would bend.
If I were a good man, I’d understand
The spaces between friends.

If I were alone, I would cry.
And if I were with you, I’d be home and dry.
And if I go insane,
Will you still let me join in with the game?

If I were a swan, I’d be gone.
If I were a train, I’d be late again.
If I were a good man,
I’d talk with you
More often than I do.

Baz Luhrmann - Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

[size=75]Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99
If I could offer you only one tip for the future,
sunscreen would be it.
The long term benefits of sunscreen
have been proved by scientists
whereas the rest of my advice
has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering experience…
I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth;
oh nevermind;
you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth
until they have faded. But trust me,
in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself
and recall in a way you can’t grasp now
how much possibility lay before you
and how fabulous you really looked….
You’re not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future;
or worry, but know that worrying is
as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation
by chewing bubblegum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind;
the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you
Sing
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts,
don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss
Don’t waste your time on jealousy;
sometimes you’re ahead,
sometimes you’re behind…
the race is long, and in the end,
it’s only with yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults;
if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters,
throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know
what you want to do with your life…
the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22
what they wanted to do with their lives,
some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees,
you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t,
maybe you’ll have children,maybe you won’t,
maybe you’ll divorce at 40,
maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…
what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much
or berate yourself either –
your choices are half chance,
so are everybody else’s.

Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…
don’t be afraid of it,
or what other people think of it,
it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own…
Dance…
even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines,
they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents,
you never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings;
they are the best link to your past
and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,
but for the precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle
because the older you get,
the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard;
live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths,
prices will rise,
politicians will philander,
you too will get old, and when you do
you’ll fantasize that when you were young
prices were reasonable,
politicians were noble
and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don’t expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse;
but you never know when either one might run out.
Don’t mess too much with your hair,
or by the time you’re 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy,
but, be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia,
dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal,
wiping it off,
painting over the ugly parts
and recycling it for more than it’s worth. [/size]
But trust me on the sunscreen…

“Sleeping With Ghosts” - Placebo

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The sea’s evaporating
Though it comes as no surprise
These clouds we’re seeing
They’re explosions in the sky
It seems it’s written
But we can’t read between the line

Hush
It’s okay
Dry your eye
Dry your eye
molebat dry your eye
Dry your eye
molebat dry your eye
Cause molebats never die

This one world vision
Turns us in to compromise
What good’s religion
When it’s each other we despise
Damn the government
Damn their killing
Damn their lies

Hush
It’s okay
Dry your eyes
Dry your eyes
molebat dry your eyes
Dry your eyes
molebat dry your eyes
Cause molebats never die

molebats never die
Never die
molebats never die
Never die…
molebats never die
molebats never die
molebats never die
molebats never die