Song Lyrics

[Reyna]

I don't know if this has been done here before, but I've seen this topic on other forums, and I've always thought it was fun. So let's all post some of our favorite song lyrics.

Long Goodnight by the Get Up Kids

Every attempt to...
is filled with holes.
It reads like a polygraph I'm told.
I'm not bitter anyway.
Let it go.
I never sleep still lest I forget.
Tied down by handicaps instead.
I'm not bitter anyway,
But I didn't want it to turn out this way.
Sing a long goodnight,
forfeit any fight.
Refuse to rest assured.
It comes with no reply.
Hold on too tight.
I hang on every word.
If it all ended tonight,
you know that I wouldn't mind.
It'd be back to good old times before it won.

[superboots]

The Calendar Hung Itself- Bright Eyes

Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head? And does he sing to you incessantly from the place between your bed and wall? Does he walk around all day at school with his feet inside your shoes? Looking down every few steps to pretend he walks with you. Does he know that place below your neck that is your favorite to be touched and does he cry through broken sentences like I love you far too much?

Does he lay awake listening to your breath? Worried that you smoke too many cigarettes. Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor? For every speck of tile there are a thousand more that you won’t ever see but most hold inside yourself eternally.

I drug your ghost across the country and we plotted out my death. In every city, memories would whisper, Here is where you rest. I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees and I settled for a telephone and sang into your machine. You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

I kissed a girl with a broken jaw that her father gave to her. She had eyes bright enough to burn me, they reminded me of yours. In a story told she was a little girl in a red-rouge, sun-bruised field and there were rows of ripe tomatoes where a secret was concealed. And it rose like thunder, clapped under our hands. And it stretched for centuries to a diary entry’s end where I wrote, You make me happy when the skies are gray. You make me happy the skies are gray and gray and gray.

Well the clock’s heart, it hangs inside its open chest with its hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself, but I will not weep for those dying days. For all the ones who have left there, are a few that stayed. And they found me here and pulled me from the grass where I was laid.

[Bananababy]

Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Thom is a strange, strange man.. but I love it
Please could you stop that noise, I'm trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What's that..? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What's that..? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)

When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What's that..? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What's that..? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy
You don't remember
You don't remember
Why don't you remember my name?
Off with his head, man
Off with his head, man
Why don't you remember my name?
I guess he does...

Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height... height...
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height... height...
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me

That's it sir
You're leaving
The crackle of pigskin
The dust and the screaming
The yuppies networking
The panic, the vomit
The panic, the vomit
God loves his children
God loves his children, yeah

[liam]

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

call you up in the middle of the night
like a firefly without a light
you were there like a blowtorch burning
i was a key that could use a little turning
so tired that i couldn't even sleep
so many secrets i couldn't keep
promised myself i wouldn't weep
one more promise i couldn't keep

it seems no one can help me now
i'm in too deep
there's no way out
this time i have really lead myself astray

runaway train, never goin' back
wrong way on a one-way track
seems like i should be getting somewhere
somehow i'm neither here nor there

can you help me remember how to smile?
make it somehow all seem worthwhile
how on earth did i get so jaded?
life's mysteries seem so faded
i can go where noone else can go
i know what no one else knows
here i am just drownin' in the rain
with a ticket for a runaway train

and everything seems cut and dry
day and night
earth and sky
somehow i just don't believe it

runaway train, never goin' back
wrong way on a one-way track
seems like i should be getting somewhere
somehow i'm neither here nor there

bought a ticket for a runaway train
like a madman laughing at the rain
little out of touch, little insane
it's just easier than dealing with the pain

runaway train, never goin' back
wrong way on a one-way track
seems like i should be getting somewhere
somehow i'm neither here nor there

runaway train, never comin' back
runaway train, tearin' up the track
runaway train, burnin' in my veins
i run away but it always seems the same

[superboots]

This song is so sad...yet so brilliant

"Padriac my Prince" by Bright Eyes

I had a brother once,
he drowned in a bathtub,
before he had ever learned how to talk.
and I don’t know what his name was, but my mother does
I heard her say it once,

Padriac my prince, I have all but died from the
sheer weight of my shame.
you cried but no one came,
and the water filled your tiny lungs.
appear, my dear, and sing to me.
it was six years ago today that
we laid you in your grave,
your sweet young skin was shining then too.

And so tonight to celebrate i will poison myself.
another coughing, shaking fit in a bathroom that is spinning.
so I close the door and rest my head on the tile floor,
sickness and sleep turning me cold.
I am still not sure, is there some better place I should be heading towards?
where the selfishly sick and self absorbed are welcome.

I saw the future once.
I was drunk in a phone booth.
my eyes were wet and red,
but I could not tell what was said
and through the screams of the traffic
voices carried saying, "I am sorry,"
on a day so gray its black inside
watching churches on tv
in a coma you don’t dream,
you just hope that someone sits with you.
Babies turn blue when they are ignored,
like the sky on summer days
before you turn and walk away,
it has changed you.

So tonight to compensate,
I will poison myself,
another coughing, shaking fit in a bathroom, that is spinning.

[nelison]

that one was somewhat depressing...

this is one of my faves...

Brick - Ben Folds Five

6 am day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping
I am numb

Up the stairs to the apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out
And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

They call her name at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
Then I walk down to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's feeling more alone
Than she ever has before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me son, it's time to tell the truth
She broke down, and I broke down
Cause I was tired of lying

Driving home to her apartment
For a moment we're alone
Yeah she's alone
I'm alone
Now I know it

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

[bort8]

only one word can describe this: genius

Two tablespoons of cinnamon,
and two or three egg whites.
A half a stick of butter...melted
stick it all in a bowl baby.
Stir it with a wooden spoon.
Mix in a cup of flour,
you'll be in heaven soon.

Say everybody have you seen my balls
they're big and salty and brown.
If you ever need a quick pick me up
just stick my balls in your mouth.

Oooo suck on my chocolate salty balls
stick em in your mouth, and suck em!
Suck on my chocolate salty balls,
they're packed full of vitamins, and good for you.
So suck on my balls.

Quarter cup of unsweeten chocolate,
and a half a cup of brandy.
You throw in a bag or two of sugar
and just a pinch of vanilla.
Grease up the cookie sheet.
Cause I hate when my balls stick.
Then preheat the oven to three fifty
and give that spoon a lick

Say everybody have you seen my balls
they're big and salty and brown.
If you ever need a quick pick me up
just stick my balls in your mouth.

Suck on my chocolate salty balls.
Put em in your mouth, and suck em!
Suck on my chocolate salty balls,
there packed full of goodness, high in fiber.
Suck on my balls.

[sniff, sniff, sniff]
Hey, wait a minute.
What's that smell.
Smell like something burning.
Well that don't confront me none.
Long as I get my rent paid on Friday.
Baby you better get back in the kitchen.
Cause I got a sneakin suspicion.
Oh man baby, baby!
You just burned my balls!
Help me, my balls on fire
my balls are burning
give me some water!
Pour some water on me!
my balls are burning
oh my goodness,
I'm blowin
I'm blowin
do somethin

Oooo Suck on my chocolate salty balls.
Put em in your mouth, and suck em!
They'er on fire baby!
Suck on my chocolate salty balls,
put em out baby, blow
ohh
Suck on my balls baby
Suck on my balls baby
Suck on my, red hot, salty, chocolate balls
come on baby
woo, woo
suck on my balls


Jerome 'Chef' McElroy - Chocolate Salty Balls

[Bananababy]

^hahahh

[Bananababy]

this is one of my faves...

Brick - Ben Folds Five

*sniff* I love that song...

[Sufjan Stevens]

What exactly is Brick about? That song is so beautiful and is one of my favorites, but I never knew what it was about.

This one is Alkaline Trio - Fuck You Aurora

My, my what a mess we've made
of our pretty little heads these days
It appears a heavy wind's blown through here recently
Best wishes have been made for you
You never had no say it's true
You have to be the cutest gravedigger I've ever seen
And all your lonely nights in the city of lights
are much like all these crowded bars
I so often find my stupid self stumbling through

My, my what a mess was made of my head
when I heard what you'd been through that day
It appears a violent storm's passed through you recently
Letters meant to be sent have been torn
The phone lies off the hook, on the floor
All these "I'm sorry"s and "I miss you"s are useless,
I fucked this one up long ago
And all your lonely nights in the city of lights
are much like all these crowded bars
I so often find my stupid self stumbling through

Fuck you Aurora,
You took my only friend
And although it's all my fault,
the blaming myself had to come to an end
so I say:
Fuck you Aurora,
You took my only friend
You wont catch me behind the wheel
of a Chrysler ever again

My, my what a mess we've made
of our precious little lives these days
It appears a big fucking tornado
has twisted us up recently
Best wishes have been made for you
You never had no say it's true
You have to be the cutest gravedigger I've ever seen
And all your lonely nights in the city of lights
are much like all these crowded bars
I so often find my stupid self stumbling through

Fuck you Aurora,
You took my only friend
And although it's all my fault,
the blaming myself had to come to an end
so I say:
Fuck you Aurora,
You took my only friend
You won't catch me behind the wheel
of a Chrysler ever again

[nelison]

I read that Brick was written about Ben and his former wife (or gf perhaps) who was pregnant and had an abortion.
I think that makes sense really if you read the lyrics.
It was a while ago that i read about that so it may not of been about Ben but it's about the same idea... a guys significant other has an abortion

[Joey]

^^ Yep, that's right .. that's what I heard too. It's about him and a past girlfriend who had an abortion

[liam]

^^ i heard that on the radio a few years back.

[Reyna]

No Reason by Ben Kweller

Let me get lost
i'll drive you around till i run out of gas.
find me a boss
there's ripples in my tea cause
an earthquakes coming
and there's people meeting on mars
and people driving in their cars
and kids laughing under the stars
today.
let me go hide
find a box to put BK inside
i use it so well
we're blowing shit up
only you could tell
when there's people meeting on mars
and people crashing in their cars
and kids kissing under the stars
today.

no reason, reason
there's no reason, reason
there's no reason, reason
there's no reason to cry.
there's no reason to say goodbye.

i'm going against
every person that i once walked with.
things are happening
my cat is sleeping
and my jade tree's dying.
and there's people meeting on mars
and people driving in their cars
and kids laughing under the stars
today .

no reason, reason
there's no reason, reason
there's no reason, reason
there's no reason to cry
there's no reason to say goodbye.

[ArlieKoz13]

Stone Temple Pilots
Hello, It's Late

Hello, it's late
You know I've tried to stop the rain
Did you read about it?
Did you think about it?
Did you cry but nothing came?

Hello it's late
I know we tried to win the game
Did you hear about it?
Did you dream about it?
I know you cried but nothing changed …

Nothing matters again
I didn't think it'd last that long
But I'm just sittin' on this merry-go-round,
And the music is too loud

It's just a game
That we used to play
I didn't think we'd
Take it all the way
It kills me just because
It can't be erased -
We're married

[lora]

i can't not post this song.

black by pete yorn

Black is a cast,
And two is a crowd,
And gold rim is an answer.
Black is a crowd.

I am just for you,
As you are not for me
So even if you stop,
You’re sitting here by yourself,
You can never try to answer anymore,
You can never start
And see what you’re doing to me.

Kiss, they were the ones,
They dressed like something so special,
And death is to begin,
caress, I think it’s a sin…

I was alone,
Only ‘til you took me away,

And you can never stop,
You’re sitting all by yourself,
You can never try to argue anyone,
You will never stop and see,
What you’re doing to me.

I’m alone,
While he was standing next to you,
And days prolong,
Yeah there was time,
just you wait and see,

Waiting for a bottle of truth,
I’m just a lonely guy in my youth,
Waiting for you is all I wanna do,

So if you couldn’t stop,
You’re sitting all by yourself,
You can never try to argue anyone,
you will never stop and see what you’re doing to me,

You can never stop,
You’re sitting all by yourself,
You can never try to answer anything,
You will never stop and see,
What you’re doing to me,

What you’re doing to me,
What you’re doing to me,
What are you doing with me

[starseed_10]

Long Goodnight by the Get Up Kids

yay! TGUK rocks!!!!!

[superboots]

wow...these guys just keep on amazing me:

Nothing Gets Crossed Out by Bright Eyes

Well the future's got me worried
Such awful thoughts
My head's a carousel of pictures
The spinning never stops
I just want someone to walk in front
And not follow the leader
Like when I fell under the weight of a schoolboy crush
Started carrying her books and doing lots of drugs
I almost forgot who I was
But I came to my senses
Now I'm trying to be assertive
I'm making plans
Gonna rise to the occasion yeah
Meet all their demands
But all I do is just lay in bed
And hide under the covers
Yeah I know I should be brave
But i'm just too afraid of all this change
And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt
I keep making these to-do lists but nothing gets crossed out
Working on the record seems pointless now
When the world ends who's gonna hear it?
But I'm trying to take some comfort in written words
Yeah, Tim, I heard your album and it's better than good
When we get off tour I think we should
Hang and black out together
'Cause I been feeling sentimental for days gone by
All the summers singing, drinking, my friend
Wasting our time
Remember all the songs and the way we smiled
In those basements made of music
But now I've got to crawl to get anywhere at all
I'm not as strong as I thought

So when I'm lost in a crowd
I hope that you'll pick me out
How I long to be found
The grass grew high, I laid down
Now I'm waiting for a hand
To lift me up, help me stand
I've been laying so low
Don't wanna lay here no more
Don't wanna lay here no more

Everything that happens is supposed to be
And it's all predetermined can't change your destiny
Guess I'll just keep moving
Someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going

[committed]

alkaline trio.

nice.

[ArlieKoz13]

The Tea Party
The Messenger

Got a letter from a messenger.
I read it when it came.
It said that you were wounded.
You were bound and chained.
You were loved and you were handled.
You were poisoned, you were pained.
Oh no, oh no, you were naked, you were shamed.

You could almost touch heaven.
Right there in front of you.
Liberty just slipped away on us.
Now there's so much work to do.
Oh the door that closes tightly
Is the door that can swing wide.
Oh no, oh no, not expecting to collide.

For a minute I let my guard down.
Not afraid to be found out.
I completely forgot, dear
What our fears were all about.
Oh no, oh no, there's no need to be without.

If there's a chance, I would take it.
This desire I can't kill, no.
Take my heart, please don't break it.
I would crawl to your foothill.
I'm frightened but I'm coming.
Please, baby, please lay still.
Oh no, oh no, I'm not coming for the kill.