The Lyrics to One of Your Favourite Songs

[Jaymes]

One of my favorite songs is My Evil Plan to Save the World by Five Iron Frenzy. It reminds me of a dear friend of mine in so many ways, who tries to act evil but is just a big softie at heart.

I have an evil plan to save the world for every man,
And I think it's better than the way it's being run.
Oh, the ground works laid,
No, don't be afraid.
I'm sure that I can fix it,
when I figure out the physics!

My evil plan to save the world,
Just you wait 'till it's unfurled,
It'll go down in history.
It's prophetic... no, it's not pathetic.
I can't believe I made it up myself.

I have an evil plan, to save the world, you understand,
The exemplary feat,
You'd think I'd have to cheat!
I'd make Voltaire proud, deep and furrow browed.
Uncanny and so clever,
It's 'Our Newest Plan Ever!'

Got tired of whining,
Got a grander scheme with silver lining,
For every boy and girl.

We can't be responsible for all that's wrong with this world.
My evil plan to save the world,
Just you wait 'till it's unfurled,
It'll go down in history.
It's prophetic... no, it's not pathetic.
I can't believe I made it up myself.

Starving children in pain...
You can't believe in that God.
The world's not spinning your way,
Does every dog still have his day?

 

[huajiro]

I heard this song for the first time after my son was born.....still brings tears to my eyes (Creed - With Arms Wide Open):

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CREED LYRICS

"With Arms Wide Open"

Well I just heard the news today
It seems my life is going to change
I closed my eyes, begin to pray
Then tears of joy stream down my face

With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
With arms wide open

Well I don't know if I'm ready
To be the man I have to be
I'll take a breath, I'll take her by my side
We stand in awe, we've created life

With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
Now everything has changed
I'll show you love
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
With arms wide open
I'll show you everything ...oh yeah
With arms wide open..wide open

[Guitar Break]

If I had just one wish
Only one demand
I hope he's not like me
I hope he understands
That he can take this life
And hold it by the hand
And he can greet the world
With arms wide open...

With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
Now everything has changed
I'll show you love
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
With arms wide open
I'll show you everything..oh yeah
With arms wide open....wide open

 

[kreeden]

You are all posting so many great songs .

 

[jewscout]

Rehab "It Don't Matter"


Sittin in traffic another day of feeling nothing
Trying to find something I guess it's back to huffin'
Paint and model glue oh how I die when I look
At you smilin' lovin' life and all I know is blue
Rainy days and cold stares broken love affairs
Everything's beautiful as long as I ain't there
I guess I wasn't meant to crack a smile who cares
I think I'll go to sleep for a while now

I'm barely livin' in my skin depression's my only friend
And I don't know where I am heading tryin' to forget where I've been
And I'm so sick of lying God please shwo me that silver lining
Cuz I've heard tale and I'm not well my heads full of hell and
This world's a jail but

And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
Cuz everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
Cuz everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear

And as the apin begins to displace had it to ear level
With this place you see it on my face a state of suspended grace
Gradually I erase and find comfort in the sickest womb
I might be present but no in the room
To whom it may consume melting ensembles bleeding chellos running through Bordellos drama
Like Othello hidin' out from Poncharello
Dead off in the Median
Fallin apart like usual handin' out flyers to my funeral

So they say that life's a play and that all the world's a stage
Then for another part I pray the show ends the same way everyday
And my heart carries the pain of a brain I can't explain
Am I insane
Am I insane

And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
Cuz everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
Cuz everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear

And everything good is gone
And everything good is gone
And everything good is gone
And everything bad is here
And everything bad is here
And everything bad is here
It doesn't really matter now does it

And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
Cuz everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
Cuz everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear

 

[lilithu]

Empty Chairs At Empty Tables - from Les Miserables.....
Few songs so clearly capture the gut-wrenching quality of survivor's guilt.

Would not have pegged you for a broadway musical kinda man. Good pick. Le Miz is my favorite musical, and that has got to be the best song.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Then, there's always the upbeat ...

LIGHT ONE CANDLE

Light one candle for the maccabee children
With thanks that their light didn’t die
Light one candle for the pain they endured
When their right to exist was denied
Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice
Justice and freedom demand
But light one candle for the wisdom to know
When the peacemaker’s time is at hand

Chorus:
Don’t let the light go out!
It’s lasted for so many years!
Don’t let the light go out!
Let it shine through our love and our tears.

Light one candle for the strength that we need
To never become our own foe
And light one candle for those who are suffering
Pain we learned so long ago
Light one candle for all we believe in
That anger not tear us apart
And light one candle to find us together
With peace as the song in our hearts

(chorus)

What is the memory that’s valued so highly
That we keep it alive in that flame?
What’s the commitment to those who have died
That we cry out they’ve not died in vain?
We have come this far always believing
That justice would somehow prevail
This is the burden, this is the promise
This is why we will not fail!​

 

[lilithu]

I have so many favorite songs, depends on my mood. I considered being perverse and posting the lyrics to Hurt by NIN, or anything by They Might Be Giants. But if I had to pick just one, I guess it has to be this very simple tune by the Beatles:

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.
Blackbird fly Blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night.
Blackbird fly Blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

 

[Scuba Pete]

Ghost Chickens
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(To the tune of Ghost Riders In The Sky)
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A chicken farmer went to work
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one dark and dreary day.
He rested by the henhouse as he went along his way.
When all at once a rotten egg just hit him in the eye.
It was the sight he dreaded......
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ghost chickens in the sky.
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(Chorus)
Bok, bok, bok, bok.
Bok, bok, bok, bok.
Ghost chickens in the sky.
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The farmer had raised chickens since he was 24.
Working for the Colonel for thirty years or more.
Killing all those chickens and sending them to fry.
Now they want their just revenge....ghost chickens in the sky.
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(Chorus)
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Their feet were orange and shiny,
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their eyes were burning red.
They had no meat or feathers,
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these chickens all were dead.
They picked the farmer up,
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they killed him with the claw.
They cooked him Extra Crispy,
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and served him with cole slaw.
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(Chorus)
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[huajiro]

Seether w/ Amy Lee, "Broken"

I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph and I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

You've gone away, you don't feel me, anymore

The worst is over now and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

[x2]
'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

You've gone away
You don't feel me here anymore

I love this song

 

[huajiro]

I dedicate this one to my wife:

Journey (open arms)

Lying beside you, here in the dark
Feeling your heart beat with mind
Softly you whisper, you’re so sincere
How could our love be so blind
We sailed on together
We drifted apart
And here you are by my side

So now I come to you, with open arms
Nothing to hide, believe what I say
So here I am with open arms
Hoping you’ll see what your love means to me
Open arms

Living without you, living alone
This empty house seems so cold
Wanting to hold you, wanting you near
How much I wanted you home

But now that you’ve come back
Turned night into day
I need you to stay.

 

[lilithu]

This is one of my favorite political songs:

FOR AMERICA - Jackson Browne

As if I really didn't understand
That I was just another part of their plan
I went off looking for the promise
Believing in the Motherland
And from the comfort of a dreamer's bed
And the safety of my own head
I went on speaking of the future
While other people fought and bled

The kid I was when I first left home
Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own
But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet
When the truth was known

I have prayed for America
I was made for America
It's in my blood and in my bones
By the dawn's early light
By all I know is right
We're going to reap what we have sown

As if freedom was a question of might
As if loyalty was black and white
You hear people say it all the time-
"My country wrong or right"
I want to know what that's got to do
With what it takes to find out what's true
With everyone from the President on down
Trying to keep it from you

The thing I wonder about the Dads and Moms
Who send their sons to the Vietnams
Will they really think their way of life
Has been protected as the next war comes?

I have prayed for America
I was made for America
Her shining dream plays in my mind
By the rockets red glare
A generation's blank stare
We better wake her up this time

The kid I was when I first left home
Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own
But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet
When the truth was known

I have prayed for America
I was made for America
I can't let go till she comes around
Until the land of the free
Is awake and can see
And until her conscience has been found

 

[SK2005]

Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to
leave because I'd go berserk?? Well...
You left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see
I've gone completely out of my mind.. And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!

You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed when I had said
that loosing you would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT???
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed and then you left, but now you know I'm utterly mad... And..

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
I cooked your food, I cleaned your house, and this is how you pay me back
for all my kind unselfish loving deeds.. Huh??
Well you just wait, they'll find you yet and when they do they'll put you
in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt!!! And...

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy
to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming
to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
To the happy home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haa!!!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time... (fade out) Hey, buddy!
Yes officer..
You a head?
No, but I'm catching up, ha ha ha....

This is only one of my many favorites, plus this one probably descirbes me the best! :bonk:
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[kreeden]

Another of my favorites ... this one goes back a ways ...

Freedom For The Stallion by Three Dog Night

Freedom for the stallion, freedom for the mare and her colt,
Freedom for the baby child who has not grown old enough to vote.
Lord, have mercy, what you gonna do about the people who are prayin' to you?
They got men makin' laws that destroy other men, made money, God, it's a doggone
sin,
Oh, Lord, you got to help us find the way.

Big ship's a-sailin', slaves all chained and bound,
Headin' for a brand new land that someone said he up and found.
Lord, have mercy, what you gonna do about the people who are prayin' to you?
They got men makin' laws that destroy other men, they made money, God, it's a
doggone sin.
Oh, Lord, you got to help us find the way.

Freedom for the stallion, freedom for the mare and her colt,
Freedom for the baby child who has not grown old enough to vote.
Lord, have mercy, what you gonna do about the people who are prayin' to you?
You know when I look inside my mind searchin' for the truth I find,
Oh, Lord, you got to help us find the way.

Hey, Lord!

 

[jewscout]

Rehab - "More Like You"

An excess rules everything I do
So tell me how can I be more like you
Cause all of this don't seem to bother you
So tell me how can I be more like you

The lights are on but nobody's home
If I'm mad, well them my mouth foam
Cover my transportation in chrome
Under the sky dome
Pegasus flown over my skeletal features
But an opaque anatomy is all I'll ever be
For none to see

A numb teacher holding a counseling position
Posture remaining unchristian
Slouchin' down so low I'm missing
Caverns and taverns is where I sought my refuge
Stood in the foyer of the brothel meshing with sin
Grippin' a bottle
How many times I sat up in the night sky
Craving to die, wanting to fly
Knowing this was all a lie
The succubus French kissed me in the orafice
Complex as Oedipus left in my mouth a taste of distrust
Lust for flesh & bone, but ain't no angels in dust
Ain't no heroines in opium, word up I scoped 'em
There ain't no answers this is all random evolution
Best check the chemicals in your solution
You might be prostitutin'

An excess rules everything I do
So tell me how can I be more like you
Cause all of this don't seem to bother you
So tell me how can I be more like you

Why is everything so technical, got me thinkin' mechanical
Puffi' on those botanicals, every second so critical
Board with the human language
Anguish, beats on my mental, ****in' with chemicals
Sick as the appetites of cannibals
Far away they shoot a laser from a computer
It ricochets off a satellite panel
To a missile silo in Cuba
Eyes behold catastrophe
Forseen by Nostradamus, the prophets peep the millennium
Age of the broken promise
More religions than park pigeons
The poor envy the rich and
Monetary decisions make pessimistic the vision
It's like the whole planet went off the deep end
While I was sleepin'
Men be leapin off ledges, when there women leave for the weekend
The human mind's an asylum, dialin' help lines repeatedly
Pushin' garbage down and putting more in so greedily
In the head of irate Babylonians
Everything is what it is, even when it's not

An excess rules everything I do
So tell me how can I be more like you
Cause all of this don't seem to bother you
So tell me how can I be more like you

 

[Scuba Pete]

What selection of songs would be complete without:

Road Kill Stew​

(Tune: Three Blind Mice) ​

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Road Kill stew, ​

Road Kill stew, ​

Tastes so good, ​

Just like it should. ​

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First you go down to the Interstate ​

You wait for the critter to meet it's fate. ​

You take it home and you make it great! ​

Road Kill stew, ​

Road Kill stew. ​

OR...

Chicken Lips And Lizard Hips​

Oh, when I was a little kid,​

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I never liked to eat,​

Mama'd put things on my plate ​

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I'd dump them on her feet,​

But then one day she made this soup, ​

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I ate it all in bed,​

I asked her what she put in it, ​

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and this is what she said...​

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Chorus​

Oh, chicken lips and lizard hips ​

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and alligator eyes,​

Monkey legs and buzzard eggs ​

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and salamander thighs,​

Rabbit ears and camel rears ​

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and tasty toe-nail pies,​

Stir them all together, ​

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it's Mama's Soup Surprise!​

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I went into the bathroom ​

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and stood beside the sink,​

I said I'm feeling slightly ill, ​

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I think I'd like a drink,​

Mama said, "I've just the thing, ​

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I'll get it in a wink,​

It's full of lots of protein, ​

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and vitamins I think."​

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Chorus​

 

[lilithu]

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high

Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

No!

Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you

 

[½ Sane]

Hello, It's Me
Todd Rundgren
Stevie Nicks on background vocals

Hello, it's me...
I've thought about us for a long, long time
Maybe I think too much but something's wrong
There's something here that doesn't last too long
Maybe I shouldn't think of you as mine

Seeing you...
Or seeing anything as much as I do you
I take for granted that you're always there
I take for granted that you just don't care
Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through

It's important to me that you know you are free
'Cause I never want to make you change for me

Think of me...
You know that I'd be with you if I could
I'll come around to see you once in a while
Or if I ever need a reason to smile
And spend the night if you think I should...

Think of me...
Think of me...

I like a lot of John Lennons music too. :jiggy:

 

[Majikthise]

I lick my brain in silence
rather squeeze my head instead
midget man provoking violence
listen not to what i said

I said please calm it down
everything is turning brown

mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist of the wormlike tips of tentacles expanding in my mind i'm fine excepting only fresh brine you can get another drop of this yeah you wish

laughing lady living lover
Oh you sassy frassy lassy
bring me the skull of Haile Sellase, I....
give me shoes so Ican tapsy

tap all over this big world
take my hand you ugly girl

mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist of the wormlike tips of tentacles expanding in my mind i'm fine excepting only fresh brine you can get another drop of this yeah you wish


Mutilated lips by Ween
from The Mullosk:areyoucra

bubble bubble,cough cough!

 

[t3gah]

It's really the beat that I like in the song but here goes. Especially the way the song starts off.

But she was just 17 and you know what I mean.
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[Pah]

Two sets of lyrics to one of my favorite pieces of music

Alas my love you do me wrong
To cast me out discourteously
When I have loved you so so long
Delighting in your company

Your gown was of the grassy green
Your sleeves of satin were hanging by
Which made you be a harvest queen
Yet you would not love me

Green sleeves was my all my joy
Green sleeves was my delight
Green sleeves was my heart of gold
And who but my lady green sleeves

Alas my love you do me wrong
To cast me out discourteously
When I have loved you so so long
Delighting in your company

What Child is this, who lays to rest,
On Mary's lap is sleeping?
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet
While shepherds watch are keeping?

This, this is Christ the King
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
Haste, haste to bring Him praise,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.

So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh;
Come, peasant king, to own Him.
The King of Kings salvation brings;
Let loving hearts enthrone Him.

This, this is Christ the King
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
Haste, haste to bring Him praise,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.

This, this is Christ the King
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
Haste, oh haste to bring Him praise,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
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