The Lyrics Thread

[The Cure]

I was gonna post some Interpol, but these are just so pretty.....oh heck, i'll do both. Enjoy people!

There is a light that never goes out-The Smiths

Take me out tonight

Where there’s music and there’s people

And they’re young and alive

Driving in your car

I never never want to go home

Because I haven’t got one

Anymore

Take me out tonight

Because I want to see people and i

Want to see life

Driving in your car

Oh, please don’t drop me home

Because it’s not my home, it’s their

Home, and I’m welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus

Crashes into us

To die by your side

Is such a heavenly way to die

And if a ten-ton truck

Kills the both of us

To die by your side

Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight

Take me anywhere, I don’t care

I don’t care, I don’t care

And in the darkened underpass

I thought oh god, my chance has come at last

(but then a strange fear gripped me and i

Just couldn’t ask)

Take me out tonight

Oh, take me anywhere, I don’t care

I don’t care, I don’t care

Driving in your car

I never never want to go home

Because I haven’t got one, da ...

Oh, I haven’t got one

And if a double-decker bus

Crashes into us

To die by your side

Is such a heavenly way to die

And if a ten-ton truck

Kills the both of us

To die by your side

Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Oh, there is a light and it never goes out

There is a light and it never goes out

There is a light and it never goes out

There is a light and it never goes out

There is a light and it never goes out

There is a light and it never goes out

There is a light and it never goes out

There is a light and it never goes out

There is a light and it never goes out

[The Cure]

Evil-Interpol

One of the best songs ever written, In my humble opinion of course....

Rosemary

Heaven restores you in life

Coming with me

Through the aging, the fear and the strife

It's the smiling on the package

It's the faces in the sand

It's the thought that holds you upwards

Embracing me with two hands

Write, we'll take you places

Yeah maybe to the beach

When your friends they do come crying

Tell them how your pleasure's set up on slow-release

Hey wait

Great smile

Sensitive to faith not

Denial

But hey whose on trial?

It took a life spent

With no cellmate

The long way back

Sandy why can't we look the other way?

He speaks about travel

Yeah, we think about the land

We smile like all people

Feeling real tan

I can take you places

Do you need a new man?

Wipe the pollen from the faces

Make revision to a dream while you wait in the van

Hey wait

Great smile

Sensitive to faith not

Denial

But hey whose on trial?

It took a life spent

With no cellmate

Find a long way back

Sandy why can't we look the other way?

You're weightless, you are exotic

You need something for which to care

Sandy why can't we look the other way?

Leave some shards under the belly

Lay some grease inside my hand

It's a sentimental jury

And the makings of a good plan

You've come to love me nightly

Yeah you've come to hold me tight

Is this motion everlasting

Or do shutters pass in the night?

Rosemary

Oh heaven restores you in life

I spent a lifespan with no cellmate

The long way back

Sandy why can't we look the other way?

You're weightless, semi-erotic

You need someone to take you there

Sandy why can't we look the other way?

Why can't we just play the other game?

Why can't we just look the other way?

[msf]

I didn't know you liked the Smiths as well. We're almost the same (I draw the line just before the Beatles).

And yeah Evil is a great song (I feel sorry for those who've never heard it) and Interpol are a great band.

[The Cure]

Yah, I am Smiths fanatic. Mozza is my hero. Cool to see someone with good taste!

But......Not even Strawberry Fields??? Come on, the Beatles were awesome!

[Si-Co]

Wannadies

You And Me Song

Always when we fight

I try to make you laugh

Til everything's forgotten

I know you hate that

ba ba da da ba ba ba ba

Always when we fight

I kiss you once or twice

And everything's forgotten

I know you hate that

I love you Sunday sun

The week's not yet begun

And everything is quiet

And it's always...

You and me always, and forever

You and me always, and forever

ba ba ba ba da ba, it was always

You and me always..

You tell me I'm a real man

I try to look impressed

Not very convincing

But you know I love it

Now we watch TV

Til we fall asleep

Not very exciting

But it's you and...

Me and we'll always be together

You and me always, and forever

ba ba ba ba da ba, it was always...

You and me always, and forever

You and me always, and forever

ba ba ba ba da ba, it was always...

You and me always, and forever

You and me always, and forever

ba ba ba ba da ba ba....

[Di]

Linkin Park~Numb

I’m tired of being what you want me to be

Feeling so faithless lost under the surface

Don’t know what you’re expecting of me

Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes

(caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)

Every step I take is another mistake to you

(caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)

I’ve become so numb I can’t feel you there

I’ve become so tired so much more aware

I’ve becoming this all I want to do

Is be more like me and be less like you

Can’t you see that you’re smothering me

Holding too tightly afraid to lose control

Cause everything that you thought I would be

Has fallen apart right in front of you

(caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)

Every step that I take is another mistake to you

(caught in the undertone just caught in the undertone)

And every second I waste is more than I can take

I’ve become so numb I can’t feel you there

I’ve become so tired so much more aware

I’ve becoming this all I want to do

Is be more like me and be less like you

And I know

I may end up failing too

But I know

You were just like me with someone disappointed in you

I’ve become so numb I can’t feel you there

I’ve become so tired so much more aware

I’ve becoming this all I want to do

Is be more like me and be less like you

I’ve become so numb I can’t feel you there

Is everything what you want me to be

I’ve become so numb I can’t feel you there

Is everything what you want me to be

[doofynz]

Call it Democracy By Bruce Cockburn

Padded with power here they come

international loan sharks backed by the guns

of market hungry military profiteers

whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared

with the blood of the poor

Who rob life of its quality

who render rage a necessity

by turning countries into labour camps

modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

Sinister cynical instrument

who makes the gun into a sacrament --

the only response to the deification

of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'

idolatry of ideology

North south east west

kill the best and buy the rest

it's just spend a buck to make a buck

you don't really give a flying ****

about the people in misery

IMF dirty MF

takes away everything it can get

always making certain that there's one thing left

keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

See the paid-off local bottom feeders

passing themselves off as leaders

kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows

open for business like a cheap bordello

And they call it democracy

and they call it democracy

and they call it democracy

and they call it democracy

See the loaded eyes of the children too

trying to make the best of it the way kids do

one day you're going to rise from your habitual feast

to find yourself staring down the throat of the beast

they call the revolution

IMF dirty MF

takes away everything it can get

always making certain that there's one thing left

keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

[I love music]

Yah, I am Smiths fanatic. Mozza is my hero.  Cool to see someone with good taste!

But......Not even Strawberry Fields??? Come on, the Beatles were awesome!

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Yeh, I agree. They're not exactly my favourite band - I like so many singers and groups - but they're definitely right up there with all my other faves like Meatloaf, Queen, Paul Simon, Credence Clearwater Revival, Smokey Robinson, Beautiful South, Human League etc etc etc...

[Liz]

The Beatles were awesome and probably the best musical act the world has ever seen, or at least the most prestigious. My late grandma was a big fan (as a lot of people her age were), as was my late auntie... and I like to carry on the tradition of listening to their music (but I won't go as far as to listen to Grandma's favourite Frankie Vaughan)!

[The Cure]

Ooh I love Paul Simon.....

Here is my favourite Simon and Garfunkle song. So beautiful.

The Sound of Silence:

Hello darkness, my old friend,

I’ve come to talk with you again,

Because a vision softly creeping,

Left it’s seeds while I was sleeping,

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone,

’neath the halo of a street lamp,

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of

A neon light

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more.

People talking without speaking,

People hearing without listening,

People writing songs that voices never share

And no one deared

Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i,you do not know

Silence like a cancer grows.

Hear my words that I might teach you,

Take my arms that I might reach you.

But my words like silent raindrops fell,

And echoed

In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon God they made.

And the sign flashed out it’s warning,

In the words that it was forming.

And the signs said, the words of the prophets

Are written on the subway walls

And tenement halls.

And whisper’d in the sounds of silence.

EDIT:

Hmmm, I would definetly put the Beatles up as ONE of the best musical acts of all times, but I feel that the Kinks get criminally overlooked for this position. The Beatles actually nicked alot of their, supposedly original, musical style from the Kinks. Alot of the Beatles' experimental stuff came from the Kinks early work.

And surely there is no more perfect a pop song than Waterloo Sunset?