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I've had this stuck in my head all week...
Bring The Noize by Public Enemy
Bass! How low can you go?
death row, what a brother knows
once again, back, is the incredible
rhyme animal, the incredible D!
public enemy #1
five-o said "freeze!" and i got numb
should i tell them that i never really had a gun -
it's just the wax that Terminator X spun
now they've got me in a cell
'cause on the records they sell
another brother like me said, "well
Farakhan's a prophet and i think you ought to listen to
what he can say to you."
what you oughta do is power-up now
powerful people say "make a miracle D,
pump the lyrical."
black is back, all in, we're gonna win
check it out
(yeah y'all come on!)
here we go again
turn it up!
bring the noize!
never badder than bad 'cause the brothers are madder than mad
that the facts're corrupt like a senator
sold on the road, but you treat it like soap on a rope
'cause the beats and the lies are so dope!
listen for lessons i'm saying inside music
that the critics are all blasting me for
they'll never care for the brothers and sisters
across the country who've been brought up in the war
we got to demonstrate (come on now!)
they're gonna have to wait ('til we get it right!)
radio stations, i question their blackness
they call themselves black but we'll see if they play this
turn it up!
bring the noize!
get from in front of me
the crowd runs to me
my dj is warm, he's X, i call him norm
you know, he can cut a record from side to side
so with the ride and glide it's so much safer than a suicide
soul control, beat is the father of your rock'n'roll
music for what'n for which'n you call a band, man
makin' a music, abuse it, but you can't do it, you know
you call 'em demos, but we ride limos too
what you gonna do? rap is not afraid of you
beat is for Sonny Bono (beat is for Yoko Ono)
Run-DMC first said a dj could be a band
stand on his own feet, get you out of your seat
beat is for Eric B and LL as well
hell, wax is for Anthrax, still it can rock bells
ever forever, universal it will sell
time for me to exit, Terminator X it
turn it up!
bring the noize!
from coast to coast so you stop being like a comatose
stand my man, the beat's the same with a boast-toast
rock with some pizzaz, it will last
why you ask?
roll with the rock stars you'll never get accepted as
we got to plead the Fifth, we can't investigate
don't need to wait get the record straight
HEY!
posse in effect, got Flavor & Terminator
X to sign checks, play to get paid
we got to check it out down on the avenue
a magazine or two is dissin' me and dissin' you
yeah, I'm tellin' you
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this song won't let go of me till i figure out some way to play/perform it. i think it's gonna join the creature 57 rotation list. -g
the last song
this song, your song, is the last song i'll ever do
for you, about me, 'cause your games are through. i won't think, i won't breathe, i won't even close my eyes to dream. i'd starve you right out of me if i knew what else to eat. you said, this would be, the last time you'd ever hurt me. you said, this would be, the last time i'd ever cry. last time, i didn't know, how was i supposed to know? this time, i found it, i know how to scream.
I DON'T OWE YOU ANYTHING. I'M NOT A PART OF YOU. YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY EVERYTHING. I'M NOT A PART OF YOU.
this song, your song, is the only song, i'll ever do, about you, for me, so i can stay alive. i can't think, i can't breathe, i can't even close my eyes to dream. i need you out of me before i turn into you. i can't stand to look at you, until you remember everything. i can't be what you are, what you think, what you do. i know what it means when, i look at you, i look at you. and this time, i'm looking and telling on you.
I DON'T OWE YOU ANYTHING. I'M NOT A PART OF YOU. WILL TIME TELL ME ANYTHING? I AM COMING AFTER YOU.
can you feel me coming after you? can you feel, i'm right behind you? can you hear me, telling on you? can you feel me tearing out of you?
this song, your song, is the last song, i'll ever do, for you, about me, 'cause your games are through. this time, i don't feel bad, for anything i've ever said. and this time, i want them to know what you did.
-sleater-kinney
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i was extolling the virtues of Jets-to-Brazil lyrics to gollum a little while ago, so i thought i'd start a thread whereupon we all post whatever song lyrics have caught our fancy of late. here's my first contribution:
King Medicine (Jets to Brazil)
know that you'll soon go crazy just like a whittling stick
hit by the coming daylight cut up in quick succession
a pointed confession really stripped of all your armor
down to your very nature beneath the haze and vapor gaze
you're such a willing stick to beckon that wanting knife
you've been looking for it the right blade all your life
saying "who's gonna cut me down to a size that suits me?
is there a worthy sculptor among all you fine young knives?"
it's enough to make you take your head and put it on a shelf
to cut the heart out from your chest they'll come for that as well
tell me how you do that crazy trick where you walk around asleep
save it for your doctor friend the one who keeps you under lock and key
you'll soon go screaming like a bargain basement lunatic who's
not so specialized that they couldn't just replace you
why don't you start crying for all that you've got left here
why don't you stop dying before you go and get it right
now you're selling off the house so you can buy the farm
you cut the heart out from your chest to let the light in through your arm
it's enough to make you take your head and put it in a bag
to cut the teeth out at the pink now there's nothing in the bag
foul weather friend you are so dying an amateur chemist now
king medicine when is it perfect? where is it taking you?
there is no cure only reprieve some fleeting joy posing as balance
nothing is sure so every four hours king medicine
this subject loves you
take care
---jones
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My favorite by AIC.
ROOSTER by Alice In Chains
ain't found a way to kill me yet
eyes burn with stinging sweat
seems every path leads me to nowhere
wife and kids, household pet
army green was no safe bet
the bullet screams to me from somewhere
(chorus)
here they come to snuff the rooster
yeah, here come the rooster
you know he ain't gonna die
(solo, chorus)
walkin' tall machine gun man
they spit on me in my homeland
Gloria sent me pictures of my boy
got my pills 'gainst mosquito death
my buddy's breathin' his dyin' breath
oh God please won't you help me make it through
(chorus)
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That's my favorite Alice In Chains song also.
The eerie melody made it a fave before I even found out what the song was about.
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Angel by Jimi Hendrix
Angel came down from heaven yesterday
she stayed with me just long enough to rescue me
and she told me a story yesterday
about the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea
and then she spread her wings high over me
she said she's going to come back tomorrow
and i said fly on my sweet angel
fly on through the sky
fly on my sweet angel
tomorrow i'm gonna be by your side
sure enough this mornin' came unto me
silver wings silhouetted against a child's sunrise
and my angel she said unto me
"today is the day for you to rise
take my hand, you're goin' be my man, you're goin' rise"
and then she take me high over yonder
and i said fly on my sweet angel
fly on through the sky
fly on my sweet angel
forever i'm gonna be by your side
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"they've been going in and out of style....but they're guaranteed to raise a smile"
HELP!-a BEATLES board
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"All My Heroes Were Junkies
In 1968, he did shots with the Doors at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go
It was on one of those hot Hollywood summer nights
He says, 'Jimmy came in tight leather slacks, it was hot as hell
But we were drinking Jack, his eyes were like quarters
Round, and black when he stepped under the stage lights...
'And you know me,' he says, 'I had pawned my only camera
I had no way to record those fleeting Kodak moments
The sprung to life each Saturday night
I was too far gone back then to have known it...'
He says, 'All my heroes were junkies,
Now all my heroes are dead'
I say, 'Hey Tony, consider yourself lucky
To be a junkie in a hospital bed'
He says, 'You know Judy Garland never showed up
When I took my walk in the Land of Oz
Though a cop did on a purple horse one morning
He asked me why I was staggering
I said "because -- because, because, because
The wizard never gave me no surgeon general's warning."'
He says, 'All my heroes were junkies
Now all my heroes are dead.'
I say, 'Hey Tony, consider yourself lucky
To be a junkie in a hospital bed'
'Who rolled the joint when Bob Dylan
Got high with the Beatles?' He says,
'Who put my world on pins and needles?'
He tells the nurses they should do something
With the ceiling in the rehab ward
Like paint a fresco to the late, great Betty Ford
They come in and make their jokes about
Pulling out all his power chords
He tells them, 'Couldn't you come up with
Something I didn't already know?'
He says, 'All my heroes were junkies
Now all my heroes are dead'
I say, 'Hey Tony, consider yourself lucky
To be a junkie in a hospital bed.'"
-Ellis Paul
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Whenever a lyric gets stuck in my head, it's only ever a couple of lines or so. At the moment, this old couplet from Red Box is rattling round my brain...
"Now I hate to cut through strands of hope,
We've a ten foot hole and a five foot rope."
It appeals to me somehow.
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Twinkle
sure that star can twinkle
and you're watching it do
boy so hard boy so hard
but I know a girl
twice as hard
and I'm sure said I'm sure
she's watching it too
no matter what tie she's got in her right dresser tied
I know she's watching that star
gonna twinkle
gonna twinkle
gonna twinkle
and last time i knew
she worked in an Abbey in Iona
she said "I killed a man T
I've gotta stay hidden in this Abbey"
but I can see that star
when she twinkles
and she twinkles
and I sure can
that means
I sure can
that means
I sure can
so hard
so hard
~that is my bedtime song, and a bedtime song is the very most important. so, goodnight little dollies and fairy friends!
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God knows I know I've thrown away those graces...
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Sweet Jane (Lou Reed)
Standin' on a corner
Suitcase in my hand
Jack's in his corset, Jane is in her vest
me, honey, I'm in a rock 'n' roll band
Riding a Stutz Bear Cat, Jim
ya know, those were different times
all the poets studied rules of verse
and those ladies they rolled their eyes
Now Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she's a clerk
and both of them save their money
when they come home from work
sittin' down by the fire
the radio does play
The March of the Wooden Soldiers
and you can hear Jack say
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Some people they like to go out dancin'
and other people, like us, we got to work
and there's even some evil mothers
Well they're gonna tell you that everything is just made out of dirt
that pretty women never really faint
and that villains always blink their eyes
that children are the only ones who blush
and that life is just to die
But anyone who ever had a heart
they wouldn't turn around and break it
and anyone who ever played a part
They wouldn't turn around and hate it
Sweet Jane, Sweet Sweet Jane
