| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. 02:41 - Feb 7 with 56589 views | markrtid |
To kick off easytime.
Bowie
'I never done good things
I never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue, woh-o-oh
Want an axe to break the ice
Wanna come down right now
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low.'
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 07:25 - Nov 23 with 2956 views | collegeranger |
Lippy kids on the corner again
Lippy kids on the corner begin settling like crows
Though I never perfected that simian stroll
But the cigarette scent, it was everything then
Elbow | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 10:36 - Nov 24 with 2920 views | TacticalR |
They told us our hero has played his trump card
He doesn't know how to go on
We're clinging to his charm and determined smile
But the good old days are gone
The image and the empire may be falling apart
The money has gotten scarce
Murray Head, Say It Ain't So Joe, (1975) | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 11:31 - Jan 28 with 2827 views | TacticalR |
Long shot at that jumping sign
Visible shivers running down my spine
Cut the baby taking off her clothes
Close-up of the sign that says 'We Never Close'
Elvis Costello, Watching the Detectives | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 19:48 - Feb 4 with 2787 views | Discodroids |
I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten,
I need a lot of sleep and so I like to be in bed by then.
'The Day Before you came'. [Post edited 4 Feb 2020 19:48]
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:53 - Feb 11 with 2739 views | GaryT |
I always thought a line from Chasing Cars was quite profound until I found out that I had misheard it. The line is “Those three words...are said too much...they´re not enough” but I thought it was “Those three words...are said too much...and not enough”.
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 13:07 - Feb 11 with 2731 views | TacticalR |
Sounds like this line from REM's Losing My Religion:
'Oh no, I've said too much, I haven't said enough' | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 13:03 - Oct 9 with 2471 views | TacticalR |
Did she mention my name just in passing
And when the morning came, do you remember if she dropped a name or two
Is the home team still on fire, do they still win all the games
And by the way, did she mention my name
Gordon Lightfoot, Did She Mention My Name | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 08:52 - Mar 23 with 2265 views | Discodroids |
My arms enfold the dole queue
Malnutrition dulls my hair
My eyes are black and lifeless
With an underprivileged stare
I'm the beggar on the corner
Will no one spare a dime
I'm the child that never learns to read
Because no one spared the time
I'm the murderer and the victim
The license with the gun
I'm a sad and bruised old lady
In an ally in a slum
I'm a middle aged businessman
With chronic heart disease
I'm another teenage suicide
In a street that has no trees
I'm a starving third world mother
A refugee without a home
I'm a house wife hooked on Valium
I'm a pensioner alone
I'm a cancer ridden specter
Discovering the earth
I'm another hungry baby
I'm an accident of birth.
I am a one in ten. [Post edited 23 Mar 2021 8:56]
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 09:07 - Mar 23 with 2253 views | Esox_Lucius |
Once upon a time at home
I sat beside the telephone
Waiting for someone to pull me through
When at last it didn't ring, I knew it wasn't you.
New England. | |
| The grass is always greener. |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 09:13 - Mar 23 with 2250 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Cracking lyrics, Disco.
Never knew they were so good. | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 13:59 - Mar 23 with 2207 views | Esox_Lucius |
Love is a piano
dropped from a fourth story window
and you were in the wrong place
at the wrong time
and I don't like your girlfriend
I blame her
I never seen one of your lovers
do you so much harm
I loved you first
and you know I would prefer
if she didn't empty her syringes
into your arm
2 Little Girls. | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 14:01 - Mar 23 with 2206 views | Esox_Lucius |
People talk about my image
Like I come in two dimensions
Like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind
Like what I happen to be wearing
The day that someone takes a picture
Is my new statement for all of womankind
Little Plastic Castle | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 14:14 - Mar 23 with 2194 views | wood_hoop |
Marvin Gaye song....written in 1971, still so relevant 50 years later
Woah, ah, mercy, mercy me
Ah, things ain't what they used to be (ain't what they used to be)
Where did all the blue skies go?
Poison is the wind that blows
From the north and south and east
Woah mercy, mercy me, yeah
Ah, things ain't what they used to be (ain't what they used to be)
Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas
Fish full of mercury
Oh Jesus, yeah, mercy, mercy me, ah
Ah, things ain't what they used to be (ain't what they used to be)
Radiation underground and in the sky
Animals and birds who live nearby are dying
Hey, mercy, mercy me, oh
Hey, things ain't what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land?
How much more abuse from man can she stand? | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 14:26 - Mar 23 with 2176 views | wood_hoop |
Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Gangsta whitewalls
TV antennas in the back
You may not have a car at all
But remember brothers and sisters
You can still stand tall
Just be thankful for what you got
Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
With a gangsta lean
Gangsta whitewalls
TV antennas in the back
You may not have a car at all
But remember brothers and sisters
You can still stand tall
Just be thankful for what you got | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 14:49 - Mar 23 with 2169 views | BucksRanger |
My name, it means nothing, my age, it means less
And the country I come from is called the Midwest
Was brought up there and taught there the law to abide
And that land that I live in has God on its side
Oh, the history books tell it, they tell it so well
The cavalries charged and the Indians fell
The cavalries charged and the Indians died
Oh, the country was young, with God on its side
Oh, the Spanish-American War had its day
And the Civil War, too, was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes I was taught to memorize
With their guns in their hands and God on their side
Well, World War One, it came and it went
The reason for fighting I never did get
But I learned to accept it and accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead when God's on your side
And the Second World War, boys, it came to an end
We forgave the Germans and called them our friends
Though they killed six million, in the ovens they fried
The Germans now, too, have God on their side
Oh, I've learned to hate Russians all through my whole life
If another war starts, it's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them, to run and to hide
And accept it all bravely, with God on my side
And now we got weapons of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to, then fire them we must
One push of the button, we've shot the world wide
And you never ask questions when God's on your side
For many long years I've thought about this
That Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kiss
I can't do it for you, you've got to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side
And now, as I'm leavin', I'm weary as hell
The confusion I'm feelin' no tongue can tell
The words fill my head and they fall to the floor
If God is on our side he'll stop the next war
With God on Our Side - Bob Dylan | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 18:16 - Mar 23 with 2133 views | TimNiceBut |
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pass by
To remind me I am but my father's son
Tim Nice But.... Still Brings a Lump To My Throat | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 21:57 - Mar 23 with 2110 views | komradkirk |
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing stretching every nerve
Had to listen had no choice
I did not believe the information
(I) just had to trust imagination
My heart going boom boom boom
"Son," he said "Grab your things,
I've come to take you home."
To keep in silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Tho' my life was in a rut
"Till I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" he said "Grab your things
I've come to take you home."
Back home
When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me
Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
My heart going boom boom boom
"Hey" I said "You can keep my things,
They've come to take me home." | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 07:55 - Mar 24 with 2070 views | distortR |
bit of Springsteen
from the monongahela valley
to the mesabi iron range
to the coal mines of appalachia
the stories always the same
seven hundred tons of metal a day
now you tell me sir the world's changed
once i made you rich enough
rich enough to forget my name
Propagandhi hitting where it hurts
I hear this years Vans Warped Tour is going green
I guess they heard that money grows on trees
Hope they ship all those shitty bands overseas
Just like they did the factories
Music's power to describe, compel, renew.........
It's all a distant second to the offers you can't refuse | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 13:43 - Mar 24 with 2030 views | TimNiceBut |
Steven's selling Marijuana
Uptown to the primadonnas
Medicate the counterculture
9/11 baby boom
Paulie's waiting to retire
Smoking like a forest fire
Putting on the panties and the lipstick
In his mother's room
Nothing to do, nothing to lose
And if you work your life away
We'll send you flowers every day
And you make your departure baby
And get high, high
Hanging with the local talent
Drinking like you're Shane McGowan
Going through your garbage
Try to turn into gold
Down on the dole, selling your soul
And if you work your life away
They'll keep your picture in a frame
And you make your departure baby
When you die, high
Bobbie joined the military
Jenny went and lost her cherry
Hanging at the commissary
Wants to see the Mona Lisa
If they ever do release her
I don't want to talk too soon
There's nothing to lose
Swimming in booze, selling your shoes
Nothing to lose, nothing to lose, nothing to lose
Tim Nice But...... Americana Baby | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 13:44 - Mar 24 with 2026 views | Discodroids |
Blows my mind Campbell wrote that in his early 20's.
This as well..
Ivory Madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
Barren is her bosom, empty as her eyes,
Death a certain harvest scattered from the skies.
Skin and bones is creeping, doesn't know he's dead.
Ancient eyes are peeping, from his infant head.
Politician's argue sharpening their knives.
Drawing up their bargains, trading baby lives.
Fantastique. | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 13:57 - Mar 24 with 2018 views | Discodroids |
Sam Stone came home
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas
And the time that he served
Had shattered all his nerves
And left a little shrapnel in his knees
But the morphine eased the pain
And the grass grew round his brain
And gave him all the confidence he lacked
With a purple heart and a monkey on his back
Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sam, he took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime
And the gold roared through his veins…
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes.
John Prine. [Post edited 24 Mar 2021 14:18]
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:41 - Mar 24 with 1998 views | derbyhoop |
The boy kicked out at the world
The world kicked back a lot f***ing harder
Libertines - Can't stand me now
You took all the money your momma had saved
Told me she kept it for running away
Laura Marling- Fortune (2020) | |
| "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:48 - Mar 24 with 1996 views | TimNiceBut |
Now when I was a young man, I carried me pack, and I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback, well, I waltzed my Matilda all over.
Then in 1915, my country said son, It's time you stopped rambling, there's work to be done.
So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun, and they marched me away to the war.
And the band played Waltzing Matilda, as the ship pulled away from the quay
And amidst all the cheers, the flag-waving and tears, we sailed off for Gallipoli
And how well I remember that terrible day, how our blood stained the sand and the water
And of how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay, we were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny Turk he was waiting, he'd primed himself well. He shower'd us with bullets,
And he rained us with shell. And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia.
But the band played Waltzing Matilda, when we stopped to bury our slain.
We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs, then we started all over again.
And those that were left, well we tried to survive, in that mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks, I kept myself alive, though around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head, and when I woke up in my hospital bed,
And saw what it had done, well I wished I was dead. Never knew there was worse things than dyin'.
For I'll go no more waltzing Matilda, all around the green bush far and free
To hump tent and pegs, a man needs both legs-no more waltzing Matilda for me.
So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed, and they shipped us back home to Australia.
The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay, I looked at the place where me legs used to be.
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me, to grieve, to mourn, and to pity.
But the band played Waltzing Matilda, as they carried us down the gangway.
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they turned all their faces away
And so now every April, I sit on me porch, and I watch the parades pass before me.
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march, reviving old dreams of past glories
And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore. They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, what are they marching for? And I ask myself the same question.
But the band plays Waltzing Matilda, and the old men still answer the call,
But as year follows year, more old men disappear. Someday no one will march there at all.
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by that billabong, who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me? | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 17:31 - Mar 24 with 1976 views | GaryT |
A couple on a similar theme.
Oh, I said, "I'm so happy I could die."
She said, "Drop dead," then left with another guy
Another fine lyric from Declan. (The angels wanna wear my) Red shoes.
And...
I couldn't take it any longer
Lord I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me
Like a tidal wave
I started swearing to my god and on my mother's grave
That I would love you to the end of time
I swore that I would love you to the end of time!
So now I'm praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don't think that I can really survive
I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
But God only knows what I can do right now
I'm praying for the end of time
It's all that I can do
Praying for the end of time,
So I can end my time with you.
Meatloaf/Steinman. Paradise by the dashboard light | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 18:45 - Mar 24 with 1953 views | Guppy |
They say time is of the essence
They say time will always tell
I wasted time in constant panic
As the Rome around me fell
And each moment that is stolen
Gives another time to breathe
In a life of turning pages
With the bit between my teeth
From the cradle to the grave
I know I won't be a slave
To the mistakes that I made
With the passion and the pace
And I won't go 'til I'm ready
From the cradle to the grave
They say time is a great healer
They say time will not stand still
When I look outside the window
I see a sky stuck to a hill
And the moon looks down behind me
Like it's seen it all before
For a thousand generations
That don't live here any more
From the cradle to the grave
They say time will wait for no man
They say time is on my side
I could never make my mind up
As it all goes whizzing by
From the cradle to the grave | | | |
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