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'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.'
Those words get to me every time I hear them.
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 18:46 - Feb 10 with 3783 views
Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, rolling into the night People so busy, make me feel dizzy, taxi light shines so bright But I don't, need no friends
As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset, I am in paradise Every day I look at the world from my window Chilly chilly is the evening time, Waterloo sunset's fine
The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset
Air hostess clique
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 19:02 - Feb 10 with 3772 views
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub (I'm the Scatman) Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 19:08 - Feb 10 with 3764 views
She gave to me her tenderness Her friendship and her love I see her face from time to time There in the sky above We grew up learning as we went What a voyage our life could be It took us through a wilderness Into the calmest sea Her smile could lift me from the pain I often found within She said some things I won't forget She made a few bells ring So simple her humility Her beauty found in grace Today she lives another life In some fantastic place She showed me how to raise a smile Out of a bed of gloom And in her garden sanctuary A life began to bloom She visualized a world ahead And planned how it would be She left behind the strongest love That lives eternally I have the hope that when it's time For me to come her way That she'll be there to show me around Whenever comes that day Her love was life and happiness And in her steps I trace The way to live a better life In some fantastic place, some fantastic place.
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 19:22 - Feb 10 with 3761 views
Chase it with more beer, taste it like truth or dare When he have the mic, it's like the place get like: "Aw yeah!" It's like they know what's 'bout to happen Just keep ya eye out, like "Aye, aye captain" Is he still a fly guy clapping if nobody ain't hear it And can they testify from inner spirit In living, the true gods Giving y'all nothing but the lick like two broads Got more lyrics than the church got "Ooh Lords" And he hold the mic and your attention like two swords Or even one with two blades on it Hey you, don't touch the mic like it's AIDS on it
Madvillain - Accordion
Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 23:56 - Feb 14 with 3658 views
when each was a kid each had their schools one taught to rule the other taught the rules now one has grown up the worlds his oyster while the other inherited hunger
Now every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world And ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl Love 'n' hate tattooed across the knuckles of his hands Hands that slap his kids around 'cause they don't understand how
Death or glory becomes just another story Death or glory becomes just another story
'N' every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold But I believe in this and it's been tested by research He who f*cks nuns will later join the church
Death or glory becomes just another story Death or glory becomes just another story
Fear in the down sex They say lie low You say okay Don't wanna play a show No other thinking Was it death or glory now Playing the blues of kings Sure looks better now
Death or glory just another story Death or glory just another story
From every dingy basement on every dingy street Every dragging hand clap over every dragging beat That's just the beat of time the beat that must go on If you've been trying for years we already heard your song
Death or glory becomes just another story Death or glory just another story
Gotta launch long way Fight a long time Get to travel over mountains Got to travel over seas We gonna fight your brother We gonna fight til you loose We gonna raise trouble We gonna raise hell We gonna fight your brother Raise hell
Death or glory becomes just another story Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory just another story Death or glory becomes just another story
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 10:28 - Feb 15 with 3585 views
Down on Cyprus Avenue With a childlike vision leaping into view Clicking, clacking of the high-heeled shoe Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George Marching with the soldier boy behind He's much older now with hat on drinking wine And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through The cool night air like Shalimar
Van Morrison, Madame George
Air hostess clique
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 10:50 - Feb 15 with 3571 views
Here's wishing you the bluest sky, And hoping something better comes tomorrow. Hoping all the verses rhyme, And the very best of choruses to Follow all the doubt and sadness. I know that better things are on the way. Here's hoping all the days ahead Won't be as bitter as the ones behind you. Be an optimist instead, And somehow happiness will find you. Forget what happened yesterday, I know that better things are on the way. It's really good to see you rocking out And having fun, Living like you just begun. Accept your life and what it brings. I hope tomorrow you'll find better things. I know tomorrow you'll find better things. Here's wishing you the bluest sky, And hoping something better comes tomorrow. Hoping all the verses rhyme, And the very best of choruses to Follow all the drudge and sadness. I know that better things are on the way. I know you've got a lot of good things happening up ahead. The past is gone it's all been said. So here's to what the future brings, I know tomorrow you'll find better things. I know tomorrow you'll find better things.
A magnificent football club, the love of our lives, finding a way to finally have its day in the sun.
On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert I pick up my money and head back into town Driving 'cross the Waynesboro county line I got the radio on and I'm just killing time Working all day in my daddy's garage Driving all night chasing some mirage Pretty soon little girl I'm gonna take charge
I've done my best to live the right way I get up every morning and go to work each day But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode Explode and tear this whole town apart Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart Find somebody itching for something to start
Well there's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted
So the dogs on Main Street howl 'Cause they understand If I could take one moment into my hands Mister I ain't a boy, no I'm a man And I believe in a promised land
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:19 - Feb 15 with 3537 views
Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 11:55 - Feb 15 by TacticalR
@ElHoop 'Death or glory becomes just another story'
Echoes of a certain song from 1931?
It's still the same old story A fight for love and glory A case of do or die
As Time Goes By
Yes indeed Tactical, by the look of it!
'Filming on Rude Boy was complete. David Mingay went down to Vanilla to remind the group of their promise to write a song for the end-title music. Joe pretended they'd forgotten about it. But they already had the tune, "Rudie Can't Fail," a song that used the faster reggae rhythm of the late 1960s. It was one of the Clash's best tunes, a timeless number, written especially to link up with the Rude Boy title. "It was written about Ray being a drunken idiot," Mingay said, "and Joe particularly put that line in -- 'drinking brew for breakfast.' Myself and Jack Hazan went there to hear what they were doing. They delivered it on time, efficiently and professionally. They weren't rebellious in any way where their work was concerned."
When the two filmmakers visited Vanilla, Joe was working on the vocals of another new song, "Death or Glory." While filming Rude Boy, Joe had told David Mingay of his love of Casablanca, the 1942 cinematic masterpiece starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, a regular treat on television. "Death or Glory" has intriguing lyrics, cynical, world-weary, perhaps revelatory. Joe makes both a statement of intent and a comment on the reality of that intent. Is Joe considering himself in the marvelous second verse? "I believe in this, and it's been tested by research / That he who f*cks nuns will later join the church."
The song misquotes Casablanca, a takeoff of the film's famous set-piece song, "As Time Goes By," and its lines "It's just the same old story / A tale of love and glory." "He admitted to me that he had twisted it around from 'As Time Goes By,'" said David Mingay. "I think he was always worried -- or at least romantically interested -- in the idea that it should all end in an intensity that could cause death, as had happened with Sid Vicious. That for the icon of being a rock star to really work it would have to die, to die young."
The line "He who f*cks nuns will later join the church" -- clearly not taken from the lyrics of "As Time Goes By" -- always seemed greatly significant, Joe speaking of his own dilemmas and internal difficulties: the anarchist squatter who in some way regarded himself as a failure or traitor for having broken with his past and joined the Clash -- where a different form of conformity was called for. In his battle with himself, Joe couldn't win. Don Letts said, "The problem with Joe is that he sees everything in terms of black and white: always one or the other. He doesn't realize that there are all these shades of gray in the middle. He's beating himself up over that." But most of that was yet to come. It would grow much larger before it was fully visible.'
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Excerpted from REDEMPTION SONG: The Ballad of Joe Strummer by Chris Salewicz,
And could flood the thread with Hold Steady lyrics, but the ones for Constructive Summer always get me
Me and my friends are like the drums on "Lust for Life" We pound it out on floor toms Our psalms are sing-along songs
And this whole town is like this Been that way our whole lives Just work at the mill until you die Work at the mill, and then you die
We're gonna build something, this summer
We'll put it back together raise up a giant ladder With love, and trust, and friends, and hammers (this summer!) We're gonna lean this ladder up against the water tower Climb up to the top and drink and talk (this summer!)
Me and my friends are like "Doublewhiskeycokenoice." We drink along in double time, might drink too much, but we feel fine We're gonna build something this summer.
This summer, grant us all the power to drink on top of water towers, With love, and trust, and shows, all summer (get hammered!) Let this be my annual reminder that we can all be something bigger
I went to your schools, I did my detention But the walls are so grey I couldn't pay attention I heard your gospel it moved me to tears, But I couldn't find the hate, and I couldn't find the fear I met your Savior, I knelt at his feet, And he took my ten bucks and he went down the street I tried to believe all the things that you said But my friends that aren't dying are already dead.
Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer I think he might've been our only decent teacher Getting older makes it harder to remember We are our only saviors We're gonna build something this summer
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:29 - Feb 15 with 3532 views
Ah look at all the lonely people Ah look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice In the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window, wearing the face That she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for?
All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong?
Father McKenzie, writing the words Of a sermon that no one will hear No one comes near Look at him working, darning his socks In the night when there's nobody there What does he care?
All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong? Ah look at all the lonely people Ah look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby, died in the church And was buried along with her name Nobody came Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt From his hands as he walks from the grave No one was saved
All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong?
In the darkest times Darkest fears are heard And from the safest places Come the bravest words Some make a quiet life To keep this Scared old world at bay The dogs are howling on the street outside So they close the curtains, hope they go away And it's pressure from all sides Coming down around our ears Stuck in this room without a door Scratched away at the walls for years All we've got to show is the dust on the floor And here it comes, a new dark age
I catch your eyes Before they fall to the ground We're running out of time, breath and steam We're running down They're burning witches Up on punishment hill Dying proof in the power of authority To exact it's will And we've broken our fingers Broken our faith Broken our hearts so many times They can't be broken anymore Scratched away at the walls for years All we've got to show is the dust on the floor And here it comes, a new dark age Here it comes...
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:51 - Feb 15 with 3494 views
Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:29 - Feb 15 by hubble
So well known, but still brilliant...
Ah look at all the lonely people Ah look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice In the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window, wearing the face That she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for?
All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong?
Father McKenzie, writing the words Of a sermon that no one will hear No one comes near Look at him working, darning his socks In the night when there's nobody there What does he care?
All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong? Ah look at all the lonely people Ah look at all the lonely people
Eleanor Rigby, died in the church And was buried along with her name Nobody came Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt From his hands as he walks from the grave No one was saved
All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong?
It's savage isn't it.
A magnificent football club, the love of our lives, finding a way to finally have its day in the sun.
Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:51 - Feb 15 by hopphoops
It's savage isn't it.
They tell you there's room at the top of the hill But first you must learn how to smile when you kill
John Lennon Working Class Hero.
Pushing through the market square,so.many.mothers sighing News has just come over we have 5 years left to die in Newsman wept and told us earth was really dying cried so much his face was wet then we knew he was not lying.
David Bowie 5 years.
They say I drink too much to me well that's just profound How do you know you can't swim until you have drowned.
Beautiful South Window Shopping for Blinds .
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 17:49 - Feb 15 with 3474 views
Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:51 - Feb 15 by hopphoops
It's savage isn't it.
It's awesome in the original version but I think this speed metal version also works:
"No one was saaaaaaaaved!"
Any how, moving on, here are Half Man Half Biscuit with "National Shite Day": Pulling the ice axe from my leg I staggered on Spindrift stinging my remaining eye
I finally managed to reach the station Only to find that the bus replacement service had broken down
After wondering to myself whether or not it should actually be called a train replacement service I walked out onto the concourse and noticed the giant screen seemed to have been tampered with Probably by a junior employee Disgruntled commuters were being regaled with some dismal TVM Involving a tug-of-love-custody-battle Stockard Channing held sway
Down in the High Street somebody careered out of Boots without due care or attention I suggest that they learn some pedestrian etiquette i.e sidle out of the store gingerly Embrace the margin
Fat kids with sausage rolls Poor sods conducting polls
There’s a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
I try to put everything into perspective Set it against the scale of human suffering And I thought of the Mugabe government And the children of the Calcutta railways This works for a while But then I encounter Primark FM Overhead a rainbow appears In black and white
Shite Day I guess this must be National Shite Day This surely must be National Shite Day Don’t tell me, it’s National Shite Day
Float… float on Float… float on Barry… Herpes
I got a letter from Stringy Bob: “Still on suicide watch Screws not happy Spotted a marsh fritillary during association Was roundly ignored What news you?” I felt sorry for him He’d only been locked up for public nuisance offences One of which saw him beachcombing the Dee Estuary Found a dead wading bird Took it home, parcelled it up, and sent it off to the rubber-faced irritant Phil Cool With a note inside which read: “Is this your sanderling?”
Another time saw him answering an advert in the music press “Keyboard player required: Doors, Floyd, etc. Must be committed, no time wasters” You can guess the rest
I’d always imagined he would simply wander off some day into the hills To be found months later His carcass stripped by homeless dogs His exposed skull a perch for the quartering crow
I folded away the letter and put it in my inside pocket All of a sudden I felt brushed by the wings of something dark May the Lord have mercy on Stringy Bob
Shite Day I do believe it’s National Shite Day It all points to National Shite Day Someone’s declared it National Shite Day
Shite Day My birthday! On National Shite Day No bogroll, it’s National Shite Day Cue drumroll, it’s National Shite Day
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 22:37 - Feb 15 with 3431 views
Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 22:54 - Feb 15 by welwynranger
Shine on you crazy diamond
Money so they say is the root of all evil today
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
Pink Floyd
That seems appropriate in the light of Roger Waters laying into Branson.
"It has nothing to do with humanitarian aid at all," Waters said. "It has to do with Richard Branson...having bought the US saying, 'We have decided to take over Venezuela, for whatever our reasons may be.'"
I had always assumed some of the lyrics in Streets of Philadelphia were a shot against religion in general, but apparently they are a shot against the Catholicism of Springsteen's childhood:
I walked the avenues till my legs felt like stone I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone At night I could hear the blood in my veins Black and whispering as the rain On the streets of Philadelphia
Ain't no angel gonna greet me It's just you and I my friend
Bruce Springsteen, Streets of Philadelphia
Air hostess clique
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Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:42 - Feb 25 with 3276 views
We are two mariners Our ship's sole survivors In this belly of a whale It's ribs are ceiling beams It's guts are carpeting I guess we have some time to kill
You may not remember me I was a child of three And you, a lad of eighteen But, I remember you And I will relate to you How our histories interweave
At the time you were A rake and a roustabout Spending all your money On the whores and hounds
You had a charming air All cheap and debonair My widowed mother found so sweet And so she took you in Her sheets still warm with him Now filled with filth and foul disease
As time wore on you proved A debt-ridden drunken mess Leaving my mother A poor consumptive wretch
And then you disappeared Your gambling arrears The only thing you left behind And then the magistrate Reclaimed our small estate And my poor mother lost her mind
Then, one day in spring My dear sweet mother died But, before she did I took her hand as she, dying, cried: (Oh, oh) "Find him, find him Tie him to a pole and break His fingers to splinters Drag him to a hole until he Wakes up naked Clawing at the ceiling Of his grave"
It took me fifteen years To swallow all my tears Among the urchins in the street Until a priory Took pity and hired me To keep their vestry nice and neat But, never once in the employ Of these holy men Did I ever, once turn my mind From the thought of revenge
One night I overheard The prior exchanging words With a penitent whaler from the sea The captain of his ship Who matched you toe to tip Was known for wanton cruelty
The following day I shipped to sea With a privateer And in the whistle Of the wind I could almost hear (Oh, oh) "Find him, find him Tie him to a pole and break His fingers to splinters Drag him to a hole until he Wakes up naked Clawing at the ceiling Of his grave There is one thing I must say to you As you sail across the sea Always, your mother will watch over you As you avenge this wicked deed"
And then, that fateful night We had you in our sight After twenty months, it seemed Your starboard flank abeam I was getting my muskets clean When came this rumbling from beneath The ocean shook The sky went black And the captain quailed And before us grew The angry jaws Of a giant whale
Don't know how I survived The crew all was chewed alive I must have slipped between his teeth But, oh, what providence What divine intelligence That you should survive As well as me It gives my eye great joy To see your eyes fill with fear To lean in close And I will whisper The last words you'll hear
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