| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. 02:41 - Feb 7 with 55386 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.'
Those words get to me every time I hear them. |  | | |  |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:56 - Jun 9 with 3906 views | TacticalR |
Michel Legrand, composer of Windmills of Your Mind, died in January this year. The French version (Windmills of My Heart), although similar, doesn't have the psychedelic feel of the English version. This is the French version (translated back into English):
Like a pebble that one tosses in a living, swirling stream
And the thousand circles spreading on the water as it flows
Like the starry horses spinning on the moon's merry-go-round
Like the flattened rings of Saturn, or a carnival balloon
Like the circle path that's followed by the hours without end
Like the journey round the world of a sunflower in bloom
You set spinning by your name all the windmills of my heart
Like a skein of yarn unravelled by the small hands of a child
Or the words to an old favourite on the soft harps of the wind
Like the snow caught in a whirlwind, like the seagulls' wheeling flight
Over Norway's towering pine trees, over white-capped ocean waves
Like the circle path that's followed by the hours without end
Like the journey round the world of a sunflower in bloom
You set spinning by your name all the windmills of my heart
Michel Legrand, Moulins de mon cœur
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 23:25 - Jun 9 with 3857 views | gobbles |
Put your face in my window
Breathe a night full of treasures
The wind is delicious
Sweet and wild with the promise of pleasure
The stars are alive
And nights like these
Were born to be
Sanctified by you and me
Lovers, thieves, fools and pretenders
And all we gotta do is surrender |  | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 15:11 - Jun 12 with 3812 views | TacticalR |
I have a mansion but forget the price
Ain't never been there, they tell me it's nice
I live in hotels, tear out the walls
I have accountants pay for it all
They say I'm crazy but I have a have a good time
I'm just looking for clues at the scene of the crime
Life's been good to me so far
My Maseratti does one-eighty-five
I lost my license, now I don't drive
I have a limo, ride in the back
I lock the doors in case I'm attacked
Joe Walsh, Life's Been Good | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 16:08 - Jun 12 with 3788 views | ElHoop |
The other day a friend of mine said
He said, the sun's not really yellow
He said, the sun is really red
I said, my friend, what do you mean?
You read that in some magazine?
Next thing you'll say the earth's not green
How can I be sure of you?
When you know the world's always changing
Rearranging, always changing, changing
I said, my friend, how do you do
And what you're saying isn't true
The next thing you'll say the earth is blue
He said, my friend, you're in a dream
And things are never what they seem
Oh, things are never what they seem
How can I be sure anymore?
When the world's always changing
Rearranging, changing
Harry Nilsson - How Can I Be Sure of You |  | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. G on 04:33 - Jun 13 with 3764 views | DannyPaddox |
Weller got a bit of a bashing in the 'patronising lyrics' thread which is fair enough but for me his timeless 'on point' output far outweighs any naive faux-pahs ...
I was hoping we'd make real progress
But it seems we have lost the power
Any tiny step of advancement
Is like a raindrop falling into the ocean
We're running on the spot - always have - always will?
We're just the next generation of emotionally crippled
Though we keep piling up the building blocks
The structure never seems to get any higher
Because we keep kicking out the foundations
And stand useless while our lives fall down
I believe in life - and I believe in love
But the world in which I live in - keeps trying to prove me wrong
Out in the pastures we call society
You can't see further than the bottom of your glass
Only young but easily shocked
You get all violent when the boat gets rocked
Just like sheep - little lambs into the slaughter
Don't fully grasp what exactly is wrong
Truth is you never cared - still
You get all violent when the boat gets rocked
Intelligence should be our first weapon
And stop reveling in rejection
And follow yourselves, not some ageing drain brain
Whose quite content to go on feeding you garbage
We're running on the spot - always have - always will?
We're just the next generation of emotionally crippled
The Jam 1981 |  | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 17:31 - Jun 14 with 3725 views | qprxtc |
Met her on a blind date, helping out an old mate
Waiting at the corner, she’s be dressed in black
There was I expecting a really tasty bird
He said she was good looking, I should have doubt his word
When I saw her there she was a real disgrace
I thought nice legs shame about the face
I had to take her dancing, I couldn’t let her down
So we caught the bus to the other side of town
Out upon the dance floor, I wasn’t getting far
So I had a drink with my friends up at the bar
I asked them what they thought of her they fell about the place
And they said nice legs shame about her face
She said could we go bowling,
I said that would be fine
But when I bought the tickets
She’d already changed her mind
She was turning out to be a real hard case
Nice legs shame about the boat race
Downed a gin and soda, tapped me on the shoulder
Whispered in my ear it’s getting kind of late
When I took her home we hardly said a thing
I walked her to the door, expected to go in
She looked me up and down and really put me in my place
She said nice legs shame about your face
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 02:06 - Jun 15 with 3696 views | DannyPaddox |
Bathos | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 08:54 - Jun 15 with 3685 views | FDC |
What is happening and how have you been
Gotta go but I'll see you again
And oh, the music is so loud
And then I fade into the
Crowds of people standing everywhere
'Cross the street I'm at this laugh affair
And here they always play my songs
And me, I wonder if it's
Wrong or right they come here just the same
Telling everyone about their games
And if you think it obsolete
Then you go back across the street
Yeah, street, hey hey
When I leave now don't you weep for me
I'll be back, just save a seat for me
But if you just can't make the room
Look up and see me on the
Moon's a common scene around my town
Here where everyone is painted brown
And if we feel that's not the way
Let's go paint everybody gray
Yeah, gray, yeah
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 13:13 - Jun 17 with 3636 views | TacticalR |
Like this tired troubled earth
I've been rolling since my birth
Moving on, moving on.
There's a place in the sun
Where there's hope for everyone
Where my poor restless heart's gotta run
There's a place in the sun
And before my life is done
Gotto find me a place in the sun.
Stevie Wonder, A Place in the Sun | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 22:08 - Jun 18 with 3593 views | FDC |
I've glimpsed I have tasted
Fantastical places
My soul's an oasis
Higher than the sun | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 22:30 - Jun 18 with 3590 views | BucksRanger |
Robert met Ramona inside a Phoenix bar
Beneath the Christmas ornaments they walked the boulevard
Robert had no money, no job - he was unskilled
They robbed an all night grocer, a young cashier was killed
They took off in a Chevy, they stole two blocks away
And headed for New Mexico, to hide in Santa Fe
Robert was a drifter, and Ramona'd been abused
They had 500 dollars, and nothing left to loose
And the quarter moon was shining
The stars so wild and bright
They only had each other to cling to in this night
Two young desperados on Christmas Eve in flight
Two young desperados on Christmas Eve in flight
They pulled off the dark highway, to a motel they checked in
And saw themselves on TV, the law was closing in
They slipped out to a side street, and stole a Pontiac
And stopped at a McDonalds for Colas and Big Macs
And through the night they traveled, there was no time to wait
They passed a few state troopers, checking licence plates
Robert and Ramona regretted what they did
They knew the cops would find them no matter where they hid
And the quarter moon was shining
The stars so wild and bright
They only had each-other to cling to in this night
Two young desperados on Christmas Eve in flight
Two young desperados on Christmas Eve in flight
They drove straight up a mountain, below was a small town
They parked right by the edge of a one mile drop straight down
They made love on a blanket, they kissed and kissed again
Tomorrow would be Christmas, for everyone but them
They climbed back in the front seat, he turned the key so swift
And pressed the pedal forward, and drove straight off the cliff
People in the valley, who saw the headlights fall
Thought the star of Bethlehem had come again to call
And the quarter moon was shining
The stars so wild and bright
They only had each-other to cling to in this night
Two young desperados on Christmas Eve in flight
Two young desperados on Christmas Eve in flight
Two young desperate lovers on Christmas Eve in flight
- Tom Pacheco [Post edited 18 Jun 2019 22:32]
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 00:16 - Jun 19 with 3574 views | SydneyRs |
You choose your leaders and place your trust, as their lies wash you down and their promises rust. |  | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 23:39 - Jun 19 with 3543 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
Don't know much about History
Don't know much Biology
Don't know much about a Science book
Don't know much about the French I took
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me too
What a wonderful world this would be |  |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 08:24 - Jul 19 with 3402 views | ted_hendrix |
Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and drummers drumming,
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing to the sun
That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes.
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky.
There was a band playing in my head,
And I felt like getting high.
I was thinking about what a friend had said.
I was hoping it was a lie.
Thinking about what a friend had said.
I was hoping it was a lie.
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun.
There were children crying and colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home. |  |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 08:43 - Jul 19 with 3397 views | DannyPaddox |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 16:22 - May 26 by Discodroids |
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. |
Such a great lyric from one of the best debut 45s from one of the best debut 33s ever. I’ve never heard it get credit for inspiring the philanthropic pop-fest that was Live-Aid, which it surely did, or the song at least. Check the contrast in tone of the last verse:
Hear the bells are ringing, Christmas on it's way.
Hear the angels singing, what is that they say?
Eat and drink rejoicing, joy is here to stay.
Jesus son of Mary is born again today.
Ivory Madonna dying in the dust,
Waiting for the manna coming from the west.
Three/ four years after writing that UB40 were strangely missing from the Live Aid shows. | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 10:56 - Jul 19 with 3365 views | CiderwithRsie |
Paul Simon:
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy, I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburg
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
And I've come to look for America
Laughin' on the bus, playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gaberdine suit was a spy
I said be careful, his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Cathy, I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and I'm aching and I don't know why
Countin' the cars on the New Jersey turnpike
They've all come to look for America, all come to look for America | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 22:04 - Aug 20 with 3188 views | TacticalR |
I'm driving by your house
Though I know you're not home
Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said:
'Don't look back, you can never look back'
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let 'em go
But I can see you
Your brown skin shining in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
Don Henley, The Boys of Summer | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 06:30 - Aug 21 with 3157 views | DannyPaddox |
At the Grotto
In the greasy chair
Sits the Charlie with the lotion and the kinky hair
When she smiled, she said it all
The band was hot so
They danced the famous Merengue
Now we dolly back
Now we fade to black
Tearful reunion in the USA
Day by day those memories fade away
Some babies grow in a peculiar way
It changed, it grew, and everybody knew
Semi-mojo
Who's this kinky so-and-so? | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 11:09 - Aug 21 with 3125 views | Hooparoo |
“I’m unclean, a libertine and every time you vent your spleen,
I seem to lose the power of speech, you’re spinning slowly from my reach,
You grow me like an evergreen, you’ve never seen the love in me at all”
Placebo and Bowie - “Without you, I’m nothing” [Post edited 21 Aug 2019 11:14]
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 22:38 - Nov 15 with 2916 views | CliveWilsonSaid |
Now I've stood on your shadow
And I've watched it grow
And it's shaken and it's driven me
And let me know
Let me know let me know let me know
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 22:47 - Nov 15 with 2907 views | ted_hendrix |
Thanks to the brilliant Ray Davies,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
They put a parking lot on a piece of land
When the supermarket used to stand
Before that they put up a bowling alley
On the site that used to be the local pally
That's where the big bands used to come and play
My sister went there on a Saturday
Come dancing
All her boyfriends used to come and call
Why not come dancing, it's only natural
Another Saturday, another date
She would be ready but she's always make him wait
In the hallway, in anticipation
He didn't know the night would end up in frustration
He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek
Come dancing
That's how they did it when I was just a kid
And when they said come dancing
My sister always did
My sister should have come in a midnight
And my mom would always sit up and wait
It always ended up in a big row
When my sister used to get home late
Out of my window I can see them in the moonlight
Two silhouettes saying goodnight by the garden gate
The day they knocked down the pally
My sister stood and cried
The day they knocked down the pally
Part of my childhood died, just died
Now I'm grown up and playing in a band
And there's a car park where the pally used to stand
My sister's married and she lives on an estate
Her daughters go out, now it's her turn to wait
She knows they get away with things she never could
But if I asked her I wonder if she would
Come dancing
Come on sister, have yourself a ball
Don't be afraid to come dancing
It's only natural
Come dancing
Just like the pally on a Saturday
And all her friends will come dancing
Where the big bands used to play | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 12:20 - Nov 21 with 2860 views | TacticalR |
Daoist-style lyrics from Winston Tong:
In a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything
By saying nothing
Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything
Tuxedomoon, In a Manner of Speaking | |
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| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 19:41 - Nov 21 with 2819 views | ElHoop |
Surely one of the greatest ever, if not THE greatest:
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone
But it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
No one I think is in my tree
I mean it must be high or low
That is you can't, you know, tune in
But it's all right
That is, I think, it's not too bad
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Always, no, sometimes think it's me
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think, er, no, I mean, er, yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Strawberry Fields forever
Strawberry Fields forever | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 21:08 - Nov 21 with 2814 views | QPR_John |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 19:41 - Nov 21 by ElHoop |
Surely one of the greatest ever, if not THE greatest:
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone
But it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
No one I think is in my tree
I mean it must be high or low
That is you can't, you know, tune in
But it's all right
That is, I think, it's not too bad
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Always, no, sometimes think it's me
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think, er, no, I mean, er, yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
Let me take you down
'Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Strawberry Fields forever
Strawberry Fields forever |
Agree but here's another good one
I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you
I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you
I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all
Still my guitar gently weeps | | | |
| Timeless Lyrics. Please no Youtube. Just the words. Go with it. on 07:16 - Nov 23 with 2773 views | qprxtc |
Moments of sadness, moments of guilt
Stains on the memory, stains on the quilt
Chapter of incident, chapter and verse
Sub-heading chronic, paragraph worse
Lost in the limelight, backed in the blaze
Did it for nine pence, those were the days
Give me my acre and give me my plough
Tell me tomorrow, don't bother me now
F ucking Ada, f ucking Ada
F ucking Ada, f ucking Ada
Times at a distance, times without touch
Greed forms the habit of asking to much
Followed at bedtime by builders and bells
Wait til the doldrums which nothing dispels
Idly, mentally, doubtful and dread
Who runs with the beans shall not stale with the bread
Let me lie fallow and dormant dismay
Tell me tomorrow, don't bother today
F ucking Ada, f ucking Ada
F ucking Ada, f ucking Ada
Tried like a good un, did it all wrong
Thought that the hard way was taking too long
Too late for regret or chemical change
Yesterdays targets have gone out of range
Failure unfolds me with clammy green arms
Damn the excursions and blast the alarms
For the rest of one’s natural Ill lay on the ground
Tell me tomorrow if I'm still around
F ucking Ada, f ucking Ada
F ucking Ada, f ucking Ada
F ucking Ada, f ucking Ada
F ucking Ada, f ucking Ada
F ucking Ada, f ucking Ada
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Repeat to infinitum [Post edited 23 Nov 2019 7:19]
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