" Got sick of my job, sick of my wife, sick of my future and sick of my life. Jumped in the car and hit the gas , told everybody they can kiss my ___"
Glen Frey from No fun aloud CD, the song is Party Town. |
"A case of You", on Blue by Joni Mitchell, helped me through the teenage Angst
"Guitar Town" by Steve Earl, has there been a better song about being trapped in a small town and longing for life to begin |
"You tell that you've heard every sound there is,
and you bird is green,
but you can't hear me,
you can't hear me!"
Lennon/McCartney 1966 |
Your father made fetuses
With flesh licking ladies
While you and your mother
Were asleep in the trailer park
-Neutral Milk Hotel |
She came onto him like a slow movin' cold front -- His beer was warmer than the look in her eyes
John Hiatt |
Of course ,to clarify, that is my favorite if Katharine McPhee were sitting on my lap singing it to me! |
"If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow,why,oh,why can't I? |
Were so pretty Oh so prettyÂ… vacant |
"Welcome to the machine." |
"This is the night of the expanding man.
I take one last drag as I approach the stand.
I cried when I wrote this song;
sue me if I play too long.
This brother is free, I'll be what I want to be." |
"I don't care if it rains or freezes long as I have my plastic Jesus riding on the dashboard of my car"
From the movie Cool Hand Luke |
"Scarlet Begonias"
words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
[Bridge]
I ain't often right
but I've never been wrong
It seldom turns out the way
it does in the song..
Once in a while
you get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right
classic! |
DOH! I should have looked a little farther, HERE's the thread where my .02 counts.
"And the 3 men I admire most, the father, son and the holy ghost. Well they caught the last train for the coast, the day the music died. And there were singin' ...." |
IT'S IN THE BOOK
(Johnny Standley / Art Thorsen)
Johnny Standley with Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights - 1952
I have a message for you, a very sad message! My subject for this
evening will be Little Bo Peep.
It says here, "Little Bo Peep", who was a little girl, "has lost her
sheep, and doesn't know where to find them". Now that's reasonable,
isn't it? It's, it's reasonable to assume if Little Bo Peep had lost
her sheep, it's only natural that she wouldn't know where to find
them. That, that basically is reasonable, but, uh, "leave them
alone". Now that overwhelms me Â… completely overwhelms me. The man
said she lost her sheep, turns right around and boldly states, "She
doesn't know where to find them". And then has the stupid audacity to
say, "Leave them alone!" Now! Now, now think for a moment! Think! If
the sheep were lost, and you couldn't find them, you'd have to leave
them alone, wouldn't you? So, "Leave them alone". "Leave them alone".
It's in the book!
"Leave them alone and they", they being the sheep, "they will come
home". Ah yes, they'll come home. Oh, there'll be a brighter day
tomorrow, they will come home! It's in the book.
"They will come home a-waggin' their tails". Pray tell me what else
could they wag? "They will come home a-waggin' their tails behind
them, behind them!" Did we think they'd wag them in front? Of course,
they might have come home in reverse. They could have done that, I
really don't know. But, none the less, it's in the book.
So now if you will, kindly pick up your books, and turn to page 222.
We'll ask you all to sing. You'll find your books on the backs of
your seats. Are we ready?
Everyone, 222. Let's really enjoy ourselves, let's live it up. All
together.
Do you remember grandma's lye soap?
Good for everything in the home
And the secret was in the scrubbing
It wouldn't suds and couldn't foam
Then let us sing right out for grandma's, for grandma's lye soap
Used for, for everything, everything on the place
For pots and kettles, the dirty dishes
And for your hands and for your face
So we'll now sing the second verse. Let's get it with great
exuberance, let's live it up. It's not raining inside tonight.
Everyone, let's have a happy time. Are we ready? All together, the
second verse.
Little Herman and brother Thurman
Had an aversion to washing their ears
Grandma scrubbed them with the lye soap
And they haven't heard a word in years
Then let us sing right out for grandma's, for grandma's lye soap
Sing all out, all over the place
For pots and kettles, the dirty dishes
And for your hands and for your face
Well, let's sing what's left of the last verse. Let's have a happy
time, everyone. The last verse, all together. Everyone!
Mrs. O'Malley, out in the valley
Suffered from Ulcers, I understand
She swallowed a cake of grandma's lye soap
Has the cleanest ulcers in the land
Then let us sing right out for grandma's, for grandma's lye soap
Sing right out, all over the place
The pots and, the pots and pans, oh dirty dishes
And for your hands and for your face |
Dave's True Story "Can't Get You Out Of My System:"
"Who would have thought I would come to such grief
Over some little bucket of tease?
Just goes to prove my most fervent belief
That love's still the cruelest venereal disease."
Actually, I think DTS has some of the most consistently interesting lyrics around.
Happy Listening. |
Watch out where the Huskie's go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow...
/.>frank Zappa... |
One I can't get out of my head:
"A long time ago,
I turned to myself,
And said you...you are my daughter."
-Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) |
yOU GOT A MISSION IN LIFE
TO HOLD OUT YOUR HAND
TO HELP THE OTHER GUY OUT
HELP YOUR FELLOW MAN
THAT'S WHY I OWN THIS HERE BAR
THERE THIRSTY OUTSIDE
I GIVE 'EM OCEANS TO DRINK
THEN THEY DROWN IN THE TIDE
...THEY JUST DROWN IN THE TIDE.
A MISSION IN LIFE
STAN RIDGWAY |
"When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door"
"If you plant ice you're gonna harvest wind" |
"Don't let the past, remind us of what we are not now"
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Crosby, Stills & Nash
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Phish; "No left turn unstoned." |
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.Billy Joel |
How about:
Woke up this mornin' with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert. |
And in the End
The Love You Take
Is Equal to the Love You Make
J.P.G.R. |
"I'm not aware of too many things
But I know what I know if you know what I mean"
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians. |
I can't believe no one has posted...
"And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?" - Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here |
Who else is gonna bring you
A broken arrow
Who else is gonna bring you
A bottle of rain
There he goes, moving across the water
There he goes turning my whole
world around
Robbie Robertson - Broken arrow. |
From John Hartford's "Mark Twain" album..... "Don't leave your records in the sun, they warp and won't be good for anyone" |
the rusty wire that holds the core that keeps the anger in... gives way and suddenly its day again. (two suns in the sunset, Pink Floyd)
the sun is not yellow its chicken. (Dylan) |
She dont like her eggs all runny,she thinks crossin her legs is funny,she looks down her nose at money,she gets it on like the easter bunny,shes my baby,im her honey,im never gonna let her go;In Spite of Ourselves,,John Prine |
Theres a Hole in Daddys arm,where all the Money Goes,Jesus Christ died for nothing i suppose;Sam Stone,,,John Prine |
Scars are Souvenirs you Never Lose;Name,GooGooDolls |
When I was twenty one it was a very good year for city girls who lived up the stair with all that perfumed hair and it came undone when I was twenty one.
Frank -"It Was A Very Good Year" |
"It takes an honest man to live outside the law" (Bob Dylan) |
the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin pan |
"there are places I remember,all my life though some have changed" "In my life" Beatles
"it's a little bit funny ,this feeling inside"
"Your Song" Elton John B. Taupin
"Got ona bus to Memphis,destination Rome"
"Multocolored Lady" Gregg Allman
"And it stoned me to my soul"
"And it stoned me" Van Morrison
"All you'll ever get from her is long distance love"
"Long distance love" Little Feat"
"He's my man and I've been doing him wrong"
"God Song" Beth Orton
"I can't do my homework anymore!!"
"Homework" Peter Wolf |
Visions of Johanna (Bob Dylan). |
We taught the brat
we taught the brat
we taught the brat with a baseball bat,
Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah, Owow Yeah.
From the Ramones first album.
On the other hand, I also like the lyrics to "Across the Universe" by John Lennon. |
Hmmmm - somehow Bob Seger's lyric disappeared when last I tried to post... |
"Living is easy with eyes closed...misunderstanding all you see... |
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Boom Boom Boom, lets go back to my room, so we can do it all night!. |
Alright...
Since I saw a Biggie Smalls lyric quote earlier, I have to include one from Nelly:
"and I got so many keys you think I'm valet parkin'."
And how about one more from Biggie, just to tie it all together:
"escargot / my car go / one-sixtee, swiftlee"
Hey, what can I say...I listen to primarily symphonic music...Not many lyrics in that genre! :) |
"now your alone and i know why,ain't that mud in your eye."nils lofgren...
azjake |
Stones Some Girls...."English Girls are so prissy, I can't stand em on the telephone" and "American girls want everything you can possibly imagine!"
Hank Williams, Jr...."I'm into happy and I don't like sad"
Doors..."Woke up this morning and got myself a beeeeaaaa!!!
and more Stones..."My best friend he shoots water rats and feeds em to his geese! |
"My God is not the kind you have to wind up on Sunday"
Ian Anderson (Tull) |
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life
I really don't know life at all
Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell - 1967 |
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you. |
Okay...just one more:
"You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain.
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain.
Waste your summer prayin' in vain for a savior to rise from these streets." |
War's good business
Invest your son
But I'd rather have my country die for me
Jefferson Airplane |
