Lyrics that say something......

mmissile · Feb 26, 2016

Here's one, I think relevant.....always has been.

Turn to Stone
Joe Walsh

Hey now, the well run dry
Pages of your book on fire
Read the writing
On the wall

Hoe down, it's a show-down
Ev'rywhere you look, we're fighting
Hear the call

And you know it's gettin' stronger
I can't last very much longer
Turn to stone

Well there's a change in the wind
You know the signs don't lie
Such a strange feelin'
And I don't know why it's takin'
Such a long time

Backyard people
And they work all day
Tired of the speeches and the way
That the reasons keep changin'
Just to make the words rhyme

And you know it's gettin' stronger
Can't make 'em run much longer
Turn to stone

super-bee_ski · Feb 26, 2016

Ah, yes...
Joe Walsh

There are 2 Turn to Stone songs...
The other by ELO (Jeff Lynne)

Richard Cranium · Feb 26, 2016

I wonder what Paul McCartney was trying to convey?

Why don't we do it in the road? Mm
Why don't we do it in the road? Ah
Why don't we do it in the road? Mm
Why don't we do it in the road? Mm
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?
Ooh
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it, do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?

Mocajava · Feb 26, 2016

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we're finally on our own....
How about, "I've seen the needle and the damage done, a little part of it in everyone, oh, oh, the damage done."

Great lyrics that you could understand and meant something

ZR9B · Feb 26, 2016

"Holy Wars...The Punishment Due"

Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand

Fools like me, who cross the sea
And come to foreign lands
Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
Do you kill on God's command?

A country that's divided
Surely will not stand
My past erased, no more disgrace
No foolish naive stand

The end is near, it's crystal clear
Part of the master plan
Don't look now to Israel
It might be in your homelands

Holy wars

Upon my podium, as the
Know it all scholar
Down in my seat of judgement
Gavel's bang, uphold the law
Up on my soapbox, a leader
Out to change the world
Down in my pulpit as the holier
Than-thou-could-be-messenger of God

Wage the war on organized crime
Sneak attacks, repel down the rocks
Behind the lines
Some people risk to employ me
Some people live to destroy me
Either way they die.

They killed my wife, and my baby
With hopes to enslave me
First mistake...last mistake!
Paid by the alliance, to slay all the giants
Next mistake...no more mistakes!

Fill the cracks in, with judicial granite
Because I don't say it, don't mean I ain't
thinking it
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away
I know what I said, now I must scream of the overdose
And the lack of mercy killings.

69a100 · Feb 26, 2016

Richard Cranium said:
I wonder what Paul McCartney was trying to convey?

Why don't we do it in the road? Mm
Why don't we do it in the road? Ah
Why don't we do it in the road? Mm
Why don't we do it in the road? Mm
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?
Ooh
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
Why don't we do it, do it in the road?
Why don't we do it in the road?
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road?

Oh, let your beady little mind wonder, I'm sure you'll come up with something?

Dennis H · Feb 26, 2016

No no no - no no no no no no. Nobody but me. Human Beinz.

44070dart · Feb 26, 2016

Johnnie Taylor .. Cheaper to Keep Her

I know you think
The grass is greener
Way over on the other side
When that Judge give
You that dirty look
You may as well put your
Money in momma's pocketbook

That's why it's cheaper to keep her
(It's cheaper to keep her)
Cost too much to leave her alone, yeah
I know it's cheaper to keep her, yeah
(It's cheaper to keep her)

'Cause you gonna pay some
Alimony if you leave home
I tell y'all
It's cheaper to keep her

Budnicks · Feb 26, 2016

Ted Nugent
Wang Bang Sweet Puntang !!

Dr. Hook
I got stoned & I missed it

Tone-loc
Hey you 2 I was once like you & I like to do the wild thing

Wild Cherry
Play that funky music white boy

War
All my friends know the lowrider, the lowrider is a little higher,
lowrider drives a little slower

Rick@Laysons · Feb 26, 2016

Bachman-Turner Overdrive....from my high school days(daze.....LOL!)

We rented a truck and a semi to go
Travel down the long and the winding road
Look on the map, I think we've been there before
Close up the doors, let's roll once more

Cop's on the corner, look he's starting to write
Well, I don't need no ticket so I screamed out of sight
Drove so fast that my eyes can't see
Look in the mirror, is he still following me?

Let it roll down the highway
Let it roll down the highway
Roll, roll

Look at the sign, we're in the wrong place
Move out boys and let's get ready to race
Four fifty-four's coming over the hill
The man on patrol is gonna give us a bill

The time's real short, you know the distance is long
I'd like to have a jet but it's not in the song
Climb back in the cab, cross your fingers for luck
We gotta keep moving if we're going to make a buck

Let it roll down the highway
Let it roll down the highway
Roll

Let it roll
Let it roll
Let it roll
Let it roll

Let it roll down the highway
Let it roll down the highway
Roll, roll, roll

Down the highway
Let it roll down the highway
Roll, roll, roll

Let it roll down the highway
Let it roll down the highway
Roll, roll, roll

Sonny Black · Feb 26, 2016

FRESH

Kool & The Gang

Conversation is going 'round
People talking 'bout the girl who's come to town
Lovely lady, pretty as can be
No one knows her name she's just a mystery
I have seen her maybe once or twice
The one thing I can say is, she's very nice
She's a lady, one I really want to know
Somehow I've got to let my feeling show
She's fresh, exciting
She's so exciting to me
She's fresh, exciting
She's so inviting to me, yeah
I've been thinking about the way you walk
Baby, I like the way you talk
Tell you something I really can't hide
Heaven must have sent you to be by my side
Fresh and lovely like a dream come true
I'll give anything to spend the night with you:love4::love4:
What a feeling and I can't stop it baby
Miss frisky lady take me away
She's fresh, & exciting
She's so…

MOPOWER871 · Feb 26, 2016

"The Wall" KANSAS

I'm woven in a fantasy,
I can't believe the things I see
The path that I have chosen now has led me to a wall
And with each passing day I feel a little more like something dear was lost

It rises now before me,
A dark and silent barrier between,
All I am, and all that I would ever want to be
It's just a travesty,
Towering, marking off the boundaries my spirit would erase

To pass beyond is what I seek,
I fear that I may be too weak
And those are few who've seen it through to glimpse the other side,
The promised land is waiting like a maiden that is soon to be a bride

The moment is a masterpiece,
The weight of indecision's in the air
Standing there,
The symbol and the sum of all that's me
It's just a travesty,
Towering, blocking out the light and blinding me
I want to see

Gold and diamonds cast a spell,
It's not for me, I know it well
The riches that I seek are waiting on the other side
There's more than I can measure in the treasures of the love that I can find

And though it's always been with me,
I must tear down the wall and let it be
All I am, and all that I was ever meant to be,
In harmony
Shining true and smiling back at all who wait to cross
There is no loss

polywideblock · Feb 26, 2016

I was only 19( a walk in the "light green") by redgum

Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal
It was a long march from cadets
The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card
We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left

And Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched down to the quay
This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean
And there's me in me slouch hat with me SLR and greens
God help me - I was only nineteen

From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat
I'd been in and out of choppers now for months
And we made our tents a home, V.B. and pinups on the lockers
And an Asian orange sunset through the scrub

And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M.16?
And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
God help me - I was only nineteen

A four week operation, when each step can mean your last one on two legs
It was a war within yourself
But you wouldn't let your mates down 'til they had you dusted off
So you closed your eyes and thought about somethin' else

And then someone yelled out "Contact", and the bloke behind me swore
We hooked in there for hours, then a God almighty roar
And Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon
God help me - he was goin' home in June

And I can still see Frankie, drinkin' tinnies in the Grand Hotel
On a thirty-six hour rec. leave in Vung Tau
And I can still hear Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle
'Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row

And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears
And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real
I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel
God help me, I was only 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y24hwp2F2c

cryplydog · Feb 26, 2016

She had that Camarillo Brillo.

WileERobby · Feb 27, 2016

Rick@Laysons said:
Bachman-Turner Overdrive....from my high school days(daze.....LOL!)

We rented a truck and a semi to go
Travel down the long and the winding road
Look on the map, I think we've been there before
Close up the doors, let's roll once more

Cop's on the corner, look he's starting to write
Well, I don't need no ticket so I screamed out of sight
Drove so fast that my eyes can't see
Look in the mirror, is he still following me?

Let it roll down the highway
Let it roll down the highway
Roll, roll

Look at the sign, we're in the wrong place
Move out boys and let's get ready to race
Four fifty-four's coming over the hill
The man on patrol is gonna give us a bill

The time's real short, you know the distance is long
I'd like to have a jet but it's not in the song
Climb back in the cab, cross your fingers for luck
We gotta keep moving if we're going to make a buck

Let it roll down the highway
Let it roll down the highway
Roll

Let it roll
Let it roll
Let it roll
Let it roll

Let it roll down the highway
Let it roll down the highway
Roll, roll, roll

Down the highway
Let it roll down the highway
Roll, roll, roll

Let it roll down the highway
Let it roll down the highway
Roll, roll, roll

BTO... One of my favorite 8-tracks I plugged into my under-dash player back then. How about Badfinger " If you want it, here it is.. come and get it. If you want it, anytime, I can give it. But you better hurry 'cause it's goin' fast. "

Pops1967GTX · Mar 2, 2016

Let the Blues talk...

[video=youtube;oTFvAvsHC_Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFvAvsHC_Y[/video]

Somebody loan me a dime,
I need to call my old time, used to be.
Somebody loan me a dime,
Mmm, I need to call my old time, used to be.
Oooo, little girl's been gone so long,
You know it's worryin me.
Hey, it's worryin, worryin me.

I know she's a good girl,
But, at that time I just didn't understand.
I know she's a good girl,
But, at that time I just didn't understand.
Oh, you know I didn't.
Somebody loan me a dime,
You know I need, I need a helpin hand.
Somebody.

Yeah, she's a good girl,
But, at that time I just didn't understand.
Oooo, I know she's a good girl,
But, at that time I just could not understand.
Whoa, no.
Somebody better loan me that dime,
To ease my worried mind.
Whoo.

67440chrg · Mar 2, 2016

War Pigs, Sabbath one of my favorite songs

Photon440 · Mar 2, 2016

Pops1967GTX said:
[video=youtube;oTFvAvsHC_Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFvAvsHC_Y[/video]

My favourite song on that Bozz album, Pops1967GTX...

petieg383 · Mar 2, 2016

First of all, all lyrics from Black Sabbath are awesome. They could pretty much do no wrong on their 1st 5 albums. Geezer Butler was and still is an amazing lyric writer. Check out this piece from their song "Spiral Architect":

Sorcerers of madness selling me their time
Child of god sitting in the sun giving peace of mind
Fictional seduction
On a black snow sky
Sadness kills the superman
Even fathers cry

This one piece is from one of my favorite obscure Metal bands, Orange Goblin. The is song: "Save Me From Myself"

I've seen the bodies piled high at the foot of the mountain
Scenic atrocities on a technicolor breeze
Midnight assassins swooping down from the clouds of Venus
They steal my thunder......But the lightning's what I need

That last line is bad ***.

YY1 · Mar 3, 2016

A "good" song has lyrics that are specific enough to understand, but vague enough to apply to many circumstances and interpretations.

Too specific risks alienating potential listeners and too vague risks being labeled as babbling.

Lyrics that say something......

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