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Author: | run2death [ Thu June 07, 2018 12:57 am ] |
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the best of me left hours ago |
Author: | Higgs [ Thu June 07, 2018 1:42 am ] |
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run2death wrote: the best of me left hours ago Heh. That whole song is excellent lyrically. You fallen down a rabbit hole, r2d? |
Author: | run2death [ Wed June 13, 2018 3:31 am ] |
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Broke into her house. Saw her sittin' there Drinking coke and whiskey in her bra and underwear Saw him in the kitchen, hangin' up the phone I asked him nicely please to pack his things and go He gave her a reassuring look that said he wouldn't leave But I asked him once again and this time pulled out my shiv I struck him in the back and I pulled it out slow And I watched him fall down And as the morning sun rose He looked at me and said: "You missed my heart You missed my heart You got me good. I knew you would But you missed my heart You missed my heart." Were his last words before he died Looking out the window, up at the blue sky Listening to her scream, listening to her cry A feeling of relief came over my soul I couldn't take it any longer and I lost control I chased her up the stairs And I pinned her to the ground And underneath her whimpering I could hear the sirens sound I rattled off a list of everything I missed Like going to the movies with her And the way she kissed me Driving into Wheeling and showing her off Backyard barbecues and reunions in the park I said I loved her skin and she started laughing And while I clenched down on her wrist She said "That's quite a list But there's one thing you missed You missed my heart, you missed my heart That's quite a list, but what you really missed You missed my heart, you missed my heart That's quite a list, but what you really missed Running through the parking lot Running through the fields Policemen on my back Something hit my skull and cracked They dragged me off to jail, set a million dollar bail Where I tried to tie a noose, but I failed and I broke loose Racing through the prison yard Shot down by a tower guard He got me in the shins And he got me in the arms They strapped me in the gurney Took me to the infirmary Where the priest read my last rites And just before, everything went dark I said: "He missed my heart, he missed my heart He got me good, I knew he would But he missed my heart, he missed my heart" And just before, everything went dark The most poetic dream came flowing like the sea Laying there my lifeblood draining out of me A childhood scene then, sky moon beams Fishing with my friends sitting in the wild lands Watching the Ohio river flow at night Waiting for the bullhead catfishes to bite Downriver from the Moundsville prison graveyards |
Author: | tragabigzanda [ Thu August 30, 2018 3:41 am ] |
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The way the hair frames Your face Drink H2O, breathe O2 The way the lawn frames Your home Drink H2O, breathe O2 Left lane must turn left at signal Right lane must turn right at signal D o w n and that's the way we get down No scissors in bed Tired of waking up with a new haircut every morning So it's "no scissors in bed." Language sent to bed at signal Mystery sent to bed at signal Safety sent to bed at signal? The right hand signal Read along: 1. refurnish the murder scene 2. allow for motion discomfort 3. make a pageant decoding your body 4. aim to keep the air conditioned dishes dirty Now it's something we own It's burning They're burning it The vapor is killing us |
Author: | 96583UP [ Thu August 30, 2018 10:20 am ] |
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i like big butts, and i cannot lie |
Author: | run2death [ Mon October 29, 2018 2:50 pm ] |
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So I gave myself to God There was a pregnant pause before he said OK |
Author: | run2death [ Tue November 06, 2018 6:30 am ] |
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Well, I hope that someday, buddy We have peace in our lives Together or apart Alone or with our wives And we can stop our whoring And pull the smiles inside And light it up forever And never go to sleep My best unbeaten brother This isn't all I see Oh no, I see a darkness Oh no, I see a darkness Oh no, I see a darkness Oh no, I see a darkness Did you know how much I love you? Is a hope that somehow you Can save me from this darkness |
Author: | Superblood Wolfmoon [ Tue November 06, 2018 6:40 am ] |
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Current mood: Every day I wake up we drink a lot of coffee and watch the CNN Every day I wake up to a bowl of clover honey and let the locusts fly in Lobsterbacks attack the town again Wrap all my things in aluminum Beams of darkness streak across the sky Pink rays from the ancient satellite Every time I look out my window same three dogs looking back at me Every time I open my windows cranes fly in to terrorize me The power of the Holy Ghost The power of the Holy Ghost Shadow of the New Praetorian Tipping cows in fields Elysian Saturnalia for all you have The seven habits of the highly infected calf Swan diving off the tongues of crippled giants International Business Machine Choking on bits of barley bread crumbs Oh this burning beard I have come undone Oh this burning beard I have come undone It's just as I've feared, I have, I have come undone Bugger, bugger, bugger dumb the last of academe Okkam's razor makes the cutting clean Shaven like a banker, lilac vegetal Break the glass ceiling and golden parachute on down The power of the Holy Ghost comes to town Remove the shadow of the New Praetorian Tipping cows in fields Elysian Saturnalia for all you have The seven habits of the highly infected calf The seven habits of the highly infected calf |
Author: | Freewheelin [ Tue January 08, 2019 12:53 pm ] |
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This one does and always has, slayed me (the bit in bold is particularly slaying) Unsent Letter Machine Gun Fellatio I try to talk to you Can't get past the weather The friend I thought I knew Has found somethin', somewhere better So I'm hanging on your line Thought we could speak together Tell me what it is with you, you seem gone forever I'm spendin' all my time driven round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said we're not together But I try to talk to you, somehow you seem gone I know I could have been tryin' not to think about it Found it hard to live with this, and longer to live with out it My dreams have caught me out I find my self surrounded By the odds of our own end enough said about it I'm spendin' all my time driven round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said we're not together But I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone I'm given up some thing, I guess that doesn't matter Started other things, I guess that doesn't matter I finally wrote your song, another unsent letter In a pile addressed to you, care of somethin', somewhere better I'm spendin' all my time driven round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said we're not together But I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone I'm spendin' all my time driven round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said that I'm together But I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone forever Yeah, but I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone forever Yeah, but I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone forever Yeah, but I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone |
Author: | run2death [ Sat April 13, 2019 6:17 pm ] |
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Jesus is just a Spanish boy's name |
Author: | run2death [ Tue August 27, 2019 3:54 am ] |
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Even Christ stayed until he had run out of doubt |
Author: | Bammer [ Sun November 10, 2019 8:10 pm ] |
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I can't decide if this song is depressing or somehow uplifting, and reading the lyrics in print really does it no justice at all but here you go. Eyes of a Child by Soul Asylum She had 13 kids, each one had 13 problems Three uppers, ten downers, just to put up with this And she don't know which children belong to which father But she loves them all anyway and they each get a kiss And the toilet ain't flushing and the toaster is smoking The vacuum don't suck but it needs a new belt But she saw the world through the eyes of a child And remembers how good it was and how good it felt He picked up the paper from the bitter cold morning He had just gone to sleep, he had to get up for work By morning he's a watchman and by night he's a waiter In the late afternoon he works as a clerk And he can't pay the doctor bills, he just can't afford the pills The car's repossesed and the child support's due But he saw the world through the eyes of a child Big problems seem smaller and old things seem new She was just six when she turned her first trick Now she's thirteen and it don't make her sick And she does lots of crystal and she owns her own pistol Got a goldfish named Silver and a pimp who's named Rick And some are like customers and some are like patients She'd have gone back to school if she'd just had the patience But she saw the world through the eyes of a child None of the nightmares, and nothing to deny She saw the world through the eyes of a child Yes she's seen it all and she knows they're all lies |
Author: | Higgs [ Mon November 11, 2019 5:51 am ] |
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Freewheelin wrote: This one does and always has, slayed me (the bit in bold is particularly slaying) Unsent Letter Machine Gun Fellatio I try to talk to you Can't get past the weather The friend I thought I knew Has found somethin', somewhere better So I'm hanging on your line Thought we could speak together Tell me what it is with you, you seem gone forever I'm spendin' all my time driven round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said we're not together But I try to talk to you, somehow you seem gone I know I could have been tryin' not to think about it Found it hard to live with this, and longer to live with out it My dreams have caught me out I find my self surrounded By the odds of our own end enough said about it I'm spendin' all my time driven round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said we're not together But I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone I'm given up some thing, I guess that doesn't matter Started other things, I guess that doesn't matter I finally wrote your song, another unsent letter In a pile addressed to you, care of somethin', somewhere better I'm spendin' all my time driven round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said we're not together But I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone I'm spendin' all my time driven round fakin' clever With a girl who seems all right and another one who's better I don't know if I lied when I said that I'm together But I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone forever Yeah, but I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone forever Yeah, but I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone forever Yeah, but I try to talk to you, some how you seem gone The acoustic version from years ago from 'The Panel' was particularly goo imo:
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Author: | Jammer XCI [ Mon November 11, 2019 6:07 am ] |
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Well there’s another example of great band name, bad music. |
Author: | Higgs [ Mon November 11, 2019 6:27 am ] |
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Jammer XCI wrote: Well there’s another example of great band name, bad music. Try this one, may be more your style:
(And I appreciate that there is NO WAY the song I've spoillered here belongs in this thread) |
Author: | Simple Torture [ Sun March 08, 2020 2:36 am ] |
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I always liked this very simple lyric from Palace's "New Partner": Now the sun's fading faster, we're ready to go There's a skirt in the bedroom that's pleasantly low |
Author: | warehouse [ Tue March 10, 2020 7:57 pm ] |
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I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies And hypotheses can't define how I be droppin' these Mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits Tremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics I inspect view through the future see millennium Killa Beez sold fifty gold sixty platinum Shackling the masses with drastic rap tactics Graphic displays melt the steel like blacksmiths Black Wu jackets Queen Beez ease the guns in Rumblin' patrolmen tear gas laced the function Heads by the score take flight incite a war Chicks hit the floor, die hard fans demand more Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly Proceeds to blow swingin' swords like Shinobi Stomp grounds I pound footprints in solid rock Wu got it locked, performin' live on your hottest block |
Author: | Ms Harmless [ Wed March 11, 2020 12:48 am ] |
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I'm not sure how great these lyrics are vs. how much this song has just resonated with me so strongly all my life; I think it's both Murder Of One - Counting Crows blue morning, blue morning, wrapped in strands of fist and bone curiosity, kitten, doesn't have to mean you're on your own you can look outside your window, he doesn't have to know we can talk a while, baby, we can take it nice and slow all your life is such a shame all your love is just a dream are you happy where you're sleeping? does he keep you safe and warm? does he tell you when you're sorry? does he tell you when you're wrong? I've been watching you for hours; it's been years since we were born we were perfect when we started; I've been wondering where we've gone all your life is such a shame all your love is just a dream well I dreamed I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow casting shadows on the winter sky, as you stood there counting crows one for sorrow, two for joy three for girls and four for boys five for silver, six for gold seven for a secret never to be told there's a bird that nests inside you, sleeping underneath your skin; when you open up your wings to speak, I wish you'd let me in all your life is such a shame all your love is just a dream open up your eyes, you can see the flames of your wasted life; you should be ashamed you don't want to waste your life, baby you don't want to waste your life, darling I walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine, I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me change, change, change |
Author: | knee tunes [ Thu March 12, 2020 3:55 am ] |
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Shady's back. Tell a friend. |
Author: | ghost [ Thu March 12, 2020 1:21 pm ] |
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As long as there's been stories, lies and airwaves What makes a man a man's been right up front In visions boys are sold of what it could be Grievance when it ain't like what they thought When money and respect seemed to elude him And being white alone don't make the ladies swoon There's no shortage when it comes to hearing voices Telling him it's him that's done it too Say his trouble with the ladies can't be his fault After all he's what it's natural they should want There's just outside voices turning them against him A conspiracy to water down his blood A conspiracy to water down his blood And it's all the fault of it, or them, or they Give a boy a target for his grievance And he might get it in his head they need to pay Yeah, giving boys targets for their grievance And then mocking those who bear the pain they cause It takes a certain special kind of something To cash the check it brings and sleep at all The demonizing of the troubled mind With all the usual suspects on the scene Merchants selling young men reclamation Merchants selling old men back their dreams Oh, suspended disbelief and wishful thinking Comes the vision of a special hell for cons Who sell the marks the doubt it even happened An eternity for every tear they've mocked An eternity for every tear they've mocked May the price of freedom finally be their own May our thought and our prayers keep them company As they wallow in their helplessness alone |
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