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backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts)
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 01:13 AM Jun 2013

post some favorite lyrics

No games...after my GD post I'm likely to be banned so let keep this serious.

Post a video and lyrics of whatever the hell song you like...lets freestyle

Fast, on a rough road riding
High, through the mountains climbing
twisting, turning further from my home.
Young, like a new moon rising
Fierce, through the rain and lightning
Wandering out into this great unknown.

And I don't want no one to cry.
But, tell 'em if I don't survive

I was born free!
I was born free
I was born free, born free.

Free, like a river raging
Strong as the wind I’m facing.
Chasing dreams and racing father time.
Deep like the grandest canyon,
Wild like an untamed stallion.
If you can’t see my heart you must be blind.

You can knock me down and watch me bleed
But you can’t keep no chains on me.

I was born free!
I was born free
I was born free, born free.

And I'm not good at long goodbyes
But look down deep into my eyes
I was born free.

Calm, facing danger
Lost, like an unknown stranger
Grateful for my time with no regrets

Close to my destination
Tired, frail and aching
Waiting patiently for the sun to set

And when it's done, believe that I
will yell it from that mountain high

I was born free
I was born free
I was born free, born free

I will bow to the shining sea
And celebrate God's grace on thee


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post some favorite lyrics (Original Post) backwoodsbob Jun 2013 OP
Ripple HarveyDarkey Jun 2013 #1
A few of my favorite lines DFW Jun 2013 #2
Get Together by the Youngbloods olddots Jun 2013 #3
Leather And Lace Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 #4
Pleasure to Kill MrSlayer Jun 2013 #5
Pet Shop Boys Being Boring graham4anything Jun 2013 #6
Leonard Cohen, Chelsea Hotel video here by Lana Del Rey in a stunning tribute to Leonard graham4anything Jun 2013 #7
Annie Laurie Bertha Venation Jun 2013 #8
She wanted his body so much she ate his brains taterguy Jun 2013 #9
when you hear your phone Not ringing that is me Not calling. Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2013 #10
I Wasn't Born To Follow hobbit709 Jun 2013 #11
"Don't surround yourself with yourself" Yes - I've seen all good people Doc_Technical Jun 2013 #12
John Denver's "Looking for Space"... Tom_Foolery Jun 2013 #13
 

HarveyDarkey

(9,077 posts)
1. Ripple
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 01:46 AM
Jun 2013

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung,
Would you hear my voice come thru the music,
Would you hold it near as it were your own?

It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken,
Perhaps they're better left unsung.
I don't know, don't really care
Let there be songs to fill the air.

Ripple in still water,
When there is no pebble tossed,
Nor wind to blow.

Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,
If your cup is full may it be again,
Let it be known there is a fountain,
That was not made by the hands of men.

There is a road, no simple highway,
Between the dawn and the dark of night,
And if you go no one may follow,
That path is for your steps alone.

Ripple in still water,
When there is no pebble tossed,
Nor wind to blow.

You who choose to lead must follow
But if you fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then whos to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home.

La dee da da da, la da da da da, da da da, da da, da da da da da
La da da da, la da da, da da, la da da da, la da, da da.

DFW

(54,330 posts)
2. A few of my favorite lines
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 02:35 AM
Jun 2013

Don't you know that when the truth is told
You can get what you want or you can just get old
--from Billy Joel "Vienna"

Live, let live
That's my advice
And if you've got a question
Ask me nice
--from John Hammond, Jr. "I just got here"

And so castles made of sand
Slips into the sea
Eventually
--from Jimi Hendrix "Castles made of sand"

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
3. Get Together by the Youngbloods
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 02:55 AM
Jun 2013

Kind of a peace anthem we played in a few bands where for the length of the tune people seemed to believe that peace and love were possible .

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
4. Leather And Lace
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 02:58 AM
Jun 2013
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/stevie+nicks/leather+lace_20131615.html

Is love so fragile...
And the heart so hollow
Shatter with words...
Impossible to follow
You're saying I'm fragile...I try not to be
I search only...for something I can't see


I have my own life...and I am stronger
Than you know
But I carry this feeling
When you walked into my house
That you won't be walking out the door
Still I carry this feeling
When you walked into my house
That you won't be walking out the door


Lovers forever...face to face
My city or mountains
Stay with me stay
I need you to love me
I need you today
Give to me your leather...
Take from me...my lace


You in the moonlight
With your sleepy eyes
Could you ever love a man like me
And you were right
When I walked into your house
I knew I'd never want to leave
Sometimes I'm a strong man
Sometimes cold and scared
And sometimes I cry
But that time I saw you
I knew with you to light my nights
Somehow I'd get by
First time I saw you
I knew with you to light my nights
Somehow I would get by


Lovers forever...face to face
My city or mountains
Stay with me stay
I need you to love me
I need you today
Give to me your leather
Take from me...my lace


Lovers forever...face to face
My city or mountains...stay with me stay
I need you to love me...I need you to stay
Give to me your leather
Take from me...my lace
Take from me...my lace
Take from me...my lace

 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
5. Pleasure to Kill
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 03:30 AM
Jun 2013

Day turns to night as I rise from my grave
Black was the hole were I laid
Stalking the city to seek out your blood
I love when it showers from my blade
Your body is so pretty but how will it look
When my perverted lust is stilled
No one to save you no parents or friends
Because they've already been killed

My only aim is to take many lives
The more the better I feel
My only pleasure is to hear many cries
From those tortured by my steel
The colour of your blood from your open body
Is all I wanted to see
Tasting the blood from your lips as you die
Means satisfaction to me


Pleasure to kill!

Hear my heartbeat as you see me upon you
Tears in your eyes I do not care
Listen now to the motor of my chainsaw
Open your eyes don't be scared
Look into my eyes do you see any love?
The only thing is agony
Now I can't wait to give you the good pain
Die now and be free!

My only aim is to take many lives
The more the better I feel
My only pleasure is to hear many cries
From those tortured by my steel
The colour of your blood from your open body
Is all I wanted to see
Tasting the blood from your lips as you die
Means satisfaction to me

Pleasure to kill!

[Solo]

Now that my mission is done
Your body forgotten has been killed
I return to the cemetery
And my bloodlust is stilled
My coffin is open for me
I lay down and rest
Nothing will set me free
And so I kill until excess

Day turns to night as I rise from my grave
Black was the hole where I laid
Stalking the city to seek out your blood
I love when it showers from my blade
Your body is so pretty but how will it look
When my perverted lust is stilled
No one to save you no parents or friends
Because they've already been killed

My only aim is to take many lives
The more the better I feel
My only pleasure is to hear many cries
From those tortured by my steel
The colour of your blood from your open body
Is all I wanted to see
Tasting the blood from your lips as you die
Means satisfaction to me

Pleasure to kill!!


 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
6. Pet Shop Boys Being Boring
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 05:46 AM
Jun 2013

Pet Shop Boys
Being Boring (c) Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe
(just four paragraphs)

I came across a cache of old photos
And invitations to teenage parties
"Dress in white" one said, with quotations
From someone's wife, a famous writer
In the nineteen-twenties
When you're young you find inspiration
In anyone who's ever gone
And opened up a closing door
---------
I came across a cache of old photos
And invitations to teenage parties
"Dress in white" one said, with quotations
From someone's wife, a famous writer
In the nineteen-twenties
When you're young you find inspiration
In anyone who's ever gone
And opened up a closing door

-----------------

When I went I left from the station
With a haversack and some trepidation
Someone said: "If you're not careful
You'll have nothing left and nothing to care for
In the nineteen-seventies"
But I sat back and looking forward
My shoes were high and I had spots
I'd bolted through a closing door
I would never find myself feeling bored
-------------

Now I sit with different faces
In rented rooms and foreign places
All the people I was kissing
Some are here and some are missing
In the nineteen-nineties
I never dreamt that I would get to be
The creature that I always meant to be
But I thought in spite of dreams
You'd be sitting somewhere here with me

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
7. Leonard Cohen, Chelsea Hotel video here by Lana Del Rey in a stunning tribute to Leonard
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 05:52 AM
Jun 2013

Chelsea Hotel (c) Leonard Cohen a song Leonard wrote to and about the late Janis Joplin years later
as sung in tribute in this video by Lana del Rey.

(just two paragraphs of the lyrics)

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
you were talking so brave and so sweet,
giving me head on the unmade bed,
while the limousines wait in the street.
Those were the reasons and that was New York,
we were running for the money and the flesh.
And that was called love for the workers in song
probably still is for those of them left.

---

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
you were famous, your heart was a legend.
You told me again you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music."


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?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Bertha Venation

(21,484 posts)
8. Annie Laurie
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 06:57 AM
Jun 2013

Maxwellton's braes are bonny
Whe' early faes the dew
And 'twas there that Annie Laurie
Gied me her promise true

Gied me her promise true
Which ne'er forgot will be
And for bonny Annie Laurie
I'd lay me doon and die

("die" is pronounced "dee&quot

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
11. I Wasn't Born To Follow
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 08:12 AM
Jun 2013

Oh I'd rather go and journey
Where the diamond crescent's glowing and
Run across the valley
Beneath the sacred mountain
And Wander through the forest
Where the trees have leaves of prisms
And break the light in colors
That no-one knows the names of
And when it's time I'll go and wait
Beside a legendary fountain
Till I see your form reflected
In it's clear and jeweled waters
And if you think I'm ready
You may lead me to the chasm
Where the rivers of our vision
Flow into one another
I will watch her dive beneath
The white cascading waters
She may beg she may plead
She may argue with her logic
And then mention all the things I'll lose
That really have no value
In the end she will surely know
I wasn't born to follow

Doc_Technical

(3,523 posts)
12. "Don't surround yourself with yourself" Yes - I've seen all good people
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 12:39 PM
Jun 2013

"I overwhelm as I approach you
Make your lungs hold breath inside!
Lovers break caresses for me
Love enhanced when I've gone by."

Sensation -The Who

"She comes from a school of southern charm
She likes to have things her way
Any man in the world holding out his arm
Would soon be made to pay"

Shades of Scarlet Conquering- Joni Mitchell

"Gambling only pays when you're winning"
- I had to thank old Miss Mort for schooling a failure.
Keep them mowing blades sharp ....

I know what I like, and I like what I know;
getting better in your wardrobe, stepping one beyond your show.

I know what I like- Genesis

"Does any one know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald- Gordon Lightfoot

Tom_Foolery

(4,691 posts)
13. John Denver's "Looking for Space"...
Sun Jun 23, 2013, 12:47 PM
Jun 2013

On the road of experience, I'm trying to find my own way.
Sometimes I wish that I could fly away.
When I think that I'm moving, suddenly things stand still.
I'm afraid cause I think they always will.
And I'm looking for space and to find out who I am, and I'm looking to know and understand.
It's a sweet, sweet dream, sometimes I'm almost there.
Sometimes I fly like an eagle and sometimes I'm deep in despair.

All alone in the universe, sometimes that's how it seems.
I get lost in the sadness and the screams.
Then I look in the center and suddenly everything's clear.
I find myself in the sunshine and my dreams
And I'm looking for space and to find out who I am, and I'm looking to know and understand.
It's a sweet, sweet dream, sometimes I'm almost there.
Sometimes I fly like an eagle and sometimes I'm deep in despair.

On the road of experience, join in the living day.
If there's an answer it's just that it's just that way,
When you're looking for space and to find out who you are.
When you're looking to try and reach the stars.
It's a sweet, sweet dream, sometimes I'm almost there.
Sometimes I fly like an eagle and sometimes I'm deep in despair.

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