I have to give credit to Fonzie here, His answer about Kansas earlier just made this idea pop into My head
I have always considered the lyrics to the Kansas song
"Dust In The Wind" to be among the truest words ever written.
I was wondering if You had any songs You felt this way about? Another tough one, Darth --
For now, I am going with Van der Graff's STILL LIFE --
Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now
Dumb:
What have we become?
What have we chosen to be?
Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of
Our name-
Nothing can ever be the same:
Now the Immortals are here.
At the time it seemed a reasonable course
To harness all the force
Of life without the threat of death,
But soon we found that boredom and inertia
Are not negative, but all the law we know,
And dead are will and words like survival.
Arrival at immunity from all age, all fear and
All end...
Why do I pretend?
Our essence is distilled
And all familiar taste is now drained,
And though purity is maintained
It leaves us sterile,
Living through the millions of years,
A laugh as close as any tear;
Living, if you claim that all
That entails is breathing, eating, defecating,
Screwing, drinking,
Spewing, sleeping, sinking ever down and down
And ultimately passing away time
Which no longer has any meaning.
Take away the threat of death and all you're
Left with is a round of make-believe.
Marshal every sullen breath and though you're
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy
It's still the ring by which you hope to be
Engaged
To marry the girl who will give you forever-
It's crazy, and plainly
That simply is not enough.
What is the dullest and bluntest of pains,
Such that my eyes never close without feeling it
There?
What abject despair demands an end
To all things of infinity?
If we have gained, how do we now meet the
Cost?
What have we bargained, and what have we
Lost?
What have we relinquished, never even knowing it
Was there?
What thoughts now of holding fast the line,
Defying death and time?
Everything we had is gone,
Everything we laboured for and favoured more
Than earthly things reveals the hollow ring
Of false hope and false deliverance.
But now the nuptial bed is made,
The dowry has been paid:
The toothless, haggard features of eternity
Now welcome me between the sheets
To couple with her withered body - my wife.
Hers forever, In still life. Yes but it is more because it fits me very well as a person rather than being in general for everyone.
For me that would be The Little River Bands "Cool Change". It's kind of eerie how well the lyrics of that song fit me as a person. Great Question, BTW
There are many but, for now:
Flaming Lips - The Gash:
Will the fight for our sanity
Be the fight of our lives?
Now that we鈥檝e lost all the reasons
That we thought that we had Dust in the Wind... depressing yet so true.
Mine (has to be a Floyd eh?) is Time I like the lyrics from 'Peaceful, Easy Feeling' by the Eagles. Yes. There are so many, but Bon Jovi's "This Aint a Love Song" comes to mind.
If the love that I've got for you's gone
If the river I cry aint that long,
Then I'm wrong, yeah I'm wrong
this aint a love song
If I'm not who I claim to be, then this isn't love. Indeed. Pink floyd-A Great Day for Freedom
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Anathema-Shroud Of False
We are just a moment in time
A blink of an eye
A dream for the blind
Visions from a dying brain
I hope you don't understand Last In Line by Dio-it's about good and evil and searching for the truth in life
We'll know for the first time
If we're evil or divine
We're the last in line "If you dont live for something you'll die for nothing" Hatebreed to me "Mama, I'm Coming Home' and "Goodbye to Romance" are the truest lyrics ever written, Ozzy wrote them truely from his heart and they showed a more mellow side to him alaska by between the buried and me. its about nothing and why he shouldnt be writing the song. how much truer could you get?
but dust in the wind is good Mine wont be as good as what I see so far and yes Kansas has that great song...I have one in my head I just cant pull it up so for right now I am going to say In A Simple Rhyme by Van Halen off of Women and Childern..be back if I think of the better one:)
One that makes the hair on my neck stand up is Nazarth's Love Hurts:( great errie tune:) "Dear God" by XTC "I would die just to live and yet we all live to die "
Higinia by Blessthefall Free Bird. I want to fly high. Michael Stanley Band, "Lover"- "thank God for the man who put the white lines on the highway". Machines of Loving Grace - Butterfly Wings
Don't place faith in human beings
Human beings are unreliable things
Don't place faith in human beings
Human beings or butterfly wings "[Tear down] the government (they don't) they don't speak for us"
Radiohead's No Surprises, the crowd-reaction to this line is so beautiful
Time is a great choice, too.
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind." Tool's Lateralus
Chronon - i was just going to edit back with that one.
"and there are things you can't avoid you have to face them when you're not prepared to face them"
lips' Fight Test. Seems a bit corny out of context though. wind of changes-by scorpions
its bout life chaging that people in then Soviet union were wating and hoping actually they sang that song before the berlin wall failed. Do You Realize? by the Flaming Lips
Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do You Realize - Oh - Oh - Oh
Do You Realize - that everyone you know
Someday will die -
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize Stevie Wonder - all is fair in love HAMMER SMASHED FACE! It's better to burn out than to fade away-Neil Young John Mayer - Daughters
I know a girl
She puts the color inside of my world
But she's just like a maze
Where all of the walls all continually change
And I've done all I can
To stand on the steps with my heart in my hands
Now I'm starting to see
Maybe it's got nothing to do with me
Fathers be good to your daughters,
Daughters will love like you do,
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too
Oh, you see that skin?
It's the same shes been standing in
Since the day she saw him walking away
Now shes left
Cleaning up the mess he made
So Fathers be good to your daughters,
Daughters will love like you do,
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too
Boys you can break
You'll find out how much they can take
Boys will be strong and
Boys soldier on
But boys would be gone
without warmth from
A woman's good, good heart
On behalf of every man
Looking out for every girl
You are the god and the weight of her world
So Fathers be good to your daughters,
Daughters will love like you do,
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too The lyric from When A Man Love A Women........Loving Eyes can never see. Or the other lyric from the same song Turning his back on his best friend if he put her dow. There are many I'd love to mention that really hit home with me, but this one's a classic. Not sure how true it is, but the message in this Black Sabbath song is quite apparent:
They say that life's a carousel
Spinning fast, you've got to ride it well
The world is full of kings and queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
Its heaven and hell, oh well
And they'll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
Its heaven and hell, oh no!
Fool, fool!
You've got to bleed for the dancer!
Fool, fool!
Look for the answer!
Fool, fool, fool! Land of Confusion - Genesis Quicksand, by David Bowie, from Hunky Dory. The first part of the second verse and the choruse have always resonated the most out of any songs I have ever heard.
I'm not a prophet
or a stone age man
Just a mortal
with the potential of a superman
I'm living on
I'm tethered to the logic
of Homo Sapien
Can't take my eyes
from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
(chorus)
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief
Knowledge comes
with death's release Modest Mouse - Doing The Cockroach
One year
Twenty years
Forty years
Fifty years
Down the road in your life
You'll look in the mirror
And say, "My parents are still alive." Right on Smiley..if I may add a bit
There's a big black shape lookin up at me..whoa...says you aren't where you ought to be..
He said come with me and I'll give you desire...but first you gotta burn, burn, burn in fire..
Then a little white shape looked down at me..said you aren't where your supposed to be...
He said come with me and I'll know just what to do...
But I said Go away , I'm gonna burn in hell with all of you, I'll see you there..
we're flying into hell...it goes on an on it's Heaven and Hell
Or....I got a friend and his name is Jack...lives in a bottle and the labels black.
My old Aladdin we're a helluva team..seems to have made off with all my dreams...My friend Jack ! Well, there are many songs that perfectly sum-up bits of my life, and {strangely} some of the events in the story I'm writing.
But, to stick to the point for once {!}, this particular song keeps making me think of a certain war the UK & US are currently fighting :~
Child In Time ~ Deep Purple
Mond Tanz / Child In Time ~ Blackmore's Night
"Sweet child in time, you'll see the line
The line that's drawn between the good and the bad
See the blind man - shooting at the world
Bullets flying, taking toll
If you've been bad - oh lord I bet you have
And you've not been hit by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes, bow your head
Wait for the ricochet"
Though of course, you could apply those lyrics to almost any major conflict of the last 90-years.
And just in case no one understands what I mean, I think it somes up the attitudes of the polititians ~ the people who aren't actually out there having to fight. One day, it will all come back on them. | 