What Songs do you like?

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One i really like (even if its an oldie) is this one -:

The great American Novel

I was born and raised an orphan
in a land that once was free,
in the land that poured
its love out on the moon,
and I grew up in the shadows
of your silos filled with grain,
but you never helped to fill
my empty spoon.

And when I was ten you murdered
law with courtroom politics,
and you learned to make a lie
sound just like truth,
but I know you better now
and I don’t fall for all your tricks,
and you’ve lost the one advantage
of my youth.

You killed a black man at midnight
just for talking to your daughter,
then you make his wife your mistress
and you leave her without water,
and the sheet you wear upon your face
is the sheet your children sleep on,
and at every meal you say your prayers
you don’t believe but still you keep on.

And your money says ‘In God we Trust’
but it’s against the law to pray in schools,
you say be beat the Russians to the moon
and I say you starved your children to do it.

You are far across the ocean
in a war that’s not your own,
and while your winning theirs
your gonna lose the one at home,
do you really think the only way
to bring about the peace,
is to sacrifice your children
and kill all your enemies?

The Politicians all make speeches
while the newsmen all take notes,
And they exaggerate the issues
as they shove it down our throats,
Is it really up to them whether
this country sinks or floats?
Well I wonder who would lead us
if none of us would vote…

Well my phone is tapped and my lips are chapped
from whispering through the fence,
you know every move I make or is that just coincidence?
Will you try to make my way of life a little less like jail,
if I promise to make tapes and slides
and send them through the mail.

And your money says ‘In God we Trust’
but it’s against the law to pray in schools,
you say be beat the Russians to the moon
but I say you starved your children to do it.

You say all men are equal and all men are brothers
then why are the rich more equal than others?

Don’t ask me for the answers I’ve only got one,
that a man leaves his darkness when he follows the son.


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What i find worrying is how its not only still relevant, but things have gotten worse...

put your Song lyrics here (please no offensive one please)

and why you like em...

Where are all the stupid people from?
And how'd they get to be so dumb?
Bred on purple mountain range
Feed amber waves of grains
To lesser human beings, zero feelings

Blame it on
Human nature, mans destiny (mans destiny)
Blame it on the greediocracy (greediocracy)
Fear of God
The fear of change
The fear of truth

Add the Bill of Rights, subtract the wrongs
There's no answers
Memorize and sing star spangled songs
When the questions
Aren't ever asked
Is anybody learning from the past?
We're living in united stagnation

Father what have I done?
I took that .22
A gift to me from you
To bed with me each night
Kept it clean
Polished it well
Cherished every cartridge, every shell

Down, by the creek, under brush, under dirt
There's a carcass of my second kill
Down, by the park, under stone, under pine
There's a carcass of my brother William
Brother where, have you gone to?
I swear, I never thought I could
I see so many times
They told me to shoot straight
Don't pull the trigger, squeeze
That will insure a kill
A kill is what you want
A kill is why we breed

The Christians love their guns
The church and NRA
Pray for their salvations
Prey on the lower faiths

The story book's been read
And every line believed
Curriculum's been set
Logic is a threat
Reason searched and seized

Jerry spent some time in Michigan
A twenty year vacation, after all he had a dime
A dime is worth a lot more in Detroit
A dime in California, a twenty dollar fine

Jerry only stayed a couple months
It's hard to enjoy yourself while bleeding out the ass
Asphyxiation is simple and fast
It beats seventeen fun years of being someone's b***h

Don't think (Stay)
Drink your wine (Home)
Watch the fire burn (Be)
His problems not mine (Safe)
Just be that model citizen

I wish I had a schilling
(For each senseless killing)
For every senseless killing
I'd buy a government
America's for sale
And you can get a good deal on it
(A good deal on it)
And make a healthy profit
Or maybe, tear it apart
Start with assumption
That a million people are smart
Smarter than one

Serotonin's gone
She gave up, drifted away
Sara fled, thought process gone
She left her answering machine on
The greeting left spoken sincere
Messages no one will ever hear

Ten thousand messages a day
A million more transmissions lay
Victims of the laissez faire
Ten thousand voices, a hundred guns
A hundred decibels turns to one
One bullet, one empty head
Now with Serotonin gone

The man who used to speak
Performs a cute routine
Feel a little patronized
Don't feel bad
They found a way inside your head
And you feel a bit misled
It's not that they don't care, yeah

The television's put a thought inside your head
Like a Barry Manilow, jingle
I'd like, to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
A symphonic blank stare, yeah
It doesn't make you care (make you care)
Not designed to make you care (make you care)
They're betting you won't care (you won't...)

Place a wager on your greed
A wager on your pride
Why try to beat them when, a million others tried?

We are the whore
Intellectually spayed
We are the queer
Dysfunctionally raised

One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
Living through conformity

One more prayer to keep me safe
One more prayer to keep us warm
One more prayer to keep us safe
There's gonna be a better place

Lost the battle, lost the war
Lost the things worth living for
Lost the will to win the fight
One more pill to kill the pain

Na na na na na
La na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na

The going get tough, the tough get debt
Don't pay attention, pay the rent
Next of kins pay for your sins
A little faith should keep us safe

Save us
The human, existence
Is failing, resistance
Essential, the future
Written off, the odds are
Astronomically against us
Only moron and genius
Would fight a losing battle
Against the super ego
When giving in is so damn comforting

And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Why go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat, live in decline
Be the victim of our own design
The status quo, built on suspect
Why would anyone stick out their neck?

Fellow members of
Club "We've Got Ours"
I'd like to introduce you to our host
He's got his, and I've got mine
Meet the decline

We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war
We are worker
We love our queen
We sacrifice
We're soilent green

We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war

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mostly fits what i've observed of society. even though i don't agree with the anti-gun stance...it's still true that only those groups seem to support guns...and they aren't exactly the best spokesmen for guns.

"Extreme Ways" by Moby
extreme ways are back again
extreme places i didn't know
i broke everything new again
everything that i'd owned
i threw it out the windows, came along
extreme ways i know move apart
the colors of my sea
perfect color me

extreme ways that that help me
help me out at night
extreme places i had gone
but never seen any light
dirty basements, dirty noise
dirty places coming through
extreme worlds alone
did you ever like it planned
i would stand in line for this
there's always room in life for this

oh baby, oh baby
then it fell apart, fell apart
oh baby, oh baby
then it fell apart, it fell apart
oh baby, oh baby
then it fell apart, it fell apart
oh baby, oh baby
like it always does, always does

extreme songs that told me
they helped me down every night
i didn't have much to say
i didn't get above the light
i closed my eyes and closed myself
and closed my world and never opened
up to anything
that could get me along

i had to close down everything
i had to close down my mind
too many things to cover me
too much can make me blind
i've seen so much in so many places
so many heartaches, so many faces
so many dirty things
you couldn't believe

i would stand in line for this
it's always good in life for this



oh baby, oh baby
then it fell apart, fell apart
oh baby, oh baby
then it fell apart, it fell apart
oh baby, oh baby
then it fell apart, it fell apart
oh baby, oh baby
like it always does, always does

Soma by the Smashing Pumpkins.


Nothing left to say
And all I've left to do
Is run away
From you
And she led me on, down
With secrets I can't keep

Close your eyes and sleep
Don't wait up for me
Hush now don't you speak
To me

Wrapped my hurt in you
And took my shelter in that pain
The opiate of blame
Is your broken heart, your heart

So now I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
I'll betray my tears
To anyone caught in our ruse of fools

One last kiss from me...yeah
One last kiss good night

Didn't want to lose you once again
Didn't want to be your friend
Fulfilled a promise made of tin
And crawled back to you

I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
I'll betray myself
To anyone, lost, anyone but you

So let the sadness come again
On that you can depend on me, yeah
Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah
When god sleeps in bliss

And I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
And I'll betray myself
To anyone

"superman has to be one of my favourites simply because I almost feel as though the song is about me - or people like us...

Five for fighting - Superman

I can’t stand to fly
I’m not that naive
I’m just out to find
The better part of me

I’m more than a bird...i’m more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It’s not easy to be me

Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I’ll never see

It may sound absurd...but don’t be naive
Even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed...but won’t you concede
Even heroes have the right to dream
It’s not easy to be me

Up, up and away...away from me
It’s all right...you can all sleep sound tonight
I’m not crazy...or anything...

I can’t stand to fly
I’m not that naive
Men weren’t meant to ride
With clouds between their knees

I’m only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
Inside of me
Inside me
Yeah, inside me
Inside of me

I’m only a man
In a funny red sheet
I’m only a man
Looking for a dream

I’m only a man
In a funny red sheet
And it’s not easy, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm...

Its not easy to be me

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i'm really diggin on this song. no vid, just audio.

I like this song because it makes me laugh.

Zutons

Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?

What can I do, what can I say
To make you want me more
To have your love and show you more
That's all I'm asking for,
I've been around the block so many times
And I need a place to stop

I only want whats right for you
And you could be right for us
I hear the same thing all the time
And you know that I don't care
I don't like the way you're hanging around
And I sure don't like your hair

Ooo oooh
Why won't you give me your love?
Ooo oooh
Why won't you give me your love?

I chain you up I make you mine I keep you
Locked downstairs with all the bugs
And all the rats I'll feed you rodent hair
I'll keep you in my celler safe
And I'll keep you there 'till dawn
I'll wait until the sun comes up
Then I'll poke and prod you more
I know you're tired
And your having a date
But that don't mean much to me
And when I see you out in town
I'm gonna hide so you can't see

Ooo oooh
Why won't you give me your love?

A powerful song I like is called Our Union Jack. If you can ignore its Ulster Protestant roots I think this has a lot to say for us in mainland Britain at the moment.

Here's the lyrics:

Have Britons lost the courage
Of the glorious days of yore
Have they lost the valiant spirit
Which their doughty fathers bore?
They always travelled forward
Shall we go tamely back
Shall we look on while the traitors
They destroy our Union Jack?

Shall we listen to the treason
Of sedition nurtured knaves
And condemn our loyal kindred
To the failure of wretched slaves?
Our fathers travelled forward
Shall we go tamely back
Shall we look on while the traitors
They destroy our Union Jack?

Shall we be crushed like vermin
Beneath the Gladstone wheel?
That he may live in story
As a hero of repeal
Shall we no more go forward
But tamely travel back
Shall we look on while the traitors
They destroy our Union Jack?

We never shall surrender
The glories of our past
But shoulder still to shoulder
Protect them to the last
We must and shall go forward
And never travel back
And forever aye, forever
We shall hoist our Union Jack!

We never shall surrender
The glories of our past
But shoulder still to shoulder
Protect them to the last
We must and shall go forward
And never travel back
And forever aye, forever
We shall hoist our Union Jack!

Agalloch - And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth

Life is a clay urn on the mantle
And I am shattered on the floor
Life is a clay urn on the mantle
And I am scattered on the floor
We are the wounds and the great cold death of the earth. . .

"Earth is floating on the waters like an island,
Hanging from four rawhide ropes
Fastened at the top of the Sacred four directions.
The ropes are tied to the ceiling of the sky,
When the ropes break, this world will come
Tumbling down and all living things will fall with it and die. . ."

Life is a clay urn on the mantle
And I am the fragments on the floor
Life is a clay urn on the mantle
And I am the ashes on the floor
We are the wounds and the great cold death of the earth
Darkness and silence, the light shall flicker out. . .

Agalloch - A Desolation Song

Here I sit at the fire
Liquor's bitter flames warm my languid soul
Here I drink alone and remember
A graven life, the stain of her memory
In this cup, love's poison
For love is the poison of life
Tip the cup, feed the fire,
And forget about useless hope. . .

Lost in the desolation of love
The passions we reap and sow
Lost in the desolation of life
This path that we walk. . .

Here's to love, the sickness
The great martyr of the soul
Here's to life, the vice
The great herald of misery
In this cup, spiritus frumenti
For this is the nectar of the spirit
Quench the thirst, drown the sorrow
And forget about cold yesterdays. . .

Lost in the desolation of love
The passions we reap and sow
Lost in the desolation of life
This path that we walk. . .
Lost in the desolation of love
The sorrows we reap and sow
Lost in the desolation of life
The path that we walk. .

Real Emotion. I don't have the lyrics for it though.

(Seigneur by Kevin Parent)

Seigneur Seigneur qu'est-cé qu'tu veux que j'te dise?
Y a plus rien à faire j'suis viré à l'envers
J'aimerais m'enfuir mais ma jambe est prise

Seigneur Seigneur qu'est-cé qu'tu veux que j'te dise?
Son indifférence m'arrache la panse
Pis j'pense plus rien qu'à mourir

Mon rôle dans la vie n'est pas encore défini
Pourtant je m'efforce pour qu'il soit accompli
Je le sais faut tout que je recommence

Mais Seigneur j'ai pas envie

Seigneur Seigneur je l'sais tu m'l'avais dit
Respecte ton prochain réfléchis à demain
Car la patience t'apportera de belles récompenses

Travaille avec entrain pour soulager la faim
De la femme qui t'aime elle en a de besoin

Elle a besoin d'un homme fidèle qui sait en prendre soin

Lucifer Lucifer t'as profité d'ma faiblesse
Pour m'faire visiter l'enfer

Mais je t'en veux pas c'est moi
Qu'a pensé que j'pourrais être chum avec toi
Mais j'm'ai ben faite avoir mon chien de Lucifer

Le sexe l'alcool les bars et la drogue
C'est le genre d'illusion que j'consomme
Si on est ce que l'on mange Seigneur
Tu sais ben que trop que j'serai jamais un ange

Mais j'veux changer de branche
Filtrer mon passé pis sortir mes vidanges
J'aimerais prendre le temps de faire la paix avec quelques souffrances
Oui j'aimerais prendre le temps de faire la paix avec quelques souffrances

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