best rock lyrics

steeler4life

I know I was born
And I know that I'll die
The in between is mine
I am mine

g under p

This one from my 2nd favorite RUSH song.....

All that we can do is just survive
All that we can do to help ourselves
Is stay alive...

Ragged lines of ragged grey
Skeletons, they shuffle away
Shouting guards and smoking guns
Will cut down the unlucky ones

I clutch the wire fence
Until my fingers bleed
A wound that will not heal-
A heart that cannot feel-
Hoping that the horror will recede
Hoping that tomorrow-
We'll all be freed....

Red Sector A...a song about The Holocaust

Peace

steeler4life

"Do do do
Do do do do
Do do do
Do do do do"

"Semi-Charmed Life" - Third Eye Blind
Greatest lyrics ever :^o

steeler4life

"I won't do the shit that piss you off and make you mad
Like running late to dinner with your business friends
Or being out late night with the fellas at the club
Or the time I forgot your birthday cuZ I's at the studio
And I will try to be a little more sensitive
Because I love you baby boo boo
And I need a place to live
I Can't go back to Jersey
I ain't goin' back
I Can't go back to Jersey
I ain't goin' back
I Can't go back to Jersey
I ain't goin' back
Why ya Why ya Why ya
Gotta do me like that?"

G. Love - "Can't Go Back to Jersey"
Not necessarily rock but great lyrics none the less. This always puts a smile on my face

Pap

I'm born again with no life to lose...

vito

Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven

vito

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

vito

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.'s
My brain hurt like a warehouse
it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things
to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people

Aafke

If I don't find a way to see through the gray that clouds my mind.
This time I look to see what's between the lines!

I can't see, I can't see, I'm going blind...
I'm blind

23scidoo

Gimme gimme shelter, lord i'm gonna fade away..

strummers

Mmmm… this is really good ice cream! you want some of it?
Oh, my bad, I didn't know you were lactose intolerant
Makes you pass gas, frightens all the girls away
Only friends you keep are those you pay
Always on the ready for the wack snack attack
I carry sandwiches around in a straight-edge style Jansport backpack
Got the gadget Q gave Bond. Take control of your mind and make you jump in a pond
Go "quack quack" and flap your arms, leave you confused, but completely unharme

strummers

So you say you want to go to Heaven,
Well I got the plans.
It walks like the Sasquatch
And it breeds like Kubla Khan.
In original dialect,
It's really quite cryptical.
There are many copies around,
But this my man is the original.

strummers

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

Lobster backs 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
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
It's just as I've feared, I have, I have come undone

Bugger dumb the last of academe
Occam's razor makes the cutting clean
Shavin' like a banker, lilac vegetable
Break the glass ceiling and the golden parachute on down

The power of the Holy Ghost comes to town
Shadow of the New Praetorian
Tipping cows in fields Elysian
Saturnalia for all you have
The seven habits of the highly infected calf

strummers

In fact, any one of Neil Fallon's lyrics - the Mam's a genius!

23scidoo

Give me your wishlist,
let's shake hands..
if you don't like,
you can have your money back

badbrains

You can lean on me, if u want to
Why don't lean on me, for awhile

Since you only get high on the weekend, ah huh
Why don't you feed on me, tonight

Thirty Bills Unpaid

And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality
Closer to the heart

* Sadly... they neglect to do so.

intheflesh

For every tool they lend us
a loss of independence

EdsonNascimento

And I'm wasted
And I Can't Find My Way Home

23scidoo

Life would be wonderful
Life would be wonderful..

If there was an open doorway
Where I could be warm and dry
And visit with some memories
I made once upon a time

Wma31394

When you feel your life ain't worth living
you've got to stand up and
take a look around you then a look way up to the sky.
And when your deepest thoughts are broken,
keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.

23scidoo

If I were a swan, I'd be gone.
If I were a train, I'd be late.
And if I were a good man, I'd talk with you more often than I do.
If I were to sleep, I could dream.
If I were afraid, I could hide.
If I go insane, please don't put your wires in my brain.
If I were the moon, I'd be cool.
If I were a rule, I would bend.
If I were a good man, I'd understand the spaces between friends.
If I were alone, I would cry.
And if I were with you, I'd be home and dry.
And if I go insane, will you still let me join in with the game?
If I were a swan, I'd be gone.
If I were a train, I'd be late again.
If I were a good man, I'd talk to you more often than I do.

badbrains

The Gaslight Anthem
"Dark Places"

If I thought it would help, I would drive this car into the sea.
If the fire and the smoke and explosions could speak for me.
If the words that I used to try to explain
How something inside of me started to break.
Ah, but one by one my words just got in the way.

And how many nights did I crash against the waves
With my head going under?
How many days did I spend trying to see it your way?
If you try you'd remember.
I changed a change and kept on saying,
"One of these days something inside's gonna break.
And we won't get it back now, baby" (something's gonna break.)

If I thought it would help I would carve your name into my heart.
(If I thought it would help I would carve your name into my heart)
And if I thought it would help I would carve your name into my heart.
(If I thought it would help I would carve your name into my heart)

All of the things that I tried to explain,
How something inside of me started to break.
We were living proof, one by one we drifted away.
One by one we drifted away.

And time after time there were things that would scare me to tears,
While you called me haunted.
I paced around the bed where you laid.
One of these days baby, something… (something's gonna break)

And if I thought it would help I would carve your name into my heart.
(If I thought it would help I would carve your name into my heart)
And if I thought it would help I would carve your name into my heart.
(If I thought it would help I would carve your name into my heart)

Pap

Yes it hurts to know you're bought...

23scidoo

Love is a bed full of blues..

samsonite

And now I'll close my eyes really, really tight
and make you all go away
I'll make you all go away
I'll make you all go... away...

I'll pull the trigger and make it all go away
I'll make it all go away
I'll make it all go away


It's dark, I know, but one of my favorites.
Of course, as I read it here it's more than just the lyric, it's the melody and the passion in his voice as he sings these simple lines.

samsonite

There's a lot things I never believed
Like that I'd ever drown in the sea
I'm not bitter I'd sail out again if I could
There was a lot of things I never believed
Like that I'd ever drown in the sea
Lived a man in control of his life who believed
To die doing what you love is alright

samsonite

one more ... for now...

I can stand up for hope, faith, love
But while I'm getting over certainty
Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady

23scidoo

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way..

Pap

What is it, Father, in your eye,
What is this wisdom, eyes of God,
That makes me feel just what I need.
You used to fly me the way to speed.