best rock lyrics

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.