Favorite Lyric Questions

FrankieG

What's your favorite question/verse of questions asked in a song?

Mine:
"What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender.
What if I say I will never surrender?"
-The Pretender, Foo Fighters

FrankieG

Can we help that, our destinations, are the ones we've been before?
-All or None

Last-12-Exit

Have you ideas on how this life ends?
Are we getting something out of this all encompassing trip?
-present tense

ed243421

what shall
we use
to fill
the empty
spaces
where
we used
to talk?

how shall
i fill
the final
places?
how shall
i complete
the wall?

empty spaces
pink floyd

ed243421

why do I have to be different to them?
just to earn the respect of a dance hall friend,
we have the same old row, again and again.
why do I have to move with a crowd?
of kids that hardly notice I'm around,
i have to work myself to death just to fit in.

cut my hair
the who

ed243421

am i wrong?
have i run to far to get home?
have i gone
and left you here alone?
if i would, could you?

would?
alice in chains

ed243421

anyone can have an opinion
anyone can join in and jump
anyone can pay or just stay away
anyone can crash and thump

but did you read the stuff that julie said?
or little jimmy with his hair dyed red?
they don't give a shit keith moon is dead
is that exactly what i thought i read?

typewriter tappers
you're all just crappers
you listen to love with your intellect
a4 pushers
you're all just cushions
morality ain't measured in a room
he wrecked.

jools and jim
pete townshend

ed243421

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.

masters of war
bob dylan

ed243421

i think i know the answer
i stumbled on and all the world fell down
and all the sky went silent
cracked like glass and slowly
tumbled to the ground
they say if you look hard
you'll find your way back home
born without a friend
and bound to die alone

i'm thinking of your highness
and crying long upon the loss
i've found
and on the plus and minus
zero chance of ever
turning this around

why doesn't anyone believe
in loneliness?
stand up and everyone will see
your holiness

zero chance
soundgarden

ed243421

don't need a helmet, got a hard, hard head
don't need a raincoat, i'm already wet
don't need a bandage, there's too much...blood...
after a while, seems to roll right off...hmm...
whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
...they're whipping, ah...they're whipping...
don't need a hand, there's always arms attached
oh, don't get behind, i can't fall back
why must we trust all these rusted rails?
they don't want no change we already have

whipping
pearl jam

ed243421

who's got the brain of jfk?
what's it mean to us now?
oh, it's sound insurance
but I can tell you, this is no lie

the whole world will be different soon
the whole world will be relieved

brain of j
pearl jam

ed243421

don't you think you ought to rest?
don't you think you ought to lay your head down?
don't you think you want to sleep?
don't you think you ought to lay your head down tonight?

don't you think you've done enough?
oh, don't you think you've got enough, well maybe.
you don't think there's time to stop
there's time enough for you to lay your head down, tonight, tonight

let it wash away
all those yesterdays

what are you running from?
taking pills to get along
creating walls to call your own
so no one catches you drifting off and
doing all the things that we all do

let them wash away
all those yesterdays
all those yesterdays
all those paper plates

you've got time, you've got time to escape
there's still time, it's no crime to escape
it's no crime to escape, it's no crime to escape
there's still time, so escape
it's no crime, crime.
all those yesterdays

all those yesterdays
pearl jam

ed243421

routine was the theme, he'd wake up and...wash and pour himself into uniform
something he hadn't imagined being...
as the merging traffic passed, he found himself staring, down, at his own hands..
not remembering the change, not recalling the plan, was it...?
he was okay, but wondering about wandering
was it age? by consequence? or was he moved by sleight of hand?
mondays were made to fall, lost on a road he knew by heart
it was like a book he read in his sleep, endlessly...
sometimes he hid in his radio, watching others pull into their homes
while he was drifting...
on a line, of his own, off the line, on the side
by the by, as dirt turned to sand, as if moved by sleight of hand
when he reached the shore of his clip-on world
he resurfaced to the norm
organized his few things, his coat and keys...
any new realizations would have to wait til he had more time, more time...
time to dream, to himself
he waves goodbye, to himself
i'll see you on the other side...
another man...moved by sleight of hand...

sleight of hand
pearl jam

ed243421

well, his wife and kid are sleeping but he's still awake
on his brain weighs the curse of thirty bills unpaid
gets up, lights a cigarette he's grown to hate
thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

unemployable
pearl jam

ed243421

There is a marker,... No one sees it cause the sand
Has covered over,... All the messages it kept
Misunderstanding,... What original truth was
And out expanding,... In a faith, but not in love

What went wrong?

Walking tightrope high,... Over moral ground
Seeing visions of,............. Falling up somehow
Do come down

With the living, Let,..... What is living love
So unforgiving, yet,.... Needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say?

Those undecided,........ Needn't have faith to be free
And those misguided, There was a plan for them to be
Now you got both sides Claiming killing in Gods name
But God is nowhere,..... To be found, conveniently

What goes on?

Walking tightrope high,... Over moral ground
Seeing visions of,............. Before you burn them down
Do come round

With a living, let,...... What is living love
So unforgiving, yet... Needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say? What do you say?

There is a sickness,...... A sickness coming over me
Like watching freedom,. Being sucked straight out to sea
And the solution?,........ Well, from me far would let it be
But the delusion,.......... Is feeling dangerous to me

What goes wrong?

Walking tightrope high,... Over moral ground
Seeing visions of,............. Falling up somehow
Do come down

With a living, let,...... What is living love
So unforgiving, yet... Needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say? What do you say?

Calling out,......... Calling out.
Calling out,......... I'm calling you out.

marker in the sand
pearl jam

ed243421

Climbing on a mountain
Floating out on the sea
Far from lights of a city
The elements they speak to me...

Whispering that life
Existed long before greed...
Balancing the world
On its knee...

Don't see some men as half empty
See them half full of shit
Thinking that we're all but slaves
There's ain't gonna be

No middle anymore
It's been said before
The haves be having more
Yet still bored

Won't someone save?
Won't someone save
The world?

1/2 full
pearl jam

ed243421

There is a town in north Ontario,
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind
I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there.

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us

Helpless, helpless, helpless
Baby can you hear me now?
The chains are locked
and tied across the door,
Baby, sing with me somehow.

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us

Helpless, helpless, helpless.

helpless
neil young

ed243421

You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking.
And after a while, you can work on points for style
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake
A certain look in the eye, and an easy smile
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You'll get the chance to put the knife in.
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older
And in the end you'll pack up, fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer.
And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone
And it's too late to loose the weight you used to need to throw around
So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone
Dragged down by the stone.
I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise
If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze?
Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone's expendable and no-one has a real friend
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
And everythings done under the sun
And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer.
Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to do by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with collar and chain
Who was given a pat on the back
Who was breaking away from the pack
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone.

dogs
pink floyd

ed243421

I went back to the doctor
To get another shrink.
I sit and tell him about my weekend,
But he never betrays what he thinks.

Can you see the real me, doctor?

I went back to my mother
I said, "I'm crazy ma, help me."
She said, "I know how it feels son,
'Cause it runs in the family."

Can you see the real me, mother?

The cracks between the paving stones
Look like rivers of flowing veins.
Strange people who know me
Peeping from behind every window pane.
The girl I used to love
Lives in this yellow house.
Yesterday she passed me by,
She doesn't want to know me now.

Can you see the real me, can you?

I ended up with the preacher,
Full of lies and hate,
I seemed to scare him a little
So he showed me to the golden gate.

Can you see the real me preacher?
Can you see the real me doctor?
Can you see the real me mother?
Can you see the real me?

the real me
pearl jam

ed243421

"Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips? Whoa..."

Dear God, how have you been then?
I'm not fine, fuck pretending
All of this death your sending
Best throw some free heart mending
Invite you in my heart, then
When done, my sins forgiven?
This God of mine relaxes
World dies I still pay taxes

Can I be as my God am
Can you be as God am
Can I be as my God am
God of all my God am

So Lord, I see you grinnin
Must be grand always winning
How proud are you being able
To gather faith from fable

Can I be as my God am
Can you be as God am
Can I be as my God am
God of all my God am
God am
My God am
God am
God

All the respect I'm giving
Shared strength acquired by living
All blooming life you're feeding
Can't hide sick ones you're weeding

Can I be as my God am
Can you be as God am
Can I be as my God am
God of all my God am
God am
God am
God am
God am

god am
alice in chains

F Me In The Brain

ed243421 said:

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.

masters of war
bob dylan

I like this one Eric!

23scidoo

Last-12-Exit said:

Have you ideas on how this life ends?
Are we getting something out of this all encompassing trip?
-present tense

thats the question..

and..

Hallo..is there anybody in there?..
Comfortbly numb-Pink floyd

karmadefect

ed243421 said:

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.

masters of war
bob dylan

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.

I like this one from master of war.
Then again the last 4 verses are so strong together.

The last one finishes it so nicely.
Especially coming from the next to last one that you posted.

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.

derbydave

I let go of a rope,... thinking that's what held me back
And in time I've realized,... it's now wrapped around my neck
I can't see what's next,... from this lonely overpass
Hang my head and count my steps, as another car goes past

All the rusted sign we ignore throughout our lives
Choosing the shiny ones instead
I turned my back,... now there's no turning back

No matter how cold the winter,.. there's a springtime ahead
I smile, but who am I kidding?
I'm just walking the miles,.. every once in a while I'll get a ride
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven