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  • steeler4lifesteeler4life Philadelphia area Posts: 405
    I know I was born
    And I know that I'll die
    The in between is mine
    I am mine
    Philly 10/21/13 Seattle 12/06/13 "No Code" 10/17/14
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,120
    edited July 2014
    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

    Post edited by g under p on
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • steeler4lifesteeler4life Philadelphia area Posts: 405
    "Do do do
    Do do do do
    Do do do
    Do do do do"

    "Semi-Charmed Life" - Third Eye Blind
    Greatest lyrics ever :^o ;)
    Philly 10/21/13 Seattle 12/06/13 "No Code" 10/17/14
  • steeler4lifesteeler4life Philadelphia area Posts: 405
    "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 :)
    Philly 10/21/13 Seattle 12/06/13 "No Code" 10/17/14
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    edited August 2014
    I'm born again with no life to lose...
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / London 2024
  • vitovito Chicago Posts: 1,434
    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
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1992
    SUMMERFEST MILWAUKEE 1995
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1998
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO1998
    THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA KNOXVILLE 1998
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2000
    ALLSTATE ARENA ROSEMONT 2000
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2003
    HERSHEYPARK STADIUM 2003
    TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA 2004
    AIR CANADA CENTRE TORONTO 2005
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
    VERIZON CENTER DC 2008
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2009
    NATIONWIDE ARENA COLUMBUS 2010
    PJ20 NIGHT 1 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
    PJ20 NIGHT 2 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
    1ST MARINER ARENA BALTIMORE 2013
    IWIRELESS CENTER MOLINE 2014
    XCEL ENERGY CENTER ST. PAUL 2014
    CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2016 
    CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2016
    CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2018
    CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2018
    BOSTON 2 Fenway Park 2018
    ENTERPRISE CENTER SAINT LOUIS 2022
    Eddie Vedder Auditorium Theatre CHICAGO 2008

  • vitovito Chicago Posts: 1,434
    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
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1992
    SUMMERFEST MILWAUKEE 1995
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1998
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO1998
    THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA KNOXVILLE 1998
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2000
    ALLSTATE ARENA ROSEMONT 2000
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2003
    HERSHEYPARK STADIUM 2003
    TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA 2004
    AIR CANADA CENTRE TORONTO 2005
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
    VERIZON CENTER DC 2008
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2009
    NATIONWIDE ARENA COLUMBUS 2010
    PJ20 NIGHT 1 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
    PJ20 NIGHT 2 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
    1ST MARINER ARENA BALTIMORE 2013
    IWIRELESS CENTER MOLINE 2014
    XCEL ENERGY CENTER ST. PAUL 2014
    CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2016 
    CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2016
    CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2018
    CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2018
    BOSTON 2 Fenway Park 2018
    ENTERPRISE CENTER SAINT LOUIS 2022
    Eddie Vedder Auditorium Theatre CHICAGO 2008

  • vitovito Chicago Posts: 1,434
    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
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1992
    SUMMERFEST MILWAUKEE 1995
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1998
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO1998
    THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA KNOXVILLE 1998
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2000
    ALLSTATE ARENA ROSEMONT 2000
    ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2003
    HERSHEYPARK STADIUM 2003
    TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA 2004
    AIR CANADA CENTRE TORONTO 2005
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
    VERIZON CENTER DC 2008
    UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2009
    NATIONWIDE ARENA COLUMBUS 2010
    PJ20 NIGHT 1 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
    PJ20 NIGHT 2 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
    1ST MARINER ARENA BALTIMORE 2013
    IWIRELESS CENTER MOLINE 2014
    XCEL ENERGY CENTER ST. PAUL 2014
    CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2016 
    CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2016
    CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2018
    CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2018
    BOSTON 2 Fenway Park 2018
    ENTERPRISE CENTER SAINT LOUIS 2022
    Eddie Vedder Auditorium Theatre CHICAGO 2008

  • AafkeAafke Posts: 1,219
    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
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    "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed".- Carl Jung.
    "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."- Paul Klee
  • 23scidoo23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 18,413
    Gimme gimme shelter, lord i'm gonna fade away..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • strummersstrummers Posts: 2,611
    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
    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
    http://www.strummersphotography.com

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  • strummersstrummers Posts: 2,611
    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.
    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
    http://www.strummersphotography.com

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  • strummersstrummers Posts: 2,611
    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
    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
    http://www.strummersphotography.com

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  • strummersstrummers Posts: 2,611
    In fact, any one of Neil Fallon's lyrics - the Mam's a genius! :)
    http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
    http://www.strummersphotography.com

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  • 23scidoo23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 18,413
    Give me your wishlist,
    let's shake hands..
    if you don't like,
    you can have your money back
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    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
  • 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.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • inthefleshintheflesh Posts: 170
    For every tool they lend us
    a loss of independence
    was it?....
  • And I'm wasted
    And I Can't Find My Way Home
    Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.
  • 23scidoo23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 18,413
    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
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • Wma31394Wma31394 Posts: 3,045
    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.
    "Going where the water tastes like wine!"
  • 23scidoo23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 18,413
    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.
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255

    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)
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Yes it hurts to know you're bought...
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / London 2024
  • 23scidoo23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 18,413
    Love is a bed full of blues..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • samsonitesamsonite Posts: 209
    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.
    grace and peace
  • samsonitesamsonite Posts: 209
    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
    grace and peace
  • samsonitesamsonite Posts: 209
    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
    grace and peace
  • 23scidoo23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 18,413
    If I could start again
    A million miles away
    I would keep myself
    I would find a way..

    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    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.
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / London 2024
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