Random Song Lyrics Thread

[Enforcer84]

Desperation always tells a story.

[Pariah]

O the world will sing of an English king

A thousand years from now

And not because he passed some laws

Or had that lofty brow

While Bonnie good King Richard

Leads the great Crusade he's on

We'll all have to slave away

For that good-for-nothin' John

Incredible as he is inept

Whenever the history books are kept

They'll call him the phony King of England

A pox on the phony King of England!

[Old Man]

 

I dream of rain

I dream of gardens in the desert sand

I wake in pain

I dream of love as time runs through my hand

[Cancer]

Shrink, I want to kill.

I want to kill.

I want to see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth.

Eat dead burnt bodies.

I mean, Kill! Kill!

[death tribble]

He has a powerful weapon
He charges a million a shot,
An assassin that's second to none,
The man with the golden gun.
Lurking in some darkened doorway,
Or crouched on a roof top somewhere,
In the next room, or this very one
The man with the golden gun.

[death tribble]

You Only Live Twice or so it seems,

One life for yourself and one for your dreams.
You drift through the years and life seems tame,
Till one dream appears and love is its name.
And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on,
Don't think of the danger or the stranger is gone.
This dream is for you, so pay the price.
Make one dream come true, you only live twice.
And love is a stranger who'll beckon you on,
Don't think of the danger or the stranger is gone.
This dream is for you, so pay the price.
Make one dream come true, you only live twice.

[death tribble]

You'll never know how I watched you from the shadows as a child,
You'll never know how it feels to be the one who's left behind,
You'll never know the days, the nights, the tears, the tears I've cried,
But now my time has come,
And time, time is not on your side.

[death tribble]

This is the end

Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the earth move and then
Hear my heart burst again

 

For this is the end

I've drowned and dreamt this moment
So overdue I owe them
Swept away, I'm stolen

 

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together

[death tribble]

When you were young and your heart was an open book,
You used to say live and let live.
(You know you did, you know you did, you know you did)
But if this ever-changing world in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry,
Say live and let die !

[death tribble]

Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest.
Nobody does it half as good as you.
Baby, you're the best.

 

I wasn't lookin' but somehow you found me.
I tried to hide from your love light,
But like heaven above me the spy who loved me
Is keepin' all my secrets safe tonight.

 

And nobody does it better
Though sometimes I wish someone could.
Nobody does it quite the way you do.
Did you have to be so good ?

[death tribble]

Diamonds are forever,
They are all I need to please me,
They can stimulate and tease me,
They won't leave in the night,
I've no fear that they might desert me.

 

Diamonds are forever,
Hold one up and then caress it,
Touch it, stroke it and undress it,
I can see every part,
Nothing hides in the heart to hurt me.

 

I don't need love,

For what good will love do me?
Diamonds never lie to me,
For when love's gone,
They'll luster on.

[death tribble]

He's the man, the man with the midas touch.
A spider's touch.
Such a cold finger.
Beckons you to enter his web of sin
But don't go in.
Golden words he will pour in your ear,
But his lies can't disguise what you fear,
For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her,
It's the kiss of death from
Mister Goldfinger.

[death tribble]

I've been here before
But always hit the floor
I've spent a lifetime running
And I always get away
But with you I'm feeling something
That makes me want to stay

I'm prepared for this
I never shoot to miss
But I feel like a storm is coming
If I'm gonna make it through the day
Then there's no use in running
This is something I gotta face

If I risk it all
Could you break my fall ?

[death tribble]

From Russia with love I fly to you
Much wiser since my goodbye to you
I've travelled the world to learn
I must return from Russia with love

I've seen places, faces and smiled for a moment
But oh, you haunted me so
Still my tongue tied, young pride
Would not let my love for you show
In case you'd say no

To Russia I flew but there and then
I suddenly knew you'd care again
My running around is through
I fly to you, from Russia with love

[Cancer]

Mahna Mahna

Do doo be-do-do

Mahna Mahna

Do do-do do

Mahna Mahna

Do doo be-do-do be-do-do be-do-do be-do-do-doodle do do do-doo do!

 

(improvisation)

[Cancer]

The muffin man is seated at the table in the laboratory of the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen...

Reaching for an oversized chrome spoon he gathers an intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants

And brushing his scapular aside proceeds to dump these inside of his shirt...

 

He turns to us and speaks:

 

"Some people like cupcakes better. I for one care less for them!"

 

Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully charged icing anointment utensil

He puts forth a quarter-ounce green rosette near the summit of a dense but radiant muffin of his own design.

 

Later he says:

 

"Some people like cupcakes exclusively, while myself, I say

There is naught nor ought there be nothing so exalted on the face of God's great Earth

As that prince of foods... the muffin!"

 

Girl you thought he was a man

But he was a muffin

He hung around till you found

That he didn't know nuthin'

 

Girl you thought he was a man

But he only was a-puffin'

No cries is heard in the night

As a result of him stuffin'

 

...

 

Good night, Austin, Texas, wherever you are!

[tkdguy]

"I am"... I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair

"I am"... I cried "I am"... said I
And I am lost and I can't
Even say why
Leavin' me lonely still

[tkdguy]

This song sounds more wistful to me each year:

 

Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while

Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies

Hoping for the best but expecting the worst

Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?

 

Let us die young or let us live forever

We don't have the power but we never say never

Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip

The music's for the sad men

 

Can you imagine when this race is won

Turn our golden faces into the sun

Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune

The music's played by the, the mad men

 

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever? Forever young

 

Some are like water, some are like the heat

Some are a melody and some are the beat

Sooner or later, they all will be gone

Why don't they stay young?

 

It's so hard to get old without a cause

I don't want to perish like a fading horse

Youth's like diamonds in the sun

And diamonds are forever

 

So many adventures couldn't happen today

So many songs we forgot to play

So many dreams swinging out of the blue

We let them come true

 

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?

 

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever?

[Old Man]

Well if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am
Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies

[Cancer]

Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents.

No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes.

Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom

Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room.

I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road.

 

Third boxcar, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine.

Old worn out clothes and shoes,

I don't pay no union dues.

I smoke old stogies I have found; short, but not too big around

I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road.

 

I know every engineer on every train

All of their children, and all of their names

And every handout in every town

And every lock that ain't locked, when no one's around.

 

I sing, trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents

No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes.

Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom

Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room.

I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road.

[csyphrett]

You got to know when to hold them.

know when to fold them

know when to walk away

know when to run

You never count your money while sitting at the table

there'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done

 

Somewhere in the darkness, the gambler, he broke even.

in his final words I found an ace I could keep

CES 

[Ternaugh]

Thirty-nine and you need some leeway
Soon you're eyeing the overseas page
The trains are running late as you close the garden gate
Step through your steel front doorframe
"Dinner's in the microwave, sweetie"
Leipzig is calling you Henry (on the cardboard thoroughfare)
Leipzig is calling you Jane
Leipzig is calling you Leonard (and the clouds run parallel)
Leipzig is calling you names
Cars were burning on yellow lines
Wheels turning, traffic lights change

 

Another misty bus-queue morning
Faces smile down from a hoarding
Stoop to the bin, drop something in
Well you'll soon feel yourself again
And every place is just the same, isn't it?
Leipzig is calling you, Benny (from the mouth of the megaphone)
Leipzig is calling you, James
Leipzig is calling you, Leonard (and other cartoon characters)
Leipzig is calling you names
Like the sound of taxi brakes
The sound of a dentist's drill
The colour of skates on ice under clingfilm
It's calling:
Leipzig is calling you names
Hear it calling
And every place is just the same isn't it?
Leipzig is calling you, Benny (from the mouth of the megaphone)
Leipzig is calling you, James
Leipzig is calling you, Leonard (and other cartoon characters)
Leipzig is calling you names

[tkdguy]

Who can I turn to

When nobody needs me?

My heart wants to know

And so I must go

Where destiny leads me

 

With no star to guide me

And no one beside me

I'll go on my way

And after the day

That darkness will hide me.

 

And maybe tomorrow

I'll find what I'm after.

I'll throw off my sorrow

They're still borrow

My share of laughter.

 

With you I could learn to

With you on a new day.

But who can I turn to

If you turn away?

 

With you I could learn to

With you on a new day.

But who can I turn to

If you turn away?

[Pariah]

Well, we've been everyplace between here and South Sioux

And we've seen us a truckstop waitress or two

But this gal's built like a burlap bag full of bobcats

She's got it together

[Pariah]

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond

I want a girl who knows what's best

I want a girl with shoes that cut

And eyes that burn like cigarettes

I want a girl with the right allocations

Who's fast and thorough and sharp as a tack

She playing with her jewelry, she's putting up her hair

She's touring the facility and picking up the slack

I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket

 

I want a girl who gets up early

I want a girl who stays up late

I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity

Who uses a machete to cut through red tape

With fingernails that shine like justice

And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

She's fast and thorough and sharp as a tack

She's touring the facility and picking up the slack

I want a girl with a short skirt and a long, long jacket

 

I want a girl with a smooth liquidation

I want a girl with good dividends

At Citibank we'll meet accidentally

We'll start to talk when she borrows my pen

She wants a car with a cupholder armrest

She wants a car that will get her there

She's changing her name from Kitty to Karen

She's trading her MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron

I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket