Random Song Lyrics Thread

[Cancer]

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'

[Pariah]

I took two shots, got no ducks, and cold, cold hands.

Last night while I was out drinking, trying to have a good time.
The lady with whom I was speaking thought I was feeding her some old line.
When I spoke of a cold winter's morning, a duck blind and a river of gray.
The sound of the snow softly falling when I thought I heard somebody say,
I took two shots, got no ducks, and cold, cold hands.

 

I could tell by the gaze of my comrades that I was the one who had spoke.
Their eyes held a message of patience, the thrill of the hunt and of hope.
But when I spoke again, how they listened for the wisdom of what I might say,
if the good Lord had meant us to shoot one he'd surely send more ducks our way.
I took two shots, got no ducks, and cold, cold hands.

 

Well the lady with whom I was speaking, she laughed lightly and she wandered away.
My heart, like the snow in my story fell silent, I'd hoped she would stay.
It's so nice to talk to somebody, to find someone who's willing to share.
I know that this life is worth living but sometimes it just isn't fair,
I took two shots, got no ducks, and cold, cold hands.
I took two shots, got no ducks, and cold, cold hands.

[Pariah]

All of her days have gone soft and cloudy, all of her dreams have gone dry.
All of her nights have gone sad and shady, She's getting ready to fly.
Fly away, fly away, fly away.

 

Life in the city can make you crazy for sounds of the sand and the sea.
Life in a high-rise can make you hungry for things that you can't even see.
Fly away, fly away, fly away.

 

In this whole world there's nobody as lonely as she,
there's nowhere to go and there's nowhere that she'd rather be.

 

She's looking for lovers and children playing, she's looking for signs of the spring.
She listens for laughter and sounds of dancing, she listens for any old thing.
Fly away, fly away, fly away.

 

In this whole world there's nobody as lonely as she,
there's nowhere to go and there's nowhere that she'd rather be.

All of her days have gone soft and cloudy, all of her dreams have gone dry.
All of her nights have gone sad and shady, She's getting ready to fly.
Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away.

 

Where are my days, where are my nights?

Where is the Spring?

I wanna fly.

I wanna fly....

[Pariah]

She's a lady you'll remember
Wrapped in mystery and style
She's just one of love's pretenders
On her heart you can't rely

 

When she's dressed to kill, have you the strength of will, to turn away
Don't you hunger boy, for she's no toy, or soon you'll pay...

 

Sarah, Sarah, my misfortune never looked so sweet
Just like Jonah, Jonah, You bring me stormy seas with your deceit.

 

Now her charm just overwhelms me
Is my heart already sold!
I think of what my father told me
All that glitters is not gold

 

I'm in a cold, cold sweat and the more I fret, my fever will rise
It's a 'No Go Slow', I must leave this show before I'm her prize.

 

Sarah, Sarah, my misfortune never looked so sweet
Just like Jonah, Jonah, you bring me stormy seas with your deceit.

 

You know I should be wise, I've seen through her disguise
She'll bring me stormy seas just like Jonah
You know I'm hooked on dreams, on all that may have been
She'll bring me stormy seas, just like Jonah.

 

Sarah, Sarah, my misfortune never looked so sweet
Just like Jonah, you bring me stormy seas with your deceit.

Jonah, Jonah, just like Jonah
Jonah, Jonah, just like Jonah.

 

Jonah tried to sail away,
Catch that boat to a brighter day,

 

Remember Jonah don't mock the Lord, don't take his word in vain
For Sarah, judgement day will come again.

 

Jonah rode those stormy seas, ah, ah, Jonah
For the Lord above he would not please, remember Jonah.

 

Remember Jonah don't mock the Lord, don't take his word in vain
For Sarah, judgement day will come again.

 

Jonah was swallowed by the whale, ah, ah, Jonah
He was soon to pray when he knew he'd failed.

 

Remember Jonah don't mock the Lord, don't take his word in vain
For Sarah, judgement day will come again.

[Pariah]

You get a shiver in the dark, it's a raining in the park but meantime-
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie, double four time
You feel alright when you hear the music ring

 

Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain they hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
But the horns they blowin' that sound
Way on down south
Way on down south
London town

You check out guitar George, he knows-all the chords
Mind, it's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
They said an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

 

And Harry doesn't mind, if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright
He can play the Honky Tonk like anything
Savin' it up for Friday night
With the Sultans
With the Sultans of Swing

Then a crowd a young boys they're a foolin' around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playin' band
It ain't what they call Rock and Roll
And the Sultans
Yeah, the Sultans, they play Creole
Creole

 

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
"Goodnight, now it's time to go home"
Then he makes it fast with one more thing
"We are the Sultans
We are the Sultans of Swing"

[Pariah]

 

Too big to fly,
Dodo ugly so dodo must die.
Doggo with fear on its side;
Can't change, can't change the tide.

 

Dog baiter, agitator,
Asking questions, says he wants to know why.
Ain't no reason that money can't buy.
Mink, he pretty, so mink he must die,
Must die, must die.

 

Sun, he giving life in his light,
Part of the system.
Friend to man and friend to the trees,
No friend to the snowman.

 

Where does he go? What does he do?
Does he meet with the mole, the stream, the cloud,
And end up at the bottom of the sea?

 

Fish, he got a hook in his throat,
Fish, he got problems.
Where does he go? What does he do?
Does he hope he's too small, to poor a haul,
Who'll end up bein' thrown back in the sea?
I'm back in the sea.

 

Caretaker, horror movie,
Only one eye, only needs one boot.
Sweet lady, she know she looks good.
Vacuum coming for the bright and the brute.

 

Big noise, black smoke,
So pig-headed, couldn't see the joke.
But it ain't funny, ask the fly on the wall.
It's only living, it don't matter at all,
At all, at all.

 

Pimp, he make you drool and grunt,
He got an answer.
One, he got a dream of love
Deep as the ocean.

 

Where does he go? What does he do?
Will the siren team with Davy Jones
And trap him at the bottom of the sea?
I'm back in the sea.
I'm back in the sea.
I'm back in the sea.

 

Meanwhile lurking by a stone in the mud
Two eyes looked to see what I was

And then something spoke

And this is what it said to me

 

Clothes of brass and hair of brown
Seldom need to breathe
Don't need no wings to fly
And a heart of stone

And a fear of fire and water
Who am I?

 

Clothes of brass and hair of brown
Seldom need to breathe
Don't need no wings to fly
And a heart of stone
And a fear of fire and water
Who am I?

 

[Pariah]

You say that I put chains on you
But I don't think that's really true
But if you want to be free from me
You gotta lose me in another world

 

Send me to the Congo I'm free to leave
There's always somewhere anybody can lead
Send me to the Congo you have to believe
You can do it if you want to just do what you please

 

Like a soldier ant
I will wait for the signal to act
To take a walk right through the door
If you don't want me here any more

 

Send me to the Congo I'm free to leave
There's always somewhere anybody can lead
Send me to the Congo you have to believe
You can do it if you want to just do what you please

 

Into my heart you came
And gave a whole new meaning to my life
Into my world you brought a light
I thought it never would go out

 

Send me to the Congo I'm free to leave
There's always somewhere anybody can lead
Send me to the Congo you have to believe
You can do it if you want to just do what you please

 

I would never be the one to say you had no reason
To want me somewhere else far far away
But someday you may understand, someday you will see
That someone who would die for you is all I've ever been

 

(Congo the Congo)

If that's how it's got to be
(Congo the Congo)

If that's what you want from me

I would never be the one to say you had no reason
To want me somewhere else far far away
Someday you may understand someday you will see

That someone who would die for you is all I've ever been

[Pariah]

What do you want
What do you want
I'm givin' everything I have
I'm even trying to see if there's more

 

Locked deep inside
I'll try
I'll try
Can't you see, this is me

 

What do you need
What do you need
Is someone just to hurt
So that you can appear to be smart

 

Keep a steady job
Play God
Play God
What do you really know

 

You parasite
You're dynamite
An oversight
Misunderstanding what you hear

 

You're quick to cheer
And volunteer
Absurdities, musical blasphemies
Oh Lord

Save us all

 

What do you want
What do you want
I'm givin' every thing I have
I'm even trying to see if there's more

 

Locked deep inside
I'll try
I'll try
Can't you see, this is me

[Cancer]

Blue skies, smilin' at me

Nothin' but blues skies do I see

 

Bluebirds singing a song

Nothin' but bluebirds all day long

 

Never saw the sun shinin' so bright

Never saw things lookin' so right

Noticin' the days hurryin' by

When you're in love, my how they fly

 

Blue days, all of them gone

Nothin' but blue skies from now on

 

Never saw the sun shinin' so bright

Never saw things lookin' so right

Noticin' the days hurryin' by

When you're in love, oh how they fly

 

Blue days, all of them gone

Nothin' but blue skies from now on

[Pariah]

Fat and docile, big and dumb
They look so stupid, they aren't much fun
Cows aren't fun

 

They eat to grow, grow to die
Die to be et at the hamburger fry
Cows well done

 

Nobody thunk it, nobody knew
No one imagined the great cow guru
Cows are one

 

He hid in the forest, read books with great zeal
He loved Che Guevera, a revolutionary veal
Cow Tse Tongue

 

He spoke about justice, but nobody stirred
He felt like an outcast, alone in the herd
Cow doldrums

 

He mooed we must fight, escape or we'll die
Cows gathered around, cause the steaks were so high
Bad cow pun

 

But then he was captured, stuffed into a crate
Loaded onto a truck, where he rode to his fate
Cows are bummed

 

He was a scrawny calf, who looked rather woozy
No one suspected he was packing an Uzi
Cows with guns

 

They came with a needle to stick in his thigh
He kicked for the groin, he pissed in their eye
Cow well hung

 

Knocked over a tractor and ran for the door
Six gallons of gas flowed out on the floor
Run cows run!

 

He picked up a bullhorn and jumped up on the hay
We are free roving bovines, we run free today

 

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
Cows with guns

 

They crashed the gate in a great stampede
Tipped over a milk truck, torched all the feed
Cows have fun

 

Sixty police cars were piled in a heap
Covered in cow pies, covered up deep
Much cow dung

 

Black smoke rising, darkening the day
Twelve burning McDonalds, have it your way

 

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
Cows with guns

 

The President said "enough is enough
These uppity cattle, its time to get tough"
Cow dung flung

 

The newspapers gloated, folks sighed with relief
Tomorrow at noon, they would all be ground beef
Cows on buns

 

The cows were surrounded, they waited and prayed
They mooed their last moos, they chewed their last hay
Cows outgunned

The order was given to turn cows to whoppers
Enforced by the might of ten thousand coppers
But on the horizon surrounding the shoppers
Came the deafening roar of chickens in choppers

 

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die

Cows with guns

[Pariah]

Now the world is getting older
There's a few things to be said
Do you believe the things they told you
Do you believe the things you've read

There's a rumour on the corner
But it's always been denied
Cause they don't want you any wiser
You're just toeing the party line

 

From the west side to the east side
From the north side to the south
You'll never get bad information
If you believe in the word of mouth

 

Look out for those who still want to hang on
Look out for those who live in the past
Get out and listen to the whisper
Because the times are changing fast

 

From the west side to the east side
From the north side to the south
You'll never get bad information
If you believe in the word of mouth

 

You don't believe the information
You don't believe it when it's denied
So when you're reading explanations
You have to read between the lines

 

From the west side to the east side
Through the windows I'm looking out
You'll never get bad information
If you believe in the word of mouth

[Pariah]

A wonderful day for passing my way
Knock on my door, even the score
With your eyes

 

Lovely to see you again my friend
Walk along with me to the next bend

 

Dark cloud of fear is blowing away
Now that you're here, you're going to stay
'Cause it's

 

Lovely to see you again my friend
Walk along with me to the next bend

 

Tell us what you've seen in faraway forgotten lands
Where empires have turned back to sand

 

Wonderful day for passing my way
Knock on my door and even the score
With your eyes

 

Lovely to see you again my friend
Walk along with me to the next bend

[Pariah]

From the very first rush
To the very last sigh
In a moment's touch
To the whole of time
Be the secrets of pain
Kiss the tears that you cry

 

Just to hold without
Get to touch within
From the sound of your breath
To the taste of your skin
I'd give all my days
Just for one of your nights

 

I've just got to get next to you
Let it out, let it go

 

Desire, make it physical
Looks to feed the thrill
Desire, with its hungry eyes
Closing for the kill
Desire, all that's left in me
Tears the night in two
Desire, like a primitive
Claw my way to you

 

Are you thinking of me
Like I'm thinking of you?

 

How the innocence dies
In a passionate stare
A shaft of light
A silent dare
The call of the wild...

 

From the very first crime
Of original sin
To the carnal lie
Where the truth begins
Just to feel your nails
Lift me up like wings

 

I've just got to get next to you
Let it out, let it go

 

Desire, make it physical
Looks to feed the thrill
Desire, with its hungry eyes
Closing for the kill
Desire, all that's left in me
Tears the night in two
Desire, like a primitive
Claw my way to you

 

Are you thinking of me
Like I'm thinking of you?

[Pariah]

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a wind swept field
Standing alone my senses reeled

A fatal attraction is holding me fast
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?

 

Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I

 

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
A soul intension, that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try

 

Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I

 

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer
My grubby halo, a vapor trail in the empty air
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye

 

A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night
There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss

 

Can't keep my mind from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I

[Pariah]

I've been thinkin' the way people do
'Bout the things that matter
To me and you

I've decided to do what I can
And to find the kind of man
I really am

I can see the world from here
And it sometimes makes me
Want to disappear

Back to nature that's where we belong
And with just one truth I've found
You can't go wrong

Wherever you go, whatever you do
Whatever you say, say, say, say
Say it with love

I remember, a long time ago
When I heard those guitars
That I worship so

I was captured, I wanted to stay
And to hear that kind of music
Everyday

Heard the songs around the world
Saw the smiling faces
On the boys and girls

I was destined to play come what may
And there's just one thing
I knew I had to say

Wherever you go, whatever you do
Whatever you say, say, say, say
Say it with love

Underneath, a sea of doubt
There's a million voices shouting
Let me out (Let me out)

 

When we go, we never return
'cause there's just one lesson
That we got to learn

 

Wherever you go, whatever you do
Whatever you say, say, say, say
Say it with love

 

Say it with love, say it with love
Say it with love, say it with love

[Pariah]

Ride out the storm at the gates of dawn
Sing through the tempest til' the music's gone
Legion the enemies to trample down
Warriors of legend and of great reknown

 

In the arena with an audience of thousands
Clad in the armor of an army yet unseen
Raging a battle in the emptiness of night
With all your might

'til it's done

 

There's no returning to a life of ease
Life in a world that brings you to your knees
Wielding the weapon with a mighty hand
Draped in the banner of another land

 

Swords wrought with words of steel
More than a man can feel
Not alone the flesh and bone are matched against a foe
Rising turning falling burning to the Earth below

 

Sound out a warning in the fog of war
Soon to discover what it's all been for
Lift up the anthem of the heart that's free

 

In the arena with an audience of thousands
Clad in the armor of an army yet unseen
Raging a battle in the emptiness of night
With all your might

'til it's done

[Pariah]

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar, you're gonna go far
You're gonna fly, you're never gonna die
You're gonna make it if you try, they're gonna love you
Well, I've always had a deep respect and I mean that most sincere
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think
Oh, by the way, which one's pink?

 

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it riding the gravy train

 

We're just knocked out, we heard about the sell-out
You gotta get an album out, you owe it to the people
We're so happy we can hardly count
Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?
It's a hell of a start, it could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team

 

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it riding the gravy train

[Pariah]

Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun

 

Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway
Do they still meet there by the Cut

 

There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before times took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay

 

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
When friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

 

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world

 

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times

 

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder

 

With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river

Forever and ever

[Pariah]

There was an old farmer who lived on a rock

He sat in the meadow just shaking his

Fists at some boys who were down by the crick

Their feet in the water, their hands on their

Marbles and playthings, and at half past four

There came a young lady, she looked like a 

Pretty young creature, she sat on the grass

She pulled up her dress and she showed them her

Ruffles and laces and white fluffy duck

She said she was learning a new way to

Bring up her children so they would not spit

While the boys in the barnyard were shoveling

Refuse and litter from yesterday's hunt

While the girl in the meadow was rubbing her

Eyes at the fellow down by the dock

He looked like a man with a sizable 

Home in the country with a big fence out front

If he asked her politely, she'd show him her

Little pet dog who was subject to fits

And maybe she'd let him grab hold of her

Small tender hands with a movement so quick

And then she'd bend over and suck on his

Candy so tasty made of butterscotch

And then he spread whipped cream all over her

Cookies that she had left out on her shelf

If you think this is dirty, you can go [BEEP]

[Pariah]

Where, oh where, are you tonight?

Why did you leave me here all alone?

I searched the world over and I thought I'd found true love.

You met another and >pthhp!< you were gone.

 

[Pariah]

The sky is dark, the weather is strange
Something in the air, a warning of change
Na na na na na
I must be dreaming

 

No report in the weatherman’s log
Electric light and mystical fog
Na na na na na
Tell me I’m dreaming

 

Under strange new skies
I used to see the future, now I dream of days gone by
I can’t close my eyes

The sky is falling

 

Static is high, tension in the air
No one sees but it’s everywhere
Na na na na na
I must be dreaming

 

Everywhere doubts and rumors fly
Gravity shifts and tides go awry
Na na na na na
I must be dreaming

 

Under strange new skies
I wish it was a dream but I just can’t ignore the signs
I can’t close my eyes

The sky is falling

 

Spiraling clouds are blocking out the sun
No new moon and nowhere to run
Na na na na na
Tell me I’m dreaming

 

One more chance to set things right
Face the fear with all my might
Na na na na na
Tell me I’m dreaming

 

Under strange new skies …

 

[Joe Walsh]

Thought it was you, so I shut you out
I thought it was them until I figured it out
I screwed up everything and everybody else
I am my nemesis

I took a nap, I had to give myself a break
When I'm alone with me, you know I'm really hard to take
'Cause everything I do is getting on my nerves
I am my nemesis

I'm sick of myself, now I'm sick of myself
Don't know what to do with myself
I'm sick of myself

I went to Paris, I had to get away
But nowhere is far enough and nowhere is safe
'Cause everywhere I go, well, there I am
I am my nemesis

I'm sick of myself, I'm sick of myself
Wishing I was somebody else
I'm sick of myself

I tried, I meditated
I should be medicated
Hey doctor, shrink my head so
So I can disappear instead
So I can disappear instead
 

I went organic, I changed the color of my hair
I bought a ferret, I put my bed up on the roof
I read some Balzak, I called up all my enemies
You think I'm manic, but I'm really not that deep
I tried, I meditated

I should be medicated
You think that I'm depressive
But I'm just sick of

Myself, I'm sick of myself
Wishing I was somebody else
I'm sick of myself

I'm sick of myself, sick of myself
Don't know what to do with myself
I'm sick of myself

[Pariah]

Sometimes you want to kick yourself
For letting things get this far
You get no thanks at all
It's just a double-edged sword

 

We try to keep ourselves detached
It's clear who holds the key
Drifting through the age of reason
Now, you're washed up on the shore

 

Toe the line
It'll only hurt
What are you trying to hide
When you go swimming against the tide?

 

You'd better toe the line
It's only going to hurt
What a waste of time
Trying to change their world
So toe the line

 

It seems like everything you went for
Disappeared like purple haze
Can we ever hope for justice
While bitter men hold nothing close to them?

 

It was fixed before you were here
You'd better toe the line
What a waste of time
Trying to change their world
So toe the line

 

It's an English custom

[Pariah]

I've been out of touch again
From all that's happening around you
I've become a different man
Can't seem to stand still

 

It was all a big mistake
Once we were partners in crime
We went off our separate ways
Never performing in time

In time

 

Imagining

 

All the lies you were told
Imagining

They were true, you withhold
Imagining

Is it real, or a myth?
Imagining

In the world where we live

 

You were still dependent on
Lovers on your terms, your terms
Could you entertain again?
Could you be losing your freedom?

Freedom?

 

Imagining

 

All the lies you were told
Imagining

They were true, you withhold
Imagining

Is it real, or a myth?
Imagining

In the world where we live

 

Imagining

 

Edited April 11, 2023 by Pariah

[Pariah]

Gray is the midwinter sky

Seems like the Sun never shines any more

Snow on the hill echoes my cloudy days

I'm lost in the rain

 

Off in the distance I heard a sound

Echoes from long, long ago

A ray of light upon the wasteland

Like a patch of green in the snow

 

Row me out to sea

We've lived and dreamed here

Stars light the way

Through the dark and stormy

Rainy days

Pastel grays

 

Autumn has long gone away

All the yellows have turned into gray

Colors and seasons are fading away

Won't see them again

 

Deep in the forest are old, aging trees

Rooted in long, long ago

Vines of life that carry the future

So many seeds left to sow

 

Row me out to sea

We've lived and dreamed here

Stars light the way

In the blue and under

Pastel grays

On rainy days

 

Pull me out to sea

We've lived and dreamed here

Stars light the way

Through the dark and stormy

Rainy days

Pastel grays

 

Row me out to sea

We've lived and dreamed here

Stars light the way

In the blue and under

Pastel grays

On rainy days