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"Your fave songs and their lyrics"

I'm not sure if it's been done before, but I'd be interested to know exactly what kinds of music everyone's into, and what songs in particular they like.

So - if you can be bothered - tell me one of your favourite music tracks and if you like, tell me the lyrics too.

Here are 2 of my personal favourites:

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"All I Want" by The Offspring


Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Day after day
Your whole life's a wreck
The powers that be just breath down your neck
You get no respect
You get no relief
You gotta speak up and yell out your dreams

So knock off your rules
Knock off your job
'Cos I'm sick of not living to stay alive
Just leave me alone
Not asking a lot
Just don't wanna be controlled

It's all I want

How many times
Is it gonna change
Til someone around you hears what you say?
You've tried being cool
You feel like a lie
You've played by the rules now it's their turn to try

So knock off your rules
Knock off your job
'Cos I'm sick of not living to stay alive
Just leave me alone
Not asking a lot
Just don't wanna be controlled

Said it before
I'll say it again
And if you'd just listen then it might make sense

So knock off your rules
Knock off your job
'Cos I'm sick of not living to stay alive
Just leave me alone
Not asking a lot
Just don't wanna be controlled

It's all I want

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah



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"Gone Away" by The Offspring

Maybe in another life
I could find you there
Pulled away before your time
I can't deal it's so unfair

And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it feels
Yeah it feels like
The world has grown cold
Now that you've gone away

Leaving flowers on your grave
To show that I still care
But black roses and Hail Mary's
Can't bring back what's taken from me
I reach to the sky
And call out your name
And if I could trade
I would

And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it stings
Yeah it stings now
The world is so cold
Now that you've gone away

I reach to the sky
And call out your name
And if I could trade
I would

And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it stings
Yeah it stings now
The world is so cold
Now that you've gone away

The Offspring - "Kick Him When He's Down"

"Hey you're a riddle" I say as I move aside
(Like I really need your advice)
But you won't leave it alone
Little men try but don't get a lot done
Living in sin don't move me either way
I get a feeling you're so vague
Like I said before
Little men come when anything goes

When the rain comes I'll sit home and pray
Make it all numb I'll wish it all away
All I really need is just somewhere to hide away
Kick him when he's down
Here alone I'll put up a fight
Kick him when he's down
Beat me all the way I'll take it all night
Kick him when he's down
Hey don't worry I'll get along home alright

Hey everybody's supposed to be the same
So how come they're so lame?
It's like taking a fall
I keep on running back into that wall
Awake in a dream, get up and go to work
But I'm feeling like such a jerk
Like I said before
Little men come when anything goes

When the rain comes I'll sit home and pray
Make it all numb I'll wish it all away
All I really need is just somewhere to hide away
Kick him when he's down
Here alone I'll put up a fight
Kick him when he's down
Beat me all the way I'll take it all night
Kick him when he's down
Hey don't worry I'll get along home alright

'Hey, you're a riddle' I say as I move aside
(Like I really need your advice)
But you won't leave it alone
Little men try but don't get a lot done
Living in sin doesn't move me either way
I get a feeling you're so vague
Like I said before
Little men come when anything goes

When the rain comes I'll sit home and pray
Make it all numb I'll wish it all away
All I really need is just somewhere to hide away
Kick him when he's down
Here alone I'll put up a fight
Kick him when he's down
Beat me all the way I'll take it all night
Kick him when he's down
Hey don't worry I'll get along home alright

The Offspring - "Forever and a Day"

Look at me while I look at you
Seeing eye to eye is something we can never do
You try to tell what is right
I may not know a lot but I know one thing

That's if you've got the answer
Then I don't want to know
If you've got the answer
Then just keep it your own

I wonder why our world's ablaze
Sometimes I hear aloud to hear what people have to say
I try to have an open mind
But your brain and mouth must not be connected

So if you've got the answer
Then I don't want to know
If you've got the answer
Just leave me alone

I would be patient but I takes so long
I don't want all this misinformation
All the words that you say

Lean on me while I lean on you
And if we destroy each other we might save a life or two
A little sun, a little shine
Seperates us both by forever and a day

I don't want to know
If you've got the answer
Then I don't want to know

If you've got a vision
Then I don't want to see
If you've got a notion
Then don't waste it on me

Scooter - I'm Raving


Good evening!!

Put on my raving shoes and I boarded a plane.
Touched down in the land where the skies were blue,
in the middle of the pouring rain.
Everybody was happy, energy shining down on me.
Yeeeah, I've got a first-class ticket been as good as a boy can be.

I'm raving, I'm raving.
I'm raving til' the sweat drops fall down off me.
I'm raving, I'm raving.
But do I really feel the way I feel?

Yess!!
C'mon!
YEEEEAH!!

Put on my raving shoes and I boarded a plane.
Touched down in the land where the skies were blue
in the middle of the pouring rain.
Everybody was happy, energy shining down on me.
Yeeeah, I've got a first class ticket been as good as a boy can be.

I'm raving, I'm raving.
I'm raving til' the sweat drops fall down off me.
I'm raving, I'm raving.
But do I really feel the way I feel?

Yess!!
Wicked!
Wicked!
WICKED!
Give it up now!
Give it up now!
Give it up now!
YEEEEAH!!

I'm raving, I'm raving.
I'm raving til' the sweat drops fall down off me.
I'm raving, I'm raving.
But do I really feel the way I feel?
But do I really feel the way I feel?

Thank you!!!



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Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise


As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left
coz I've been blastin and laughin so long, that
even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
but I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of
you better watch how you're talking, and where you're walking
or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
I really hate to trip but i gotta, loc
As I Grow I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
on my knees in the night, saying prayers in the streetlight


been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise


They got the situation, they got me facin'
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes
so I gotta be down with the hood team
too much television watching got me chasing dreams
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger
and my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24
the way things are going I don't know

Chorus:

Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise

Power and the money, money and the power
minute after minute, hour after hour
everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
what's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's kickin'
they say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me
if they can't undersstand it, how can they reach me
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
(fade out)

Dream Theatre - The Glass Prison

watch the word count go wayyy up!

dream theatre - "the glass prison"


I. Reflection

Cunning, Baffling, Powerful
Been beaten to a pulp
Vigorous, Irresistable
Sick and tired and laid low
Dominating, Invisible
Black-out, loss of control
Overwhelming, Unquenchable
I'm powerless, have to let go

I can't escape it
It leaves me frail and worn
Can no longer take it
Senses tattered and torn

Hopeless surrender
Obsession's got me beat
Losing the will to live
Admitting complete defeat

Fatal Descent
Spinning around
I've gone too far
To turn back round

Desperate attempt
Stop the progression
At any length
Lift this obsession

Crawling to my glass prison
A place where no one knows
My secret lonely world begins

So much safer here
A place where I can go
To forget about my daily sins

Life here in my glass prison
A place I once called home
Fall in nocturnal bliss again

Chasing a long lost friend
I no longer can control
Just waiting for this hopelessness to end

II. Restoration

Run – fast from the wreckage of the past
A shattered glass prison wall behind me
Fight – past walking through the ashes
A distant oasis before me

Cry – desperate crawling on my knees
Begging God to please stop the insanity
Help me – I'm trying to believe
Stop wallowing in my own self pity

"We've been waiting for you my friend
The writing's been on the wall
All it takes is a little faith
You know you're the same as us all"

Help me – I can't break out this prison all alone
Save me – I'm drowning and I'm hopeless on my own
Heal me – I can't restore my sanity alone

Enter the door
Desperate
Fighting no more
Help me restore
To my sanity
At this temple of hope

I need to learn
Teach me how
Sorrow to burn
Help me return
To humanity
I'll be fearless and thorough
The enter this temple of hope

Believe
Transcend the pain
Living the live
Humility
Opened my eyes
This new odyssey
Of rigorous honesty

Serenity
I never knew
Soundness of mind
Helped me to find
Courage the change
All the things that I can

"We'll help you perform this miracle
But you must set your past free
You dug the hole, but you can't bury your soul
Open your mind and you will see"

Help me – I can't break out this prison all alone
Save me – I'm drowning and I'm hopeless on my own
Heal me – I can't restore my sanity alone

III. Revelation

Way off in the distance I saw the door
I tried to open
I tried forcing with all of my will and still
The door wouldn't open

Unable to trust in my faith
I turned and walked away
I looked around, felt a chill in the air
Took my will and turned it over

The glass prison which once held me is now gone
A long lost fortress
Armed only with liberty
And the key of my willingness

Fell down on my knees and prayed
"Thy will be done"
I turned around, saw a light shining through
The door was wide open

Microchips wrote:
> Millencolin- Kemp
>
> "A spoke in your wheel yeah like a bugging fly"
>
> It's said so bloody fast, try singing it whilst drunk!
>
> Sibs, what did you expect? :D


You think that Kemp by Millencolin is fast?!?!?!! You should try listening to some heavier music to see what fast is....

Millencolin- Kemp

"A spoke in your wheel yeah like a bugging fly"

It's said so bloody fast, try singing it whilst drunk!

Sibs, what did you expect? :D

Pixies

"No more, this girl cried"

"I'm here your big man"

"You're mine........"

nirvana, opening verse on "in utero", 'serve the sevents' goes

Teenage angst has paid off well
now im bored and old
self appointed judges judge
more than they have sold

11,000 words - 45 replies

Sibs wrote:
> I think this is Dark Marks personal 'get my word count up' topic...
>
> ;-)

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Actually, message count looks more impressive than word count.