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"Your favourite song lyrics, ged 'em in!"

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U2 Numb.

don't move
don't talk out of time
don't think
don't worry everything's just fine
just fine

don't grab
don't clutch
don't hope for too much
don't breathe
don't achieve
don't grieve without leave

don't check just balance on the fence
don't answer
don't ask
don't try and make sense

don't whisper
don't talk
don't run if you can walk
don't cheat compete
don't miss the one beat

don't travel by train
don't eat
don't spill
don't p*** in the drain
don't make a will

don't fill out any forms
don't compensate
don't cower
don't crawl
don't come around late
don't hover at the gate

don't take it on board
don't fall on your sword
just play another chord
if you feel you're getting bored

don't change your brand
don't listen to the band
don't gape
don't ape
don't change youyr shape
have another grape

don't plead
don't blind
don't shackle
don't grind
don't curve
don't swerve
don't do, die, serve

don't theorize, realise, polarise
chance, dance, dismiss, apologise

don't spy
don't lie
don't try
imply
detain
explain
start again

don't triumph
don't coax

I feel numb
I feel numb
too much is not enough
gimme some more
gimme some more
of that stuff love
too much is not enough

don't cling
don't hoax
don't freak
peak
don't leak
don't speak

don't project
don't connect
protect
don't expect
suggest

don't project
don't connect
protect
don't expect
suggest

don't struggle
don't jerk
don't collar
don't work
don't wish
don't fish
don't teach
don't reach

don't borrow
don't break
don't fence
don't steal
don't pass
don't press
don't fry
don't feel

don't touch
don't drive
don't suffer
don't rhyme
don't tantalise
don't rise
don't lie

don't project
don't connect
protect
don't expect
suggest.

Linkin Park - "Faint"

I am
A little bit of loneliness
A little bit of disregard
A handful of complaints
But I can't help the fact
That everyone can see these scars
I am
What I want you to want
What I want you to feel
But it's like no matter what I do
I can't convince you
To just believe this is real
So I
Let go, watching you
Turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not
But I'll be here 'cos you're all that I've got

I can't feel
The way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
This damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

I am
A little bit insecure
A little unconfident
But you don't understand
I do what I can
But sometimes I don't make sense
I am
What you never want to see
What I've never had a doubt
It's like no matter what I do
I can't convince you
For once just to hear me out
So I
Let go, watching you
Turn your back like you always do
Face away and pretend that I'm not
But I'll be here 'cause you're all that I got

I can't feel
The way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
This damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

No
Hear me out now
You're gonna listen to me
Like it or not
Right now
Here me out now
You're gonna listen to me
Like it or not
Right now

I can't feel
The way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

I can't feel
The way I did before
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored
Time won't heal
This damage anymore
Don't turn your back on me
I won't be ignored

-

Bad Religion - "Slumber"

So you're feeling unimportant
'Cos you've got nothing to say
And your life is just a ramble
No one understands you anyway

Well I've got a piece of news son
That might make you change your mind
Your life is historically meaningful
And spans a significent time

Slumber will come soon
And you are helping put it to sleep
Side by side we do our share
Faithfully assuring
That slumber will come soon

Well now do you feel a little better?
Lift up your head and walk away
Knowing we're all in this together
For such a short time anyway

There's just no time to parade around sulking
I would rather laugh than cry
The rich, the poor, the strong, the weak
We share this place together
And we pitch in to help it die

We pitch in to help it die

I'm not too good at giving morals
And I don't fear the consequence
If life makes you scared and bitter
At least it's not for very long

Slumber will come soon
And you are helping put it to sleep
Side by side we do our share
Faithfully assuring
That slumber will come soon

Slumber will come soon
Slumber will come soon
Slumber will come soon
Slumber will come soon

-

Bad Religion – “Inner Logic”

Automatons in business suits clinging black boxes
Sequestering the blueprints of daily life
Contented, free of care, they rejoice in morning ritual
As they file like drone ant colonies to their office in the sky

I don’t ask questions, don’t promote demonstrations
Don’t look for new consensus and don’t stray from constitution
If I pierce the complexity I won’t find salvation
Just the bold and overt truth of the evil and deception

There is an inner logic, and we’re taught to stay far from it
It is simple and elegant, but it’s cruel and antithetic
And there’s no effort to reveal it

Graduated mentors stroll in marble brick porticos
In sagacious dialog they despise their average ways
Displaying pomp and discipline, they mould their institution
Where they practice exclusion on the masses every day

Decorated warriors drill harmless kids on pavements
Simulating tyranny under red alert
Protecting the opulent and staging moral standard
They expect redemption of character and self-growth

(No equality, no opportunity
No tolerance for the progressive alternative)

Artist : Yoko Kanno
Song : Gotta Knock A Little Harder

Happiness is just a word to me
And it might have meant a thing or two
If I'd known the difference

Emptiness, a lonely parody
And my life, another smokin' gun
A sign of my indifference

Always keepin' safe inside
Where no one ever had a chance
To penetrate a break in

Let me tell you some have tried
But I would slam the door so tight
That they could never get in

Kept my cool under lock and key
And I never shed a tear
Another sign of my condidtion

Fear of love or bitter vanity
That kept me on the run
The main events at my confession

I kept a chain upon my door
That would shake the shame of Cain
Into a blind submission

The burning ghost without a name
Was still calling all the same
But I just wouldn't listen

The longer I'd stall
The further I'd crawl
The further I'd crawl
The harder I'd fall
I was crawlin' into the fire

The more that I saw
The further I'd fall
The further I'd fall
The lower I'd crawl
I kept fallin' into the fire
Into the fire
Into the fire

Suddenly it occurred to me
The reason for the run and hide
Had totaled my existnce

Everything left on the other side
Could never be much worse that this
But could I go the distance

I faced the door and all my shame
Tearin' off each piece of chain
Until they all were broken

But no matter how I tried
The other side was locked so tight
That door it wouldn't open

Gave it all that I got
And started to knock
Shouted for someone
To open the lock
I just gotta get through the door

And the more that I knocked
The hotter I got
The hotter I got
The harder I'd knock
I just gotta break through the door

Gotta knock a little harder
Gotta knock a little harder
Gotta knock a little harder
Break through the door

weird al yankovic - cats in the kettle (parody of cats in the cradle)

do you ever think
when you eat chinese
it ain't pork or chicken
but a fat siamese
although the food tastes great
so you don't complain
but thats not chicken
in your chicken chow mein

It seems to me I ordered sweet and sour pork
but garfield's on my fork
he's purring there on my fork

there's a cat in the kettle at the peking moon
the place I eat every day at noon
they can serve you cat and you'll never know
once they serve it up in dough boy,
golden crispy dough ....

The future teaches you to be alone
the present to be afraid and cold
so if I can shoot rabbits
then I can shoot fascist's

Bullets for your brain today
but we'll forget it all again
monuments put from pen to paper
turns me into a gutless wonder

"I'm a swinging guy - throw a belt over the shower curtain rod and ... swing."

Weird Al Yankovic- The Devil went to Jamaica

the devil went to jamaica
he was lookin' to sell some weed
he was doin' fine
they were standin' in line
it was excellent weed indeed
when he came across a young man
who was likewise peddelin' pot
and the devil slid down the beach to the kid
and said "boy lemme tell you what"
i guess you kinda figured i'm a reefer head of course
and after all this time
i guess that i'm
a connoisseur of sorts
now your stuff smells ok
but this could tranquilize a horse
i'll bet a million in cash
against your stash
coz i think mine's better than yours
the boy said "my name's johnny and you ain't smoked nothin' yet"
one hit of this grass
will kick your ass
you got yourself a bet
johnny roll a ball of hash
and make sure it's the bomb
coz the devil's got the kind of stuff
they smoked in vietnam
you'll get a million smackaroo's
in cash if you cash if you can cook,
but if you can't devil'll get your dope
the devil packed a bong
with a little acapulco gold
and resin flew from his fingertips
as he fired up his bowl
he filled that chamber all the way
and he took a mighty hit
as they passed it back and forth
it gave'em both a coughin' fit
when the bowl was finished johnny said
"hey man that stuff was great"
but fill your lungs with some of this
and prepare to vegetate
cannabis,apeeva,sweet mary jane
the devil's in the back yard fryin' his brain
zig zag filled with a diggity dang
hold on tight it'll hit you like a tank
the devil nodded off because he knew that he was stoned
and he asked if he could buy an ounce of the stuff that johnny owned.
johnny said "devil just come on back if you ever wanna catch a buzz"
i done told you once you son of a b*tch,
mine's the best there ever was
then they
fired up doobies one by one,
ain't gonna stop 'til the bag's done
green as a bullfrog,
sticky as glue
granted you'll get high,
yes i do

Smashing Pumpkins.

pop tart
what's our mission
do we know
but never listen
for too long
they held me under
but i hear
it's almost over
in Detroit
on a Memphis train
like you said it's
down in the heat and the summer rain of
the automatic gauze of your memories
down in the sleep at the airplane races
try to hold on
to this heart
a little longer
try to hold on
to this love aloud
try to hold on
for this heart's
a little bit colder
try to hold on to this love
paperback scrawl your hidden poems
written around the dried out flowers
here we are still trading places
try to hold on
pop tart
can you envision
a free world
of clear division
for too long
they held us under
but i know
we're getting over
in Detroit
with the Nashville tears
like you said it's
down in the heat of the broken numbers
down in the gaze of solemnity
down in the way you've held together
try to hold on
to this heart
a little bit closer
try to hold on
to this love aloud
try to hold on
for this heart's
a little bit older
to this love aloud
and we are still alive
try to hold on
and no one shoould deny
we tried to hold onto the pulse of the feedback current
into the flow of encrypted movement
slapback kills the ancient remnants
that try to hold on
try to hold on
to this heart alive
try to hold on
to this love aloud
try to hold on and we are still alive
try to hold on
and we have survived
try to hold on
pop tart
you never listen
skinned knees
try to hold on
stop start
what's our mission
skinned knees
try to hold on.

red hot chilis- on mercury(whole songs lyrics)
- cant stop(whole songs lyrics)

linkin park - numb(whole songs lyrics)

u2 - beautiful day(whole songs lyrics)

de la soul - 3 is a magic number(whole songs lyrics)

*cant remember- express yourself(whole songs lyrics)

sum 41 - no brains "you speak for all of us,when you cant be heard."

there you go...

The Offspring - Tehran


In your plane in the blue sky
You roam again
Words that echo in your mind
Make your heart beat faster
This is no Vietnam
We will win in Iran

The Captain said kill or die
Islam be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran

Warrior, the time bombs
About to go
What will you feel
Will you even wonder
If the man that's in your sights
Ever kissed his girl goodbye

The President said let it ride
Islam be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran

Great Satan
Our flags our burning

Soon America may find
Its young men in the sand
Where there casualty
Is just a number
In Iran

The President said let it ride
You will be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran