Pithy lyrics that sum it all up

[Bruce Dazzling]

The universe is shaped exactly like the earth, if you go straight long enough you end up where you were.

[82_28]

Minor synch, but I checked this thread to put these lyrics in here as they are on my mind constantly and exactly as I feel right now. Check thread and her favorite band is the one you post first, Bruce -- Modest Mouse.

Have you used up all the love in your heart
Nothing left for me
Ain’t there nothing left for me
Baby come back
Any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back
Listen baby
You can blame it all on me
I was wrong and I just can’t live without you
I was wrong
And I just can’t live
Baby come back
Oh baby
Any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back
You can blame it all on me
I was wrong and I just can’t live without you

Anyways, those are the pithy lyrics that sum up everything for me at least as far as everything goes. You only get a few chances to really love someone in this life and I squandered my opportunity. You always have to meet in the middle, no matter how uncomfortable, no matter how right you may be. If you love, you must always admit you're wrong.

[stefano]

Roger Waters. Am on a political trip just now so would like to start with Perfect Sense off Amused to Death:

The monkey sat on a pile of stone
And he stared at the broken bone in his hand
Strains of a Viennese quartet rang out across the land
The monkey looked up at the stars
And he thought to himself
Memory is a stranger
History is for fools
And he cleaned his hands in a pool of holy writing
Turned his back on the garden and set out for the nearest town
Hold on hold on soldier

When you add it all up
The tears and the marrowbone
There's an ounce of gold
And an ounce of pride in each ledger
And the Germans kill the Jews
And the Jews kill the Arabs
And the Arabs kill the hostages
And that is the news
And is it any wonder that the monkey's confused
He said Mama Mama, the President's a fool
Why do I have to keep reading these technical manuals
And the joint chiefs of staff
And the brokers on Wall Street said
Don't make us laugh, you're a smart kid
Time is linear
Memory's a stranger
History is for fools
Man is a tool in the hands
Of the great God Almighty
And they gave him command of a nuclear submarine
Sent him back in search of the Garden of Eden

Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents,
Pounds, shillings and pence
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense



But if by 'it all' you mean 'it all', then some earlier Waters - Time off Dark Side of the Moon:

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

[vince]

"People will always be willing to wipe their feet,
upon anything with 'welcome' written on it."
- Andy Partridge "Snowman"

[Allegro]

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“Sing it out
Boy, you got to see what tomorrow brings
Sing it out
Girl, you’ve got to be what tomorrow needs
For every time that they want to count you out
Use your voice every single time you open up your mouth”


from “Sing” | My Chemical Romance

[Allegro]

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“I let the music speak, leading me gently
Urging me like a lover
Leading me all the way
Into a place
Where beauty will defeat the darkest day

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“Let it be a joke
Let it be a smile
Let it be a farce if it makes me laugh for a little while
Let it be a tear
Let it be a sigh
Coming from a heart, speaking to a heart, let it be a cry”


from “I Let the Music Speak” | ABBA

[Stephen Morgan]

Questions unfolding like books
And their pages, they just keep on turning for me
And I keep on asking why every question
Will somehow relate back to me

Oh, I was told by a knight of the sun
That wisdom could set people free
Be content in your questions
And may I just mention, you're only a drop in the sea

Direction revolving, these questions, I'm solving
But nobody hears what I say
My answers, unspoken, of sweetest emotion
Believe how I feel today, just believe how you feel today

[Bruce Dazzling]

One person conditioned to rule and control. The media sells it and you live the role.

[Project Willow]

"People will always be willing to wipe their feet,
upon anything with 'welcome' written on it."
- Andy Partridge "Snowman"

I wanted to have his babies. Now it's too late.

Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land
About their leader with the famous face?
Will you tell them that the reason nothing ever grows
In the garden anymore
Because he wanted to win the craziest race
That's this world over

Will you smile like any father
With your children on a Sunday hike?
When you get to a sea of rubble
And they ask ``What was London like?''

You tell them, ``Ah well, that's the world over''

Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land
And how a child to the virgin came?
Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered
Everything upon the surface of the world
So we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?

That's this world over
Or so it seems
That's this world over
The end of dreams

Fire they cried
So evil must die
And yields are good
So men pull back hoods and smile

The scapegoat blood spilled
Spittled and grilled it crackled and spat
And children grew fat on the meat
Change must be earnt
Sacrificial bonfire must burn
Burn up the old
Bring in the new

Burn up the old
Bring in the new

Assembled on high
Silhouette against the sky
The smoke prayed and pranced
And sparks did their dance in the wind
Disguises wore thin with less and less skin
And the clothes that were draped
Was all that told man from ape
Change must be earnt
Sacrificial bonfire must reign
Reign over good
Banish the bad

Oh,Reign over good
Banish the bad, oh, ohh

Dear God,
hope you got the letter, and...
I pray you can make it better down here.
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
but all the people that you made in your image, see
them starving on their feet 'cause they don't get
enough to eat from God, I can't believe in you

Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but... I feel that I should be heard
loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
and all the people that you made in your image, see them fighting
in the street 'cause they can't make opinions meet about God,
I can't believe in you

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue? Did you make
mankind after we made you? And the devil too!

Dear God, don't know if you noticed, but... your name is on
a lot of quotes in this book, and us crazy humans wrote it, you
should take a look, and all the people that you made in your
image still believing that junk is true. Well I know it ain't, and
so do you, dear God, I can't believe in I don't believe in

I won't believe in heaven and hell. No saints, no sinners, no
devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You're always
letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you
drown. Those lost at sea and never found, and it's the same the
whole world 'round. The hurt I see helps to compound that
Father, Son and Holy Ghost is just somebody's unholy hoax,
and if you're up there you'd perceive that my heart's here upon
my sleeve. If there's one thing I don't believe in

it's you... Dear God.

Did you ever try to prise away the mask
Go ahead, take a spoon and try
I can tell you it's a herculean task
Go ahead, it's okay to cry

What you're chewing on's the truth
And that's the hardest thing
To wash down with a glass of lemonade
The Ugly Underneath

The thing with politicians is
I wouldn't have suspicions
If I saw their worst positions
And their Ugly Underneath
But after all the voting
Suck away the sugar coating
Now they've had you and they're gloating
Boy it's Ugly Underneath

Did you ever try to take away the wheel
Go ahead, take a fork and try
See the unattractive things that make us real
Go ahead, it's okay to cry
What you've trodden in's the truth
And that's the hardest thing
To wash down with a glass of lemonade

I've got the plow if you've got the furrow
I've got the rabbit if you've his burrow home
I've got the pen if you've got the paper
Time is but clay and I'll see you and the wheel turn
You and the wheel turn

chorus:
And if the pot won't hold our love
If the pot won't hold our love
If the pot won't hold our love
Then we'll dash it to the ground
And if the pot won't hold our love
If the pot won't hold our love
If the pot won't hold our love
We'll build one bigger all around
goes the wheel

I've got the seed if you've got the valley
I've got the big stick if you've Aunt Sally's head
I've got the time if you've got the motion
Time is but clay and I'll see you and the wheel turn
You and the wheel turn

Maypole you've spun me round and knocked me off my axis mundi
Maypole the ties that bind you will unwind to free me one day
and everything decays

Yes, everything decays
Forest tumbles down to make the soil
Planets fall apart
Just to feed the stars and stuff their larders

And what made me think we're any better
and what made me think we'd last forever
was I so naive?
of course it all unweaves

Pyramids and palaces to dust
Empires crumble in
Wedding cake begins to must and molder

And what made me think we're any better
and what made me think we'd last forever
was I so naive?
failing to perceive

Maypole (round goes the wheel)
Maypole (round goes the wheel)
Maypole (the ties that bind you will unwind to free me one day)
Maypole (if the pot won't hold our love)

And I won't take from you
Don't you know,
'bout a zillion years ago
Some star sneezed
Now they're paging you in reception
Don't you know,
Jack and Jillion years ago
Some dinosaur dropped the pail
When it saw our reflection
Don't you know we're all light?
Yeah I read that someplace
Don't you know we're all light?
Yeah I read that someplace
So you won't mind if I kiss you now
Before indecision can bite
Don't you know, in this new Dark Age
We're all light

Don't you know,
'bout your finger tips away
Is a universe of atoms
That thinks you're real something
Don't you know,
Just a couple of lips away
Is an evolutionary Bean Feast
who's insides are jumping
Don't you know we're all light?
Yeah I read that someplace
Don't you know we're all light?
Yeah it's a bumper sticker someplace
So you won't mind if I kiss you now
We may hear the angels recite
Don't you know in this new Dark Age
We're all light

And I won't take from you
What you can't take from me
And I'll leave nothing here
That you can't use upon your trip
I won't take from you
What you can't take from me
And I'll leave nothing here
But love and milk a plenty
For your tea

Don't you know, 'pon the pillion of times bike
We roar on to the stage
And too soon we're dead centre
Don't you know, Buffalo Billion's raised his sight
He's picking off the whole herd
As soon as we enter
So you won't mind if I kiss you now
And maybe come on in for the night
Don't you know in this new Dark Age
We're all light
We're all light
(And I won't take from you
What you can't take from me)
You know where you itch
Is a little tiny switch
And if you let me in
I can show you just the pin
That you put in the slot
When the element gets hot
And the stuff just pours out
Oh we're light
Kiss me now
Just kiss me now

Just a teen-tine sampling.

Kiss me now.

[Joe Hillshoist]

Black fella, white fella.
It doesn't matter, what your colour.
As long as you, a true fella.
As long as you, a real fella.

All the people, of different races.
With different lives, in different places.
It doesn't matter, what your name is.
We got to have, lots of changes.

We need more brothers, if we're to make it.
We need more sisters, if we're to save it.

Are you the one that's gonna stand up and be counted?
Are you the one who's gonna be there when we shout it?
Are you the one that's always ready with a helping hand?
Are you the one who understands these family plans?

Black fella, white fella.
Yellow fella, any fella.
It doesn't matter, what your colour.
As long as you, a true fella.

All the people, of different races.
With different lives, in different places.
It doesn't matter, which religions.
It's all the same when the, ship is sinking.

We need more brothers, if we're to make it.
We need more sisters, if we're to save it.

Are you the one that's gonna stand up and be counted?
Are you the one who's gonna be there when we shout it?
Are you the one that's always ready with a helping hand?
Are you the one who understands these family plans?

Stand up, stand up and be counted.
Stand up, stand up and be counted.

Are you the one that's always ready with a helping hand?
Are you the one who understands these family plans?

Warrumpi band - Blackfella whitefella.

[Laodicean]

Got myself arrested, Wound me up in jail.
Richmond 'bout to blow up, Communication failed.
If you see the answer, now's the time to say.
All I want, All I want is to get you down to pray.
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Saw the people standin' thousand years in chains.
Somebody said it's diff'rent now, look, it's just the same.
Pharoahs spin the message, round and round the truth.
They could have saved a million people, How can I tell you?

Wrote A Song For Ev'ryone,
Wrote a song for truth.
Wrote A Song For Ev'ryone
And I couldn't even talk to you

[Hammer of Los]

...

I got a thousand lyrics that speak to me and indeed often speak of me.

Mostly I listen to them on Planet Rock. Go listen! Listen carefully!

Where should I start?

Is that what is thread is all about?

Let your self be your refuge.

Find out what is your self.

Listen to the world around you.

But develop discernment.

If you can, then develop the piercing blade of prajna intuition, the immaculate sword of manjusri that cleaves the gordian knot.

Find out who can tie the ends back together into the Moebius strip.

Find out who weaves the figure eight.

...

This song sums a lot up for me.

I feel like narrator and wizard both;

He was the wizard of a thousand kings
and I chanced to meet him one night wandering.
He told me tales and he drank my wine.
Me and my magic man kinda feeling fine.
He had a cloak of gold and eyes of fire.
And as he spoke I felt a deep desire
to free the world of its fear and pain
and help the people to feel free again.
Why don't we listen to the voices in our hearts?
Cause then I know we'll find we're not so far apart.
Everybody's got to be happy, everyone should see.
For we know the joy of life and peace that love can bring.
So spoke the wizard in his mountain home.
The vision of his wisdom means we'll never be alone.
And I will dream of my magic night
and the million silver stars that guide me with their light.

ps I wonder if anyone gets my jokes. I can't resist a comics reference, you know.

...

[Nordic]

"Blue Valentine" by Tom Waits

She sends me blue valentines
All the way from philadelphia
To mark the anniversary
Of someone that I used to be
And it feels just like there's
A warrant out for my arrest
Got me checkin in my rearview mirror
And Im always on the run
That's why I changed my name
And I didn't think you'd ever find me here

To send me blue valentines
Like half forgotten dreams
Like a pebble in my shoe
As I walk these streets
And the ghost of your memory
Is the thistle in the kiss
And the burglar that can break a roses neck
Its the tatooed broken promise
That I hide beneath my sleeve
And I see you every time I turn my back

She sends me blue valentines
Though I try to remain at large
They're insisting that our love
Must have a eulogy
Why do I save all of this madness
In the nightstand drawer
There to haunt upon my shoulders
Baby I know
Id be luckier to walk around everywhere I go
With a blind and broken heart
That sleeps beneath my lapel

She sends me my blue valentines
To remind me of my cardinal sin
I can never wash the guilt
Or get these bloodstains off my hands
And it takes a lot of whiskey
To take these nightmares go away
And I cut my bleedin heart out every night
And I die a little more on each st. valentines day
Remember that I promised I would write you...
These blue valentines
Blue valentines
Blue valentines

[Nordic]

"Hurt" by Trent Reznor


I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
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Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

[Nordic]

And if you're gonna have a thread like this, it has to contain the following:


Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes, everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose, everybody knows

Everybody knows that you love me, baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah, give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes and everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes, everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes, everybody knows

And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/r/rufus-wai ... yrics.html ]
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah, when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows and everybody knows

And everybody knows that the plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose what everybody knows

And everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody knows what you've been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it's coming apart
Take one last look at this sacred heart
Before it blows and everybody knows

And everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes, everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes, oh, everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes, everybody knows
Everybody knows