Great song lyrics ...one verse ...or less (3994 views, 461 replies)

"Well I'm runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load"

Clowns to the left of me, Joker's to the right, and here I am, Stuck In The Middle Wit You.....

Man there's an opera out on the turnpike,
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley ...

(Jungleland. Bruce Springsteen)

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord

(I can hear his drums now)
Phil Collins---In the Air tonight

You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice

U2 - Running To Stand Still

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Drive-by body pierce)

Beck ~ Loser

Her name is Noel
I have a dream about her
She rings my bell
I got gym class in half an hour
Oh how she rocks
In Keds and tube socks
But she doesn't know who I am
And she doesn't give a damn about me

Teenage Dirtbag
Wheatus

wow that last set of lyrics,very tragic-high school!!Soy un perdedor very tough, ouch!!

"Oh/I've been in the desert/
on a horse with no name!/
It felt good to get out/
of the rain!/In the desert/you can't remember your name/
CUZ there ain't no one/to give yah no pain!
Lah-lah-lah-lah-LAH--lah!Lah-la-l a---LAH!"

Although I really wanted to remember"I read the news today/oh boy!/The English army/had just won the war!"--and i can't get those Beatle lyrics right!They are spotty, so even if I got"He blew his mind out in a car/sing-sing-"He was in the house of lords!"I can't piece it together right, even THO I used to own ALL THE BEATLES!

BOY,that was THE GROUP,like a religion!!I read too much.lately,about stuff Lennon did,and I got disgusted at him.--it ruins the music to know about the musicians.--HE was the real weak link,not Ringo.-

-oh,and we baby boomers never got real news from the Media ,at that time,you hadda wait 50 yrs. ... to finally get the real truth!!THE MEDIA not only lies,it hides the truth it does not like--never tells you stuff.--until umpteen decades later, every truth comes out.--so,yeah,the Media ain't yer friend! Everything really important, the Media CENSORS.
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Ah okay, thanks for clarifying that, and yes very, very confusing

In my dreams I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learnt how to swim

I had a friend once, he took some acid
Now he thinks he's a fire engine
It's ok, until he pisses on your lighter

Tool ~ Opiate

I like yours. Good choice! It just surprised me. And I shouldn't have been surprised. That's a fault in me that I didn't know I had.

These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them.

(These Days - Jackson Browne.)

There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon

It's hard to say you love someone
And it's hard to say you don't

Del Amitri - Driving With The Brakes On

I'd like to thank everyone that has contributed. I've been introduced to some new music...and there's NOTHING that I like better than good music! It's like meeting new friends. People that you KNEW were out there, but hadn't met yet!

we were as close, as anyone can be
now you are gone, far away from me
as is once, will always be

Crowded House - Together Alone
generaleclectic123.blogspot.com/2...

My theory isn't perfect but it's close
I'm almost there why should I care
My heart is hurting when I share

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Wet Sand

She lives with a broken man,
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns.

He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins.

(Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead)

I feel cold as a razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum

"One Of My Turns" Pink Floyd

But I'd rather take you, show that I can make you
Good enough for just one man
Oh I'm feeling kinda like I've gotta find a
Way to make you understand

Status Quo - Mystery Song

We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine


The Beatles - Yellow Submarine

There are things
I have done
There's a place
I have gone
There's a beast
And I let it run
Now it's running
My way

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls... and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Wanna play cricket on the green
Ride my bike across the street
Cut myself and see my blood
Wanna come home all covered in mud

I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But if I say I am, I get it


"I'm A Boy" Peter Townsend-THE WHO (1966)

I promised to my wife and children,
I'd never touch another drink as long as I live
But even then it sounds so soothing,
to mix a gin and sink into oblivion


Cold War Kids - We Used To Vacation

“Hey / been trying to meet you
hey / must be a devil between us
or whores in my head / whores at my door / whores in my bed
but hey / where have you been / if you go, I will surely die
we’re chained.”
"Hey" Pixies

To keep in silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went from day to day
Though my life was in a rut
'Til I thought of what I'll say
Which connection I should cut

(Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel)

One of my favorite songs from this newcomer singer lorde...


There's a humming in the restless summer air
And we're slipping off the course that we prepared
But in all chaos, there is calculation
Dropping glasses just to hear them break
You've been drinking like the world was gonna end (it didn't)
Took a shiner from the fist of your best friend (go figure)
It's clear that someone's gotta go
We mean it, but I promise we're not mean

Hold The Line
Totò

It's not in the way that you hold me
It's not in the way you say you care
It's not in the way you've been treating my friends
It's not in the way that you stayed till the end
It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you'll do
Hold the line, love isn't always on time, oh oh oh
Hold the line, love isn't always on time, oh oh oh
It's not in the words that you told me, girl
It's not in the way you say you're mine, ooh
It's not in the way that you came back to me
It's not in the way that your love set me free
It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you'll do
Hold the line, love isn't always on time, oh oh oh

Whatever it may bring
I will live by my own policies
I will sleep with a clear conscience
I will sleep in peace

Love is not like they say
A lie, that it's hard to make it stay
I drown my feelings in the sea
I dried out over on the beach

Of all the times I've tasted love
Never knew quite what I had
Little darling, if you hear me now
Never needed you so bad
Spinning 'round inside my head


David Gray - Sail Away

On a morning from a Bogart movie,
In a country where they turn back time,
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre,
Contemplating a crime.

(Year of the Cat - Al Stewart)

Hey man, oh leave me alone you know
Hey man, oh Henry, get off the phone, I gotta
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face
This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place ...The famous "Wham Bam Thank-you Ma'am" lyric was the title of one of the tracks on Charles Mingus' 1961 Oh Yeah album.

Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly And the dreams that you dare to Oh why, oh why can't I?


SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW ~ Recorded by Judy Garland

... I cannot believe this one's not been used yet!!

I want to be your sledgehammer Why don't you call my name You'd better call the sledgehammer Put your mind at rest I'm going to be-the sledgehammer This can be my testimony I'm your sledgehammer Let there be no doubt about it



Sledgehammer ~ Peter Gabriel

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
You know you're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

Let's make a list of all the things the world has put you through
Let's raise a glass to all the people you're not speaking to
I don't know what else you wanted me to say to you
Things happen, that's all they ever do

(Things Happen - Dawes)

I'm going to Graceland Graceland In Memphis Tennessee I'm going to Graceland Poor boys and pilgrims with families And we are going to Graceland...


Paul Simon ~ Graceland

I came here with a load
And it feels so much lighter now I met you
And honey you should know
That I could never go on without you


Coldplay - Green Eyes

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.

And now for my song lyrics... 😎

American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman, she gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind
American woman gonna mess your mind

Cathy, I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and I'm aching and I don't know why
Countin' the cars on the New Jersey turnpike
They've all come to look for America, all come to look for America.

(America - Paul Simon)

Can I get a witness
Can I get a witness
Can I get a witness
Can I get a witness
Can I get a witness
Can I get a witness

Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

Featured Chevy Chase

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me

Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is

Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,
Spill theirs just anywhere,
But God loves those who treat their
Semen with more care.
Because...
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

(Every sperm is sacred - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)

To watch entire clip: dosmovies.com/forum/thread/Great-movie-s....

Girl, you're everything a man could want and more
One thousand words are not enough to say what I feel inside
Holding hands as we walk along the shore
Never felt like this before, now you're all I'm living for

Billy Ocean - Suddenly

My father sits at night with no lights on
His cigarette glows in the dark
The living room is still
I walk by, no remark

When the lights go out
I can not pretend
This bed's too big, all for me
To be in alone, all alone

Alexander O'Neal - If You Were Here Tonight

Here's an OLD one for you...a blusey love song .Natural High
Bloodstone
Why do I keep my mind
On you all the time?
And I don't even know you (I don't know you)
Why do I feel this way?
Thinking about you every day
And I don't even know you (I don't know you)
Take me in your arms
Thrill me with all of your charms
And I'll take to the sky, oh, the natural high
Loving you more till the day I die
Take to the sky, oh, the natural high
Loving you more

Tell me is the crack of the poolballs, neon buzzin?
Telephone's ringin'; it's your second cousin
Is it the barmaid that's smilin' from the corner of her eye?
Magic of the melancholy tear in your eye.

Makes it kind of quiver down in the core
'Cause you're dreamin' of them Saturdays that came before
And now you're stumblin'
You're stumblin' onto the heart of Saturday night.

(Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night - Tom Waits

I don't mind working, 'cause I used to be jerking off most of my time in bars,
I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerk
And a manic mechanic on cars.
It's nice work if you can get it, now who the hell said it?
I got money to spend on my gal,
But the work never stops, and I'll be busting my chops
Working for Joe and Sal.

Liquor & Whores
Liquor & Whores
Cigarettes, & dope & mustard & bologna
Liquor and Whores


Liquor & Whores--Bubbles and the $hitrockers ft. Alex Lifeson

You, I thought I knew you
You, I cannot judge
You, I thought you knew me
This one laughing quietly
Underneath my breath


R.E.M. - Nightswimming

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach
My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now

Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's something missing
I'd beg for some forgiveness
But begging's not my business
And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it's my assumption
I'm really up the junction*

(Up the Junction - Squeeze)

*The phrase 'Up The Junction' is London slang for being in deep trouble, as in the American 'Up the creek without a paddle'.

I'm afraid I broke the wings
Off that little songbird
And she's never gonna fly
To the top of the world How
To the top of the world ......Patty Griffin

And as I close the door
I know I'm breaking your heart
I should have loved you more
Instead I've torn your world apart


Level 42 - It's Over

And then as the sail is hoist
You find your eyes are growing moist
All the fears never voiced
Say you have to make your final choice


Pink Floyd - Childhood's End

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
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.

PINK FLOYD ... TIME

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken
Your best friend always sticking up for you
Even when I know you're wrong
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze-dried romance
Five-hour phone conversation
The best soy latte that you ever had, and me

When I give my heart it will be completely
Or I'll never give my heart
And the moment I can feel that you feel that way too
Is when I fall in love with you


Nat King Cole - When I Fall In Love

He hears the ticking of the clocks
And walks along with a parrot that talks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in
Maybe she'll pick him out again
How long must he wait?
One more time for a simple twist of fate.

People tell me it is a sin
To know and feel too much within
I still believe she was my twin but I lost the ring
She was born in spring
But I was born too late
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

(simple twist of fate - bob dylan)

Listen to Your Heart

Roxette

I know there's something in the wake of your smile
I get a notion from the look in your eyes, yea
You've built a love but that love falls apart
Your little piece of heaven turns too dark
Listen to your heart when he's calling for you
Listen to your heart there's nothing else you can do
I don't know where you're going and I don't know why,
But listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye
Sometimes you wonder if this fight is worthwhile
The precious moments are all lost in the tide, yea
They're swept away and nothing is what is seems,

The feeling of belonging to your dreams
Listen to your heart when he's calling for you
Listen to your heart there's nothing else you can do
I don't know where you're going and I don't know why,
But…

I apologize, that's way more than one verse, but the song wouldn't make any sense otherwise

Time has traced its lines on your face,
but I think you're beautiful
And I want no other to be my baby's mother,
'cause all I see is beautiful


Fun Lovin' Criminals - Beautiful

Last night I hold Aladdin's lamp
So I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away

Rise up and take the power back
It's time the fat cats had a heart attack
You know that their time's coming to an end
We have to unify and watch our flag ascend


Muse - Uprising

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love


Blur - Girls And Boys

"Stephen Thomas Erlewine has described the song as "undeniably catchy" and "one of the best (songs) Blur ever recorded", praising the band for making the song "feel exactly like Eurotrash", and specifying that the chorus's reference to "girls who are boys/who like boys to be girls/who do boys like they're girls/who do girls like they're boys" is "an absolutely devastating put-down of '90s gender-bending, where even ambi-sexuals didn't know whose fantasy they were fulfilling"... I can agree with that. And people are even more bent now.

Let the night surround you
We're halfway to the stars
Ebb and flow
Let it go
Feel her warmth beside you


David Gilmour - On An Island

So the words you could not say
I'll sing them for you
And the love we would have made
I'll make it for two
For every single memory
Has become a part of me
You will always be...my love


George Michael - Jesus To A Child

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." Paul McCartney

I touch your mouth
My willy is food
Addicted to love
I'm addicted to fools, Shit
I kill you once
I kill you again
We're starving and crude
Welcome my friends to

The little things that kill

I know this is twee, but still...

Rock and Roll All Nite ~ Kiss


[Pre-Chorus]
You keep on shoutin', you keep on shoutin'

[Chorus]
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day

We can hide our faces from light
When we run we're chasing midnight
We feel the lows, and we feel the highs
That everything will be alright
Let's pretend we own these highways
All the miles and risks that we take
We own the road, and we own the sky


Moog feat. Erin Renee - Chasing Midnight

Huggin' and a-kissin'
Dancin' and a-lovin'
Wearin' next to nothin'
'Cause it's hot as an oven


The B-52's - Love Shack

"I got me a Chrysler, it seats about twenty"...LOL!

Well I don't wanna think about what we've said
And I don't wanna know why we hurt ourselves
'Cos I just wanna hold you so close to me
It'll take care of itself and I wanna sleep


Phil Collins - Why Can't It Wait 'Till Morning

Nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.”
― John Lennon

From the late great Warren Zevon:

I'm the innocent bystander
Somehow I got stuck
Between the rock and the hard place
And I'm down on my luck
And I'm down on my luck
And I'm down on my luck

Now I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The sh*t has hit the fan

He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair
You better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out, Jim
I'd like to meet his tailor

This from Rush off Permanent Waves:

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill

2pac - Hailmary
I aint a killer but dont push me/ revenge is the sweetest joy next to getting P*ssy/

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


Nine Inch Nails / Johnny Cash - Hurt

By one of my recent internet finds Dead South - "Banjo Odyssey":

Tore up the restraining order
I don't care I'm coming over
What your daddy said isn't going over too well
Don't you know not to kiss and tell?

[Chorus]
Mother said "She's my brothers daughter,"
And I don't even know who's my father
I guess she's my cousin
But she needs some sweet loving anyway!

Pulled you out by your hair
If people ask I was never there
Come on baby and take a ride with me
Come on baby let's drive to the sea

One of the most soul filled songs I've come across in a long time, Lake Street Dive "What I'm Doin Here" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUeothS...

Nobody knows what I'm doing here
And I ain't got a clue
Messin around with these other fools
When I'm not with you
There's been so many nights
When I've longed for your touch
There's been so many days
When our love was not enough
Oh leave me, leave me, just leave me
Can't you see me, see me
Nobody knows what I'm doing here
And I ain't got a clue
Messin around with these other fools
When I'm not with you
There's been so many nights
When I've longed for your touch
There's been so many days
When our love was not enough
Oh, leave me, leave me, leave me
Can't you see me, see me
Nobody knows what I'm doing here
And I ain't got a clue
Messin around with these other fools
When I'm not, when I'm not, when I'm not oohhh
... Nobody knows what I'm doing here
And I ain't got a clue
Messin around with these other fools
When I'm not with you
When I'm not with you
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Maybe by now you'll be satisfied
Looking to me like you do
What do you feel burning inside of you?
Living a lie, don't have to try


Status Quo - Fakin' The Blues

It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind.

She ran away from home in her mother's best coat
She was married before she was even entitled to vote
And her husband was one of those blokes
The sort that only laughs at his own jokes
The sort a war takes away
And when there wasn't a war
He left anyway

(Levi Stubbs' Tears - Billy Bragg)

When we were strangers
I watched you from afar
When we were lovers
I loved you with all my heart.


Neil Young - Harvest Moon

I'm in love with a shooting star
But she moves so fast
When she falls then
I'll be waiting


Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars

Bright are the stars that shine
Dark is the sky
I know this love of mine
Will never die
And I love her


The Beatles - And I Love Her

Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street
From my window I'm staring while my coffee grows cold
Look over there! (Where?)
There, there's a lady that I used to know
She's married now, or engaged, or something, so I am told.

(Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson)

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, y'all, remember to wipe your feet
And then she said, I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

(Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry)

Hmmm, since boxs' comments are hidden (evidently I've been blocked for some reason) I can't see the Joe Jackson stuff, but yeah, his lyrics are a good choice!