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Post by Tosh on Nov 15, 2007 10:43:26 GMT -5
any songs which just blow you away lyrically? share the words here:
New Model Army - Purity
The rains move in eastwards, in waves of succession Drawing lines of grey across the sky With history just as close as a hand on the shoulder In hunger and impatience we cry The battle against corruption rages in each corner There must be something better, something pure And the call it is answered from the caves to the cities Come the dealers of Salvation on Earth We've seen the restless children at the head of the columns Come to purify the future with the arrogance of youth Nothing is as cruel as the righteousness of innocents With automatic weapons and a gospel of the truth Ch: Revolution for ever, succession of the seasons Within the blood of Nature, all raised to rot and die This purity is a lie
Now immaculate conception in sterilised laboratories How the vanity goes on Or in the message of the preacher with his morals and obsessions The wars that we wage upon ourselves Purity is a virtue, purity is an angel Purity is for madmen to make fools of us all So forgive yourself my friend, all this will soon be over What happened here tonight is nothing at all Ch: Revolution for ever . . .
I will always see Brendan at that broken down piano His fingers thick and red, shaking on the keys Battered by the years of alcohol and working Still playing with the faith that never leaves So sit us down, buy us a drink, tell us a good story Sing us a song we know to be true I don't give a damn that I never will be worthy Fear is the only enemy that I still know
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Post by Tosh on Jan 8, 2008 15:01:44 GMT -5
GOO GOO DOLLS - Flat Top
Flat top intervention Bringin' home the new invention See it there in pieces on the ground A television war between the cynics and the saints Flip the dial and that's whose side you're on
Ah, sleeping on the White House lawn ain't never changed a thing Look at all the washed out Hippie dreams
And it's fallin' all around us Is this some kind of joke they're trying to pull on us? Fallin' all around us I'll turn my head off for a while
The tabloid generation's lost Choking on it's fear Used to be that's all we had to fear
And conscience keeps us quiet while the crooked love to speak There's knowledge wrapped in blankets on the street.
A visionary coward says that anger can be power As long as there's a victim on TV
And my dirty dreams all come alive On my TV screen And assasination plots Show me what I haven't got Show me what I love, and who I'm s'posed to be Show me everything I need Show it all to me Show it all to me
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Post by Tosh on Jan 10, 2008 18:25:24 GMT -5
Chumbawumba - The Day The Nazi Died
the world is ridden with maggots the maggots are getting fat they're making a tasty meal of all the bosses and bureaucrats they're taking over the board rooms and they're fat and full of pride and they all came out of the woodwork on the day the nazi died
so if you meet with these historians i'll tell you what to say tell them that the nazis never really went away they're out there burning houses down and they're peddling racist lies and we'll never rest again until every nazi dies
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Post by Tosh on Jan 10, 2008 18:29:20 GMT -5
STRAYLIGHT RUN - "Existentialism On Prom Night"
When the sun came up, We were sleeping in, Sunk inside our blankets, Sprawled across the bed, And we were dreaming,
There are moments when, When I know it and The world revolves around us, And we're keeping it, Keep it all going, This delicate balance, Vulnerable all knowing,
Sing like you think no one's listening, You would kill for this, Just a little bit, Just a little bit, You would, kill for this
Sing me something soft, Sad and delicate, Or loud and out of key, Sing me anything, we're glad for what we've got, Done with what we've lost Our whole lives laid out right in front of us.
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Post by Tosh on Jan 14, 2008 20:16:14 GMT -5
BILLY BRAGG - "Waiting For The Great Leap forwards"
It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying Over luxury's disappointment So he walks over and he's trying To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her That the Third World is just around the corner
In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell At the first hurdle
In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear Is the sound of someone stacking chairs And mopping up spilt beer And someone asking questions and basking in the light Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use is I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses While looking down the corridor Out to where the van is waiting I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards
Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted You can be active with the activists Or sleep in with the sleepers While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
One leap forward, two leaps back Will politics get me the sack?
here comes the future and you can't run from it If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
If no one seems to understand Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room
So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a T-shirt away Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
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Post by Tosh on Jan 18, 2008 11:04:33 GMT -5
JIMMY EAT WORLD - "Always Be"
Could've been a night like any other One of us has to drive One of us gets to think I'll force a laugh to break the silence It's gonna get harder still Before it gets easy You can't keep safe what whats to break
I'm alone in this I'm all as I've always been Right behind what's happening She's all lost in this She's all like she'll always be A little far for me to reach
I was just a boy like every other I thought I was something fierce I thought I was ten times smarter Love would be something that I just know (Something I just know) How you gonna know the feeling till you've lost it I've been losing plenty since
I'm alone in this I'm all as I've always been Right behind what's happening She's all lost in this She's all like she'll always be A little far for me to reach
Maybe something else I'm missing Something good and your the reason It's a dream but there's a real long wedding
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Post by Tosh on Feb 5, 2008 18:55:37 GMT -5
Another "Billy Bragg" one
It Says Here
It says here that the unions will never learn It says here that the economy is on the upturn And it says here we should be proud That we are free And our free press reflects our democracy
Those braying voices on the right of the house Are echoed down the street of shame Where politics mix with bingo and tits In a strictly money and numbers game
Where they offer you a feature On stockings and suspenders Next to a call for stiffer penalties for sex offenders
It says here that this year’s prince is born It says here do you ever wish That you were better informed And it says here that we can only stop the rot With a large dose of law and order And a touch of the short sharp shock
If this does not reflect you view you should understand That those who own the papers also own this land And they’d rather you believe In coronation street capers In the war of circulation, it sells newspapers Could it be an infringement Of the freedom of the press To print pictures of women in states of undress
When you wake up to the fact That you paper is tory Just remember, there are two sides to every story
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Post by Tosh on Feb 17, 2008 4:24:09 GMT -5
KILLING JOKE - "Money Is Not Our God"
Nine tenths of the law is possesion Life expressed in matter is a blasphemy Success defined by aquisition stinks! So busy trying to make a living i forgot about living So busy trying to make a living i forget about life
The best things i found in life were my birthright Green fields mean more to me than a brand new car Will you swap your hi-fi for a clear blue sky? Will you cash in all your shares for Gods clean air? Is your answer yes,or no,to these painful truths?
Do you grovel to your master? Do you beg like a dog? First things first,repeat to yourself AHHH MONEY!, Money is not our GOD!
Mine! The best things in life are free Mine! I own the beach and the blazing sunset Mine! I own the waves and the fresh air Mine! I drink the milk of the stars in this beautiful moment Say to yourself ALL THESE THINGS ARE MINE!
Repeat after me! Money's not our God
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Post by Tosh on Mar 5, 2008 19:24:10 GMT -5
IRON AND WINE - "Innocent Bones"
Cain bought a blade from some witch at the window Abel bought a bag of weed And the even the last of the brown-eyed babies see That the cartoon king has a tattoo of a bleeding heart There ain't a penthouse christian that wants the pain or the scab, but they all want the scar How every mouth sings of what it's without so we all sing of love And how it ain't one dog who's good at fucking and denying who he's thinking of
Cain had the captive boy leap off the rooftop Abel had his papa pray And even the last of the black-eyed babies say That every saint has a chair you can borrow in a church to sit on That the wind blows cold across the back of a master and the kitchen help There's a big ball of innocent bones still holding up the garden wall And it was always the broken hand we learned to lean on after all How God knows if Christ came back he'd find us in a poker game After finding out the drinks were all free but they won't let you out the door again
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Post by Tosh on Mar 8, 2008 10:51:34 GMT -5
Icicle works - Hollow Horse
Things I chose to value I no longer have a use for I ridicule myself for all the things those symbols stood for When vanity has played a part in every leader's downfall Wait to storm the gates, what's left undone to hang around for
We'll be as we are When all the fools who doubt us fade away Fortune deep and wide Intimidated, restless in the wait
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Post by Tosh on Apr 11, 2008 5:51:31 GMT -5
Alabama 3 - "Woody Guthrie"
Another Pyschopath in Iowa Loadin up another round While the NRA in Columbine Hunt Marilyn Manson down Powder in the Pentagon Cruel letters in the mail Another KKK white supremacist Cooking up a dose of race hate
Don't need no country Don't fly no flag Cut no slack for the Union Jack Stars and stripes have got me jetlagged
Some baby in Afghanistan Cryin for it's mama now While the BNP scare refugees Sensless up in Oldham town Hypocrites in downing street Pourin petrol on the flames Septal cries asks Paddy why Do we always get the blame
Don't need no country Don't fly no flag Cut no slack for the Union Jack Stars and stripes have got me jetlagged
Sing a song for the asylum seekers For the frightened baby on some foreign beach Bang a gong and pray they reach safe harbour
Some mother in Jakarta Lays down her weary head In some free trade zone compound Where they work you till you're dead Hunger stalks the corridors Famine and disease Ive seen the multinationals walking hand in hand With globalising marketeers
Sing a song for the asylum seekers For the frightened baby on some foreign beach Bang a gong and pray they reach safe harbour
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Post by Dave on Apr 14, 2008 16:38:33 GMT -5
Elvis Costello - Tramp the Dirt Down
Soon, my pretties, soon ;D
I saw a newspaper picture from the political campaign A woman was kissing a child, who was obviously in pain She spills with compassion, as that young child's face in her hands she grips Can you imagine all that greed and avarice coming down on that child's lips
Well I hope I don't die too soon I pray the Lord my soul to save Oh I'll be a good boy, I'm trying so hard to behave Because there's one thing I know, I'd like to live long enough to savour That's when they finally put you in the ground I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down
When England was the whore of the world Margaret was her madam And the future looked as bright and as clear as the black tarmacadam Well I hope that she sleeps well at night, isn't haunted by every tiny detail 'Cos when she held that lovely face in her hands all she thought of was betrayal
And now the cynical ones say that it all ends the same in the long run Try telling that to the desperate father who just squeezed the life from his only son And how it's only voices in your head and dreams you never dreamt Try telling him the subtle difference between justice and contempt Try telling me she isn't angry with this pitiful discontent When they flaunt it in your face as you line up for punishment And then expect you to say "Thank you" straighten up, look proud and pleased Because you've only got the symptoms, you haven't got the whole disease Just like a schoolboy, whose head's like a tin-can filled up with dreams then poured down the drain Try telling that to the boys on both sides, being blown to bits or beaten and maimed Who takes all the glory and none of the shame
Well I hope you live long now, I pray the Lord your soul to keep I think I'll be going before we fold our arms and start to weep I never thought for a moment that human life could be so cheap 'Cos when they finally put you in the ground They'll stand there laughing and tramp the dirt down
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Post by Tosh on May 19, 2008 19:17:53 GMT -5
"fill up your mind with all it can know don't forget that your body will let it all go" -wilco, wishful thinking
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Post by Tosh on May 29, 2008 19:24:16 GMT -5
"Give me crack and anal sex Take the only tree that's left and stuff it up the hole in your culture Give me back the Berlin wall give me Stalin and St Paul I've seen the future, brother: it is murder.
Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima Destroy another fetus now We don't like children anyhow I've seen the future, baby: it is murder.
When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant."
LEONARD COHEN - "The Future"
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Post by Tosh on Jul 12, 2008 10:41:24 GMT -5
The Internationale
Stand up, all victims of oppression For the tyrants fear your might Dont cling so hard to your possessions For you have nothing, if you have no rights Let racist ignorance be ended For respect makes the empires fall Freedom is merely privilege extended Unless enjoyed by one and all
Chorus: So come brothers and sisters For the struggle carries on The internationale Unites the world in song So comrades come rally For this is the time and place The international ideal Unites the human race
Let no one build walls to divide us Walls of hatred nor walls of stone Come greet the dawn and stand beside us Well live together or well die alone In our world poisoned by exploitation Those who have taken, now they must give And end the vanity of nations We've but one earth on which to live
And so begins the final drama In the streets and in the fields We stand unbowed before their armour We defy their guns and shields When we fight, provoked by their aggression Let us be inspired by like and love For though they offer us concessions Change will not come from above
Words: billy bragg music: pierre degeyter
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