Your favorite lyrics

[Cebot]

Well guys, the topic says it, post your favorite song lyrics here, include band name, song name, genre and source of the lyrics please.

My favorite one is VNV Nation - Chrome (lyrics found on www.sing365.com)
Reason why I love this song: Read the lyrics and you'll know. It makes me think, it makes me dream, it makes me realize....
For Neko's sake, here's a youtube link to the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTL8NtqGdw4

A million faces, each a million lies
for each and all a chrome disguise
prompts for action, force reaction
embody promise in a sheen so pure.
Hurt, the measure of blind ambition,
the testament to your singular disease.
Against all wisdom you heed no warning,
your desires giving you away.

If I could change your mind,
I wouldn't save you from the path you wander.
In desperation dreams, any soul can set you free.
And I still hear you scream,
in every breath, in every single motion.
Burning innocence, the fire to set you free.

Your actions turn conquest to dust.
In portents of fate, you foolishly place trust.
Sense fear in your broken breathing.
Resort to shadows till your body expires.
All creation has the promise of heaven,
and still you travel the road to hell.
I'm saying nothing for the good of myself,
but I'm still talking and you're not listening.

If I could change your mind,
I wouldn't save you from the path you wander.
In desperation dreams, any soul can set you free.
And I still hear you scream,
in every breath, in every single motion.
Burning innocence, the fire to set you free.

As night descends upon the city,
the streets are cold, the lights go by.
And in the stories of the people,
a million faces, a million lies.
They'll never say they feel what you feel,
that they can see the world you see.
And in their faces, their expressions,
a million faces, a million lies.

[neko kyouran]

Did this type of thing for a poetry course i had to take in College....

Metallica,  "fade to Black"

link to performance of said song:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7C90sLh5Ok 

Life it seems will fade away
Drifting further everyday
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else

I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free

Things aren't what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deadly loss this cant be real
Cannot stand this hell i feel

Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me but now, hes gone

No one but me can save myself, but its too late
Now i cant think, think why i should even try

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye
Goodbye

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There was a point in my younger years that i could play most of the song on guitar...... 

[Mathy Stockington]

Carole King - So Far Away Lyrics

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Carole-King/So-Far-Away.html


So far away, doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're just time away

Long ago I reached for you and there you stood
Holding you again could only do me good
How I wish I could, but you're so far away

One more song about movin' along the highway
Can't say much of anything that's new
If I coild only work this life out my way
I'd rather spend in bein' close to you.

But you're so far away, doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
Doesn't help to know you're so far away

[Cebot]

Not my favorite song, but it animates me to think and dream too. Actually I have to say that it is more how the melody, the voice and the lyrics fit together. Taking only the lyrics, without having the melody in my mind won't make me dream at all. Thought I share that with you guys too.

Lyrics are taken from the same site as above, youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-8wGbWMro
NOTE: It is a fan made video, but as the uploader commented it on youtube: Even if it`s not a oficial Version it looks like it belong together...

VNV Nation - Illusion

know it's hard to tell how mixed up you feel
Hoping what you need is behind every door
Each time you get hurt, I don't want you to change
Because everyone has hopes, you're human after all
The feeling sometimes, wishing you were someone else
Feeling as though you never belong
This feeling is not sadness, this feeling is not joy
I truly understand. Please, don't cry now

Please don't go, I want you to stay
I'm begging you please, please don't leave here
I don't want you to hate for all the hurt that you feel
The world is just illusion trying to change you
Please don't go, I want you to stay
I'm begging you please, please don't leave here
I don't want you to change for all the hurt that you feel
The world is just illusion always trying to change you

Being like you are
Well this is something else, who would comprehend?
But some they do, lay claim that
Divine purpose blesses them
That's not what i believe. It doesn't matter anyway.
A part of your soul ties you to the next world
Or maybe to the last, I'm still not sure
What i do know is, to us the world is different
As we are to the world but, i guess you would know that

[Anumesa]

Joni Mitchell- Both Sides Now

Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons evrywhere
Ive looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on evryone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
Ive looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its cloud illusions I recall
I really dont know clouds at all

Moons and junes and ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As evry fairy tale comes real
Ive looked at love that way

But now its just another show
You leave em laughing when you go
And if you care, dont let them know
Dont give yourself away

Ive looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
Its loves illusions I recall
I really dont know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say I love you right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
Ive looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say Ive changed
Well somethings lost, but somethings gained
In living evry day

Ive looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
Its lifes illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all
Ive looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its lifes illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all

One of my favorite artists! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg&feature=related  -old
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQSlH-LLTQ&feature=related -recent

[Raa]

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down
(I think it's modern rock... Lyrics found on www.lyricsmode.com.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmfasWzdyHs


Hey girl you know you drive me crazy
One look puts the rhythm in my head.
Still I'll never understand why you hang around
I see what's going down.

Cover up with make up in the mirror
Tell yourself it's never gonna happen again
You cry alone and then he swears he loves you.

Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now, as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's bound to end
As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.

A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect
Every action in this world will bear a consequence
If you wait around forever you will surely drown
I see what's going down.

I see the way you go and say you're right again,
Say you're right again,
Heed my lecture.

Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now, as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's bound to end
As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.

Face down in the dirt
She said "This doesn't hurt"
She said "I finally had enough!"

Face down in the dirt
She said "This doesn't hurt"
She said "I finally had enough!"

(Screaming)
One day she will tell you that she had enough
It's coming round again

Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now, as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's bound to end
As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.

Do you feel like a man
When you push her around?
Do you feel better now, as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's bound to end
As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found.

Face down in the dirt
She said "This doesn't hurt"
She said "I finally had enough!"

[Prolix]

King Crimson "The Power To Believe" Progressive Rock

She carries me through days of apathy
She washes over me
She saved my life in a manner of speaking
When she gave me back the power to believe

Concert version video
Sadly, still waiting to meet her.

[Jekkar]

http://vaalnor.mine.nu/Dan%20Swan%f6%20-%20Moontower%20-%2006%20-%20The%20Big%20Sleep.mp3

Dan Swanö - The Big Sleep

I love my life and it's so hard to hear that one day all I am will disappear
I have seen grief and what it does to you
The day will come when I will lose what I was made of
I try to imagine what that would be like but the thought is so unreal so it is
filtered out
I'm so afraid that I won't have the chance to tell the ones I love how I
really feel inside
I hide my emotions for far too long
I'm so afraid to lose you all that's the essence of this song

[Socius Rockus]

Ahh, It's time to relax.. ^^

Offspring - Smash

Head over heels I've fit in before,
now, I don't want to do it no more.
I've held it all in with blood on my face,
built it up man so bad you can taste.

I don't slag no one,
I don't even judge.
Don't give a shit cause I'm not gonna budge.
I just want to be who I want to be,
Guess that's hard for others to see.

I'm not a trendy asshole.
I do what I want,
I do what I feel like.
I'm not a trendy asshole.
I don't give a fuck if it's good enough for you.
Cause I'm alive.

Smash is the way you feel all alone,
like an outcast you're out on your own.
Smash is the way you deal with your life,
like an outcast you're smashing your strife.

Head over heels I've fit in before,
now, I don't want to do it no more.
I just want to be who I want to be,
guess that's hard for the others to see.

I'm not a trendy asshole.
I do what I want,
I do what I feel like.
I'm not a trendy asshole.
I don't give a fuck if it's good enough for you.
'Cause I'm alive.

Head over heels I've fit in before,
now, I don't want to do it no more.
I just want to be who I want to be,
guess that's hard for the others to see.

I'm not a trendy asshole.
I do what I want,
I do what I feel like.
I'm not a trendy asshole.
I don't give a fuck if it's good enough for you.

I'm not a trendy asshole.
I do what I want,
I do what I feel like.
I'm not a trendy asshole.
I don't give a fuck if it's good enough for you,
'Cause I'm alive.
I am alive.
I am alive.
I am alive.

[Eurac]

He he!

The Mac Lads.

Beer, beer, we want more beer.
All the lads are cheering.
Get the ******** beers in.

[Rayken]

This is a fun thread!
Thursday - For the Workforce, Drowning

Falling from the top floor your lungs
fill like parachutes
windows go rushing by.
people inside,
dressed for the funeral in black and white.
These ties strangle our necks, hanging in the closet,
found in the cubicle;
without a name, just numbers, on the resume stored in the mainframe, marked for delete.

please take these hands
throw them in the river,
wash away the things they never held
please take these hands,
throw me in the river,
dont let me drown before the workday ends.

9 to 5! 9 to 5!

and we're up to our necks,
drowning in the seconds,
ingesting the morning commute
lost in a dead subway sleep
Now we lie wide awake in our parents beds,
tossing and turning.
tomorrow we'll get up
drive to work,
single file
with everyday
it's like the last.
waiting for the life to start, is it always just always ahead of the curve?

please take these hands
throw them in the river,
wash away the things they never held
please take these hands,
throw me in the river,
dont let me drown before the workday ends.

just keep making copies
of copies
of copies
when will it end?

it'll never end,
'til it gets so bad
that the ink fills in our fingerprints
and the silouhette of your own face becomes the black cloud of war
and even in our dreams we're so afraid the weight will offset who we are
all those breaths that you took have now been canceled in your lungs.
last night my teeth fell out like ivory typewriter keys
and all the monuments and skyscrapers burned down and filled the sea.

save our ship
the anchor is part of the desk
we can't cut free,
the water is flooding the decks
the memo's sent through the currents
computers spark like flares
i can see them.
they don't touch me,
touch me.

please someone,
teach me how to swim.
please, don't let me drown,
please, don't let me drown.

[Morla Phlint]

It's in German so there's much lost in the translation but I still want to share it with you because for me it's a great song. Like Cebot said...

It makes me think, it makes me dream, it makes me realize....

it makes me sad, it makes me strong, it makes me cry, it goes right through me...

Rammstein - Nebel (Mist) (only the song, no video)

German		English
Sie stehen eng umschlungen ein Fleischgemisch so reich an Tagen wo das Meer das Land berĂŒhrt will sie ihm die Wahrheit sagen Doch ihre Worte frisst der Wind wo das Meer zu Ende ist hĂ€lt sie zitternd seine Hand und hat ihn auf die Stirn gekĂŒsst sie trĂ€gt den Abend in der Brust und weiß dass sie verleben muss sie legt den Kopf in seinen Schoß und bittet einen letzten Kuss und dann hat er sie gekĂŒsst wo das Meer zu Ende ist ihre Lippen schwach und blass und seine Augen werden nass Der letzte Kuss ist so lang her der letzte Kuss er erinnert sich nicht mehr		They stand with their arms tightly around each other a mixture of flesh, so rich in days where the sea touches the land she wants to tell him the truth But the wind eats her words where the sea ends she holds his hand, trembling and kissed him on the forehead She carries the evening in her chest and knows that she must wither away she lays her head in his lap and asks for a last kiss and then he kissed her where the sea ends her lips, delicate and pale and his eyes tear up The last kiss was so long ago the last kiss he does not remember it anymore

lyrics source

EDIT: I must add this: I found wonderful songs in this thread. Thanks everybody for sharing and Cebot for giving the start  .

[zorbels]

I am a save the world kinda girl so this song has been my fav for what seems like forever ....

Singer: Mariah Carey
Song: Theres got to be a way

Broken man without a home
Desperate and so alone
A victim of society
No one really wants to see
Some of us don't even wonder
Some of us don't even care
Couldn't we just help each other
Isn't there enough to share

Chorus:
There's got to be a way
To connect this world today
Come together to relieve the pain
There's got to be a way
To unite this human race
And together we'll bring on a change

In another land they still believe
Color grants supremacy
I don't understand
How there can be
Regulated bigotry
Some of us don't even wonder
Some of us don't even care
Couldn't we accept each other
Can't we make ourselves aware

Chorus

And maybe then the future will be a time
Without war, destitution and sorrow
And hungry children
Won't have to die
If we work together today
We'll save tomorrow
Some of us don't even wonder
Some of us don't even care
Couldn't we just love each other
Isn't there enough to share

Chorus

THis is another one o my fav's .... just something about the way it is sung ...

Band: Police
Song: Every Breath You Take

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
Ill be watching you

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Since youve gone I been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but its you I cant replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby, please...

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every breath you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Every move you make
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you...

[Candy]

Stand by Jewel (http://www.lyrics007.com)

Sorry about the chatspeak; I'll come back and edit the original lyrics to not be an insult to the English language in the morning...

Candy flops onto her keyboard and promptly falls asleep right after hitting command+V


EDIT: Fixed the spelling. Also, Here's the music video

Walk in a corner shop
See a shoplifting cop
See the old lady with a gun
See the hero try to run
Nothing's what it seems, I mean
It's not all dirty, but it's not all clean
There's children paying bills
There's monks buying thrills
There's pride for sale in magazines
There's pills for rent to make you clean
Marvin Gaye, there's no brother, brother
Woody Guthrie's land can't feed Mother

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me, It might just complete me
And together we can make a stand

A waitress brings me lunch
We meet but do not touch
On TV, D.C. is selling lies
While in the corner, King's dream dies
Go to the counter, pay for me and my friend
A homeless man pulls out a roll, says it's on him
The mayor has no cash
He said he spent it on hookers and hash

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me It might just complete me
And together we can make a stand

You will love me, I will love you

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me It might just complete me
And together we can make a stand

[Zwenze]

Die Ärzte (The Physicians) - "Lasse Redn" (Let'em talk) - http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y7uyAl2rU7s

Die Ärzte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Ärzte) are a german punk rock band from Berlin, who sparked some controversies with their lyrics. I wasn't sure if i can post it here (PG13), but as the lyric passed the examination from the BundesprĂŒfstelle fĂŒr jugendgefĂ€hrdende Medien I think I can dare  Hope my quickly done translation contains at least some of the humor of the german original.

Strophe 1 Hast du etwas getan was sonst keiner tut? Hast du hohe Schuhe oder gar einen Hut? Oder hast du etwa ein zu kurzes Kleid getragen, ohne vorher deinen Nachbarn um Erlaubnis zu fragen? Jetzt wirst du natĂŒrlich mit Verachtung gestraft, bist eine Schande fĂŒr die ganze Nachbarschaft. Du weißt noch nicht einmal genau wie sie heißen, wĂ€hrend sie sich ĂŒber dich schon ihre MĂ€uler zerreißen. Chorus Lass die Leute reden und hör ihnen nicht zu. Die meisten Leute haben ja nichts Besseres zu tun. Lass die Leute reden bei Tag und auch bei Nacht. Lass die Leute reden, das haben die immer schon gemacht. Strophe 2 Du hast doch sicherlich ‘ne Bank ĂŒberfallen. Wie könntest du sonst deine Miete bezahlen? Und du darfst nie mehr in die Vereinigten Staaten, denn du bist die Geliebte von Osama bin Laden. Rasierst du tĂ€glich deinen Damenbart? Oder hast du im Garten ein Paar Leichen verscharrt? Die Nachbarn ham’ da sowas angedeutet, also wunder dich nicht, wenn bald die Kripo bei dir lĂ€utet. Chorus Lass die Leute reden und hör einfach nicht hin, die meisten Leute haben ja gar nichts Böses im Sinn. Es ist ihr eintöniges Leben was sie quĂ€lt und der Tag wird interessanter, wenn man MĂ€rchen erzĂ€hlt. Bridge Und wahrscheinlich ist ihnen das nicht mal peinlich. Es fehlt ihnen jede Einsicht und wiedermal zeigt sich sie sind kleinlich, unvermeindlich fremdenfeindlich Strophe 3 Hast du gehört und sag mal wusstest du schon, nĂ€mlich: Du verdienst dein Geld mit Prostitution. Du sollst ja meistens vor dem Busbahnhof stehen, der Kollege eines Schwagers hat dich neulich gesehen. Chorus Lass die Leute reden und lĂ€chle einfach mild, Die meisten Leute haben ihre Bildung aus der Bild. Und die besteht nun mal, wer wĂŒsste das nicht, aus: Angst, Hass, Titten und dem Wetterbericht! Lass die Leute reden denn wie das immer ist, solang’ die Leute reden, machen sie nichts Schlimmeres. Und ein wenig Heuchelei kannst du dir durchaus leisten, Bleib höflich und sag nichts. Das Ă€rgert sie am meisten.

Strophe 1 Have you done something noone else dares? Do you have to high shoes or even a hat? Or did you wear a to short dress without asking your neightbours for permission? Of course now you are punished with disdain, you are a shame for the entire neighbourhoood. You dont even know certainly their names, while they already bad mouth you. Chorus Let the people talk and don't listen to them The most people don't have something better to do. Let the people talk at day and even at night. Let the people talk, thats what they have allways done. Strophe 2 You certainly robbed a bank, how else could you pay your rent And you mustn't travel into america, because Osama bin Laden's mistress you are. Do you shave your womens beard daily? Or do you have some corpses buried in your garden? Your neightbouts denoted something, don't be surpised when the F.B.I. rings at yor door. Chorus Let the people talk and don't listen to them The most people don't have soemthing evil in their mind Its their monotous live that tourtures them, and the day gets more intresting when you tell stories. Bridge And certainly its not embarrasing to them, they miss insight, and again it shows, they are nitpicking, ineviteable xenophobic Strophe 3 Have you heard and do you know, namely: you earn your money with prostitution Its told you are standing in fron of the trainstation, the coworker of a brother-in-law has seen you recently Chorus Let the people talk and smile mildly Most people have their education from "Der Bild" [german newspaper] And it consists of, who doesnt know, Fear, hate, boobs and the wheater forecast Let the people talk, then how ever it is, as long as they talk they aren't doing worser things. And you can afford some hypocrisy. Stay ploite and say nothing. Thats what annoys them most.