The problem I find with a lot of these threads is I'm more interested in what people have to say about my choice, than what I think of theirs. Maybe its just me... Anyways I wanted to point out that lyrics arent the whole song. And with Pink Floyd lyrics are only a section of the tapestry. So I'm gonna quote "Echoes" below, but if you want to really know why those lyrics are so beautiful, check out the link under the lyrics to the song. Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air And deep beneath the rolling waves In labyrinths of coral caves The echo of a distant time Comes willowing across the sand And everything is green and submarine. And no-one called us to the land And no-one knows the wheres or whys But something stirs and something tries And starts to climb towards the light Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can And no-one calls us to move on And no-one forces down our eyes And no-one speaks and no-one tries And no-one flies around the sun Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes inciting and inviting me to rise And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning And no-one sings me lullabies And no-one makes me close my eyes And so I throw the windows wide And call to you across the sky Heres part 1, if you like it just keep following the parts as they come up lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hurn3-Y2b1g&feature=related
The Cheeky Girls with The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) : Cheeky girls………… Ooh boys cheeky girls Ooh girls cheeky boys Ooh boys cheeky girls Ooh girls cheeky boys Ooh boys cheeky girls Ooh girls cheeky boys Ooh boys cheeky girls Ooh girls cheeky boys I never ever ask where do you go I never ever ask what do you do I never ever ask what's in your mind I never ever ask if you'll be mine Come and smile don't be shy Touch my bum this is life. Oooooh We are the cheeky girls We are the cheeky girls You are the cheeky boys You are the cheeky boys We are the cheeky girls We are the cheeky girls You are the cheeky boys You are the cheeky boys Hhmm cheeky cheeky (laughter) Cheekycheekycheeky Ooh boys cheeky girls Ooh girls cheeky boys Ooh boys cheeky girls Ooh girls cheeky boys Ooh boys cheeky girls Ooh girls cheeky boys Ooh boys cheeky girls Ooh girls cheeky boys I never ever ask where do you go I never ever ask what do you do I never ever ask whats in your mind I never ever ask if you'll be mine Come and smile don't be shy Touch my bum this is life. Unu doy trei si (translates to one two three go) (with other voices shouting cheeky) We are the cheeky girls We are the cheeky girls You are the cheeky boys You are the cheeky boys We are the cheeky girls We are the cheeky girls You are the cheeky boys You are the cheeky boys Come and join the cheeky club This is what you want Come and sing the cheeky song Our cheeky song woo Come and join the cheeky club This is what you want Come and sing the cheeky song Our cheeky song woo Come and smile don't be shy Touch my bum this is life Cheeky cheeky We are the cheeky girls We are the cheeky girls You are the cheeky boys You are the cheeky boys We are the cheeky girls We are the cheeky girls You are the cheeky boys You are the cheeky boys We are the cheeky girls We are the cheeky girls You are the cheeky boys You are the cheeky boys We are the cheeky girls We are the cheeky girls You are the cheeky boys You are the cheeky boys Cheeky-cheeky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9nEpt9SR3I Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath You see life through distorted eyes You know you have to learn The execution of your mind You really had to turn The race is run the book is read The end begins to show The truth is out, the lies are old But you don't want to know Nobody will ever let you know When you ask the reason why They just tell you that you're on your own Fill your head all full of lies The people who have crippled you You want to see them burn The gates of life have closed on you And now there's just no return You're wishing that the hand of doom Could take your mind away And you don't care if you don't see again The light of day Nobody will ever let you know When you ask the reasons why They just tell you that you're on your own Fill your head all full of lies (You Bastards!) Where can you run to What more can you do No more tomorrow Life is killing you Dreams turn to nightmares Heaven turns to hell Burned out confusion Nothing more to tell Everything around you What's it coming to God knows as your dog knows Bog blast all of you Sabbath bloody sabbath Nothing more to do Living just for dying Dying just for you
Wiseman - Slightly Stoopid (the acoustic roots version is best) Said the man Who feel him a fool For he be the wiseman For the man Who don’t think he’s a fool he Control his destiny But he’s too cool for himself For himself, for himself all I need Is something to keep me movin’ on In a world Where violence reigns and everybody seems so strange to me Said the man Who feel him a fool For he be the wise man For the man Who dont feel him a fool he Control his destiny Yeah he’s too cool for himself for himself, for himself ohhhh ohhh ohhhh oh This weapon of destruction Swallows peoples suffering And no confusion You aint winnin’ if your losin’ We don’t need Said the man Who feel him a fool he For he be the wiseman For the man Who don’t think he’s a fool he Control his destiny But he’s too cool for himself for himself, for himself
Alice in Chains - Down in a hole Bury me softly in this womb I give this part of me for you Sand rains down and here I sit Holding rare flowers In a tomb...in bloom Down in a hole and I dont know if I can be saved See my heart I decorate it like a grave You dont understand who they Thought I was supposed to be Look at me now a man Who wont let himself be Down in a hole, feelin so small Down in a hole, losin my soul Id like to fly, But my wings have been so denied Down in a hole and theyve put all The stones in their place Ive eaten the sun so my tongue Has been burned of the taste I have been guilty Of kicking myself in the teeth I will speak no more Of my feelings beneath Down in a hole, feelin so small Down in a hole, losin my soul Id like to fly but my Wings have been so denied Bury me softly in this womb Oh I want to be inside of you I give this part of me for you Oh I want to be inside of you Sand rains down and here I sit Holding rare flowers (oh I want to be inside of you) In a tomb...in bloom Oh I want to be inside... Down in a hole, feelin so small Down in a hole, losin my soul Down in a hole, feelin so small Down in a hole, outta control Id like to fly but my Wings have been so denied
The first is a Bright Eyes song. Basically epitomizes my love and respect for nature and it's long-standing presence and subtle dominance over mankind, and it's also just a very comforting song to listen to when you've hit rock bottom, and it also has strong tones of reincarnation. Cleanse Song - Cassadaga Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow? See the new Pyramids down in old Manhattan From the roof of a friend's I watched an empire ending Heard it loud and long, the river's Om Time marching on to a mad man's drum Don't forget what you've learned All you give is returned And if life seems absurd What you need is some laughter And a season to sleep And a place to get clean Maybe Los Angeles Somewhere no one's expecting On a detox walk through a Glendale Park over sidewalk chalk Someone wrote in red, "Start over" So I muffle my scream on an Oxnard beach Full of fever dreams that scare you sober Into saltless dinners Take the fruit from the tree, break the skin with your teeth Is it bitter or sweet? All depends on your timing Like a meeting of chance With the train station glance Many lifetimes have passed in a instant reminded Of a millstone house in a seaside town When your heart gave out in a mission bed So your wife gave birth to a funeral dirge And you woke up purged as a wailing infant In Krug Thep, Thailand Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows It is older than Rome? and our joy and our sorrow - This next one is by an amazing band called The World/Inferno Friendship Society. It means a lot to me because it embodies my life of partying hard, loving your friends and being faithful to them, not giving a fuck about money or other people's opinions of you. Such a great song. The Velocity of Love (Red-eyed Soul) We argued about the big stuff Murder, drugs and sex Self-determination, choices and bad mistakes that I myself would respect I ended up counting coins, buying pills, stressing out Then passed out caught in The Velocity of Love I am bored of the big stuff So we fucked up, I want my hope back Trip me up I'll get you back My friends are all fucked up We ended up flipping out, smashing glass, grasping hands, biting lips Falling hard into The Velocity of Love We ended up flipping out, smashing glass, grasping hands, biting lips Falling hard into it Counting coins, swallowing pills, acting up Then passing out right into it The Velocity of Love From one paycheck to another If fame is what you want you'll get it One fine fuck up to another If a fight is what you want you'll get it If money's all you want, then money's all you'll get I'd rather be drunk and in love Let's not get mean about the big stuff You know I never cared How product gets moved from place to place How money's thrown from here to there Won't end up counting coins, not buying in, nor pissed off, or stressed out I'm all caught up in it I'm flipping out, I'm smashing glass, I'm grasping hands and biting lips I'm staying desperate Hell, I'm not counting coins, not buying in, not stressing out, I'm snapping sails Far away from all that with The Velocity of Love
The Weak Willed by All That Remains You've really got to listen to this song to understand the epicness (obviously.) I have played this song for people who do not listen to metal at all... but they could not resist rocking out anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm2sgkePk_I
Grateful Dead - Cassidy I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream. I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream. Ah child of countless trees, ah child of boundless seas. What are you, what are you meant to be? Speaks his name for you were born to me, Born to me, cassidy. Lost now on the country miles in his cadillac. I can tell by the way you smile he is rolling back. Come wash the nighttime clean, come grow the scorched ground green. Blow the horn, tap the tambourine. Close the gap on the dark years in between. You and me, cassidy. Quick beats in an icy heart, catch colt draws a coffin cart, There he goes and now here she starts, hear her cry. Flight of the seabirds, Scattered like lost words, Wheel to the storm and fly. Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by its own design. Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, Im done with mine. Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by its own design. Nothing to tell now, let the words be yours, Im done with mine.
"Attcs of My Life" - The Grateful Dead In the attics of my life Full of cloudy dreams unreal Full of tastes no tongue can know And lights no eye can see When there was no ear to hear You sang to me I have spent my life Seeking all that's still unsung Bent my ear to hear the tune And closed my eyes to see When there were no strings to play You played to me In the book of love's own dream Where all the print is blood Where all the pages are my days And all my lights grow old When I had no wings to fly You flew to me You flew to me In the secret space of dreams Where I dreaming lay amazed When the secrets all are told And the petals all unfold When there was no dream of mine You dreamed of me
Radiohead - Bullet Proof...Wish I was Limb by limb and tooth by tooth Tearing up inside of me. Everyday, everyhour, wish that I was.. Was bullet proof Wax me, mould me Heat the pins and stab them in. You have turned me into this, just wish that it.. Was bullet proof So pay me money, and take a shot Lead fill the hole in me. I could burst a million bubbles, all surrogate.. & bullet proof (slowdown, slowdown, slowdown) Bullet proof (slowdown, slowdown, slowdown)
"Wharf Rat" Old man down way down down, down by the docks of the city, Blind and dirty asked me for a dime-- dime for a cup of coffee I got no dime but I got time to hear his story: My name is August West and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine ...more than My wine more than my maker though he's no friend of mine Everyone said I'd come to no good I knew I would Pearly believed them Half of my life I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime Other half found me stumbling around drunk on burgundy wine But I'll get back on my feet someday The good Lord willing if He says I may 'cause I know the life I'm livin's no good I'll get a new start live the life I should I'll get up and fly away I'll get up and fly away... ...fly away Pearly's been true true to me, true to my dying day he said I said to him: I'm sure she's been I said to him: I'm sure she's been true to you I got up and wandered Wandered downtown nowhere to go just to hang around I got a girl named Bonny Lee I know that girl's been true to me I know she's been I'm sure she's been true to me
Hands down the most "philosophically/spiritually" inspiring song IMO is Pink Floyd - Time I really look at the whole Dark Side of the Moon album as one of the greatest creations of all time, but that one song specifically I think is very powerful. That and the little bit at the beginning of Great Gig in the Sky "And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've got to go some time..."
From the coast of gold across the seven seas Im travellin on far and wide But now it seems Im just a stranger to myself And all the things I sometimes do It isnt me but someone else I close my eyes and think of home Another city goes by in the night Aint it funny how it is, You never miss it til its gone away And my heart is lying there And will de til my dying day So understand Dont waste your time always Searching for those wasted years Face up... make your stand And realise youre living in the golden years Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mind Cant easy this pain so easily When you cant find the words to say Its hard to make it through another day And it just makes me wanna cry And throw my hands up to the sky -Wasted Years, Iron Maiden
Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity. Calculate what we will or will not tolerate. Desperate to control all and everything. Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen. Clutch it like a cornerstone. otherwise it all comes down. Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end. Clutch it like a cornerstone. otherwise it all comes down. Terrified of being wrong. ultimatum prison cell. Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. hang on or be humbled again. Clutch it like a cornerstone. otherwise it all comes down. Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end. Saturn ascends, comes round again. Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. ignorant to the damage done. Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity. Calculate what you will or will not tolerate. Desperate to control all and everything. Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen. Wear the grudge like a crown. desperate to control. Unable to forgive. and we're sinking deeper. Defining, confining, sinking deeper. controlling, defining, and were sinking Deeper. Saturn comes back around to show you everything Lets you choose what you will not see and then Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again Spits you out like a child, light and innocent. Saturn comes back around. lifts you up like a child or Drags you down like a stone to Consume you till you choose to let this go. Choose to let this go. Give away the stone. let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated Anchor. Give away the stone. let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges Into gold.