Nemo Securus
Captain Common Sense
I gonna have to go with anything by Gram Parsons or Robert Earl Keen. Two of the best songwriters Ive ever heard
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i'm Sure Everyone Can List Several Songs That They Believe Have Great Lyrics, For One Reason Or Another. However, If You Had To Nominate just One Song As Having The Best Lyrics Ever, What Song Would You Pick? Why? And Of Course, Please Post Them.
Personally, I'm Going To Have To Think About It For A While.
~Three Little Birds~
By Bob Marley
"Don't worry about a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be alright. Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be alright!"
Rise up this mornin', Smiled with the risin' sun, Three little birds Pitch by my doorstep Singin' sweet songs Of melodies pure and true, Sayin', ("This is my message to you-ou-ou:")
Singin': "Don't worry 'bout a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be alright." Singin': "Don't worry (don't worry) 'bout a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be alright!"
Rise up this mornin', Smiled with the risin' sun, Three little birds Pitch by my doorstep Singin' sweet songs Of melodies pure and true, Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh! Every little thing gonna be alright. Don't worry!" Singin': "Don't worry about a thing" - I won't worry! "'Cause every little thing gonna be alright."
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be alright" - I won't worry! Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be alright." Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, oh no! 'Cause every little thing gonna be alright!
Time - Pink Floyd. As a whole PF has the best lyrics of any band.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand 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
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
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 Id something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
Forgot the artist off hand.... but...
"Die Hippie Scum, Die"
pretty self explanatory... almost poetic in it's simplicity of message
Well you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to get you but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
and now I'm trying to get back
Before the cool done run out
I'll be giving it my bestest
Nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some
I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours
Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love (love)
Listen to the music of the moment people dance and sing
We're just one big family
And It's our God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved
So I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours
Scooch on closer dear
And i will nibble your ear
I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
My breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and laughed
I guess what I'm be saying is there ain't no better reason
To rid yourself of vanity and just go with the seasons
It's what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue
I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
this is our fate, I'm yours
Well no no, well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find that the sky is yours
Please don't, please don't, please don't
There's no need to complicate
Cause our time is short
This is out fate, I'm yours
It wasn't easy to pick. What I basically did was list all my nominees and then started comparing them head to head in a double elimination type tourny. I actually surprised myself with my winner, since it's one of the more simple and understated of the bunch, but it just refused to be beaten head-to-head and so here it is.
Skating Away by Jethro Tull
It wasn't easy to pick. What I basically did was list all my nominees and then started comparing them head to head in a double elimination type tourny. I actually surprised myself with my winner, since it's one of the more simple and understated of the bunch, but it just refused to be beaten head-to-head and so here it is.
Well, I think a very ironic one comes from the Beatles' "I Am The Walrus". It goes "Expert, texpert choking smoker, don't you think the joker laughs at you." The sad thing is, years after it was written, George Harrison died of lung cancer.
Black Sabbath - War Pigs said:Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of deaths construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah!
Now in darkness, world stops turning
As the war machine keeps burning
No more war pigs of the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
All right now!