Post your favorite song lyrics! I'll start with one of my all-time favorite songs...

Thunder Road
by Bruce Springsteen

The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me babe and I want you only
Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again tonight

Don't run back inside darling, you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright
And that's alright with me

You could hide beneath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain for a savior to rise from these streets
Well I ain't no hero that's understood
All the redemption I can offer lies beheath this old hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey, what else can you do now

Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere
We've got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, Heaven's waiting down on the tracks

Oh, oh, come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it's late but we can make it if we run
Oh Thunder Road sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road

Well, I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely for words that I haven't spoken
But tonight we'll be free and all the promises will be broken

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton remains
Of burned out chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
From your room you hear their engines roar on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
Lost in the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win

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I hate everyone and everything seems stupid to me. - Randal Graves

I am the walrus
Cucukachoo!
:teeth:
I just think that is hysterical!
(yes I know...the mentally deranged are easily amused)

Selah by LAURYN HILL


Nothing can be done against the truth
No matter how we remain in denial

Wasting time
Replacing time
With each empty excuse

But that'll only work a little while
Coping with despair
Knowing you're not there
Ashamed to just admit
I've been a fool
So I blame it on the sun
Run away from everyone
Hoping to escape this ridicule
Trapped in misery
Wrapped so miserably
In this deception that I'm wearin' like a skin

Dying to maintain
Oh I keep trying to explain
A heart that never loved me to begin
Oh I'm such a mess
I have no choice but to confess
That I've been desperately trying to belong
Lying to myself
And everybody else
Refusing to admit my right was wrong

And then he came
Selah
And it means
Praise and Meditation
And then he came
Selah
And it means
Did ya think about that?
And then he came
Selah
Oh and it means
Praise and Meditation
And then he came
Selah
Oh and it means
That it is seen

How beautiful is fruit still in denial of its roots?
My guilty heart behaved so foolishly
This treason from within
That reasons with my sin
Won't be happy till it sees the death of me

Selfishly addicted
To a life that I depicted
Conflicted cuz it's not reality

Oh what's left of me
I beg you desperately
Cause me to agree to what I know is best for me
Please save me from myself
I need you to save me from myself
Please save me from myself so I can heal

The choices that I have made
Oh have been nothing but mistakes
What a wasted use of space
Should I die before I wake?
In all of my religion
I've fortified this prison
Obligated to obey
The demands of bad decisions
Please save me from myself
I need you to save me from myself
Please save me from myself so I can heal
And then he came

Selah
And it means
Praise and Meditation
And then he came
Selah
And it means
Did ya think about that?

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"What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find." - Hermann Hesse:

Never heard that before--I like it!!!!

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

Night Ranger - Goodbye...

As the sun hides his head
For another nights rest
And the wind sings
His same old song
And you on the edge
Never close, never far
Always there when I needed a friend
Yet it's hard living life
On this memory-go-round
Always up, always down
Spinning 'round and 'round and 'round
And all this could be
Just a dream so it seems
I was never much good at goodbye
There once was a time
Never far from my mind
On the beach, on the 4th of July
I remember the sand
How you held out your hand
And we touched for what seemed a lifetime
Now it's hard
Leaving all this behind me now
Like a schoolboy so lost
Never found until now
And all this could be
Just a dream so it seems
I was never much good at goodbye
Yet it's hard
Living life on this memory-go-round
Always up, always down
Turning 'round and 'round and 'round
And all this could be
Just a dream so it seems
I was never much good at goodbye
And all this could be
Just a dream so it seems
I was never much good at goodbye
Goodbye

O.C. Supertones, "Grounded"

I strike back like the empire and we'll televise the revolution.
What will save you from divine retribution?
Do our part, try to make a contribution
Playin' at 11, givin' OC noise pollution.
Think long and hard about our world today...
what needs to be said, and what I need to say.
We're a tower of Babel built on anti-philosophy,
Neitzche in the west and Krishna in the east.

War rages on through generations.
All of these Christians abandoned their stations.
A whole world around us, and we've ceased to reach.
An army of soldiers, we've neglected to teach.
But, it's dim and not pitch black. The truth will prevail.
If our God is for us, how can we fail?
No surer hope has ever been rested.
But our adversary's worthy, prepare to be tested.

Chorus:
Hoo, Hah. How will you stand if you don't understand?
Hoo, Hah. Fight like a man, scriptures in hand.

And here we stand naked, barehanded
Futily prepared for the blows to be landed.
Presuppositions is all you can stand on.
Can you twist their wrist when they lay a hand on?
Learn how to fight from words on a paper.
learn from the shoguns, Bahnsen and Schaeffer.
Invincible army, Holy Spirit our general.
Weapons are formed from most precious of minerals.

Chorus

Kids in universities, drowning in an ocean
of apostate philosophy. We need
Apologetic instruction, mental reconstruction,
Ignorance reduction, to halt the mass abduction.
Evangelical mind has been scandalized.
Wisdom and truth have been vandalized, by the unevangelized.
No truth in the world is randomized.
Expose the lies no matter how they're disguised.

Chorus

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Economic Left/Right: 6.88, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.67
Sola Scriptura | Soli Deo Gloria | Solo Christo | Sola Gratia | Sola Fide
"Let's get this straight: illegal aliens aren't Americans, they're criminals." - KarlMarx
"Μόνο εκπαιδευμένη είναι ελεύθερη (Only the educated are free)." - Epictatus

Brick
by Ben Folds Five

6 am day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping
I am numb

Up the stairs to her apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
they're not home to find us out

And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

they call her name at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
then I walk down to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got

Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's feeling more alone
Then she ever has before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me son it's time to tell the truth and
She broke down and I broke down
Cause I was tired of lying

Driving home to her apartment
For the moment we're alone
She's alone
I'm alone
Now I know it

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

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I hate everyone and everything seems stupid to me. - Randal Graves

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First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me. – Pastor Father Niemoller (1946)

And from the board:
Yes, that's me. You were able to convince me that I should not be a proud democrat anymore. I'm kinda scared about this--will you hold me? - ProudDem

I drive a huge hummer, and my bumper sticker says I hate gay people. - Lolita715, democrat nutjob

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

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Forever
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This is what I brought you, this you can keep
This is what I brought, you may forget me
I promise you my heart, just promise to me
Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep
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Have I ever told you that if I sit really still and silent, sometimes I think I can hear your heart beating in time with mine?
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A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mudwrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock & a stack of French porn.

I (heart) Godsmack.

I truly think that Godsmack is a gift to society that is undervalued by most...

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First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me. – Pastor Father Niemoller (1946)

And from the board:
Yes, that's me. You were able to convince me that I should not be a proud democrat anymore. I'm kinda scared about this--will you hold me? - ProudDem

I drive a huge hummer, and my bumper sticker says I hate gay people. - Lolita715, democrat nutjob

Not sure I'd call them a gift to society... but they do make good music.

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Economic Left/Right: 6.88, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.67
Sola Scriptura | Soli Deo Gloria | Solo Christo | Sola Gratia | Sola Fide
"Let's get this straight: illegal aliens aren't Americans, they're criminals." - KarlMarx
"Μόνο εκπαιδευμένη είναι ελεύθερη (Only the educated are free)." - Epictatus

Thunder Road is a good choice, Dan. I like song lyrics that tell a story.

The Road Not Taken by Bruce Hornsby:

Down in the southwest Virginia town of Richlands
I fell in love with an Appalachian girl
She lived in a long line of little row houses
On the side of an old strip mining hill
She walked along on the jagged ridge
And looked as far as she could see
But the hills out there so up and down
You only see as far as the next big ridge

Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow of on the hill
Another time and another place
I feel her in my heart still
Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow in the bend
I see her in my mind and then
I go down the road not taken...again

Oh the coal dust sttles on the window display
They have to change it about every other day
Some things never change way out here
An outsider could always remain that way
She walked along on the jagged ridge
She told me she was thinking of me
But every time I tried to take her away
She alway ran back to the rocks and the trees

Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow of on the hill
Another time and another place
I feel her in my heart still
Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow in the bend
I see her in my mind and then
I go down the road not taken...again

Oh I went back there after many years
So curious and so secretly
As I looked on I held back a tear
The road not taken overcoming me
Oh I saw her she was sitting there
Older, thinner on the front porch
It seemed the light a little brighter there
Or maybe I still carried the forgotten torch

Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow of on the hill
Another time and another place
I feel her in my heart still
Everytime I see her face
On the street in the hollow in the bend
I see her in my mind and then
I go down the road not taken...again

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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost is my favorite American poet.

Here's my favorite by him:

Stopping by a Wood on a Snowy Evening

by Robert Frost


Whose wood these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his wood fill up with snow.


My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near.
Between the wood and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.


He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound that sweeps
Of easy wind and downy flake.


The wood are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

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First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me. – Pastor Father Niemoller (1946)

And from the board:
Yes, that's me. You were able to convince me that I should not be a proud democrat anymore. I'm kinda scared about this--will you hold me? - ProudDem

I drive a huge hummer, and my bumper sticker says I hate gay people. - Lolita715, democrat nutjob

I Shall Be Released by Bob Dylan


They say ev'rything can be replaced,
Yet ev'ry distance is not near.
So I remember ev'ry face
Of ev'ry man who put me here.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.

They say ev'ry man needs protection,
They say ev'ry man must fall.
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.

Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is a man who swears he's not to blame.
All day long I hear him shout so loud,
Crying out that he was framed.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.