Share your greatest song or lyric???

[Jade Tigress]

Does this count for originals too? If so... This is a song I wrote a while ago.

Opinions are welcome.

I like it alot. What type of music are you putting it to?

Here is one of my new fav's:

Hang out my window
And over your head
Stare at your feelings
To see where they end
You're waiting here
For someone else to break you
From the inside

You've been so composed
But we all know there's
Always something
Tearing you apart

It's always so much longer
Than you counted on
And it hits you so much harder
Than you thought
But you don't worry
You don't worry
Cuz you got soul


You're so heavy
You're so misunderstood
And I spent all my wishes
Wishing times were good
When I still could
Wait around here
For someone else to take me
Past the good side

You have been here so long
We all know there's
Always something
Tearing you apart
It's always so much longer
Than you counted on
And it hits you so much harder
Than you thought
But you don't worry
You don't worry
Cuz darling, you've got so much soul
Darling you've got so much soul

There's always something
Tearing you apart
It's always so much longer
Than you counted on
And it hits you so much harder
Than you thought, than you ever thought it would
But you don't worry
You don't worry
Cuz you don't worry
You don't worry
Cuz you don't worry
You don't worry
Cuz you got soul

 

[Cryozombie]

Crazy me, I was such a bad boy,
I guess you're gonna have to punish me.
I wont rest, I wont be forgiven,
Until you give it good to me.
Pull my hair and shake my chains,
make me bow my head in shame,
stand over me with a whip in hand,
I'll obey your every command!
Unleash!
Its allright, you can now get even,
for all the **** you put up with,
call me names, make me kneel before you,
I'll kiss your boots like a good little *****.
Paint my lips all ruby red,
zip leather around my head,
Push me push me till I drop.
Dont stop until you get off!
Unleash!

 

[Jenna]

For Xue Sheng
XS hey I havent heard John Cougar Mellencamp in some time.. thank you for the reminder! oh now dont be dissin Right Said Fred.. I am sure they had at least TWO hits and very worthy ones they were too.. anyways.. Id sit through that video just for those pecs!! LOL

Beck .. Cold Brains

Cold brains Unmoved Untouched Unglued .. Alone at last
No thoughts No mind To rot Behind A trail of disasters

A final curse .. Abandoned hearse .. We ride disowned .. Corroded to the bone

The fields of green are bent obscene .. I lay upon the gravel
And a worm of hope.. A hangmans rope pulls me one way or the other

A final curse .. Abandoned hearse .. We ride disowned .. Corroded to the bone

A bird of song is heard no longer in the evacuated heavens
The drain is drawn and drained and gone and on and on it doesnt matter

A final curse .. Abandoned hearse .. We ride disowned .. Corroded to the bone



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For Technopunk
TP hey are you really like.. um.. sex on wheels? ha! well I dont know ya enuf to comment I am sure.. Just jokin.. hey these are very lyrical esoterical, ha!.. I dunno even what the second one is?? Hmmm.. idly made up in your head while you were refuelling your bike??

I know you will like Portishead.. Glory Box..

Im so tired of playing.. playing with this bow and arrow
Gonna give my heart away .. leave it to the other girls to play
For I've been a temptress too long

Hmm just.. give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be .. a woman .. I just wanna be a woman

From this time .. unchained .. were all looking at a different picture
Through this new frame of mind .. a thousand flowers could bloom
Move over and give us some room

Yeah .. give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be .. a woman .. I just want to be a woman

So dont you stop being a man ..
Just take a little look from our side when you can
Sow a little tenderness.. no matter if you cry

Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be .. a woman .. I just wanna be a woman.. its all I wanna be is a woman

For this is the beginning of forever and ever
It's time to move over .. so I want to be..

Im so tired of playing.. playing with this bow and arrow
Gonna give my heart away .. leave it to the other girls to play
For I've been a temptress too long

Hmm just.. give me a reason to love you



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For Drac
Hey mister Drac yes I understand this exactly.. I hope that was just a passing moment!! Yeah I got a whole stash of "angry" but kinda cathartic tracks.. This ones a perennial fer me.. I guess its just the people I attract.. super fer playing LOUD tho!!

Prodigy.. Fuel My Fire

Ive got a word of thanks.. thanks that Id like to say
for the rage that I feel.. the rage that I feel today
Got stacks got stacks.. stacks of chips on my shoulder.. in everything I do
cuz I made I made I made the mistake.. the mistake of trusting you

Yeah people like you just fuel my fire
Yeah people like you just fuel my fire
Yeah people like you just fuel my fire
Yeah people like you just do
You liar! You liar! You liar! You liar!

Yeah my layers are thick and Ive got bad attitude
Yeah that knife in my back has fingerprints that belong to you
Got a grudge got a grudge got a grudge that Im holding for as long as I live
cuz you lied you lied you lied to my face and thats something that I cant forgive

Yeah people like you just fuel my fire
Yeah people like you just fuel my fire
Yeah people like you just fuel my fire
Yeah people like you just do
You liar! You liar! You liar! You liar!



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For mrhnau
Hey mr hnau thank you for explaining the etymology of your ID! And yes CS Lewis absolutely was an exceptional scholar and phenomenal author.. I have read much of him after a friend here from Ireland put me onto his history as being as interesting as his fiction!! I will admit though I have not read The Space Trilogy.. funnily I am a bigger fan of biog than fiction per se.. and but thank you I will certainly give this a go (and find out what youre about!! LOL) ..

As for the music.. yes I find it unusual that some folk like just one genre of music.. but each to their own.. Youre completely correct bout the lyrics they dont always stand up on their own.. there are exceptions tho! To be fair.. at the start of this thread I wanted just someone to share a lyric with me that meant something to them.. I have a modest collection of music which means I might have been able to listen along and feel what they felt too.. corny I know .. but hey I am just little miss corny thru and thru anyways.. people just post up lyrics without saying anything.. and but thats ok too

Well.. I havent heard of Ethereal Scourge, ha! I can only imagine how death metal overlaid with a message of salvation must sound!! Thanks for that..

Ok well.. one for you.. not overtly spiritual on the face of it.. it is for me though believe me

The Police .. Message In a Bottle

Just a castaway.. an island lost at sea oh
Another lonely day with no one here but me oh
More loneliness than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair oh

Ill send an SOS to the world.. Ill send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my.. I hope that someone gets my.. I hope that someone gets my..
Message in a bottle yeah.. Message in a bottle yeah

A year has passed since I wrote my note
But I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep me together
Love can mend your life but love can break your heart

Ill send an SOS to the world.. Ill send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my.. I hope that someone gets my.. I hope that someone gets my..
Message in a bottle yeah.. Message in a bottle yeah.. Oh message in a bottle yeah.. message in a bottle yeah

Walked out this morning dont believe what I saw
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems Im not alone in being alone
Hundred billion castaways looking for a home

Ill send an SOS to the world.. Ill send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my.. I hope that someone gets my.. I hope that someone gets my..
Message in a bottle yeah.. Message in a bottle yeah.. Message in a bottle oh.. message in a bottle yeah

Sending out an SOS..
Sending out an SOS..
Im Sending out an SOS..
Im Sending out an SOS..



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For Kreth
Hey mister Kreth.. yous been in a studio yet??? Thats a right laugh butu a lot of £££ / $$$ And Chevelle?? they aint here I dont think.. *makes note to self* .. Anyways dyou wanna lyric? I doubt it.. oh well what do I care what you want or dont want, ha! .. ave some Queens..

QoTSA .. Better Living Through Chemistry

The blue pill opens your eyes.. Is there a better way?
A new religion prescribed to those without the faith
A hero holding a knife.. And blood is not enough
Is it too late to go back? Is it too late to go?

Theres no one here
And people everywhere
Youre on your own

Lets see if Im hearing this right.. Is it just that I should take
The neverending supply to carry out the dead
Your idols burn in the fire.. The mob comes crawling up
Im reclaiming my mind .. Destroying everyone

Theres no one here
And people everywhere
Youre on your own



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For Toby
Hey Toby are you still here??? Are you a guitarist?? Pianist?? *interested* Thank you for sharing your lyric.. To me it is almost despairing.. is there any optimism there?? I wonder what thoughts were in your mind when you wrote that.. Anyways.. What Will Become (of Toby??)

I love to play this (and attempt my usual rubbish accompaniment)..

Foo Fighters.. Walking After You

Tonight Im tangled in my blanket of clouds.. dreaming aloud
Things just wont do without you.. matter of fact..
Im on your back.. Im on your back.. Im on your back

If you walk out on me.. Im walking after you.. If you walk out on me.. Im walking after you

If youd accept surrender.. Id give up some more .. Werent you adored?
I cannot be without you.. matter of fact..
Im on your back.. Im on your back.. Im on your back

If you walk out on me.. Im walking after you.. If you walk out on me.. Im walking after you

Another heart is cracked.. in two.. Im on your back

I cannot be without you.. matter of fact..
Im on your back.. Im on your back.. Im on your back

If you walk out on me.. Im walking after you.. If you walk out on me.. Im walking after you



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For JT
Hey JT Matchbox20 is that?? A friend of mines a real big fan of them even tho theyve more or less opted to stay on your side of the Atlantic! Thanks for this.. Heres one of my new favs too A beautiful piano riff.. The ever grandiose Muse..

Muse .. Starlight

Far away .. The ship is taking me far away .. Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die

Starlight .. I will be chasing your starlight .. Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore

And hold you here in my arms .. I just wanted to hold you here in my arms

My life .. You electrify my life .. Lets conspire to re-ignite
All the souls that would die just to feel alive

But Ill never let you go if you promise not to fade away .. Never fade away

Our hopes and expectations .. Black holes and revelations
Our hopes and expectations .. Black holes and revelations

Hold you here in my arms .. I just wanted to hold you here in my arms

Far away .. The ship is taking me far away .. Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die

I'll never let you go if you promise not to fade away .. Never fade away

Our hopes and expectations .. Black holes and revelations
Our hopes and expectations .. Black holes and revelations

Hold you in my arms .. I just wanted to hold .. You here in my arms

I just wanted to hold..



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[Cryozombie]

hey these are very lyrical esoterical, ha!.. I dunno even what the second one is?? Hmmm.. idly made up in your head while you were refuelling your bike??

Ah, I did not make them up, however, I also expected no one would know them... it was a small industrial band, with a small release, that had almost no radio play... I had a ***** of a time finding their CD back in the day.

Without saying too much, the bondage theme in that song "works" for me.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Feeling uncharacteristically jovial today so here’s one.

The Unbirthday Song Lyrics

Statistics prove, prove that you've one birthday,
one birthday ev'ry year.
But there are three hundred and sixty four unbirthdays.
That is why we're gathered here to cheer.
A very merry unbirthday to you, to you.
A very merry unbirthday to you,
It's great to drink to someone and I guess that you will do.
A very merry unbirthday to you

 

[Cryozombie]

When you don't see me...
It's not a matter of going to grow
It's not a matter of time or how I feel
I'm throwing off the shadow of a better man now
What you see is what you never had
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...
Oh, it's kind of different when your there
You can lease the peace of mind
You bought a mask, I put it on
You never thought to ask me
If I wear it when you're gone
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...
You never learned
You bought me
Everything and less
I turned
You couldn't let me move
I guess, I don't deny, it don't disprove
What you see is what you lost
If I were you I wouldn't try
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...​

 

[jazkiljok]

cold, rainy days, a coffee and cognac, staring out the window of a cafe near an idle street.

Into my arms by Nick Cave


I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

And I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candle burning
And make her journey bright and pure
That she will keep returning
Always and evermore

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

 

[SFC JeffJ]

Vital Signs, Rush.

Unstable condition,
A symptom of life,
In mental and environmental change

Atmospheric disturbance,
The feverish flux
Of human interface and interchange

The impulse is pure;
Sometimes our circuits get shorted
By external interference

Signals get crossed
And the balance distorted
By internal incoherence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter,
Everybody need a mood lifter,
Everybody need reverse polarity
Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to deviate from the norm

An ounce of perception,
A pound of obscure
Process information at half speed
Pause, rewind, replay,
Warm memory chip,
Random sample, hold the one you need

Leave out the fiction,
The fact is, this friction
Will only be worn by persistence

Leave out conditions,
Courageous convictions
Will drag the dream into existence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter,
Everybody need a soft filter,
Everybody need reverse polarity
Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to elevate from the norm..

Jeff

 

[Jade Tigress]

You say the hill's too steep to climb,
Climb it!
You say you'd like to see me try,
Climb it!
You pick the place and I'll choose the time
And I'll climb
The hill in my own way
just wait a while, for the right day
And as I rise above the treeline and the clouds
I look down hear the sound of the things you said today
Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling
Emotionless the magistrate turns 'round, frowning
and who's the fool who wears the crown
Go down in your own way
And everyday is the right day
And as you rise above the fearlines in the frown
You look down
Hear the sound of the faces in the crowd

 

[Rich Parsons]

Hello all my tough but squeezy Martial Talk friends

I hated Amsterdam yesterday so it’s Rotterdam today and it’s nice here and so many different voices and colours and faces in the one small place, and that gives a great perspective. Only problem is my dutch is VERY poor and I can't speak it without sounding like I got cake stuck in my throat, ha! Well, I was sitting earlier with the window open listening to all the tunes coming out of some apartment and some other open window across the block - I tell ya they had taste whoever they were and I was quite liking what I heard - the sort of music you would only listen to on your own even though they were blastin' it right loud! And I got thinking how music can sometimes be our friend where there ARE no friends, it can keep us company through our misery, or cheer us and lift us up and out; it can gee us up for fighting or calm our zeal and show us our hearts or remind us of where we are in the world and a million other things...

So.... I'd be appreciative if you can share a lyric or song that you spin up on your machine or in your car or on your pod when you're either feeling a certain way or WANTING to feel a certain way. No matter what your mood, I would love to hear what you’re hearing and how you hear it. A good chance I'll have it here on my little ipod 40gb just shy of full. I promise I will reply to everyone who takes the time to give me a lyric and I will give you one of my own in the same vein if I can, in fact I'll match ya one for one.

Thank you all SO very much
Yr most obdt hmble srvt,
Jenna

A friend of mine has just started a divorce and so not even thinking I pulled a CD out and put in the following:

Feelings

Feelings
Nothing more than feelings
Trying to forget my
Feelings of hate

Imagine
Beating on your face
Trying to forget my
Feelings of hate

Feelings
For all my life, I’ll feel it
I wish I’d never met you
You’ll make me sick again

Feelings
Whoa, feelings
Whoa, feelings
Of hate on my mind

Feelings
Feelings like I never liked you
Feelings like I wanna kill you
Live in my heart

Feelings
Feelings like I wanna deck you
Feelings like I gotta get you
Out of my life

Feelings
Whoa, feelings
Whoa, feelings
Hate’s in my eyes

Feelings
Whoa, feelings
Whoa, feelings
You’re not very nice

Go!

Feelings
Whoa, feelings
Whoa, feelings
Hate’s on my mind

Feelings
Whoa, feelings
Whoa, feelings
Get out of my life

Feelings
Whoa, feelings
Whoa, feelings
Get out of my life

By The Offspring from their Americana CD Release


There are lots of other songs on the CD that have me reflecting on how I have changed over the last 7 years.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Both by Pink Floyd both appropriate for the day

Pink Floyd - One of these days

One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces


Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction is holding me fast,
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try

Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, A state of bliss
Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

 

[HKphooey]

The Alarm

Blaze of Glory
It's funny how they shoot you down
When your hands are held up high
And you open up your heart and soul
But that's not enough for most.

I remember this much
There is nothing
You shouldn't speak of
If you got something to say
And there is no one
To be scared of
Just get them out of the way

Going out in a blaze of glory
My heart is open wide
You can take anything that you want from me
There is nothing left to hide

Going out in a blaze of glory
My hands are held up high
And i'm learning how to hit back
I'm learning how to fight
(how to fight)

The law of the jungle says
You look after yourself
But i remember this much
I love as i be loved myself.

Don't forget what i told you now
When the question keeps on coming
It's "how much more can you take"
When they've ripped your clothes to pieces
"shouldn't you be gone by now"

But you keep on
Going out in a blaze of glory
Setting your sights for the sky.
They can offer you anything at all
But your dreams must not be sold.

Going out in a blaze of glory
No price is high enough
I'm fighting back with feeling
I'm fighting back with love.

When the nails are biting into your hands
And the cross is heavy on your heart
Now is the time to really make a stand
(going out, going out, going out)
My hands are held up high.

Going out in a blaze of glory
Going out, going out, going out
Going out
Going out in a blaze of glory
My heart is open wide
You can take anything that you want from me
But you cannot take my soul

Going out in a blaze of glory
My hands are held up high
I'm learning how to hit back
Yes i'm learning how to fight

Going out in a blaze of glory
Going out with my heart wide open
Going out with my hands held high

Going out in a blaze of glory

Fighting back with love
Fighting back with love!
No price is high enough
To take my soul, to take my soul
To take my soul

It's funny how they shoot you down
When your hands are held up high

Going out in a blaze of glory

 

[Cryozombie]

Just cuz Im thinking about her a lot this morning

In my mind you're here now even though you're far away
And I don't know if I'll even try to make it through today
Regenerate, recirculate now until my blood runs dry
And I'll never know the things I'm missing until the day I die
Well I lied when I said nothing, but I don't know what to do...

I just think about you
I think about you
I think about everything you did to me
But most of all I need to think about you

In my mind you're everything and I will never know
Why you needed me when I had nowhere else that I could go
Run around in circles now until my legs give out
But I look at the temptation and there's never any doubt
Well I lied when I said nothing but I don't know what to do...

I just think about you
I think about you
I think about everything you did to me
But most of all I need to think about you

I'm afraid I'm missing little pieces of my soul
But I never had a need for all the things I didn't know
Start from the beginning now and tell me everything
'Cause I'm lost without you, I don't think I'd do all this again
Well I lied when I said nothing but I don't know what to do... -Think, Sister Machine Gun​

 

[exile]

Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night
People so busy, make me feel dizzy
Taxi light shines so bright
But I dont need no friends
As long as I gaze on waterloo sunset
I am in paradise

Every day I look at the world from my window
Chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine

Terry meets julie, Waterloo station
Every Friday night
But I am so lazy, don't want to wander
I stay at home at night
But I don't
Feel afraid
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise

Every day I look at the world from my window
Chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine

Millions of people swarming like flies round Waterloo underground
But Terry and Julie cross over the river
Where they feel safe and sound
And they don't
Need no friends
As long as they gaze on Waterloo sunset
They are in paradise

---The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset, 1967

 

[Jonathan]

I won't quote the whole song, but there's a line from U2's "The Fly" that I always liked:

It's no secret that a friend
Is someone who lets you help,
It's no secret that a liar
Won't believe in anyone else...

 

[jenngibbs2000]

SO LONELY
by The Police


Well someone told me yesterday
That when you throw your love away
You act as if you just don’t care
You look as if your going somewhere
But I just cant convince myself
I couldn’t live with no one else
And I can only play that part
And sit and nurse my broken heart
So lonely
Now no ones knocked upon my door
For a thousand years or more
All made up and nowhere to go
Welcome to this one man show
Just take a seat they’re always free
No surprise no mystery
In this theater that I call my soul
I always play the starring role
So lonely

Pretty much any Police song or Coldplay song expresses exactly what I want to say...

Jenn

 

[dubljay]

Artist: The Servant Lyrics
Song: Cells Lyrics


It'll all click when the mortgage clears
All our fears will disappear
Now you go to bed
I'm staying here
I've got another level that I want to clear
My skin feels like orange peel
My eyes have been vacuum-sealed
My organs move like a squirm of eels
We should be more adventurous with our meals
They annoy me those who employ me
They could destroy me
They should enjoy me
We eat chinese off our knees
And look for each other in the TV screen

The sun goes up and the sun goes down
I drag myself into the town
All I do I want to do with you
Everyday I'm at my desk
At my desk I'm like the rest
All I do I want to do with you

On the city's skin they move on mass
Like a rash on the back of a manky cat
Now in I go like a fool
I can't resist dipping in the pool
I watch them watch me I watch them too
Across the street across the room
I dress myself like a charcoal sketch
My eyes are brown and my hair's a mess
They annoy me those who employ me
They could destroy me
They should enjoy me
We eat chinese off our knees
And look for each other in the TV screen

The sun goes up and the sun goes down
I drag myself into the town
All I do I want to do with you
Everyday I'm at my desk
At my desk I'm like the rest
All I do I want to do with you
The sun goes up..

The cells I am at the moment will soon die
But I will be here
Oh I'll still be here
The cells I am at the moment will soon die
But I will be here
Oh I'll still be here

The sun goes up…

Everyday everyday everyday...

 

[MA-Caver]

This has always been one of my favorites by the artist... but I've haven't figured out if he's singing about a real person or just being melencholy. But it's got some great one liners that make you appreciate yourself and anyone else you might care about.

Of Missing Persons
written by Jackson Browne
Your father was a rounder
He played that rock and roll
A leaper and a bounder
Down to his gypsy soul
The music was his angel
And sorrow was his star
And those of us who follow
Might hope to reach as far

They're walking slow in Houston
Speechless in D.C.
There's no way I could tell you
What he meant to me

Your mother's a survivor
She'll do what must be done
Her children will revive her
And help her see the sun
She almost knew that unison
But the singing stopped too soon
Now she shares the silence
With a man up in the moon

To speak of missing persons
Tonight there's only one
And we all carry with us what the man's begun

And you can sing this song
On July the Fourth
In the sunny south and the frozen north
It's a day of loss, it's your day of birth
Does it take a death to learn what a life is worth?

Your brothers are all older
And they'll take it in their stride
The world's a little colder
But manhood's on their side
Now you're the little girl-child
And you look so much like him
And he's right there inside you
Each time you want to sing

Sing of missing persons
Tonight there's only one
But he's where you can find him when it's said and done

And we will sing this song
On July the Fourth
From the sunny south and the frozen north
This will always be your day of birth
May you always see what your life is worth

A little googling can go a long way... here a review (alibet a poor one from Rolling Stone on the song/album...

From "Of Missing Persons," Browne's tune to Lowell George's daughter: "Your brothers are all older/And they'll take it in their stride/The world's a little colder/But manhood's on their side." What is being said here? That George's sons will take their father's death in stride? That George's daughter is forever condemned to grieve because she doesn't have manhood on her side

The Rolling Stone critic obviously hated the album but I don't... but then again... I'm not a critic aren't I? :uhyeah:

 

[JasonASmith]

Vital Signs, Rush.

Dammit! You beat me to it!
There's something about the ending of that song that just destroys me...:wah: However, that song's ending is not as bad(for me) as the ending to 2112...That thoroughly destroys all of my defenses.

 

[shesulsa]

This just seems kind of appropriate with some current events in my life right now.


"Digging In The Dirt" - Peter Gabriel

Something in me, dark and sticky
All the time it's getting strong
No way of dealing with this feeling
Can't go on like this too long

[Chorus:]
This time you've gone too far [x3]
I told you [x4]
This time you've gone too far [x3]
I told you [x4]

Don't talk back
Just drive the car
Shut your mouth
I know what you are
Don't say nothing
Keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around
This is for real
Digging in the dirt
Stay with me, I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
Open up the places I got hurt

The more I look, the more I find
As I close on in, I get so blind
I feel it in my head, I feel it in my toes
I feel it in my sex, that's the place it goes

[Chorus]

I'm digging in the dirt
Stay with me I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
To open up the places I got hurt

Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
[x7]