Music Lyrics That MEAN Something

Here's another lyrics thread, this time not to describe you, but more to describe something that means something to you. I'll start of with a duet of songs, which I think should mean a great deal here.

F.F.F. by Megadeth

Looking for a cure within the human race
Eliminate the poor, how much longer will it take
Burning up the tents of the rank and file
Exterminate their lives, crack a demon smile

Crushing down, caving in our will to live
Getting rid of man's mistakes
To take a lost life, lock it up, break it down
How much more can we take

Fight for freedom, fight authority
Fight for anything, my country tis' of me

Cry for absolution, it's not the end for me
A last minute pardon, one final reprieve
Resist the war machine, don't get in it's path
Fight to die a free man and reap the aftermath

Crushing down, caving in our will to live
Getting rid of man's mistakes
To take a lost life, lock it up, break it down
I don't know how much more I can take

Fight! … It's my country


Coup D'Etat by The Circle Jerks

Coup D'Etat, Coup D'Etat
Coup D'Etat
Coup D'Etat
Coup D'Etat

The government can't stop a throng
Struck strong,
Let us through.
Pulverize.
New comes in.

Coup D'Etat
Give me a bomb.
A Malatov.

It's a Coup D'Etat!

General Dictator gives the Law.
Get outta line,
Next neck on the block.
Armys marching through the streets.
Next run out the suffering.

Coup D'Etat

A Push from the left
And a shout from the right.
All come out,
Let's do it tonight.

Take the President and His wife,
Deliver the ransom
Or we take their lives.

Trash their embassy.
They are our enemies!!!

The president just smokes cigars,
Anyone he does not like,
He shoots or puts behind bars.

Coup D'Etat!

Kill all...

 

been on a Pixies trip lately, so here goes. This is a cover, but hey

The Pixies
Hang on to Your Ego

I know so many people who think they can do it alone
They isolate their heads and stay in their safety zone
What can you tell them?
What can you say that will make them defensive?

Hang on to your ego
Hang on but I know that you're gonna lose the fight
They come on like they're peaceful but inside they're so uptight
They trip through the day and waste all their thoughts at night

Now how can I say it?
How can I come on when I know I'm guilty?
Yeah, hang on to your ego
Hang on but I know you're gonna lose the fight

 

That Megadeth song just blew me away. Seriously. Freakin' great.

Mind The G.A.T.T. by Anti-Flag

A brand new history
Slyly and quickly
Sparkles in your eyes
Hope your not missing
The flash points/sign posts
Etching the future
From here

Ancient ancestors transmitting via pool formed from rainfall
Where my reflection stares back at me and says
As the sun sets bright over ancient earth and disappears from view
The spirit of the world will rise up from the dis again
Our voices sing in union
Lifless, soulless, secret abyss
Plotting the worlds doom
Production and consumption wakes the sleeping world to sing again
Our voices sing in union

From African coasts to Australian mainland
Watch your brothers back, watch your sisters back
From the American plains to the sea of Japan
Watch your brothers back, watch your sisters back
In your own backyard, or far off foreign lands
We find our adversaries woven of the same thread

As evil hacks and rips at every corner of the world
The peoples voice will sing as one voice
Our voices sing in union
To implement a Paul Hawken-Esque model for the world
The people voice will sing as one voice
Our voices sing in union

The Arabian sea to the coast of Chile
Watch your brothers back, watch your sisters back
The plateau of Tibet to the bay of Biscay
Watch your brothers back, watch your sisters back
In your own backyard, or far off foreign lands
We find our adversaries woven of the same thread

Rethink... ****ing dig in!

Don't sit by and take it!
They built it we can break it!
We're not gonna stand for any G.A. double T's!!!

As an economics student, I kind of have to hate the end of that song, though.
I wanted to post Vive la vida (Life Is For Living) by Santana, but no matter how hard I search I can only find the lyrics for the English version, which is not nearly as good. I have half a mind to transcribe it myself.

 

Now, here are some more lyrics, just because I can(I'm not establishing a precedent here, mind).

Bad Brains - Rise

Did you ever question any of the things they thougt while you were at school?
And did you ever question Oh my teacher, why do you take me for a fool?

Rise up you got to rise up, wake up and rise.

When you're all alone, you'll search for love but they'll have none, this is the seed that they have sown.
Don't be afraid, a better place has yet to come.
And when they won't teach or reach or feed and all they do is leave you deceive you. Be true to yourself and save your mind.
Lesson for the young, so now let's fly away into the light of a brand new sun, the time has come.

Rise up you gotta rise up, wake up and rise.

We'll meditate, communicate, escalate. Don't be late, we just can't wait to liberate this human race.

Go! Rise up you gotta rise up, wake up and rise.

Don't let them, don't let them take away your culture,
Don't let them, don't let them take away your future.
Rise up, you got to rise.


Megadeth - Hook In Mouth

A cockroach in the concrete, courthouse tan and beady eyes
A slouch with fallen arches, purging truths into great lies
A little man with a big eraser, changing history
Procedures that he's programmed to, all he hears and sees
Altering the facts and figures, events and every issue
Make a person disappear, and no one will ever miss you

Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was
Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools

You said you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway ?
Ever think may be it was meant to be this way ?
Don't try to fool us, we know the worst is yet to come
I believe my kingdom will come

F, is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D, for your dying, O, your overture
M, will cover your grave with manure
This spells out FREEDOM, it means nothing to me
As long as there's P.M.R.C

F, is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D, for your dying, O, your overture
M, is for money, you know what that cures
This spells out FREEDOM, it means nothing to me
As long as there's P.M.R.C

Put your hand right up my shirt
Pull the strings that make me work
Jaws will part, words fall out
Like a fish with hook in mouth

Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was
Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools

I'm not a fish
I'm a man
Hook. In. Mouth.

 

Tsunami Bomb - Take The Reins

Eighteen, you think you're free
To be what you wanna be
Have a job or two or three
You'll say your sorry
Don't try to run or fight
Ask how or when or why
Who cares what's wrong or right?
It's money that matters

Each day just like the next
We struggle on and on
In nightmares,
but we're still marching
Hand-cuffed to life again
Don't try, they'll only push you down
What's opportunity?
You've got what you wanted now

How long 'til I'm my own?
Independence doesn't start when you leave home.

Locked in, you can't get out
Your cube is your new home
Four walls, no windows, no doors
Hand-cuffed to life again
Don't try, they'll only push you down
What's opportunity?
You've got what you wanted now

How long 'til I'm my own?
Independence doesn't start when you leave home.

You thought you could get away
From rules and regulations
If you could just get away from home
But now you're finding out
The sad reality
You're trapped again
But this time you're on your own

How long 'til I'm my own?
Independence doesn't start when you leave home.
How long 'til I'm my own?
Independence doesn't start when you leave home.

 

Nine Inch Nails- Hurt
i hurt myself today
to see if i still feel
i focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but i remember everything

what have i become?
my sweetest friend
everyone i know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
i will let you down
i will make you hurt

i wear this crown of ****
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
i cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
i am still right here

what have i become?
my sweetest friend
everyone i know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt
i will let you down
i will make you hurt

if i could start again
a million miles away
i would keep myself
i would find a way

 

It was better when Johnny Cash did it. He said "crown of thorns", which makes a whole lot more sense.

 

Tool - Reflection

Reflection

I have come curiously close to the end, though
Beneath my self indulgent pitiful hole. defeated i
Concede and move closer. I may find comfort here
I may find peace within the emptiness. how pitiful.

It’s calling me
...

And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping.
The moon tells me a secret. my confidant.
As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own
A million light reflections pass over me
It’s source is bright and endless.
She resuscitates the hopeless
Without her we are lifeless satellites drifting.

And as I pull my head out
I am without one doubt
Don’t want to be down here
Feeding my narcissism i
Must crucify the ego
Before it’s far too late
I pray the light lifts me out

Before I pine away.
...

So crucify the ego
Before it’s far too late
To leave behind this place so
Negative and blind and cynical

And we will come to find
That we are all one mind
Capable of all that’s
Imagined and conceivable

Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill thorough
Just let them pass right through,
Bringing out our hope and reason.

Before we pine away.



and Tool - Schism


I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smoldering. Fundamental differing.
Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes testing our communication
The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so
We cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication.

I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over.
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication

The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
And the circling is worth it.
Finding beauty in the dissonance.

There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away.
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any
Sense of compassion
Between supposed lovers/brothers

 

Ryan Adams - "City Rain,City Streets"

Oh,the city rain
It floods the city streets
And in my city bed
Out of my ****ing head
Is it snowing in space?
God,I wish I could talk to you
Is it snowing in space?

And all the city snow
Freezes the Chelsea Hotel
It stones the Chelsea girls
It stones the Chelsea boys
Is it snowing in space?
God,I wish I could talk to you
Is it snowing in space?

How does your body feel today?
I forgot to ask
Genius in a hospital bed with brier patch hair
It just isn't fair
Taking bullets for a team of bad poets
How is it up there?
Taking bullets for the team
I really miss you
I ****ed you over a million times
I ****ed you over a million times
I ****ed you over a million times and you died
you died
you died
you really died

I am going to push them away
Falling through the leaves of the winter trees
Drowning slowly,lonely my city rain.

-BC

 

A Peak You Reach Lyrics - Badly Drawn Boy

No sign of life, pulsing through these aging veins
I bet at your age that's easier for you to say
Forcing answers into questions
And worrying that you might stop breathing

On and on we sift through alphabets of life
That never get us anywhere, anyway
I'd like you to feel we have the best intentions
And i want you to know that i know it's not easy

I want you to know that i know it's not easy

Easy
Easy

Then there's a peak you reach

I'll tell somebody that's never even there
Somebody that you may hope that they might care
From nearby health, or distant welfare
I'm pleased to hear that you're warm, 'cause i'm freezing

Yeah i'm freezing
Coooold

I don't wanna be alone, is that out of the question
I'd like a happy home, is that too obvious
Quit being pushed around, stand on my feet
And kick all these losers out of my street

I've been losing confidence in the heat
Just when im feeling the strength i get weak x2

*Do Be DOOOOOOO*

Then there's a peak you reach

I'll tell somebody
A peak you reach
That's never even there
A peak you reach
I'd like you to feel we've reached our peak

Peak you reach

*Do Be Doooo*

 

Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs

Let me tell you all what it's like
Being male, middle-class and white
It's a ***** if you don't believe
Listen up to my new CD, sham on
I got **** running through my brain
So intense that I can't explain
All alone in my white-boy pain
Shake your booty while the band complains

I'm rocking the suburbs
Just like Michael Jackson did
I'm rocking the suburbs
Except that he was talented
I'm rocking the suburbs
I take the checks and face the facts
That some producer with computers
Fixes all my ****ty tracks

I'm pissed off but I'm too polite
When people break in the McDonald's line
Mom and Dad, you made me so uptight
Gonna cuss on the mic tonight
Don't know how much I can take
Girl, give me something I can break

I'm rocking the suburbs
Just like Quiet Riot did
I'm rocking the suburbs
Except that they were talented
I'm rocking the suburbs
I take the checks and face the facts
That some producer with computers
Fixes all my ****ty tracks

In a haze these days
I pull up to the stop light
I can feel that something's not right
I can feel someone's blasting me with
Hate in bass
Sending dirty vibes my way
'cause my great, great, great, great grand-dad
Made someone's great, great, great, great grand-daddies slaves
It wasn't my idea, It wasn't my idea, It wasn't my idea
It never was my idea
I just drove to the store
For some Preperation H

Y'all don't know what it's like
Being male, middle-class and white.
Y'all don't know what it's like
Being male, middle-class and white.
Y'all don't know what it's like
Being male, middle-class and white.
Y'all don't know what it's like
Being male, middle-class and white.

It gets me real pissed off and it makes me wanna say..
It gets me real pissed off and it makes me wanna say..
It gets me real pissed off and it makes me wanna say..
It gets me real pissed off and it makes me wanna say..

****!

Just like Jon Bon Jovi did
I'm rocking the suburbs
Except that he was talented
I'm rocking the suburbs
I take the checks and face the facts
That some producer with computers
Fixes all my ****ty tracks

 

Monkey gone to heaven Lyrics - The Pixies

there was a guy
an under water guy who controlled the sea
got killed by ten million pounds of sludge
from new york and new jersey
this monkey's gone to heaven

the creature in the sky
got sucked in ahole
now there's a hole in the sky
and the ground's not cold
and if the ground's not cold
everything is gonna burn
we'll all take turns
i'll get mine, too
this monkey's gone to haven

rock me joe!

if man is 5 [3x]
then the devil is 6 [5x]
then god is 7 [3x]
this monkey's gone to heaven

 

Jeff Buckley - Grace

There's the moon asking to stay
long enough for the clouds to fly me away
It's my time coming, and I'm not afraid,
afraid to die.

My fading voice sings of love.
but she cries to the clicking
of time,
Oh, time.

Wait in the fire

And she weeps on my arm
walking to the bright lights and sorrow
Oh drink a bit of wine,
we both might go tomorrow

Oh my love. . .

And the rain is falling
and I believe my time has come.
It reminds me of the pain, I might leave,
leave behind.

Wait in the fire

And I feel them drown my name
so easy to love and forget with this kiss
I'm not afraid to go, but it goes so slow.
So slow.

Wait in the fire.

 

Sleater Kinney - Combat Rock

They tell us there are only two sides to be on
If you are on our side you're right, if not you're wrong
But are we innocent, paragons of good?
Is out guilt erased by the pain that we've endured?

Hey look it's time to pledge allegiance,
I love my dirty Uncle Sam
Our country's marching to the beat now
And we must learn to step in turn

Where is the questioning? Where is the protest song?
Since when is skepticism un-American?
Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same
Those who disagree are afraid to show their face

Let's break out our old machines now,
It sure is good to see them run again.
Oh gentlemen, start your engines
And we know where we get the oil from

Are you feeling alright now?
(Is this why we unite?)
Paint myself red, white and blue
(There are reasons to unite)
Are you singing let's fight now?
(If you hate this time)
Innocent people die, uh oh.
(Remember we are the time)

Show you love your country, go out and spend some cash
Red, white, blue hot pants, doing it for Uncle Sam
Now flex your muscles, show 'em we're stronger than the rest
Raise your hands up, baby, are you sure that we're the best?

We'll come out with our fists raised
The goold old boys are back on top again
And if we let them lead us blindly
The past becomes the future once again