What are your favourite SONG LYRICS?

[Genghis Kush]

BobMarley & the Wailers

Kaya





[Intro]
Wake up and...
Wake up and...
Wake up and turn I loose
For the rain is falling

[Chorus]
Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
For the rain is falling


[Verse]
I'm so high, I even touch the sky
Above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighbourhood, so
Here I come again

[Chorus]
Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
For the rain is falling

Feeling irie I
Feeling irie I
Feeling irie I
Because I have some kaya now

[Verse]
I'm so high, I even touch the sky
Above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighbourhood, so
Here I come again

[Chorus]
Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
For the rain is falling

[Outro]
Get up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose
For the rain is falling
Kaya man, kaya man
Got to have kaya now
For the rain is, rain is falling
Wake up and turn I loose
Wake up and turn I loose


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd80dwC7lqk

 

[Genghis Kush]

Peter Tosh


Legalize it
Don't criticize it
Legalize it, yeah yeah
And I will advertise it

Some call it tamjee
Some call it the weed
Some call it marijuana
Some of them call it ganja

Never mind, got to legalize it
And don't criticize it
Legalize it, yeah yeah
And I will advertise it

Singers smoke it,
And players of instrument, too
Legalize it, yeah yeah
That's the best thing you can do
Doctors smoke it
Nurses smoke it
Judges smoke it
Even lawyer, too

So you've got to legalize it
And it don't criticize it
Legalize it, yeah yeah
And I will advertise it

It's good for the flu
Good for asthma
Good for tuberculosis
Even numara thrombosis

Go to legalize it
Don't criticize it
Legalize it, yeah yeah
And I will advertise it

Birds eat it
Ants love it
Fowls eat it
Goats love to play with it

So you've got to legalize it
And it don't criticize it
Legalize it, yeah yeah
And I will advertise it

Keep on telling you legalize it
And don't, don't, don't criticize it


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQiKL2xBwjM

 

[paper thorn]

Townes Van Zandt

Nothin'

Hey momma when you die
don't leave a thing behind
I don't need nothin'
I can't use nothin'

Take care into the hall
And if you see my friends
Tell em I'm fine
Not using nothin'

Almost burned out my eyes
Threw my ears down to the floor
I didn't see nothin'
I didn't hear nothin'

I stood there like a block of stone
Knowing all I had to know
And nothin' more
Man, that's nothin'

 

[paper thorn]

Blaze Foley

WW3

I’ve been thinking Uncle Sam
It’s time we went to war
It’s been so long since Viet Nam
Tell me what you’re waiting for

If you don’t hurry – sure enough
All these kids will be grown up
Be too old to die for you
So get ’em if your going to

Ain’t been much excitement on
The evening news in way too long
Let’s break out our submarines
Blow some place to smithereens

Russians and the Cubans too
Have been making fun of you
They call you a chicken shit
I’m just sick and tired of it

But I’m too old – so I can’t go
Don’t want you to worry though
Patriotic as can be
Sing ”My Country ’tis o' Thee”

If you don't know who to get first
You can’t figure who's the worst
Why not blow 'em both away
They’ll be careful what they say

Won’t nobody call you names
They know you’ll blow out their brains
Show the world how big your gun
Show ’em how the West was won

Happy birthday fine young man
Take your letter in your hand
Go down town and sign your name
It’s time to play the freedom game

Kiss your mom and girlfriend too
It might be the last they see of you
Might have to kiss your ass goodbye
To keep Ol’ Glory waving high

I’ve been thinking Uncle Sam
It’s time we went to war
It’s been so long since Viet Nam
Tell me what you’re waiting for

 

[brown_thumb]

~~ The The ~~
'The Beaten Generation'

When you cast your eyes upon the skylines
Of this once proud nation
Can you sense the fear and the hatred
Growing in the hearts of its population

And youth, oh youth, are being seduced
by the greedy hands of politics and half truths

The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination

We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes
and hypnotised by the satellites
Into believing what is good and what is right

You may be worshipping the temples of mammon
Or lost in the prisons of religion
But can you still walk back to happiness
When you've nowhere left to run?

The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination

And if they send in the special police
To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace

Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
when they tell us justice is being done
and that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun

The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation
The beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination​

[YOUTUBEIF]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ustXRPke9lM[/YOUTUBEIF]

 

[Grojak]

Pissin In the Wind - Jerry Jeff Walker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZDBXm11WXY


Pissin' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend
Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again
And we're pissin' in the wind, but it's blowing on all our friends
We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grandchildren

About the time I called this Guy it was four in the morning
Teach me the words to the song I was humming

He just laughed and he said that the ole grey cat is sneakin' down the hall
But all he wants to know is who in the hell is paying for the call

Pissin' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend
Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again
And we're pissin' in the wind, but it's blowing on all our friends
We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grandchildren

Now this Nunn called me up, it was eight in the morning
Wanted to know how in the world am I doin'
He just laughed and he said get together boy, and fall on by the house
Some Gonzo buddies would like to play anything your's picking now

Pissin' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend
Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again
And we're pissin' in the wind, but it's blowing on all our friends
We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grandchildren

Now we worked and we suffered and struggled
Makin' our record till we got it right
Now we're waiting on the check to come sneaking down the hall
Like that old time feeling
That we never should have ever put the record out at all

Pissin' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend
Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again
And we're pissin' in the wind, but it's blowing on all our friends
We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grandchildren

That the answer my friend is just pissin' in the wind
The answer is pissin' in the sink

 

[Beanzy]

Don't seem right I been strung out here all night.
I've been waiting for the taste you said you'd bring to me
Biscayne Bay
Where the Cuban Gentleman sleep all day.
I went searching for the song you used to sing to me.

 

[geneva_sativa]

When the last rose of summer pricks my finger,
And the hot sun chills me to the bone,
When I can't hear the song for the singer,
And I can't tell my pillow from a stone,
I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
And sing me a song of my own,
I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
And sing me a song of my own.
When the last bolt of sunshine hits the mountain,
And the stars start to splatter in the sky,
When the moon hits the southwest horizon,
With the scream of an eagle on the fly,
I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
And listen to the ripples as they moan,
I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
And sing me a song of my own.
Black muddy river, roll on forever,
I don't care how deep or wide, if you've got another side,
Roll muddy river, roll muddy river, black muddy river, roll.
When it seems like the night will last forever,
And there's nothing left to do but count the years,
When the strings of my heart start to sever,
And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears,
I will walk alone, by the black muddy river,
And dream me a dream of my own,
I will walk alone, by the black muddy river,
And sing me a song of my own, sing me a song of my own

Hunter/Garcia

 

[geneva_sativa]

Went to see the captain, strangest I could find,
Laid my proposition down, laid it on the line.
I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels,
But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools.
Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.
Saw your first ship sink and drown, from rockin' of the boat,
And all that could not sink or swim was just left there to float.
I won't leave you drifting down, but woh it makes me wild,
With thirty years upon my head to have you call me child.
Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.
The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before.
Time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more.
Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few:
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.
Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought, when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.
It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

Hunter/Garcia

 

[Genghis Kush]

Leonard Cohen. Rest in Peace

Hallelujah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttEMYvpoR-k

"They say there was a secret chord
That David played, and pleased the Lord
You don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lifts
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

You saw her bathing on the roof
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your faith, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the
Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Well you say I took the name in vain
I didn't even know the name
And if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter what you heard
The broken or the holy Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah"

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

David Bowie...'Changes'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCgzX7vwlFk

I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
And every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time

Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace
I'm going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now you're gonna get older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time.

 

[ganjygav]

Wannabe (Radio Edit)
Spice Girls

Ha ha ha ha ha
Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah

If you want my future, forget my past
If you wanna get with me, better make it fast
Now don't go wasting my precious time
Get your act together we could be just fine

I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah
If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends
(Gotta get with my friends)
Make it last forever, friendship never ends
If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give
Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is

Oh, what do you think about that
Now you know how I feel
Say, you can handle my love, are you for real
(Are you for real)
I won't be hasty, I'll give you a try
If you really bug me then I'll say goodbye

Yo I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah

If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends
(Gotta get with my friends)
Make it last forever, friendship never ends
If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give
(You've got to give)
Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is

So, here's a story from A to Z
You wanna get with me, you gotta listen carefully
We got Em in the place who likes it in your face
You got G like MC who likes it on a
Easy V doesn't come for free, she's a real lady
And as for me, ha you'll see

Slam your body down and wind it all around
Slam your body down and wind it all around

If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends
(Gotta get with my friends)
Make it last forever, friendship never ends
If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give
(You've got to give)
Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is

If you wanna be my lover
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta
Slam, slam, slam, slam (make it last forever)

Slam your body down and wind it all around
Slam your body down and wind it all around
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Slam your body down and wind it all around
Slam your body down and zigazig ah
If you wanna be my lover

 

[BlueBlazer]

Renaissance ~ Can You Understand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adPrAFKe18o

Dollars down the penny drain
Frozen in the clouds
Dream away the last of pain
In waterfalls of sounds

Float across the icy pools
Leaves with curl and sway
Now your mind is floating cool
And you can find the way

Can you understand you can really understand
When the darkness comes you still shine
Open up your eyes and make the day shine sunshine now
Open up your dreams and and make the way shine sunshine now
Can you understand you understand
Can you understand you understand
Open up your life and make your lifetime sunshine now
Open up your soul and make your lifeline sunshine now
Can you understand you understand
Can you understand you understand

Dancing without moving now
Growing with your soul
One with all around you now
Related to the all

 

[EvilCartman]

https://youtu.be/M1Uu0YIdJ7A
From the Beginning
Emerson, Lake & Palmer

There might have been things I missed
But don't be unkind
It don't mean I'm blind

Perhaps there's a thing or two
I think of lying in bed
I shouldn't have said
But there it is

You see it's all clear
You were meant to be here
From the beginning

Maybe I might have changed
And not been so cruel
Not been such a fool
Whatever was done is done
I just can't recall
It doesn't matter at all

You see it's all clear
You were meant to be here
From the beginning

Songwriters: Gregory Lake

 

[MrBungle]

Fearless
_______
Pink Floyd

Produced By Pink Floyd
Album Works

[Verse 1]
You say the hill’s too steep to climb, chiding
You say you’d like to see me try climbing
You pick the place and I’ll choose the time

[Chorus 1]
And I’ll climb that hill in my own way
Just wait a while for the right day
And as I rise above the tree lines and the clouds
I look down, hearing the sound of the things you’ve said today

[Verse 2]
Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling
Merciless the magistrate turns ’round, frowning
And who’s the fool who wears the crown?

[Chorus 2]
And go down in your own way
And every day is the right day
And as you rise above the fear-lines in his brow
You look down, hearing the sound of the faces in the crowd

[Outro]
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone
Liverpool! Liverpool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWH01DBJxlo

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

...and many nice selections so far..

Oh!, I have been told that it's best to present the LINK, at the bottom of the posted lyrics, as in the post just above me.

....Keep 'em coming!

 

[MrBungle]

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG
_________________

"Carry On / Questions"

One morning I woke up and I knew that you were gone.
A new day, a new way, I knew I should see it along.
Go your way, I'll go mine and carry on.

The sky is clearing and the night has gone out.
The sun, he come, the world is all full of light.
Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice but to carry on.

The fortunes of fables are able to sing the song.
Now witness the quickness with which we get along.
To sing the blues you've got to live the tunes and carry on.

Carry on, love is coming, love is coming to us all.

Where are you going now my love? Where will you be tomorrow?
Will you bring me happiness? Will you bring me sorrow?
Oh, the questions of a thousand dreams, what you do and what you see,
Lover, can you talk to me?

Girl, when I was on my own, chasing you down,
What was it made you run, trying your best just to get around?
The questions of a thousand dreams, what you do and what you see,
Lover, can you talk to me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvEEv14bI_o

 

[Midnite Toker]

This one brings back the rebellion of my youth.
[YOUTUBEIF]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVfJo07pNIc[/YOUTUBEIF]

This is Nazareth!


"Hair Of The Dog"

Heart breaker, soul shaker
I've been told about you
Steamroller, midnight stroller
What they've been saying must be true

[bridge:]
Red hot mama
Velvet charmer
Time's come to pay your dues

[chorus:]
Now you're messin' with a
A son of a bitch
Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch
Now you're messin' with a
A son of a bitch
Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch

Talkin' jivey, poison ivy
You ain't gonna cling to me
Man taker, born faker
I ain't so blind I can't see

............beautiful, mT

 

[Bud Green]

this song by frank described how I felt about so many of the self anointed, guru con men of the late 60's, early 70's...


"Cosmic Debris"
The Mystery Man came over
and he said: "I'm outta-site!"
He said, for a nominal service charge,
I could reach Nirvana tonite
If I was ready, willing and able
To pay him his regular fee
He would drop all the rest of his present affairs
And devote His Attention to me
But I said . . .
Look here brother,
Who you jivin' with that Cosmic Debris?
(Now who you jivin' with that Cosmic Debris?)
Look here brother,
Don't you waste your time on me

The Mystery Man got nervous
And he fidgeted 'round a bit
He reached in the pocket of his Mystery Robe
And he whipped out a shaving kit
Now I thought it was a razor
And a can of foamin' goo
But he told me right then when the top popped open
There was nothing his box won't do
With the oil of Aphrodite
And the dust of the Grand Wazoo
He said:
"You might not believe this little fella, but it'll cure your Asthma too!"
An' I said . . .
Look here brother,
Who you jivin' with that Cosmic Debris?
(Now what kind of a Guru are you anyway?)
Look here brother,
Don't you waste your time on me
Don't waste your time . . .

I've got troubles of my own, I said
And you can't help me out
So take your meditations and your preparations
And ram it up your snout.
"But I Got A Crystal Ball!," he said
And held it to the light
So I snatched it
All away from him
And I showed him how to do it right.
I wrapped a newspaper 'round my head
So I'd look like I was Deep
I said some Mumbo Jumbo then
And told him he was goin' to sleep
I robbed his rings
And pocket watch
And everything else I found
I had that sucker hypnotized
He couldn't even make a sound
I proceeded to tell him his future then
As long as he was hanging around,
I said
"The price of meat has just gone up
An' your ol' lady has just gone down . . . "
Look here brother,
Who you jivin' with that Cosmic Debris?
(Now is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?)
Don't you know,
You could make more money as a butcher,
So don't you waste your time on me
(Don't waste it, don't waste your time on me . . .

SHANTI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjPlhb4f9P8

 

[BlueBlazer]

Let it Grow ~ Nektar

Let it grow, you don't need no sympathy
You don’t realize how much you needed me
you will realize it’s better when you give
"Cos your life is longer than you live
The laws of nature are to heal the wounds of man
Use them right and they will help you if you can
Wrongly used and you’ll only harm yourselves
Then it’s too late to come to me for help

Don’t walk away give it a chance

Let it grow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOLQLA5NG6c