Powerfull songs Word wise

[Teflon Don]

XTC - Dear God

 

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Dear God,

Hope you got the letter,

And I pray you can make it better down here.

I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer,

But all the people that you made in your image,

See them starving on their feet,

'Cause they don't get enough to eat

 

From God,

I can't believe in you.

 

Dear God,

sorry to disturb you,

but I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.

We all need a big reduction in amount of tears,

And all the people that you made in your image,

See them fighting in the street,

'Cause they can't make opinions meet,

About God,

I can't believe in you.

 

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?

Did you make mankind after we made you?

And the devil too!

 

Dear God,

Don't know if you noticed,

But your name is on a lot of quotes in this book.

Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,

And all the people that you made in your image,

Still believing that junk is true.

Well I know it ain't and so do you,

Dear God,

I can't believe in,

I don't believe in,

 

I won't believe in heaven and hell.

No saints, no sinners,

No Devil as well.

No pearly gates, no thorny crown.

You're always letting us humans down.

The wars you bring, the babes you drown.

Those lost at sea and never found,

And it's the same the whole world 'round.

The hurt I see helps to compound,

that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost,

Is just somebody's unholy hoax,

And if you're up there you'll perceive,

That my heart's here upon my sleeve.

If there's one thing I don't believe in...

 

It's you,

Dear God

[The Midnight Rambler]

Broooooooooooce - Badlands

 

Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland.

Got a head-on collision, smashin in my guts man.

Im caught in a crossfire that I don't understand.

But there's one thing I know for sure girl:

I don't give a damn for the same old played out scenes

I don't give a damn for just the in-betweens.

Honey I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now.

You better listen to me baby:

Talk about a dream; try to make it real.

You wake up in the night with a fear so real.

You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don't come.

Well don't waste your time waiting

 

Badlands you gotta live it every day

Let the broken hearts stand

As the price youve gotta pay

Well keep pushin till it's understood

And these badlands start treating us good

 

Workin in the field till you get your back burned

Workin `neath the wheels till you get your facts learned.

Baby I got my facts learned real good right now.

You better get it straight darling:

Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings,

And a king aint satisfied till he rules everything.

I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got.

Now I believe in the love that you gave me.

I believe in the faith that could save me.

I believe in the hope and I pray that some day it

Will raise me above these

 

Badlands...

 

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside

That it aint no sin to be glad you're alive.

I wanna find one face that aint looking through me

I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these

 

Badlands...

 

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[VladimirIlyich]

XTC - Dear God

 

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Dear God,

Hope you got the letter,

And I pray you can make it better down here.

I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer,

But all the people that you made in your image,

See them starving on their feet,

'Cause they don't get enough to eat

 

From God,

I can't believe in you.

 

Dear God,

sorry to disturb you,

but I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.

We all need a big reduction in amount of tears,

And all the people that you made in your image,

See them fighting in the street,

'Cause they can't make opinions meet,

About God,

I can't believe in you.

 

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?

Did you make mankind after we made you?

And the devil too!

 

Dear God,

Don't know if you noticed,

But your name is on a lot of quotes in this book.

Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look,

And all the people that you made in your image,

Still believing that junk is true.

Well I know it ain't and so do you,

Dear God,

I can't believe in,

I don't believe in,

 

I won't believe in heaven and hell.

No saints, no sinners,

No Devil as well.

No pearly gates, no thorny crown.

You're always letting us humans down.

The wars you bring, the babes you drown.

Those lost at sea and never found,

And it's the same the whole world 'round.

The hurt I see helps to compound,

that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost,

Is just somebody's unholy hoax,

And if you're up there you'll perceive,

That my heart's here upon my sleeve.

If there's one thing I don't believe in...

 

It's you,

Dear God

 

Great song,havent heard it in years.

[King Emlyn]

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Shipbuilding

 

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Is it worth it, a new winter coat and shoes for the wife

And a bicycle on the boy's birthday

It's just a rumour that was spread around town

By the women and children, soon we'll be shipbuilding

 

Well I ask you, the boy said

"Dad they're going to take me to task,

But I'll be back by Christmas"

It's just a rumour that was spread around town

Somebody said that someone got filled in

For saying that people get killed in the results of their shipbuilding

 

With all the will in the world

Diving for dear life, when we could be diving for pearls

It's just a rumour that was spread around town

A telegram or a picture postcard

Within weeks we'll be reopening the shipyard

And notifying the next of kin, once again

It's all we're skilled in,

We will be shipbuliding

 

With all the will in the world

Dining for dear life, when we could be diving for pearls

That's the one. Greatest song ever writen in my humble.

[Faustus]

I've been listening to a lot of Nick Cave lately, and The Mercy Seat never fails to give me goosebumps. The lyrics are just so graphic, particularly as the song reaches its crescendo; and the final line of "but I'm afraid I told a lie" after all the protagonist's previous denials just resonates. Ultimately, you've got nobody else to answer to but your conscience and your God (if you're that way inclined).

 

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It began when they come took me from my home

And put me in Dead Row,

Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know.

And I'll say it again

I..am..not..afraid..to..die.

 

I began to warm and chill

To objects and their fields,

A ragged cup, a twisted mop

The face of Jesus in my soup

Those sinister dinner meals

The meal trolley's wicked wheels

A hooked bone rising from my food

All things either good or ungood.

 

And the mercy seat is waiting

And I think my head is burning

And in a way I'm yearning

To be done with all this measuring of truth.

An eye for an eye

A tooth for a tooth

And anyway I told the truth

And I'm not afraid to die.

 

Interpret signs and catalogue

A blackened tooth, a scarlet fog.

The walls are bad. Black. Bottom kind.

They are sick breath at my hind

They are sick breath at my hind

They are sick breath at my hind

They are sick breath gathering at my hind

 

I hear stories from the chamber

How Christ was born into a manger

And like some ragged stranger

Died upon the cross

And might I say it seems so fitting in its way

He was a carpenter by trade

Or at least that's what I'm told

 

Like my good hand I

tatooed E.V.I.L. across it's brother's fist

That filthy five! They did nothing to challenge or resist.

 

In Heaven His throne is made of gold

The ark of his Testament is stowed

A throne from which I'm told

All history does unfold.

Down here it's made of wood and wire

And my body is on fire

And God is never far away.

 

Into the mercy seat I climb

My head is shaved, my head is wired

And like a moth that tries

To enter the bright eye

I go shuffling out of life

Just to hide in death awhile

And anyway I never lied.

 

My kill-hand is called E.V.I.L.

Wears a wedding band that's G.O.O.D.

`Tis a long-suffering shackle

Collaring all that rebel blood.

 

And the mercy seat is waiting

And I think my head is burning

And in a way I'm yearning

To be done with all this measuring of truth.

An eye for an eye

And a tooth for a tooth

And anyway I told the truth

And I'm not afraid to die.

 

And the mercy seat is burning

And I think my head is glowing

And in a way I'm hoping

To be done with all this weighing up of truth.

An eye for an eye

And a tooth for a tooth

And I've got nothing left to lose

And I'm not afraid to die.

 

And the mercy seat is glowing

And I think my head is smoking

And in a way I'm hoping

To be done with all this looks of disbelief.

An eye for an eye

And a tooth for a tooth

And anyway there was no proof

Nor a motive why.

 

And the mercy seat is smoking

And I think my head is melting

And in a way I'm helping

To be done with all this twisted of the truth.

A lie for a lie

And a truth for a truth

And I've got nothing left to lose

And I'm not afraid to die.

 

And the mercy seat is melting

And I think my blood is boiling

And in a way I'm spoiling

All the fun with all this truth and consequence.

An eye for an eye

And a truth for a truth

And anyway I told the truth

And I'm not afraid to die.

 

And the mercy seat is waiting

And I think my head is burning

And in a way I'm yearning

To be done with all this measuring of proof.

A life for a life

And a truth for a truth

And anyway there was no proof

But I'm not afraid to tell a lie.

 

And the mercy seat is waiting

And I think my head is burning

And in a way I'm yearning

To be done with all this measuring of truth.

An eye for an eye

And a truth for a truth

And anyway I told the truth

But I'm afraid I told a lie.

[Stu Monty]

This is one that hits the spot. Ben Folds song about his mate Elliott Smith, after he had killed himself. It's pretty simple but I think that kind of adds to the beauty of it.

 

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Under some dirty words on a dirty wall

Eating takeout by myself

I played the shows

Got back in the van and put the Walkman on

And you were playing

 

In some other dive a thousand miles away

I played a thousand times before

And like pathetic stars, the truck stops and the rock club walls

I always knew

You saw them too

But you never will again

 

It's too late

Don't you know

It's been too late

For a long time

 

Elliott, man, you played a fine guitar

And some dirty basketball

The songs you wrote

Got me through a lot

Just wanna tell you that

 

But it's too late

It's too late

No, don't you know

it's been too late

for a long time

 

Oh no

Things were looking up

Least that's what I heard

Oh no

Someone came and washed away your hard-earned

Peace of mind

 

When desperate static beats the silence up

A quiet truth to calm you down

The songs you wrote

Got me through a lot

Just wanna tell you that

 

But it's too late

It's too late

No, don't you know

It's been too late

For a long time

It's too late

It's too late

No, don't you know

It's been too late

For a long time

[King Emlyn]

I've always loved that song.

[Stu Monty]

I've always loved that song.

 

Which one? Cave or Folds?

 

The mercy seat is a great shout for powerful lyrics, Cave s a bit of a fucking genius when it comes to lyrics. Into my arms is wonderful and so is There she goes my beautiful world

[King Emlyn]

Which one? Cave or Folds?

 

The mercy seat is a great shout for powerful lyrics, Cave s a bit of a fucking genius when it comes to lyrics. Into my arms is wonderful and so is There she goes my beautiful world

I was referring to Folds. Funnily enough though I'm just starting to listen to Nick Cave, he's one that's passed me by somehow. What do you recommend by him? there would appear to be a lot to wade through.

[Stu Monty]

I was referring to Folds. Funnily enough though I'm just starting to listen to Nick Cave, he's one that's passed me by somehow. What do you recommend by him? there would appear to be a lot to wade through.

 

I'd get the double album he released in 2004: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. I'd never really been into him that much and it was that album that completely bowled me over, it's awesome.

 

This is from it, and, for me, is as good a performance as has ever been on Jools. I love the backing vocals, they are brilliant.

 

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The album also features the line: "I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed, I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand". Magic.

 

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[King Emlyn]

Thanks. I'm liking what I'm hearing from him so far.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

A couple of perspectives on mortality.

 

"Life's good... but not fair at all."

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"The sun doesn't go down. It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round."

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[robbiefowler9]

"The sun doesn't go down. It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round."

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Love Flaming Lips. Great band. Funnily enough, it was that song that got me into them.

[VladimirIlyich]

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This town, is coming like a ghost town

All the clubs have been closed down

This place, is coming like a ghost town

Bands won't play no more

too much fighting on the dance floor

 

Do you remember the good old days

Before the ghost town?

We danced and sang,

And the music played inna de boomtown

 

This town, is coming like a ghost town

Why must the youth fight against themselves?

Government leaving the youth on the shelf

This place, is coming like a ghost town

No job to be found in this country

Can't go on no more

The people getting angry

 

This town, is coming like a ghost town

This town, is coming like a ghost town

This town, is coming like a ghost town

This town, is coming like a ghost town

[VladimirIlyich]

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I am the one in ten

A number on a list

I am the one in ten

Even though I don`t exist

Nobody Knows me

But I`m always there

A statistical reminder

Of a world that doesn`t care

 

Saxophone Solo

 

My arms enfold the dole queue

Malnutrition dulls my hair

My eyes are black and lifeless

With an underprivileged stare

I`m the beggar on the corner

Will no-one spare a dime?

I`m the child that never learns to read

`Cause no-one spared the time

 

 

(Chorus)

 

I am the one in ten .... etc

 

Saxophone Solo

 

I`m the murderer and the victim

The licence with the gun

I`m a sad and bruised old lady

In an ally in a slum

I`m a middle aged businessman

With chronic heart disease

I`m another teenaged suicide

In a street that has no trees

 

 

(Chorus)

 

I am the one in ten .... etc

 

Saxophone Solo

 

I`m a starving third world mother

A refugee without a home

I`m a house wife hooked on Valium

I`m a Pensioner alone

I`m a cancer ridden spectre

Discovering the earth

I`m another hungry baby

I`m an accident of birth.

[brucespanner]

Not my favourite band by any stretch of the imagination, but there is something quite beautiful lyrically going on.......Maybe it was a point in time/circumstance type thing?

 

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There's no one in town I know

You gave us some place to go.

I never said thank you for that.

I thought I might get one more chance.

What would you think of me now,

so lucky, so strong, so proud?

I never said thank you for that,

now I'll never have a chance.

May angels lead you in.

Hear you me my friends.

On sleepless roads the sleepless go.

May angels lead you in.

So what would you think of me now,

so lucky, so strong, so proud?

I never said thank you for that,

now I'll never have a chance.

May angels lead you in.

Hear you me my friends.

On sleepless roads the sleepless go.

May angels lead you in.

May angels lead you in.

May angels lead you in.

And if you were with me tonight,

I'd sing to you just one more time.

A song for a heart so big,

god wouldn't let it live.

May angels lead you in.

Hear you me my friends.

On sleepless roads the sleepless go.

May angels lead you in.

May angels lead you in.

Hear you me my friends.

On sleepless roads the sleepless go.

May angels lead you in.

May angels lead you in.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I keep reading the thread title as "Powerful Songs - Wise Words"

 

Continuing that theme, here are some words we can all live by.

 

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[Lee909]

Can't post the YouTube kinky on my phone but this is a great Song with a great story

 

Warren Haynes

Indian Sunset

 

As I awoke this evening with the smell of wood smoke clinging

Like a gentle cobweb hanging upon a painted teepee

Oh I went to see my chieftain with my warlance and my woman

For he told us that the yellow moon would very soon be leaving

This I can't believe I said, I can't believe our warlord's dead

Oh he would not leave the chosen ones to the buzzards and the soldiers guns

Oh great father of the Iroquois ever since I was young

I've read the writing of the smoke and breast fed on the sound of drums

I've learned to hurl the tomahawk and ride a painted pony wild

To run the gauntlet of the Sioux, to make a chieftain's daughter mine

And now you ask that I should watch

The red man's race be slowly crushed

What kind of words are these to hear

From Yellow Dog whom white man fears

I take only what is mine Lord, my pony, my squaw, and my child

I can't stay to see you die along with my tribe's pride

I go to search for the yellow moon and the fathers of our sons

Where the red sun sinks in the hills of gold and the healing waters run

Trampling down the prairie rose leaving hoof tracks in the sand

Those who wish to follow me I welcome with my hands

I heard from passing renegades Geronimo was dead

He'd been laying down his weapons when they filled him full of lead

Now there seems no reason why I should carry on

In this land that once was my land I can't find a home

It's lonely and it's quiet and the horse soldiers are coming

And I think it's time I strung my bow and ceased my senseless running

For soon I'll find the yellow moon along with my loved ones

Where the buffaloes graze in clover fields without the sound of guns

And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold

And peace to this young warrior comes with a bullet hole

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Boom shake the room, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh prince, not only did the lyrics entail wild stories of bombs and genouicde but it paved the way for anew era of music.

[AVEEZ]

Cats in the Cradle..

 

My child arrived just the other day;

Came to the world in the usually way

But there were planes to catch and bills to pay.

He learned to walk while I was away.

He was talkin' 'fore I knew it.

And as he grew he said,

"I'm gonna be like you, Dad.

You know I'm gonna be like you."

 

Chorus :

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,

Little boy blue and the man on the moon.

"When you comin' home ?"

"Son, I don't know when.

We'll get together then.

You know we'll have a good time then."

 

Well, my son turned ten just the other day.

He said , "Thanks for the ball, Dad. Come on, let's play.

Could you teach me to throw ?" I said, "Not today.

I got a lot to do." He said, "That's okay."

And he walked away and he smiled and he said,

"You know,

I'm gonna be like him, yeah.

You know I'm gonna be like him."

 

Chorus

 

Well, he came from college just the other day,

So much like a man I just had to say,

"I'm proud of you. Could you sit for a while ?"

He shook his head and he said with a smile,

"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

See you later. Can I have them please ?"

 

Chorus :

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,

Little boy blue and the man on the moon.

"When you comin home, Son ?"

"I don't know when.

We'll get together then.

You know we'll have a good time then."

 

I've long since retired, my son's moved away.

I called him up just the other day.

"I'd like to see you, if you dont mind."

He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I could find the time.

You see my new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu,

But it's sure nice talkin' to you, Dad.

It's been sure nice talkin' to you."

 

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me,

He'd grown up just like me.

My boy was just like me.

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

 

Chorus

[Cliff T. Beast]

Wacko Jacko Hearrt Attacko by Pork Trousers

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Neil Young - The Restless Consumer

 

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The people have heard the news

The people have spoken

You may not like what they said

But they weren't jokin'

 

Way out on the desert sands

Lies a desperate lover

They call her the "Queen of Oil"

So much to discover

 

Don't need no ad machine

Telling me what I need

Don't need no Madison Avenue War

Don't need no more boxes I can see

 

Covered in flags but I can't see them on TV

 

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

 

The restless consumer flies

Around the world each day

With such an appetite for taste and grace

 

People from around the world

Need someone to listen

We're starving and dying from our disease

We need your medicine

How do you pay for war

And leave us dyin' ?

When you could do so much more

You're not even tryin'

 

Don't need no TV ad

Tellin' me how sick I am

Don't want to know how many people are like me

Don't need no dizziness

Don't need no nausea

Don't need no side effects like diarrhea or sexual death

 

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

 

The restless consumer lies

Asleep in her hotel

With such an appetite

For anything that sells

 

A hundred voices from a hundred lands

Need someone to listen

People are dying here and there

They don't see the world the way you do

There's no mission accomplished here

Just death to thousands

 

A hundred voices from a hundred lands

Cry out in unison

 

Don't need no terror squad

Don't want no damned Jihad

Blowin' themselves away in my hood

But we don't talk to them

So we don't learn from them

Hate don't negotiate with Good

 

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

Don't need no more lies

 

The restless comsumer flies

Around the world each day

With such an appetite for efficiency

And pace...

 

Don't need no more lies.

[SCOUSE TAPAS]

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"The Post War Dream"

 

tell me true tell me why was Jesus crucified

is it for this that daddy died?

was it for you? was it me?

did i watch too much t.v.?

is that a hint of accusation in your eyes?

if it wasn't for the nips

being so good at building ships

the yards would still be open on the clyde

and it can't be much fun for them

beneath the rising sun

with all their kids committing suicide

what have we done maggie what have we done

what have we done to england

should we shout should we scream

"what happened to the post war dream?"

oh maggie maggie what have we done?

[VladimirIlyich]

Cats in the Cradle..

 

My child arrived just the other day;

Came to the world in the usually way

But there were planes to catch and bills to pay.

He learned to walk while I was away.

He was talkin' 'fore I knew it.

And as he grew he said,

"I'm gonna be like you, Dad.

You know I'm gonna be like you."

 

Chorus :

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,

Little boy blue and the man on the moon.

"When you comin' home ?"

"Son, I don't know when.

We'll get together then.

You know we'll have a good time then."

 

Well, my son turned ten just the other day.

He said , "Thanks for the ball, Dad. Come on, let's play.

Could you teach me to throw ?" I said, "Not today.

I got a lot to do." He said, "That's okay."

And he walked away and he smiled and he said,

"You know,

I'm gonna be like him, yeah.

You know I'm gonna be like him."

 

Chorus

 

Well, he came from college just the other day,

So much like a man I just had to say,

"I'm proud of you. Could you sit for a while ?"

He shook his head and he said with a smile,

"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

See you later. Can I have them please ?"

 

Chorus :

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,

Little boy blue and the man on the moon.

"When you comin home, Son ?"

"I don't know when.

We'll get together then.

You know we'll have a good time then."

 

I've long since retired, my son's moved away.

I called him up just the other day.

"I'd like to see you, if you dont mind."

He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I could find the time.

You see my new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu,

But it's sure nice talkin' to you, Dad.

It's been sure nice talkin' to you."

 

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me,

He'd grown up just like me.

My boy was just like me.

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)

 

Chorus

 

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There you go Aveez.

[Ian Beales Gut]

Dickie Davis Eyes lyrics

 

Mention the Lord of the Rings one more time

And I'll more than likely kill you.

"More cock, more cock, Michael, more cock" you fervently moan.

Is this a wok that you've shoved down my throat,

Or are you just pleased to see me?

Brian Moore's head looks uncannily like London Planetarium.

 

Chorus:

And all those people

Who you, romantically,

Like to still believe are alive,

Are dead!

[. From: DICKIE DAVIS EYES Lyrics - HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT .]

So I'll wipe my snots

On the arm of your chair

As you put another wretched Dean poster

On the wall.

 

God, I could murder a Cadbury's Flake

but then I guess you wouldn't let me into heaven.

Or maybe you would cos their adverts promote oral sex!

A Romany bint in a field with her paints,

Suggesting we faint at her beauty,

But she's got "Dickie Davis Eyes!"

 

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