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This is the third exact same thread in the last few hours.

Anyway, this hour I will pick Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), and I'll just pull out a section since I guess it's too long to fit it all. (that's what she said)

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Advertising signs they con

You into thinking you’re the one

That can do what’s never been done

That can win what’s never been won

Meantime life outside goes on

All around you

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You lose yourself, you reappear

You suddenly find you got nothing to fear

Alone you stand with nobody near

When a trembling distant voice, unclear

Startles your sleeping ears to hear

That somebody thinks they really found you

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A question in your nerves is lit

Yet you know there is no answer fit

To satisfy, insure you not to quit

To keep it in your mind and not forget

That it is not he or she or them or it

That you belong to

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Although the masters make the rules

For the wise men and the fools

I got nothing, Ma, to live up to

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For them that must obey authority

That they do not respect in any degree

Who despise their jobs, their destinies

Speak jealously of them that are free

Cultivate their flowers to be

Nothing more than something they invest in

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While some on principles baptized

To strict party platform ties

Social clubs in drag disguise

Outsiders they can freely criticize

Tell nothing except who to idolize

And then say God bless him

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While one who sings with his tongue on fire

Gargles in the rat race choir

Bent out of shape from society’s pliers

Cares not to come up any higher

But rather get you down in the hole

That he’s in

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But I mean no harm nor put fault

On anyone that lives in a vault

But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him

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Old lady judges watch people in pairs

Limited in sex, they dare

To push fake morals, insult and stare

While money doesn’t talk, it swears

Obscenity, who really cares

Propaganda, all is phony

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While them that defend what they cannot see

With a killer’s pride, security

It blows the minds most bitterly

For them that think death’s honesty

Won’t fall upon them naturally

Life sometimes must get lonely

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My eyes collide head-on with stuffed

Graveyards, false gods, I scuff

At pettiness which plays so rough

Walk upside-down inside handcuffs

Kick my legs to crash it off

Say okay, I have had enough

what else can you show me?

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And if my thought-dreams could be seen

They’d probably put my head in a guillotine

But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only

I’ve been on an Arctic Monkeys kick lately…really like the lyrics, with the music, of My Propeller

Heart Shaped Box by The Crest

La laaaa... la la la laaaaa... la la la laaaaaaa. la la laaaa.

With the cards in my heart you can't call the bluff, I'm workin hard on my part, still starvin... What, Can you say about a person when thats all he does? I'm OJ with the verse and leave a wall of blood. You can't say I'm not determined, you can call the bluff. Music's like churches to all of us. Problems will surface in all of us. So come out with your purpose and a start a fuss.

And I might not know the people you do, Or hang in crowds you might expect me to. So please excuse this, my need to do this Trumps all else so I pump the music. And I'm not just here to blow my own horn And I'm not just here to make my money I'm just here cuz a heart don't fit in a box And that's what you can't take from me.

Take a turn like your blinker's on. From the burn and learn to forget the storm. Whether you're curds or serbs, rooks, kings or pawns. You deserve to get hurt for the things you fought... yup, yup For the things you sought, You deserve to be certain in the things there are You can serve to a sermon to pimp your car Long as you determine the things too far

I can make like a raven and watch, All the fakes as I prey on the flock. I'm in a place I can say what I want All within this heart shaped box... All within this heart shaped box

This is livin' the right verse, writin' to live. Where... Fit'n in the finish is the name of the biz.ness. Heart's the reason I don't give up and quit. Its all to stop me from not givin' a shit. So... I play the hand thats been handed to me. Got... To hold it down or I can't set it free. Not... Gonna sound like the next emcee, Rest in peace, You see the crest within me, yah

Tim McGraw's ...? Singin' songs 'bout my life and my girl in the bar. In the middle of a song I got the world in my palm. And I eat it bit by bit, 'til I...? Yeah More spit than the mouth of a dog, On the couch with a ball, chillin after the haul. Yo an anthill to most is a mountain to crawl. Cuz us Americans will never get outta our cars

Here's proof of a pulse, A movement a cause. A room with a view for you to view all. He's got troops in the gulf while we cruise in our cars. Little loops like a belt, there we go, here we are This is grass roots for fast food And I just can't think at the take of a spot. So whether I make it or not I'm gonna take up space in this heart shaped box

I can make like a raven and watch, All the fakes as I prey on the flock. I'm in a place I can say what I want All within this heart shaped box

Not afraid to play the hand that I got, When I'm facin' a straight on the flop. Go against the grain, claim ya spot, All within this heart shaped box... All within this heart shaped box

Never did I once think, That life amounts to one thing, But when you die, it's one thing That turns your life into nothing.

And lookin' back on the past through the rear defrost. Never thought I would last so I peered across. And now with? in the clear, now the fear is lost. Cuz what's happenin' here is the beat of hearts.

So, until somethings proven I'm losing, Faith in whatever they're doing. Won't take two steps in the movement, If my two cents is useless. What's bent can't bent in my juices. Not content with the trends in my music. Got my pen that's my friend and I move it. To make sense outta all the confusion. Yea, we need to start a revolution. Dedicated to makin' major improvements. Dedicated to flaggin' fakers as foolish. Dedicated to takin' down the rulers. Dedicated to seein' through illusions. Dedicated to beein' who you is. Dedicated to makin' the new blueprints. That are forever depicted as trueness.

I can make like a raven and watch, All the fakes as I prey on the flock. I'm in a place I can say what I want All within this heart shaped box

Not afraid to play the hand that I got, When I'm facin' a straight on the flop. Go against the grain, claim ya spot, All within this heart shaped box... All within this heart shaped box

Korn- Falling Away from Me. That's one of the first ones that popped in my head.

Hey, I'm feeling tired My time, is gone today You flirt with suicide Sometimes, that's okay.

Heart Shaped Box by The Crest

La laaaa... la la la laaaaa... la la la laaaaaaa. la la laaaa.

With the cards in my heart you can't call the bluff, I'm workin hard on my part, still starvin... What, Can you say about a person when thats all he does? I'm OJ with the verse and leave a wall of blood. You can't say I'm not determined, you can call the bluff. Music's like churches to all of us. Problems will surface in all of us. So come out with your purpose and a start a fuss.

And I might not know the people you do, Or hang in crowds you might expect me to. So please excuse this, my need to do this Trumps all else so I pump the music. And I'm not just here to blow my own horn And I'm not just here to make my money I'm just here cuz a heart don't fit in a box And that's what you can't take from me.

Take a turn like your blinker's on. From the burn and learn to forget the storm. Whether you're curds or serbs, rooks, kings or pawns. You deserve to get hurt for the things you fought... yup, yup For the things you sought, You deserve to be certain in the things there are You can serve to a sermon to pimp your car Long as you determine the things too far

I can make like a raven and watch, All the fakes as I prey on the flock. I'm in a place I can say what I want All within this heart shaped box... All within this heart shaped box

This is livin' the right verse, writin' to live. Where... Fit'n in the finish is the name of the biz.ness. Heart's the reason I don't give up and quit. Its all to stop me from not givin' a shit. So... I play the hand thats been handed to me. Got... To hold it down or I can't set it free. Not... Gonna sound like the next emcee, Rest in peace, You see the crest within me, yah

Tim McGraw's ...? Singin' songs 'bout my life and my girl in the bar. In the middle of a song I got the world in my palm. And I eat it bit by bit, 'til I...? Yeah More spit than the mouth of a dog, On the couch with a ball, chillin after the haul. Yo an anthill to most is a mountain to crawl. Cuz us Americans will never get outta our cars

Here's proof of a pulse, A movement a cause. A room with a view for you to view all. He's got troops in the gulf while we cruise in our cars. Little loops like a belt, there we go, here we are This is grass roots for fast food And I just can't think at the take of a spot. So whether I make it or not I'm gonna take up space in this heart shaped box

I can make like a raven and watch, All the fakes as I prey on the flock. I'm in a place I can say what I want All within this heart shaped box

Not afraid to play the hand that I got, When I'm facin' a straight on the flop. Go against the grain, claim ya spot, All within this heart shaped box... All within this heart shaped box

Never did I once think, That life amounts to one thing, But when you die, it's one thing That turns your life into nothing.

And lookin' back on the past through the rear defrost. Never thought I would last so I peered across. And now with? in the clear, now the fear is lost. Cuz what's happenin' here is the beat of hearts.

So, until somethings proven I'm losing, Faith in whatever they're doing. Won't take two steps in the movement, If my two cents is useless. What's bent can't bent in my juices. Not content with the trends in my music. Got my pen that's my friend and I move it. To make sense outta all the confusion. Yea, we need to start a revolution. Dedicated to makin' major improvements. Dedicated to flaggin' fakers as foolish. Dedicated to takin' down the rulers. Dedicated to seein' through illusions. Dedicated to beein' who you is. Dedicated to makin' the new blueprints. That are forever depicted as trueness.

I can make like a raven and watch, All the fakes as I prey on the flock. I'm in a place I can say what I want All within this heart shaped box

Not afraid to play the hand that I got, When I'm facin' a straight on the flop. Go against the grain, claim ya spot, All within this heart shaped box... All within this heart shaped box

Pink Floyd - Time

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain

You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

I really love a lotto lyrics with a meaning, but lately I think I would say this one

https://youtu.be/GH85Cw6d_qc

Dave Wright - A Missing Page

Alex Turner is very poetic. He has a degree in English Literature and it shows.

I liked There Better Be A Mirrorball too

Natural Science By Rush. Rush has some amazing lyrics throughout their catalog but the opening lyrics to this song have helped me understand why people are the way they are sometimes.

“When the ebbing tide retreats along the rocky shoreline It leaves a trail of tide pools in a short-lived galaxy Each microcosmic planet, a complete society A simple kind of mirror to reflect upon our own All the busy little creatures chasing out their destinies Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea”

RIP Neil

I always enjoy narrative tales, like:

• Steeleye Span's version of Tam Lin

• Martin Carthy's Famous Flower of Serving Men

• Fotheringay's Banks of the Nile

• Richard Thompson's 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

All the stories of our parents are falling apart All the lies told to protect us And keep from breaking our hearts

There's a secret in the basement I can hear it through the floor I don't think this heart can take The weight of deception anymore. Cry out in bitter agony For the broken memories and Things I thought I'd never be

Desolation Row- but sung and played by The Grateful Dead

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Guarantees by atmosphere is a theme song for my life

Second Coming by Alice Cooper (the BAND, c.1971)

I couldn't tell if the bells were getting louder

Or songs they ring I finally recognized

I only know Hell is getting hotter, devil’s getting smarter all the time

And it would be nice to walk upon the water, to talk again to angels on my side

Time is getting closer, I read it on a poster, fanatical exposers on corners prophesize

And it would be nice to walk upon the water, to talk again to angels on my side

I just come back to show you all my words are golden

So have no gods before me, I'm the light!

I don't know that it's the "best" lyrics I've ever heard, but Brand New's "The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot" has a lot of lyrics that tend to pop in my head a lot.

You are the smell before rain, you are the blood in my veins..