Greatest Rock and roll lyrics in history

[Rah55]

I'll go with

I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer
Because the future's uncertain and the end is always near

Jim Morrison & the Doors

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Or maybe

The sound that you're hearing is only the sound of the low spark of high heeled boys

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[Lochton]

Wrong forum, so moving the thread to it's right home.

Please take notice to where you are posting next time, thank you.

- Gehco

[Gallahadd]

People are Strange, when you're a stranger. Faces look ugly when you're alone.

Jim Morrison & The Doors. People are Strange

To be honest... That man was a fucking poet, you could pick almost any Doors lyrics and they'd be a winner.

Also:

You're a microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan, designed and directed by his Red Right Hand

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Red Right Hand. Again the whole song is outstanding, lyrics dripping in meaning, but that is a particularly fine example.

[eschatological]

You run and you run to catch up with the sun,
but it's sinking...
racing around, to come up behind you again.

The sun is the same, in a relative way,
but you're older...
shorter of breath, one day closer to death.

Pink Floyd, "Time"

Almost everyone of their songs is an epic poem.

[apepi]

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen, it is really great.
"Mama, ooh, Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters "

Imagine- John Lennon
"You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one"

Welcome to the Jungle - GUNS N' ROSES

"Welcome to the jungle
It get's worse here everyday
Ya learn to live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me"

Pink Floyd, "Time"

I love this song, It is very good for testing your sound system.

[Feali]

What counts as "Rock and Roll"?
If we just generally go with "greatest Rock lyrics" I would have to go with a rather new yet already broken up band called Conditions and their song "Comfort Far Away":

Show me I'm
Capable of great things
Tell me I
Haven't wasted my body

Help me out
Allow me to truly exist
Guide me out
'Cause I know I'm better than this

When I sleep, when I dream
Does somebody
Take control of me

When I sleep, when I dream
Does someone else
Take control of my body

[Senathor]

What counts as "Rock and Roll"?
If we just generally go with "greatest Rock lyrics" I would have to go with a rather new yet already broken up band called Conditions and their song "Comfort Far Away":

Show me I'm
Capable of great things
Tell me I
Haven't wasted my body

Help me out
Allow me to truly exist
Guide me out
'Cause I know I'm better than this

When I sleep, when I dream
Does somebody
Take control of me

When I sleep, when I dream
Does someone else
Take control of my body

Why did you pick those lyrics? They don't seem very special to me. I don't get it.

[vep]

Are we talking strictly rock 'n' roll or can we include metal, too?
I'm not much into rock 'n' roll but currently these lyrics mean much to me

She's got a smile it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I'd stare too long
I'd probably break down and cry

[Mordin Solus]

a lot like me - offspring

How does it feel?
When you have it all?
How can you live?
With nothing at all?

Where do you run?
Where do you go?
When the holes in your truth
Are starting to show?

And the rain comes
And the world is on my head
Crave the sun
But I can’t get out of bed

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Pretty much anything from CCR really. John Fogerty is a boss.

[Pum]

Do you ever feel, like a plastic bag?

[Feali]

Why did you pick those lyrics? They don't seem very special to me. I don't get it.

The lyrics are about escaping reality. But they also ask if it's the right choice to always escape and get worn out rather than facing the problems of real life. It's also about not giving up and searching for the better part of yourself.

[Dellis0991]

Soundgarden-Burden in my hand

Follow me into the desert
As thirsty as you are
Crack a smile and cut your mouth
and drown in alcohol

or...

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood-Pentacostal

Down so long now Jesus
You know I been down so long
Far turned out and freezing
Won't you carry my body home

This is why I came
To live a life in a day
With a fire in my head

Who's got the keys to the workhouse?
Satan has locked the door
Got no wings to take us
Up off of that killing floor

Is this why you came?
To handle a snake
And wear a new starry crown

There's no phoenix rising
To a mansion up on the hill
This albatross I'm riding
Is a train just standing still

This is how I came
With a stench and a stain
To be washed in the blood

[SageKalzi]

Probably some of the best lyrics.

Really though, probably some of the better lyrics are in this.



all i ever did was look up to you
and if all i ever did was let, let you down
ain't nothing stopping me now.
was it everything you hoped for?
was it all of that and more?
too much too soon?
or too good to be true?
was it everything you hoped for?
was it all of that and more?

Basically, he looked up to a friend of his and his friend "abandoned" him because he thought everyone was holding him back. That's his side at least.

[Eviscero]

The lyrics are about escaping reality. But they also ask if it's the right choice to always escape and get worn out rather than facing the problems of real life. It's also about not giving up and searching for the better part of yourself.

Those lyrics resonate with you, but are not very special or beautifully/uniquely crafted.

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Gojira - Born in Winter

Before all things reborn again
You learn the painful breath of time
Cold mourning stretches out your arms
To the mighty warmth of the golden sun
Seem all have gone insane for gold
All was created out of the night
We're all born from the burst of a star
The day you'll come to life you'll realize
Expanding force to life where you belong
And in the winter cold, with opened eyes
You'll find the strength to fight and stand upright
One day you'll walk the world and keep in mind
The heart you've been given in winter time
And through the bitter cold, with opened eyes
You'll find the strength to fight and stand upright

[Adam Jensen]

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune,
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long,
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pPvNqOb6RA

[icausewipes]

Neil Young

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she's done to it
There's one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.

[Mooster]

"Wish You Were Here"

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

"Echoes"

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine

And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the where's or why's
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can
And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks
And no one tries
No one flies around the sun

Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky.

"Us And Them"

Us and Them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
And the General sat, as the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it's only round and round and round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside
Down and Out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With, without
And who'll deny that's what the fightings all about
Get out of the way, it's a busy day
And I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died

All by Pink Floyd inc.

[Kraenen]

A few songs by Rush come to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf8jvSPA3XQ - Subdivisions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63eixpYRWk - Limelight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOyQhgM1FU - Free Will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ84JkYDa3U - Spirit of the Radio

All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question of your honesty, yeah
Your honesty
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity