Favorite Song Lyrics

[AndrewX]

Moody Blues - Dawn: Dawn Is A Feeling
(From Days of Future Passed)

Dawn is a feeling
A beautiful ceiling
The smell of grass
Just makes you pass
Into a dream

You're here today
No future fears
This day will last
A thousand years
If you want it to

You look around you
Things they astound you
So breathe in deep
You're not asleep
Open your mind

You're here today
No future fears
This day will last
A thousand years
If you want it to

Do you understand
That all over this land
There's a feeling
In minds far and near
Things are becoming clear
With a meaning

Now that you're knowing
Pleasure starts flowing
It's true life flies
Faster than eyes
Could ever see

You're here today
No future fears
This day will last
A thousand years
If you want it to

[juantoo3]

If You Wanna Get To Heaven
(Steve Cash / John Dillon)
(performed by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils)


I never read it in a book
I never saw it on a show
but I heard it in the alley
on a weird radio
if you want a drink of water
you got to get it from a well
if you want to get to heaven
you got to raise a little hell

I never felt it in my feet
I never felt it in my soul
but I heard it the alley
now it's in my rock and roll
if you want to know a secret
you got to promise not to tell
if you want to get to heaven
you got to raise a little hell

I never thought it'd be so easy
I never thought it'd be so fun
but I heard it in the alley
now I got it on the run
if you want to see an angel
you got to find it where it fell
if you want to get to heaven
you got to raise a little hell

[juantoo3]

(Ghost) Riders in the Sky
Johnny Cash


An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw
A-plowing through the ragged sky and up the cloudy draw

Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel
Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel
A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky
For he saw the Riders coming hard and he heard their mournful cry

Yippie yi Ohhhhh
Yippie yi yaaaaay
Ghost Riders in the sky

Their faces gaunt, their eyes were blurred, their shirts all soaked with sweat
He's riding hard to catch that herd, but he ain't caught 'em yet
'Cause they've got to ride forever on that range up in the sky
On horses snorting fire
As they ride on hear their cry

As the riders loped on by him he heard one call his name
If you want to save your soul from Hell a-riding on our range
Then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride
Trying to catch the Devil's herd, across these endless skies

Yippie yi Ohhhhh
Yippie yi Yaaaaay

Ghost Riders in the sky
Ghost Riders in the sky
Ghost Riders in the sky

*I realize the purists (prudists?) may cringe, but I prefer the version performed by The Outlaws

[juantoo3]

Feel Like A Number
Words and music by Bob Seger

I take my card and I stand in line
To make a buck I work overtime
Dear sir letters keep coming in the mail
I work my back till its racked with pain
The boss cant even recall my name
I show up late and Im docked
It never fails
I feel like just another
Spoke in a great big wheel
Like a tiny blade of grass
In a great big field
To workers Im just another drone
To ma bell Im just another phone
Im just another statistic on a sheet
To teachers Im just another child
To irs Im just another file
Im just another consensus on the street
Gonna cruise out of this city
Head down to the sea
Gonna shout out at the ocean
Hey its me
And I feel like a number
Feel like a number
Feel like a stranger
A stranger in this land
I feel like a number
Im not a number
Im not a number
Dammit Im a man
I said Im a man

*this is the song behind my screen name.

[InLove]

Well, now, I just can't resist doing this. I really can't say it is one of my favorites, but it's a good ghost story, and since we've had a bit of country flavour lately....forgive me...


Breakfast in Hell
Slaid Cleaves

In the melting snows of Ontario where the wind'll make you shiver
'Twas the month of May up in Georgian Bay near the mouth of the Musquash River
Where the bears prowl and the coyotes howl and you can hear the osprey scream
Back in '99 we were cutting pine and sending it down the stream

Young Sandy Gray came to Go Home Bay all the way from P.E.I.
Where the weather's rough and it makes you tough, no man's afraid to die
Sandy came a smilin', thirty thousand islands was the place to claim his glory
Now Sandy's gone but his name lives on - this is Sandy's story

Young Sandy Gray lives on today in the echoes of a mighty yell
Listen close and you'll hear a ghost in this story that I tell, boys
This story that I tell....

Now Sandy Gray was the boss of the men who'd toss the trees onto the shore
They'd come and go 'til they'd built a floe 100,000 logs or more
And he'd ride 'em down toward Severn Sound to cut 'em up in the mills for timber
And ships would haul spring summer and fall 'til the ice came in December

One Sabbath Day big Sandy Gray came into camp with a peavey on his shoulder
With a thundercrack he dropped his axe and the room got a little bit colder
Said "Come on all you, we got work to do--we gotta give'er all we can give 'er
There's a jam of logs at the little jog near the mouth of the Musquash River"

With no time to pray on the Lord's day, they were hoping for God's forgiveness
But the jam was high in a troubled sky and they set out about their business
They poked with poles and ran with the rolls and tried to stay on their feet
Every trick they tried, one man cried "This log jam's got us beat!"

But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell
I'll be damned, we'll break this jam, or it's breakfast in Hell, boys
Breakfast in Hell!

Now every one of the men did the work of ten and Sandy scrambled up to the top
He was working like a dog heaving 30 foot logs and it looked like he'd never stop
They struggled on, these men so strong, 'til the jam began to sway
Then they dove for cover to the banks of the river, all except for Sandy Gray

Now with thoughts of death they held their breath as they saw their friend go down
They all knew in a second or two he'd be crushed or frozen or drowned
They saw him fall and they heard him call, just once and then it was over
Young Sandy Gray gave his life that day near the mouth of the Musquash River

But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell
"I'll be damned, we'll break this jam, or it's breakfast in Hell, boys
Breakfast in Hell....

East of Giant's Tomb there's plenty of room, there's no fences and no walls
And if you listen close you'll hear a ghost down by Sandy Gray Falls
Through the tops of the trees you'll hear in the breeze the echoes of a mighty yell
"I'll be damned, we'll break this jam, or it's breakfast in Hell, boys
Breakfast in Hell!"

[InLove]

Well, this is a poem, of course, but I'm sure somewhere along the way, someone has set it to music. Maybe I'll follow up with a little more Cash & Company.

The Highwayman
Alfred Noyes

The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding--
Riding--riding--
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door.

He'd a French cocked hat on his forehead, and a bunch of lace at his chin;
He'd a coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of fine doe-skin.
They fitted with never a wrinkle; his boots were up to his thigh!
And he rode with a jeweled twinkle--
His rapier hilt a-twinkle--
His pistol butts a-twinkle, under the jeweled sky.

Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard,
He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred,
He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter--
Bess, the landlord's daughter--
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

Dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked
Where Tim, the ostler listened--his face was white and peaked--
His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay,
But he loved the landlord's daughter--
The landlord's black-eyed daughter;
Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say:

"One kiss, my bonny sweetheart; I'm after a prize tonight,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light.
Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way."

He stood upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand,
But she loosened her hair in the casement! His face burnt like a brand
As the sweet black waves of perfume came tumbling o'er his breast,
Then he kissed its waves in the moonlight
(O sweet black waves in the moonlight!),
And he tugged at his reins in the moonlight, and galloped away to the west.

He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon.
And out of the tawny sunset, before the rise of the moon,
When the road was a gypsy's ribbon over the purple moor,
The redcoat troops came marching--
Marching--marching--
King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.

They said no word to the landlord; they drank his ale instead,
But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed.
Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets by their side;
There was Death at every window,
And Hell at one dark window,
For Bess could see, through her casement, the road that he would ride.

They had bound her up at attention, with many a sniggering jest!
They had tied a rifle beside her, with the barrel beneath her breast!
"Now keep good watch!" and they kissed her. She heard the dead man say,
"Look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way."

She twisted her hands behind her, but all the knots held good!
She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years,
Till, on the stroke of midnight,
Cold on the stroke of midnight,
The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!

The tip of one finger touched it, she strove no more for the rest;
Up, she stood up at attention, with the barrel beneath her breast.
She would not risk their hearing, she would not strive again,
For the road lay bare in the moonlight,
Blank and bare in the moonlight,
And the blood in her veins, in the moonlight, throbbed to her love's refrain.

Tlot tlot, tlot tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hooves, ringing clear;
Tlot tlot, tlot tlot, in the distance! Were they deaf that they did not hear?
Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill,
The highwayman came riding--
Riding--riding--
The redcoats looked to their priming! She stood up straight and still.

Tlot tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot tlot, in the echoing night!
Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was like a light!
Her eyes grew wide for a moment, she drew one last deep breath,
Then her finger moved in the moonlight--
Her musket shattered the moonlight--
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him--with her death.

He turned, he spurred to the West; he did not know who stood
Bowed, with her head o'er the casement, drenched in her own red blood!
Not till the dawn did he hear it, and his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter,
The landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there.

Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky,
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high!
Blood-red were his spurs in the golden noon, wine-red was his velvet coat
When they shot him down in the highway,
Down like a dog in the highway,
And he lay in his blood in the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.

And still on a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a gypsy's ribbon looping the purple moor,
The highwayman comes riding--
Riding--riding--
The highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.

Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard,
He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred,
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter--
Bess, the landlord's daughter--
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

[17th Angel]

Creed - One.

Affirmative may be justified, take from one, give to another.
The goal is to, be unified take my hand, be my brother...
The payment, silenced the masses, sanctified, by oppression..
Unity took, a back seat sliding further, into regression.

Chorus:

One oh One, the only way is One.
One oh One, the only way is One.
I feel angry, I feel helpless, wanna change the world yeah..
I feel violent I feel alone, don't try and change my mind no..

Society blind by color, why hold down one to raise another???
Discrimination now on both sides seeds of hate, blossom further..
The world is headed for mutiny, when all we want is unity..
We may rise and fall, but in the end, we meet our fate together!

Chorus:

One oh One, the only way is One.
One oh One, the only way is One.
I feel angry I feel helpless, wanna change the world yeah..
I feel violent I feel alone, don't try and change my mind no..
I feel angry I feel helpless, wanna change the world yeah..
I feel violent I feel alone, don't try and change my mind no..

I feel angry I feel helpless, wanna change the world yeah..
I feel violent I feel alone, don't try and change my mind no..
I feel angry I feel helpless, wanna change the world yeah..
I feel violent I feel alone, don't try and change my mind.

[Muslimwoman]

Sorry it's a religious one but I love it, makes me cry.

Make A Prayer

O people
In a hut made of tin and clay
A small boy dreams away
Of clean water and a meal a day
And not to fear mines as he plays each day

O people
Somewhere dark and out of the way
Aids has found yet another prey
To save his life he just couldn’t pay
Tell me what we’re going to do

For our brothers in Durban
For our sisters in Darfur
Show me what we’re going to do
Are we just going to sit there?
Nice and cosy on our armchairs
Will we not even make a prayer?

You might ask yourself
Why should I help these people?
They’ll tell you why
We’re not so different from you
We have dreams just like you
But they were buried with the
bodies of our loved ones

O people
Are we deaf, dumb, and blind?
What is going through our minds?
Don’t we care for the rest of mankind?

O people
We claim to love peace and justice
Why do we preach what we don’t practice?
Let’s help them out of this darkness

Tell me what we’re going to do
For our brothers in Ethiopia
For our sisters in Rwanda
Show me what we’re going to do
Are we just going to sit there?
Nice and cosy on our armchairs
Will we not even make a prayer?

lyrics: Sami Yusuf & Bara Kherigi

[Muslimwoman]

This one is my inspiration when the going gets tough

Free

What goes through your mind?
As you sit there looking at me
Well I can tell from your looks
That you think I’m so oppressed
But I don’t need for you to liberate me

My head is not bare
And you can’t see my covered hair
So you sit there and you stare
And you judge me with your glare
You’re sure I’m in despair
But are you not aware
Under this scarf that I wear
I have feelings, and I do care

CHORUS:
So don’t you see?
That I’m truly free
This piece of scarf on me
I wear so proudly
To preserve my dignity...

My modesty
My integrity
So don’t judge me
Open your eyes and see...
“Why can’t you just accept me?” she says
“Why can’t I just be me?” she says
Time and time again
You speak of democracy
Yet you rob me of my liberty
And all I want is equality
Why can’t you just let me be free?

For you I sing this song
My sister, may you always be strong
From you I’ve learnt so much
How you suffer so much
Yet you forgive those who laugh at you
You walk with no fear
Through the insults you hear
Your wish so sincere
That they’d understand you
But before you walk away
This time you turn and say:

But don’t you see?
That I’m truly free
This piece of scarf on me
I wear so proudly
To preserve my dignity
My modesty
My integrity
So let me be
She says with a smile
I’m the one who’s free

lyrics: Sami Yusuf & Bara Kherigi

[17th Angel]

Bette Midler - Wind beneath my wings.

Ohhhh, oh, oh, oh, ohhh.
It must have been cold there in my shadow,
to never have sunlight on your face.
You were content to let me shine, that's your way.
You always walked a step behind.

So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name for so long.
A beautiful smile to hide the pain.

Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings.

It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
but I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it.
I would be nothing without you.

Did you ever know that you're my hero?
You're everything I wish I could be.
I could fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings.

Did I ever tell you you're my hero?
You're everything, everything I wish I could be.
Oh, and I, I could fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

Oh, the wind beneath my wings.
You, you, you, you are the wind beneath my wings.
Fly, fly, fly away. You let me fly so high.
Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings.
Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings.

Fly, fly, fly high against the sky,
so high I almost touch the sky.
Thank you, thank you,
thank God for you, the wind beneath my wings.

[17th Angel]

Insane Clown Posse - Walk into the Darkness..

In the name of the witch I cut the head off a mule I gutted it, i Put it on and then I wore it to school that ain't the only thing I wore. I wore a clip and some rounds a ___ killa with this mule head and i'm clippin 'em down because i'm all outta choices and my voice is unheard you and your boys get the worst I aim you forehead it burst. I'm evil. Fires in my sky. I see no diamonds it's true. aim for your guts and blow your breakfast out behind you. I'm one with the darkness.

Walk into the darkness a place for those who chose to give a ____less
Wicked dark and heartless we keep it nutty and bloody for everbody here
I'm going to hell and I'm knowing it well and i got noproblemshowing it and going to jail.

I see the witch is preaching every night on channel 13 he wants some money with the number on the screen. I hit the scene i'm shootin up somebodys funeral. Someone I don't know my thoughts are fried with homicide. I fire out of control the preacher tried to reach his caddy in his mink white robe but now he's like a sheep slaughtered on the side of the road as for that crooked choir. I set that place up on fire as they came out batted they heads like I was Mark McGwire. I'm in the darkness

Walk into the darkness a place for those who chose to give a ____less
Wicked dark and heartless we keep it nutty and bloody for everybody here
I'm going to hell and I'm knowing it well and I got no problem showing it and going to jail

Walk till you fall into the darkness of hell you gettin raped in hell by Satans tail and all you _____ with them _____ believe you gettin _____ by a 27 foot dragon while chewing your face up it ain't pretty in hell and the only light be the fire that you squirm in while you burning all night and when the Wraith take you his grip is hard as a nail he'll turn your world upside down and make it rain hell....

Walk into the darkness he'll turn your world upside down and make it rain hell...
wicked dark and heartless he'll turn your world upside down and make it rain hell...
Walk into the darkness he'll turn your world upside down and make it rain hell...
wicked dark and heartless he'll turn your world upside down and make it rain hell...

I'm going to hell and I'm knowing it well and I got no problem showing it and going to jail

[17th Angel]

I love this song...


Insane Clown Posse - Under The Moon

I'm still here under the moon [2x]

I was just a child but you seemed like so much more
The way you would approach me and drift across the floor
I'd see you in the hall, and you'd kiss me with a smile
I never understood it, was I even worth your while?
The others kids at school, they would hate me and they'd spit
Cuz I was just a no one, to them I wasn't ____
But you would always help me and stand there by my side
We were only seventeen, we'd be together till we died...

But then it all happened on the ever dreadful day
Somebody tried to rape you and now I'll make him pay
You pointed him out to me, my thoughts began to race
I took my daddy's forty-five and shot him in the _____ face!!!
I did it all for you, and though I'm facing years
I would do the time just to equal all your tears
The last thing that you told me when I left the courtroom
Is that we'd always be together, cuz we're both under the moon

I'll forever love you, even if you're doomed
We'll always be together cuz we're both under the moon

I sit here in my cell and the walls are made of stone
I justified your pain, but now I sit alone
I write another letter, I write one every day
I never got a letter back, I write em anyway
I try to call collect, your number has been changed
I'm staring at the lightbulb and I start to feel the rage
You never came to visit me, I sit facing the glass
No one's on the other side, now it's in the past

My head is always spinning, I'm pounding at the wall
I feel like I'm forgotten, no sign of you at all
You're probably getting married, you're probably getting ____
I'll break out of this cage and try to cut that mother_____ up
I curl up in the corner, my body will corrode
My teeth are turning into dust, skin is growing mold
I'm staring at the window of my eternal doom
I know that you are out there, somewhere underneath the moon

Many, many years, many more to go
Does she still remember? god, he only know
I now become a savage, they chain me to a wall
I still can see your body, I still can hear your call
I'm nothing but a maggot, I'm locked away and lost
The world it doesn't want me, my dignity is tossed
And to the girl for whom I feel this doom
Look here, ___ you and the moon

Hey!___ you and the moon [5x]

I'm still here under the moon
I'm still here under the moon (still under the moon)

[17th Angel]

Chi Coltrane - Go like Elijah

Someday my time to die will come
When that will be, I do not know
I only know that when I have to go

OohYeah, when I go, I wanna go
Just let me go yeah, when I go
I want to go Lord, let me go
Just let me go like Elijah when I go

I want to rise right up into the sky
And ride white horses with fiery eyes
Lord for my sins I apologize

Just let me go, I want to go
When my time comes for me to go
I want to go like Elijah when I go

I don't want no tombstone above my head
And I don't want no pinebox for my bed
And I don't want anyone to say I'm dead

Oohooh, when I go, I wanna go
Just let me go, when I go,
I want to go Lord,let me go
just let me go like Elijah when I go

I want to rise right up into the sky
And ride white horses with fiery eyes
Lord for my sins I apologize

Just let me go, I want to go
When my time comes for me to go
Just let me go like Elijah when I go

I don't want no one cryin' Or feelin' sad
Or standin' in the rain without their hat
I wanna go up happy, imagine that

OohYeah,lord when I go, Just let me go,
I want to go, Yeah, when I go, just let me go
Lord when I go, I want to go like Elijah when I go

I want to rise right up into the sky
And ride white horses with fiery eyes
Lord for my sins I apologize

Just let me go, I want to go
When my time comes for me to go
Just let me go like Elijah when I go
I want to go like Elijah when I go
Just let me go like Elijah when I go

[Pathless]

Don't Change
INXS

I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all direction
Resolution of happiness
Things have been dark
For too long

Don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me

I found a Love I had lost
It was gone for too long
Hear no evil in all directions
Execution of bitterness
Message recieved loud and clear

Don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me

I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all directions
Resolution of happiness
Things have been dark
For too long

Don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me

performed live in black 1997

performed live in technicolor rainbow glory of 1983

[17th Angel]

BABYLON ZOO - SPACEMAN(freaking love this song...)
Pungent smells
They consumate my home
Beyond the black horizon
Trying to take control
See my girl
She shivers in her bones
The sun and zenith rising
Trying to take us all

Theres a fire between us
So where is your god?
Theres a fire between us
I can't get off the carousel

The sickening taste of homophobic jokes
Images of fascist folks
Beam me up 'cause I can't breathe

Spaceman
I always wanted you to go into space man.
Intergalactic christ

Its time to terminate this great white world
Morbid fascination
Television takes control
Decimation
Different races fall
Electronic information tampers with your soul

Theres a fire between us
So where is your god?
Theres a fire between us
I can't get off the carousel - I can't get of this world

The sickening taste of homophobic jokes
Images of fascist folks
Beam me up 'cause I can't breathe

Spaceman
I always wanted you to go into space man-Intergalactic christ

Babylon Zoo

Spaceman
I always wanted you to go into space man-Intergalactic christ