This was the best thread I ever made on ap, so I'm making a new one here. Post lyrics you love or that particularly strike you. Share them with others.
Well, I've had my share of broken dreams, And more than a couple of falls. And in chasing what I thought were moonbeams, I have run into a couple of walls. But in looking back at the places I've been, And the changes that I've left behind, I just look at myself to find I've learned the hard way every time. 'Cause I've had my share of good intentions, And I've made my share of mistakes. And I've learned at times it's best to bend, 'Cause if you don't, well, those are the breaks. Should have listened to all the things I was told, But I was young and too proud at the time. Now I look at myself to find I learn the hard way every time.
Then I'll take my clothes off And I'll walk around Because it's so nice outside And I like the way the sun feels And when it's dark I'll call out in the night for my mother But she isn't coming back for me Cause she's already gone But you will not tell me that Cause you know it hurts me everytime you say it And you know you're doing the right thing You must know you're doing the right thing Daughter - Doing the Right Thing
All I ask is that you leave before I lose you Circumnavigate your grace as I stow away in the weather beaten doldrums of apathy and your forgiveness All I ask is that you walk the other way All I ask is that you leave before I lose you From the magnificent, wonderful Friends In America. Be In Love, by Friends In America Edit: I just copied and pasted the Bandcamp Link in, and it nicely typed it up like that instead of just dumping the URL. Nicely done @Jason Tate !
Old man down, way down down, down by the docks of the city. Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee. I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story. My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine. More than my wine - more than my maker, though he's no friend of mine. Everyone said, I'd come to no good, I knew I would Pearly, believe them. Half of my life, I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime, The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine. But I'll get back on my feet again someday, The good Lord willin', if He says I may. I know that the life i'm livin's no good, I'll get a new start, live the life I should. I'll get up and fly away, I'll get up and fly away, fly away. @Wharf Rat by u know who
Maybe I would've been something you'd be good at Maybe you would've been something I'd be good at But now, we'll never know I won't be sad but in case I'll go there everyday To make myself feel bad There's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do
Car crash came and car crash went So I went along with it but The girl you love's not coming back It'll never be the same
Oh, swing the door wide open; Show me your jaded eyes. I will turn them red, Drunk with vivid flame. You will see again, And you will learn your real name.
So can you trace this distance from me to you so I could etch this on my spine? Replace my face with just a blurry memory, you must be kidding me, my busted mouth, I've come to find less creative ways to speak my mind
You're brought back but you're running I'll find sleep in the end tonight I can't shake this little feeling I'll never get anything right
It's the one I've always heard/gone with, but this is so true. It's usually the second line that gets changed, yeah?
So if I seem a little out of it, sorry. Why should I lie? Everything reminds me of her. The spin of the Earth impaled the silhouette of the sun on the steeple. And I've got to hear the same sermon all the time now from you people. "Why are you staring into outer space crying? Just because you came across it, Lost it?" Everything reminds me of her...
First two. "You're burned bad, but you're running." You burn bright but you run out" "You're burned out but you're running" "I'll bet you're running (which is what Genius has but I don't here at all)" and then "find sleep in the end tonight/incline/alkaline," and "fell asleep in the end tonight/incline/alkaline"
It was Don Delillo, whiskey neat, and a blinking midnight clock Speakers on a TV stand, just a turntable to watch And the smoke came out our mouths on all those hooded sweatshirt walks We were a stroke of luck We were a goldmine and they gutted us
You may be Saturday's child all grown moving with a pinch of grace You may be a clown in the burying ground or just another pretty face You may be the fate of Ophelia sleeping and perchance to dream honest to the point of recklessness self centered to the extreme
a twofer bc screw ur rules!! If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why? Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by, Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night.