I'll tell you a little story
A man roaming the streets
The one with raggedy clothes
The one you ignore to see
I'll tell you a little story
A man i used to know
Smelling oh so bad
People laugh at him
DOWN AND OUT
Call him what you'd like
Penniless and broke
Destitute for life
DOWN AND OUT
Without a roof tonight
Wandering around
His life is in a rut
I once knew a man
Who's life was doing fine
Got himself a degree
and a fine looking wife
I once knew a man
Put a mortgage on a house
Bought a nice car
And friends were all around
Cloudy days will come
Getting laid of is all part of life
Losing, first your house
Your wife is next line
Cloudy days will come
No friends are to be found
The life you once had
Is taken just like that!
DOWN AND OUT
He was once one of us
Life can take a turn
Life can be unkind
WHO'S CONCERN
How about you and me
Think for a minute
It can happen to anyone!
I would have to say "Imagine" by John Lennon. I don't necessarily think it was the best music arrangement, but the lyrics are, at least IMHO.
Oooh!! Yes! That's the song I was going to say has the best lyrics!!
But if I had to pick another song after that..I'd put it a random note and say that it's that Pina Colada song by Rupert Holmes!
I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long.
Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song.
So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed.
And in the personals column, there was this letter I read:
"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape."
I didn't think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean.
But me and my old lady, had fallen into the same old dull routine.
So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad.
And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half-bad.
"Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne.
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape.
At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll plan our escape."
So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place.
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face.
It was my own lovely lady, and she said, "Oh, it's you."
And we laughed for a moment, and I said, "I never knew"..
"That you liked Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."
"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."
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You know..I'm a fruit loop.
That's all I have to say right now..
[quote=istanbulgal;360326]I would have to say "Imagine" by John Lennon. I don't necessarily think it was the best music arrangement, but the lyrics are, at least IMHO.[/QUOT
FALL OUT BOY LYRICS
"Dance, Dance (Demo)"
She says she's no good with words but I'm worse
Barely stuttered out
"A joke of a romantic" or stuck to my tongue
Weighed down with words too over-dramatic
Tonight it's "it can't get much worse"
Vs. "no one should ever feel like.."
I'm two quarters and a heart down
And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds
These words are all I have so I'll write them
So you need them just to get by
We will own your thoughts
We'll own the song stuck in your head
We'll leave you kicking and screaming
So you can thank us in the end
Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead
Dance, this is the way they'd love
If they knew how misery loved me
(I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me)
You always fold just before you're found out
Drink up its last call
Last resort
But only the first mistake and I...
I'm two quarters and a heart down
And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds
These words are all I have so I'll write them
So you need them just to get by
Why don't you show me the little bit of spine
You've been saving for his mattress, love
Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead
Dance, this is the way they'd love
If they knew how misery loved me
Why don't you show me the little bit of spine
You've been saving for his mattress
I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me
Whoa.. Oh.. Oh.. THE SYSTEM FAILED US AGAIN
Whoa.. Oh.. Oh.. THE SYSTEM FAILED US AGAIN
Factory layoff, welfare checks
Who's to blame for the state we're in?
THE SYSTEM FAILED US
Government housing, concentration camps
Ghetto barriers separate each class
THE SYSTEM FAILED US
Whoa.. Oh.. Oh.. THE SYSTEM FAILED US AGAIN
Whoa.. Oh.. Oh.. THE SYSTEM FAILED US AGAIN
We've been pushed down into extinction
Talking about the infirmed, the elderly
Families can't afford health insurance
Have to choose - groceries to eat or medicine to live
Native cultures, praise the old
Through experience they've seen it all
THE SYSTEM FAILED US
There's a power in control
Making sure they won't teach the young
THE SYSTEM FAILED US
Whoa.. Oh.. Oh.. THE SYSTEM FAILED US AGAIN
Whoa.. Oh.. Oh.. THE SYSTEM FAILED US AGAIN
At charity care they treat you like ****
They've got jobs, so they don't care
So you must bow like a slave
You're future depends on the decision they make
THE SYSTEM FAILED US...
See benefits being taken away
From the people, who's money you take
THE SYSTEM FAILED US
Perhaps they know too much
Get rid of them before they talk
THE SYSTEM FAILED US
Last edited by never sell out : 04-02-2008 at 10:43 AM.
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best lyrics ever ?
Dance, Dance
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