Favourite Song Lyrics

[MickeyD]

Ah, how 'bout a little more Queen? This has been my cell phone ring for a while:

Ah you wanna take me home tonight
Ah down beside your red firelight
Ah you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!

I've been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen ev'ry blue eyed floozy on the way, hey
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time

Oh won't you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Hey listen here
Now I got mortgages and homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still get my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me
Now get this

Oh you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside that red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE!

Oooh yeah oh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
all right
ride 'em cowboys
Fat bottomed girls
Yes yes
ohh gets me everytime

[wendybeth]

I saw some Queen stuff at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame- very cool. One of my all-time favorite bands. Here's a song that isn't well known, but I love it:

Sail Away Sweet Sister- Queen

Hey little babe you're changing
Babe are you feeling sore?
It ain't no use in pretending
You don't wanna play no more

It's plain that you ain't no baby
What would your mother say?
You're all dressed up like a lady
How come you behave this way?

Sail away sweet sister
Sail across the sea
Maybe you'll find somebody
To love you half as much as me
My heart is always with you
No matter what you do
Sail away sweet sister
I'll always be in love with you

Forgive me for what I told you
My heart makes a fool of me
You know that I'll never hold you
I know that you gotta be free

Sail away sweet sister
Sail across the sea
Maybe you'll find somebody
To love you half as much as me
Take it the way you want it
But when they let you down my friend
Sail away sweet sister
Back to my arms again

Hot child don't you know you're young
You got your whole life ahead of you?
And you can throw it away too soon
Way too soon

Sail away sweet sister
Sail across the sea
Maybe you'll find somebody's
Gonna love you half as much as me
My heart is always with you
No matter what you do
Sail away sweet sister
I'll always be in love with you

[MickeyD]

This one has been on my mind today, not sure exactly why

Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat World
There's no one in town I know
You gave us some place to go.
I never said thank you for that.
I thought I might get one more chance.
What would you think of me now,
so lucky, so strong, so proud?
I never said thank you for that,
now I'll never have a chance.
May angels lead you in.
Hear you me my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.
So what would you think of me now,
so lucky, so strong, so proud?
I never said thank you for that,
now I'll never have a chance.
May angels lead you in.
Hear you me my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.
May angels lead you in.
May angels lead you in.
And if you were with me tonight,
I'd sing to you just one more time.
A song for a heart so big,
god wouldn't let it live.
May angels lead you in.
Hear you me my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.
May angels lead you in.
Hear you me my friends.
On sleepless roads the sleepless go.
May angels lead you in.
May angels lead you in.

[MickeyD]

I had a bit of dashboard karoke going on tonight in my car when this song came on, it reminded me of how, um, interesting it was to run into my ex at Disneyland on Thursday:

Standard Lines by Dashboard Confessional

Which of the bold faced lies will we use?
I hope that you're happy, you really deserve it,
this will be the best for us both in the end.

But your taste still lingers on my lips like I just placed them upon yours
and I starve for you.
But this new diet's liquid
and dulling to the senses.
And it's crude but it will do.

Which of the standard lines will we use?
I've been meaning to call you. I've just been so busy.
We'll catch up soon.
Let's make it a point to.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Last night, I said goodbye
Now--it seems year
I'm back in the city
Where nothing is clear
But thoughts of me --holding you
Bringing us near
And tell me
When will our eyes meet
When can I touch you
When will this strong yearning end
And when Will I hold you again
Time in New England
Took me away
To long rocky beaches
--and you, by the bay
We started a story
Whose end must now wait
And, tell me
When will our eyes meet
When can I touch you
When will this strong yearning end
And when Will I hold you again
I feel the change comin'
--I feel the wind blow
I feel brave and daring!
I feel my blood flow
With you
I can bring out
All the love, that I have
--With you there's a heaven
So earth ain't so bad
And tell me
When will our eyes meet
When can I touch you
When will this strong yearning end
And when Will I hold you again

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

You hear a sound as she's leaving*
You'll hear your heart pound so hard*
You'll miss her warm touch and the way*
Things once were
It's such a cold town when you miss her*
It's not the same place no more
When it's hard to mend what's broken*
And you still can't let her go*

Beyond the storm there's an answer
Beyond the nights you spend alone*
Beyond the headlights and the highways you go*
You'll take a long ride without her*
Until the tears dry away*
In every way you try to reason*
When there's no reason left to hold

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Waiting for the break of day
Searching for something to say
Flashing lights against the sky
Giving up I close my eyes
Sitting cross-legged on the floor
25 or 6 to 4

Staring blindly into space
Getting up to splash my face
Wanting just to stay awake
Wondering how much I can take
Should I try to do some more
25 or 6 to 4

Feeling like I ought to sleep
Spinning room is sinking deep
Searching for something to say
Waiting for the break of day
25 or 6 to 4
25 or 6 to 4

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Last Time I Heard Her Voice She Said:
Be Back In Town By Five
Be Great To See Your Face Across A Table"
Walking Out Was Not My Choice
Talk About How We Survive
It's So Much More Than Who's Upset About It
Two So Close
Two So Far Away
But So It Goes And So It Goes

Now She's Far From These Worries
She's A Somewhere Girl
A Somewhere Girl, Yeah
Every Night And Day
Every Moment She Slips Away
I Won't Be Looking For Answers
I Won't Be Waiting For A Telephone Call
I Know She's Out There
Somewhere Girl

Now And Then I Hear A Song
It Always Makes Me Smile
To Think About The Girl I Still Remember
From Love To Hate To Compromise
Getting Over Takes A While
Do You Believe We Reached The Point Of Never
Two So Close
Two So Far Away
But So It Goes And So It Goes

Cry, Tears Wash Away Your Little Empty Dreams
And I've No More Regrets
No Sense In Making It More Than It Seems

[LSPoorEeyorick]

"Cathedrals," Jump Little Children

In the shadows of tall buildings
Of fallen angels on the ceilings
Oily feathers in bronze and concrete
Faded colors, pieces left incomplete
The line moves slowly past the electric fence
Across the borders between continents
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
In the shadows of tall buildings
The architecture is slowly peeling
Marble statues and glass dividers
Someone is watching all of the outsiders
The line moves slowly through the numbered gate
Past the mosaic of the head of state
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
In the shadows of tall buildings
Of open arches endlessly kneeling
Sonic landscapes echoing vistas
Someone is listening from a safe distance
The line moves slowly into a fading light
A final moment in the dead of night
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is

___

"Such Great Heights," by the Postal Service

I think that it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
I have to speculate that God himself did make us into
corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay
True it may seem like a stretch but it's thoughts like this that catch
my troubled head when you're away when I am missing you to death
When you're out there on the road for several weeks of shows
and when you scan the radio I hope this song will guide you home

They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say.
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now." But we'll stay.

I tried my best to leave this song on your machine
but the persistant beat it sounded thin on listening
And that frankly will not fly
You will hear the shrillest highs and lowest lows
with the windows down when this is guiding you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now," but we'll stay
______

"Summer, Highland Falls," by Billy Joel

They say that these are not the best of times
But they're the only times I've ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own
Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lover's eyes
I can only stand apart and sympathize
For we are always what our situations hand us
It's either sadness or euphoria

So we argue and we compromise
And realize that nothing's ever changed
For all our mutual experience
Our separate conclusions are the same
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
Our reason coexists with our insanity
And though we choose between reality and madness
It's either sadness or euphoria

How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don't fulfil each other's fantasies
And as we stand upon the ledges of our lives
With our repsective similarities
It's either sadness or euphoria
__

"Do You Realize," by the Flaming Lips

Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face?
Do you realize we're floating in space?
Do you realize that happiness makes you cry?
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?
But instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize
That life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round.

Do you realize?
Do you realize?
Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?
But instead of saying all of your goodbyes
Let them know you realize
That life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'rond
Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face?
Do you realize?

[Ghoulish Delight]

And the alcoholic bastard waved his finger at me
His voice was filled with evangelical glee
Sipping down his gin and tonic
While preaching about the evils of narcotics,
And the evils of sex, and the wages of sin
Whlie he mentally fondles his next of kin.