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candyliquor35m
candyliquor35m Posts: 2,267
edited March 2008 in Music & Movies
1. The Wall by Kansas (4:47)
(Kerry Livgren / Steve Walsh) 1976

I'm woven in a fantasy, I can't believe the things I see
The path that I have chosen now has led me to a wall
And with each passing day I feel a little
more like something dear was lost
It rises now before me, a dark and silent barrier between,
All I am, and all that I would ever want be
It's just a travesty, towering, marking
off the boundaries my spirit would erase

To pass beyond is what I seek, I fear that I may be too weak
And those are few who've seen it through to glimpse the other side,
The promised land is waiting like a maiden that is soon to be a bride
The moment is a masterpiece, the weight of indecision's in the air
It's standing there, the symbol and the sum of all that's me
It's just a travesty, towering, blocking out the light and blinding me
I want to see

Gold and diamonds cast a spell, it's not for me I know it well
The treasures that I seek are waiting on the other side
There's more that I can measure in the treasure of the love that I can find
And though it's always been with me, I must tear down the Wall and let it be
All I am, and all that I was ever meant to be, in harmony
Shining true and smiling back at all who wait to cross
THERE IS NO LOSS

2. The Pinnacle by Kansas (9:35)
(Kerry Livgren) 1975

I've so much to say, and yet I cannot speak
Come and do my bidding now for I have grown too weak
My weary eyes have seen all that life can give
Come to me, O young one, for you I can forgive

I stood where no man goes, and conquered demon foes
With glory and passion no longer in fashion
The hero breaks his blade

Cast this shadow long that I may hide my face
And in this cloak of darkness the world I will embrace
In all that I endure, of one thing I am sure
Knowledge and reason change like the season
A jester's promenade

Lying at my feet I see the offering you bring
The mark of Cain is on our faces, borne of suffering
O, I long to see you say it's not been wrong
I stand before you now, a riddle in my song
The answer is that sweet refrain
Unheard it always will remain
Beyond our reach, beyond our gain

Trapped in life's parade, a king without a crown
In this joy of madness, my smile might seem a frown
With talons wrought of steel, I tore the heart of doom
And in one gleaming moment I saw beyond the tomb
I stood where no man goes, above the din I rose
Life is amusing though we are losing
Drowned in tears of awe

(both can be heard on "The Best of Kansas", 1999)

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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited March 2008
    Baby we can talk all night
    But that aint getting us nowhere
    I told you everything I possibly can
    Theres nothing left inside of here
    And maybe you can cry all night
    But thatll never change the way that I feel
    The snow is really piling up outside
    I wish you wouldnt make me leave here

    I poured it on and I poured it out
    I tried to show you just how much I care
    Im tired of words and Im too hoarse to shout
    But youve been cold to me so long
    Im crying icicles instead of tears

    And all I can do is keep on telling you
    I want you
    I need you
    But -- there aint no way Im ever gonna love you
    Now dont be sad
    cause two out of three aint bad
    Now dont be sad
    cause two out of three aint bad

    Youll never find your gold on a sandy beach
    Youll never drill for oil on a city street
    I know youre looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks
    But there aint no coupe de ville hiding at the bottom of a cracker jack box

    I cant lie
    I cant tell you that Im something Im not
    No matter how I try
    Ill never be able
    To give you something
    Something that I just havent got

    Theres only one girl that I will ever love
    And that was so many years ago
    And though I know Ill never get her out of my heart
    She never loved me back
    Ooh I know
    I remember how she left me on a stormy night
    She kissed me and got out of our bed
    And though I pleaded and I begged her not to walk out that door
    She packed her bags and turned right away

    And she kept on telling me
    She kept on telling me
    She kept on telling me
    I want you
    I need you
    But there aint no way Im ever gonna love you
    Now dont be sad
    cause two out of three aint bad
    I want you
    I need you
    But there aint no way Im ever gonna love you
    Now dont be sad
    cause two out of three aint bad
    Dont be sad
    cause two out of three aint bad

    Baby we can talk all night
    But that aint getting us nowhere

    ~Meatloaf
  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,211
    edited March 2008
    "Fu(k you I won't do what you tell me, ..............." :D

    Kick a$$ tunes.
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited March 2008
    George Strait - Love Without End, Amen

    I got sent home from school one day with a shiner on my eye.
    Fightin' was against the rules and it didn't matter why.
    When dad got home I told that story just like I'd rehearsed.
    And then stood there on those tremblin' knees and waited for the worst.

    And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
    A secret that my daddy said was just between us."
    He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
    It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."

    When I became a father in the spring of '81
    There was no doubt that stubborn boy was just like my father's son.
    And when I thought my patience had been tested to the end,
    I took my daddy's secret and I passed it on to him.

    And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
    A secret that my daddy said was just between us."
    He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
    It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."

    Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly gates.
    When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake.
    If they know half the things I've done, they'll never let me in.
    And then somewhere from the other side I heard these words again.

    And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
    A secret that my daddy said was just between us."
    He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
    It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."



    I might have screwed them up a bit, I'll have to check. But that is one of my favorites.
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited March 2008
    TOOL

    Third Eye
    Dreaming of that face again. It's bright and blue and shimmering. Grinning wide and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes.

    On my back and tumbling down that hole and back again rising upand wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye. In Out In Out In Out A child's rhyme stuck in my head. It said that life is but a dream. I've spent so many years in question to find I've known this all along.

    "So good to see you. I've missed you so much. So glad it's over. I've missed you so much. Came out to watch you play. Why are you running?" Shrouding all the ground around me. Is this holy crow above me. Black as holes within a memory and blue as our new second sun. I stick my hand into his shadow to pull the pieces from the sand. Which I attempt to reassemble to see just who I might have been. I do not recognize the vessel, but the eyes seem so familiar. Like phosphorescent desert buttons singing one familiar song... "So good to see you. I've missed you so much. So glad it's over. I've missed you so much. Came out to watch you play. Why are you running away?" Prying open my third eye.

    So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing the tail of dogma. I opened my eye and there we were. So good to see you once again I thought that you were hiding from me. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing a trail of smoke and reason. Prying open my third eye.

    Reflection
    I find that I can see a light at the end down
    Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole.
    Defeated I Concede and move closer. I may find comfort here
    I may find peace within the emptiness. How pitiful.
    It's calling me.
    It's calling me.
    It's calling me.
    It's calling me.

    And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping.
    The moon tells me a secret. My confidant.
    As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own
    A million light reflections pass over me
    It's source is bright and endless.
    She resuscitates the hopeless
    Without her we are lifeless satellites dreaming dreams.
    And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt
    Don't want to be down here feeding my narcissism
    I must crucify the ego before it's far too late
    I pray the light lifts me out before I pine away.
    before I pine away.
    before I pine away.
    before I pine away.

    So crucify the ego before it's far too late
    To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical
    And you will come to find that we are all one mind
    (*)
    Just let the light touch you and let the words spill thorough
    Just let them pass right through, bringing out our hope and reason.

    before I pine away.
    before I pine away.
    before I pine away.
    before I pine away.