Midnight Blue by ELO
Gets me everytime I hear it
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Best opening lines
Who wanna bet us that we don’t eat lettuce?
Stack cheddar forever, live treacherous, all the et ceteras
Jay z, lyrical genius, rumoured to read the dictionary in downtime growing up.
I sell ice in the winter
Fire in hell
I’m a a hustler baby
I can sell water to a well
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Chemistry by Rush, love Neil Peart’s lyrics.
Signals transmitted
Message received
Reaction making impact
Invisibly
Elemental telepathy
Exchange of energy
Reaction making contact
Mysteriously
Eye-to-I
Reaction burning hotter
Two-to-one
Reflection on the water
H-to-O
No flow without the other
Oh, but how
Do they make contact
With one another?
Electricity, biology?
Seems to me it’s chemistry
Emotion transmitted
Emotion received
Music in the abstract
Positively
Elemental empathy
A change of synergy
Music making contact
Naturally
One, two, three
Add without subtraction
Sound on sound
Multiplied reaction
H-to-O
No flow without the other
Oh, but how
Do we make contact
With one another?
Electricity, biology?
Seems to me it’s chemistry
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“Give me the sense to wonder, to wonder if I’m free
Give me a sense of wonder, to know I can be me”
Can I Play With Madness? - Iron Maiden
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Blue Oyster Cult - Flaming Telepaths
“Well I’ve opened up my veins too many times,
Poisons in my heart and in my mind.
Poisons in my blood stream, poisons in my pride”
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Hanoi Rocks - Don’t you ever leave me
The nights are wearing me down
And it’s hard getting through the day
'cause I need you right now
And right now you’re so faraway
I guess I should have known
That I’d end up this way
But I swear I’ll come home
And then nothing will drag me away
Don’t you ever leave me baby
Don’t you ever leave me now
Don’t you ever leave me baby
If you leave me you will kill me now
Now that some much time has passed
I know that this love of ours will last forever
'cause we feel it, take it, hold it and believe it
You need me like I need you
I know you do, I’m sure you do
The lights are slowly going down
On Lexington Avenue
And me, I’m all alone feeling the tears
falling down from my eyes
A subway train is passing by
Driving into the Darkness
I jump inside 'cause I ain’t got
nowhere to sleep tonight
Don’t you ever leave me baby
Don’t you ever leave me now
Don’t you ever leave me baby
If you leave me you will kill me now
I was forcing myself just walk through the day
When all I really wanted to do was curl up in a corner and cry
Nothing had any meaning
And I just thought let’s give it another day and see if anything happens
Then you came along like my own ray of sunshine
Made me feel warm, safe and alive again
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Motley Crue - Home sweet home
You know I’m a dreamer
But my heart’s of gold
I had to run away high
So I wouldn’t come home low
Just when things went right
It doesn’t mean they were always wrong
Just take this song and you’ll never feel
Left all alone
Take me to your heart
Feel me in your bones
Just one more night
And I’m comin’ off this
Long and winding road
I’m on my way
I’m on my way
Home sweet home
Tonight tonight
I’m on my way
I’m on my way
Home sweet home
You know that I’ve seen
Too many romantic dreams
Up in lights, fallin’ off
The silver screen
My heart’s like an open book
For the whole world to read
Sometimes nothing keeps me together
At the seams
I’m on my way
I’m on my way
Home sweet home
Tonight tonight
I’m on my way
Just set me free
Home sweet home
Home sweet home
Home sweet home
Home sweet home
I’m on my way
I’m on my way
Home sweet home
Yeah yeah
I’m on my way
Just set me free
Home sweet home
I could post lyrics to songs all day.
HCSS - someone special
Crashdiet - miracle
Def Leppard / Reckless Love - Hysteria
Motley Crue - white trash circus
Nine Inch Nails / Johnny Cash - Hurt
So many awesome songs from so many drunk nights out and weekends away.
Just had a HRH event cancelled though 
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Love Joan Crawford Has Risen From The Grave, Take Me Away, Veteran of the Psychic Wars, See You In Black, Burning For You and the obvious one! 
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Love this, and seems apt for Valentine’s Day!
Queen-Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
I can dim the lights and sing you songs full of sad things
We can do the tango just for two
I can serenade and gently play on your heart strings
Be your Valentino just for you
Ooh, love, ooh, loverboy
What’re you doin’ tonight, hey, boy?
Set my alarm, turn on my charm
That’s because I’m a good old-fashioned loverboy
Ooh, let me feel your heartbeat (Grow faster, faster)
Ooh, ooh, can you feel my love heat?
Come on and sit on my hot-seat of love
And tell me how do you feel right after all
I’d like for you and I to go romancing
Say the word, your wish is my command
Ooh, love, ooh, loverboy
What’re you doin’ tonight, hey, boy?
Write my letter
Feel much better
And use my fancy patter on the telephone
When I’m not with you
Think of you always
(I miss those long hot summer nights) I miss you
When I’m not with you
Think of me always
Love you, love you
Hey, boy, where do you get it from?
Hey, boy, where did you go?
I learned my passion
In the good old-fashioned
School of loverboys
Dining at the Ritz we’ll meet at nine precisely (One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine o’clock)
I will pay the bill, you taste the wine
Driving back in style in my saloon will do quite nicely
Just take me back to yours that will be fine (Come on and get it)
Ooh, love (There he goes again)
(He’s my good old fashioned loverboy) Ooh, loverboy
What’re you doin’ tonight, hey, boy?
Everything’s all right
Just hold on tight
That’s because I’m a good old-fashioned (fashioned) loverboy
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“The lights across the street throw a rainbow in her hair”
Fire Brigade-The Move
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“sometimes I forget what livings for” Lady Antebellum, Hello world
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“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see”. Strawberry fields: the Beatles
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Mama tell your children not to go
Down to the city where the desperate people go
And mama don’t you let them stray
They won’t find piece of mind in such a lonely place
Wannabes and losers all trying to get a break
They don’t give a damn they’ll do whatever it takes
If they climb the ladder they get to play for higher stakes
That’s why there’s low life in high places
Mama things have changed since you were young
When you scream in the dead of night
Now no one ever comes
And the poor man, he’s cast as the villain and the thief
See him down on the street begging for enough to eat
Waiting on the corner, I saw her waiting for the man
When the limo pulled up I saw what was changing hands
I should’ve tried to warn her and make her understand
There is low life in high places
There is low life like you never even knew
There is low life and it lives in me and you
But we don’t all let it through
Don’t you let 'em go, you’ve got to have some pity
Don’t you let 'em go
You’ve got to keep 'em away from the big bad city
Waiting on the corner, I saw her waiting for the man
When the limo pulled up I saw what was changing hands
I should’ve tried to warn her and make her understand
Mama tell your children not to go
Down to the city where the desperate people go
And mama don’t you let them stray
They won’t find piece of mind in such a lonely place
Low Life In High Places - Thunder
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Marathon by Rush
You can do a lot in a lifetime
If you don’t burn out too fast
You can make the most of the distance
First you need endurance
First you’ve got to last.
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Only one song, that gets me going every time.
There’s a man I meet, walks up our street
He’s a worker for the council
Has been twenty years
And he takes no lip off nobody
And litter off the gutter
Puts it in a bag
And never thinks to mutter
And he packs his lunch in a Sunblest bag
The children call him Bogie
He never lets on
But I know 'cause he once told me
He let me know a secret about the money in his kitty
He’s gonna buy a dinghy
Gonna call her Dignity
And I’ll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I’ll be on my holidays
They’ll be doing their rounds
They’ll ask me how I got her I’ll say, “I saved my money”
They’ll say, “Isn’t she pretty? That ship called Dignity”
And I’m telling this story
In a faraway sea
Sipping down raki
And reading Maynard Keynes
And I’m thinking about home and all that that means
And a place in the winter for dignity
And I’ll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I’ll be on my holidays
They’ll be doing the rounds
They’ll ask me how I got her I’ll say, “I saved my money”
They’ll say, “Isn’t she pretty? That ship called Dignity”
Stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up
Yeah, stand it up again, stand it up again, stand it up again, stand it up again
Stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up
Yeah, stand it up again, stand it up again, stand it up again, stand it up again
And I’m thinking about home
And I’m thinking about faith
And I’m thinking about work
And I’m thinking how good it would be
To be here some day
On a ship called Dignity
A ship called Dignity
That ship
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I love the sheer daftness of ‘Mars Bar’. Mind you, The Undertones were big hitters in the killer lyric stakes.
A personal favourite of mine, by The Adverts. It’s in such gloriously bad taste, they’d never allow it any airplay nowadays:
Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
I’m lying in a hospital, pinned against the bed,
A stethoscope upon my heart, a hand against my head.
They’re peeling off the bandages, I’m wincing in the light,
The nurse is looking anxious and she’s quivering with fright.
I’m looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes!
The doctors are avoiding me, my vision is confused,
I listen to my earphones and I catch the evening news.
A murderer’s been killed and he donates his sight to science,
I’m booked into a private ward, I realise that I must be…
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes!
I smash the light in anger, push my bed against the door,
I close my lids across the eyes that wish to see no more.
The eye receives the messages and sends them to the brain.
No guarantee the stimuli must be perceived the same when…
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes
Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes!
Gary don’t need his eyes to see.
Gary and his eyes have parted company!
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Vancouver Sleep Clinic,
Someone to Stay:
You were alone, left out in the cold
Clinging to the ruin of your broken home
Too lost and hurting to carry your load
We all need someone to hold
You’ve been fighting the memory, all on your own
Nothing worsens, nothing grows
I know how it feels being by yourself in the rain
We all need someone to stay
We all need someone to stay
Hear the fallen and lonely, cry out
Will you fix me up? Will you show me hope?
At the end of the day you were helpless
Can you keep me close? Can you love me most?
You’ve drunk it down and you’ve spat it out
And nothing tastes like the things you had
So tear it off, why don’t you let them go?
We all need someone to stay
We all need someone to stay
Hear the fallen and lonely, cry out
Will you fix me up? Will you show me hope?
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Yes, love My Perfect Cousin too! Gary Gilmore’s Eyes, a new wave/punk classic! 
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Love a lyric that tells a story…
Thin Lizzy-Johnny
Somewhere on the waterfront
Johnny’s hiding with a gun
Swears he’ll kill any man that tells his story
He’s not sorry for what he’s done
He broke into a drugstore
To cure his daily need
He didn’t mean to shoot the guard
But he was blinded by the greed
Oh Johnny
You see that nun, she’s his sister
She doesn’t know that he’s gone bad
When they told it to his father
It drove the old man mad
Just as his mother warned him
From her dying bed
It’s alright to lose your heart
But never lose your head
Oh Johnny
Now the cops have got him surrounded
And he doesn’t stand a hope
He wonders how he could be in so much trouble
Over just a little dope
Five to one he gets away
That’s the odds I’m going to give
Five to four they blast him away
Three to one he’s going to live
Oh Johnny
Back in the alley where he was slain
I thought I heard something move
Beside the trash can lay a heart and chain
The picture had been removed
Just another juiced up junkie
Looking for a bed
It’s alright to lose your heart
But never lose your head
Oh Johnny.
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn’t have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Uh, Funky Claude was running in and out
Pulling kids on the ground
When it all was over
We had to find another place
But Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race
Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty, cold, and bare
But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there
With a few red lights, a few old beds
We make a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
Ha, I know, I know we’ll never forget
Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
It’s a absolute classic and apparently a true story.
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