It is, i saw them recount the story on Classic Albums-Machine Head i think.
If you’re going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you’re going to San Francisco
You’re sure to meet a lot of gentle people there
Led Zep
… and as I wind on down the road
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I love this because it brings back memories of being a schoolkid into all the different music at the time, from rock, metal, punk to new wave, what a time to be alive!
Talk In 79-Phil Lynott
The Clash were headed for a head on collision
Crash for complete control
The Pistols left behind a swindle and a scandal
That nobody wished to handle
Sham 69 were left in a shambles
Generation X was next
Elvis and Nick Lowe
They had a go
With the help of the Attractions
And Joe Jackson said it wasn’t his style
Dave Edmunds survived alive
On top of a Rockpile
Devo didn’t know if they were men
Because they couldn’t get no satisfaction
The Rats were caught in their own trap
Steve Strange began to change
Ultravox had a system
Kraftwerk nearly beat them
And the Yellow Magic Orchestra missed them
Eno rose for Lowe
The Slits became rasta
And the Buzzcocks played faster and faster with adrenalin
John Cooper Clarke he was smart
The Public Image became Limited
The Police were re-released and came out as a three-piece
The Rocky Horror Show became the history of tomorrow
Nina Hagen, she was a German maiden
And the music press revealed their anger
When threatened by the Stranglers
This broadcast was brought to you in 1979
I’m just talking to you over these waves
Not just about another time and another place
And before we knew it
The old wave was gone and controlled.
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Only wish that you were here
You know I’m seeing it so clear
I’ve been afraid
To show you how I really feel
Admit to some of those bad mistakes I’ve made…
If you want it
Come and get it
For crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now.
A special song to me…
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The willow it weeps today
A breeze from the distance
Is calling your name
Unfurl your black wings and wait
Across the horizons coming to sweep you away
It’s coming to sweep you away
Let the wind carry you home
Blackbird fly away
May you never be broken again
The fragile can not endure
The wrecked and jaded
A place so impure
The static of this cruel world
Cause some birds to fly long before they’ve seen their day
Long before they’ve seen their day
Let the wind carry you home
Blackbird fly away
May you never be broken again
Beyond the suffering you’ve known
I hope you find your way
May you never be broken again
Ascend, may you find no resistance
Know that you’ve made such a difference
And all you leave behind
Will live till the end
The cycle of suffering goes on
But the memories of you stay strong
Someday I too will fly
And find you again
Let the wind carry you home
Blackbird fly away
May you never, be broken, again
Beyond the suffering you’ve known
I hope you find your way
May you never be broken again
May you never be broken again
Blackbird - Alter Bridge
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If he wants a fight, well, now he’s got one
And he ain’t seen me crazy yet
He slapped my face, and he shook me like a rag doll
Don’t that sound like a real man?
I’m going to show him what little girls are made of
Gunpowder and lead
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Bing Bang Bong
Sing Sang Song
Ding Dang Dong
UK hun
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You don’t even know me
You say that I’m not livin right
You don’t understand me
So why do you judge my life?
I don’t ask for nothing
I’m always holding my own
Everytime I turn around, there’s something
People talkin bout what they don’t know
And when I try to move on up
They’re always pullin me down
I’m tired yeah, and I’ve had enough
It’s my life, and I’m livin it now
You don’t know me
You don’t even know me (you don’t know me)
You say that I’m not livin right
You don’t understand me
So why do you judge my life?
I always wonder why
People try to hurt me
No happiness in their own lives
So they act out all their jealousy
Who are you to say that I’m livin wrong?
Always tellin me what to do
I decide, yeah, I gotta be strong
What makes you think that I needed you?
Chorus…X2
Who are you?
You say I’m not livin right
Anything I try to do
You haven’t walked in my shoes
I’m gonna move on
It’s my life, it’s my life
It’s my life, it’s my life
It’s my life, it’s my life
Chorus X2
Armand Van Helden
You don’t know me.
Lyrics so fitting for me…
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New Order ft Iggy Pop
“But I can’t stop drinking, it’s in my blood”
All of True Faith! A song not many realise is totally about being high on drugs.
I feel so extraordinary
Something’s got a hold on me
I get this feeling I’m in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
I don’t care 'cause I’m not there
And I don’t care if I’m here tomorrow
Again and again I’ve taken too much
Of the things that cost you too much
I used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun…
When I was a very small boy,
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we’ve grown up together
They’re afraid of what they see
That’s the price that we all pay
Our valued destiny comes to nothing
I can’t tell you where we’re going
I guess there was just no way of knowing
I used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun…
I feel so extraordinary
Something’s got a hold on me
I get this feeling I’m in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
The chances are we’ve gone too far
You took my time and you took my money
Now I fear you’ve left me standing
In a world that’s so demanding
I used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun…
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Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
I’m waiting in my cold cell, when the bell begins to chime
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn’t have much time
'Cause at 5 O’clock they take me to the gallows pole, yeah
The sands of time for me are running low, running low
When the priest comes to read me the last rites
Take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me
Can it be that there’s some sort of error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end, not some crazy dream?
Somebody please tell me that I’m dreaming
It’s not easy to stop from screaming
But words escape me when I try to speak
Tears fall but why am I crying
After all I’m not afraid of dying
Don’t I believe that there never is an end
As the guards march me out to the courtyard
Somebody cries from a cell, ‘God be with you’
If there’s a God then why has He let me go?
As I walk my life drifts before me
Though the end is near I’m not sorry
Catch my soul, it’s willing to fly away
Mark my words, believe my soul lives on
Don’t worry now I have gone
Gone beyond to seek the truth, yeah, yeah
When you know that your time is close at hand
Maybe then you’ll begin to understand
Life down here is just a strange illusion
Yeah, hallowed be thy name
Yeah, hallowed be thy name
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Classic! 
The only place where you can dream
Living here is not what it seems
Ship of white light in the sky
Nobody there to reason why
Here I am, I’m not really there
Smiling faces ever so rare
Let’s walk in deepest space
Living here just isn’t the place
Oh…
Stalks of light come from the ground
When I cry there isn’t a sound
All my feelings cannot be held
I’m happy in my new strange world
Shades of green grasses twine
Girls drinking plasma wine
A look at love, a dream unfolds
Living here, you’ll never grow old
Oh, baby…
Don’t you hear me call?
Ooh…
Strange World - Iron Maiden
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First album classic!
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Losing It-Rush
The dancer slows her frantic pace
In pain and desperation
Her aching limbs and downcast face
Aglow with perspiration
Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire
With just the briefest pause
The flooding through her memory
The echoes of old applause.
She limps across the floor
And closes her bedroom door…
The writer stare with glassy eyes
Defies the empty page
His beard is white, his face is lined
And streaked with tears of rage
Thirty years ago, how the words would flow
With passion and precision
But now his mind is dark and dulled
By sickness and indecision
And he stares out the kitchen door
Where the sun will rise no more
Some are born to move the world
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we’d like to be
Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee
The bell tolls for
For you the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee…
The bell tolls for thee…
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Working Them Angels-Rush
Driving away to the east, and into the past
History recedes in my rear-view mirror
Carried away on a wave of music down a desert road
Memory humming at the heart of a factory town
All my life
I’ve been workin’ them angels overtime
Riding and driving and living
So close to the edge
Workin’ them angels
Workin’ them angels
Workin’ them angels - overtime
Riding through the range of light to the wounded city
Filling my spirit with the wildest wish to fly
Oh taking the high road, taking that high road to the wounded city
Memory strumming at the heart of a moving picture
All this time
I’ve been workin’ them angels overtime
Riding and diving and flying
Just over the edge
Workin’ them angels
Workin’ them angels
Workin’ them angels - overtime
Driving down the razor’s edge 'tween the past and the future
Oh, turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
Memory drumming at the heart of an English winter
Memories beating at the heart of an African village
All my life
I’ve been workin’ them angels overtime
Riding and driving and living
So close to the edge
Workin’ them angels
(Workin’ them angels)
Workin’ them angels
(Workin’ them angels)
Workin’ them angels - overtime
Workin’ them angels
Workin’ them angels
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Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home was the lowlands
And always will be
Someday you’ll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you’ll no longer burn to be
Brothers in arms
Through these fields of destruction
Baptism of fire
I’ve watched all your suffering
As a battle raged high
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
So many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones
Now the sun’s gone to hell
And the moon’s riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it’s written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We are fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
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Sing me a song, you’re a singer
Do me a wrong, you’re a bringer of evil
The devil is never a maker
The less that you give, you’re a taker
So it’s on and on and on, it’s heaven and hell
Oh well
The lover of life’s not a sinner
The ending is just a beginner
The closer you get to the meaning
The sooner you’ll know that you’re dreaming
So it’s on and on and on, oh it’s on and on and on
It goes on and on and on, Heaven and Hell
I can tell
Fool, fool
Oh uh
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Well if it seems to be real, it’s illusion
For every moment of truth, there’s confusion in life
Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer
And it’s on and on, on and on and on and on and on and on and on
They say that life’s a carousel
Spinning fast, you’ve got to ride it well
The world is full of kings and queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
It’s heaven and hell, oh well
And they’ll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
It’s heaven and hell, oh no
Fool, fool
You’ve got to bleed for the dancer
Fool, fool
Look for the answer
Fool, fool, fool
Heaven And Hell - Black Sabbath
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I was considering this too!
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You fill up my senses
Like a gallon of maggots
Like a packet of Woodbines
Like a good pinch of snuff
Like a night out in Sheffield
Like a greasy chip butty
Like Sheffield United
Come thrill me again
Apparently these are also the (slightly adapted) favourite lyrics of Toronto FC
Eat your heart out Johnny D
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We can be heroes
Just for one day
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