Favourite Lyrics

[WillC]

Incubus-Marillion

When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion forewarned

My audience leaves the stage, floating ahead perfumed shift

Within the stammering silence, the face that launched a thousand frames

Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career

You played this scene before, you played this scene before

I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye

A misplaced reaction

The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images

In which you will always be the star, always be the star, untouchable

Unapproachable, constant in the darkness

Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction

With no flower to place before this gravestone

And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin

But that would be developing the negative view

And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour

The public act, let you model your shame

On the mannequin catwalk, catwalk

Let the cats walk, and the cat walks

I’ve played this scene before, I’ve played this scene before

I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye

A misplaced reaction, satisfaction

You can’t brush me under the carpet, you can’t hide me under the stairs

The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear

Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity

Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity

You who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens

You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare

You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask

Just like a greasepaint mask

But now I’m the snake in the grass, the ghost of film reels past

I’m the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun

It’s just begun

Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets

As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows

Flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy’s lips

Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary

My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude

Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt

You’ve played this scene before

[Stacy2]

Thank you @WillC

[Stacy2]

Yeah

I been up, I been down
Take my word, my way around
I ain’t asking for much
I said, Lord, take me downtown
I’m just looking for some tush

I been bad, I been good
Dallas, Texas, Hollywood
I ain’t asking for much
I said, Lord, take me downtown
I’m just looking for some tush

Take me back, way back home
Not by myself, not alone
I ain’t asking for much
I said, Lord, take me downtown
I’m just looking for some tush

• Tush (ZZ Top)

[Stacy2]

Bow to the man who gets to
Give with what he can
Kneel to the universal mother
Say a prayer for that child
Where no one cares
Give a hand to help your brother

We got need for the greedy
And greed for the needy
We eat to feed on one another
Warmth for the chosen
Only fear the frozen
Sincerity lives undercover

Set adrift on the sea of love
Ride on the breeze with only heaven above
You’ll be sailing the sea of love
Open your mind be careful what you find

Hail to the lover
With only love to discover
A broken heart for consolation
Bread for the winner
Others starve for their dinner
The noble cause is in vain

Set adrift on the sea of love
Ride on the breeze with only heaven above
You’ll be sailing the sea of love
Open your mind be careful what you find

Try breathing while your heart’s not beating
Try bleeding when you start to feel
Try crawling while the sky is falling
Try walking while you’re standing still

Set adrift on the sea of love
Ride on the breeze with only heaven above
You’ll be sailing the sea of love
Unlock your mind and let your true love shine

Set adrift on the sea of love
Ride on the breeze with only heaven above
You’ll be sailing the sea of love
Keep yourself alive take your mission to survive
Open your mind believe in what you find

• Sea of love (Def Leppard)

[WillC]

For The Heart I Once Had-Nightwish

Heaven today is but a way

To a place I once called home

Heart of a child, one final sigh

As another love goes cold

Once my heart beat to the rhythm of the falling snow

Blackened below, the river now flows

A stream of molten virgin snow

For the heart I’ll never have

For the child forever gone

The music flows, because it longs

For the heart I once had

Living today without a way

To understand the weight of the world

Faded and torn, old and forlorn

My weak and hoping heart

For the child, for the light

For the heart I once had

I’ll believe and foresee

Everything I could ever be

For the heart I’ll never have

For the child forever gone

The music flows, because it longs

For the heart I once had

Time will not heal a Dead Boy’s scars

Time will kill

For the heart I’ll never have

For the child forever gone

The music flows, because it longs

For the heart I once had

[Stacy2]

Thanks @HermanHuge

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Apologies for this but Shania Twain It was played so much growing up and now I dislike it with a passion

[WillC]

Temples of Syrinx-Rush

More relevant now than 50 years ago!

And the meek shall inherit the earth

We’ve taken care of everything

The words you hear the songs you sing

The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes

It’s one for all and all for one

We work together common sons

Never need to wonder how or why

We are the priests, of the temples of Syrinx

Our great computers fill the hallowed halls

We are the priests, of the temples of Syrinx

All the gifts of life are held within our walls

Look around this world we made

Equality our stock in trade

Come and join the brotherhood of man

Oh, what a nice contented world

Let the banners be unfurled

Hold the red star proudly high in hand

We are the priests, of the temples of Syrinx

Our great computers fill the hallowed halls

We are the priests, of the temples of Syrinx

All the gifts of life are held within our walls

What can this strange device be?

When I touch it, it gives forth a sound

It’s got wires that vibrate and give music

What can this thing be that I found?

See how it sings like a sad heart

And joyously screams out its pain

Sounds that build high like a mountain

Or notes that fall gently like rain

I can’t wait to share this new wonder

The people will all see its light

Let them all make their own music

Priests praise my name on this night

I know it’s most unusual

To come before you so

But I’ve found an ancient miracle

I thought that you should know

Listen to my music

And hear what it can do

There’s something here as strong as life

I know that it will reach you

Yes, we know it’s nothing new

It’s just a waste of time

We have no need for ancient ways

The world is doing fine

Another toy will help destroy

The elder race of man

Forget about your silly whim

It doesn’t fit the plan

No

I can’t believe you’re saying

These things just can’t be true

Our world could use this beauty

Just think what we might do

Listen to my music

And hear what it can do

There’s something here that’s as strong as life

I know that it will reach you

Don’t annoy us further

Oh, we have our work to do

Just think about the average

What use have they for you?

Another toy will help destroy

The elder race of man

Forget about your silly whim

It doesn’t fit the plan

[Stacy2]

Over the mountains, take me across the sky
Something in my visions, something deep inside
Where did I wander?
Where do you think I wandered to?
I’ve seen life’s magic,
astral plane I travel through

I heard them tell me that
this land of dreams was now
I told them I had ridden shooting
stars and said I’d show them how

Over and over, always tried to get away
Living in a daydream, only place I had to stay
Fever of a breakout burning in me miles wide
People around me talking to the walls inside

I heard them tell me that this
land of dreams was now
I told them I had ridden shooting
stars and said I’d show them how

Don’t need no astrology,
it’s inside of you and me
You don’t need a ticket to fly with me,
I’m free, yeah

Over and under, in between the ups and downs
Mind on a carpet,
magic ride goes around and 'round
Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
Watching my body disappear into the crowds

Don’t need no astrology,
it’s inside of you and me
You don’t need a ticket to fly with me,
I’m free, yeah

• Over the mountain (Ozzy)

[WillC]

The Age of Innocence-Iron Maiden 23 years later and these lyrics are more relevant than ever…

I can’t be compromising in my thoughts anymore

I can’t prevent the times my anger fills my heart

I can’t be sympathizing with a new lost cause

I feel I’ve lost my patience with the world and all

And all the politicians and their hollow promises

And all their lies, deceit and shame that goes with it

The working man pays everything for their mistakes

And with his life too if there was to be a war

So we only get one chance, can we take it?

And we only get one life, can’t exchange it

Can we hold on to what we have? Don’t replace it

The age of innocence is fading… Like an old dream

A life of petty crime gets punished with a holiday

The victim’s minds are scarred for life most everyday

Assailants know just how much further they can go

They know the laws are soft, conviction chances low

So we only get one chance, can we take it?

And we only get one life, can’t exchange it

Can we hold on to what we have? Don’t replace it

The age of innocence is fading… Like an old dream

You can’t protect yourself even in your own home

For fear of vigilante cries the victims wipe their eyes

So now the criminals they laugh right in your face

Judicial system lets them do it, a disgrace

Despondent public worries where it all will end

We can’t protect ourselves our kids from crime the trend

We cannot warn each other of evil in our midst

They have more rights than us, you cannot call that just

So we only get one chance, can we take it?

And we only get one life, can’t exchange it

Can we hold on to what we have? Don’t replace it

The age of innocence is fading… Like an old dream

The age of innocence is fading like an old dream…

[WillC]

Emotion Detector-Rush

When we lift the covers from our feelings

We expose our insecure spots

Trust is just as rare as devotion

Forgive us our cynical thoughts

If we need too much attention

Not content with being cool

We must throw ourselves wide open

And start acting like a fool

If we need too much approval

Then the cuts can seem too cruel

Right to the heart of the matter

Right to the beautiful part

Illusions are painfully shattered

Right where discovery starts

In the secret wells of emotion

Buried deep in our hearts

It’s true that love can change us

But never quite enough

Sometimes we are too tender

Sometimes we’re too tough

If we get too much attention

It gets hard to overrule

So often fragile power turns

To scorn and ridicule

Sometimes our big splashes

Are just ripples in the pool

Feelings run high

[Stacy2]

The different shades of white
Are in my head tonight
What happened to the colours of fire?
What happened to the colours?

She is painting forty different shades of white
On white paper
On white paper
Glowing happiness arrived the day
Baby came to stay
And all is well in the new world

I, on the other hand
Can’t seem to settle down
My eyes hurry not to see
her falling away from me

I’m painting forty different shades of green
For all I’m worth, on yesterday’s paper
But innocence is never news
The black keeps bleeding through
Only to reveal our worldly blues

Doesn’t seem so long since we were young
Oh, when we were young
When we were young

I see families walking in the park
Who seem quite happy to live this way
She asks me, “What’s the matter darling?
You’re suddenly grey. You don’t look well…”
The arms of another
It’s my idea of hell

So shout if you find a way
back to the light and air
Laughing and changing the subject
Ain’t gonna get you there

The different shades of white
Fill my head tonight
What happened to the colours?
What happened to the colours?

The different shades of white
Are everywhere tonight
What happened to the colours of fire?

I used to be centre-stage
Time I should act my age
And watch from the shadowed wings
All these beautiful things
All these beautiful things

Even now
My eyes that hurry to
see no more are painting, painting
Faces of my lost girl

• White paper (Marillion)

[Stacy2]

Restless heart, restless mind,
I’m tired of wasting,
My precious time.

There are times in my life,
I don’t know witch way to turn,
When everything I touch
I get my fingers burned…
Dreams to ashes, ashes to dust,
When all that glitters
Is dull with rust…

Restless heart, restless mind,
I’m tired of wasting,
My precious time…

I’m torn and tattered,
Shattered and worn,
I’ve had enough
Trying to live my life
In the eye of the storm…
Every heartache
Leaves a scar on my face,
Somebody reach out
Or throw me a line,
Get me out of this place…

Restless heart, restless mind,
I’m tired of wasting, wasting,
My precious time…

Oh, so tired.

Restless heart, restless mind,
I’m tired of wasting,
My precious time…

Restless heart, restless mind,
I’m tired of wasting, wasting,
All of my precious time…

Restless heart, restless mind,
So I’m tired of wasting, wasting,
All of my precious time, time, time

Restless heart…

• Restless heart (Whitesnake)

[wildflower]

Fallout - Alter Bridge

Oooooo.
Another river runs against the grain
Another is born
Each filled with anguish
Deep within he’s dying every day
To find his way
He is lost
So consumed

Can you feel him somewhere in the fallout
Is someone just like you
Who’s lost to find the truth
Can you hear him from afar he cries out
For the answer to be shown
As he dares to walk the fallout on his own

So frustrated
He walks the line alone
Courage sets him apart
He is so famished
All he once embraced he now disowns
He let it go
All the while
He still waits

Can you feel him somewhere in the fallout
He is someone just like you
Who’s lost to find the truth
Can you hear him from afar he cries out
For the answer to be shown
As he dares to walk the fallout on his own

Left behind he’s walking burning still he tries
To unearth the meaning to this life
Cast aside his weary bleeding (?)
Disconnected still he fights to the lost (?)

Can you feel him somewhere in the fallout
Is someone just like you
Who’s lost to find the truth
Can you hear him from afar he cries out
For the answer to be shown
As he dares to walk the fallout on his own

[Stacy2]

I’m hypnotised
and helpless
Beneath the pale
full moon
My body is your sacrifice
You spirit’s coming soon

I stare up at a
squalid night

It’s been so cold
and smooth
Turns tender kisses
into bites
As you begin to move

You look so weak
and fragile
You seem to drip
and sway
But you swept me up into
your arms
And carried me away

I’m living bad dreams
I can’t run from you
I’m living bad dreams
This nightmare’s
coming true

You led me to temptation
Delivered me to pain
I walked upon you
hallowed ground
My soul is yours to gain

Your passion drains
my energy
Fear starts running deep
I’m falling in
slow motion
Into eternal sleep

I’m living bad dreams
I can’t run from you
I’m living bad dreams
This nightmare’s
coming true

Lead Break

Your passion drains
my energy
Fear starts running deep
I’m falling in
slow motion
Into eternal sleep
I’m living bad dreams

I can’t run from you
I’m living bad dreams
This nightmare’s
coming true

I’m living bad dreams
I can’t run from you
I’m living bad dreams
This nightmare’s
coming true

I’m living bad dreams
Oh oh
I don’t want bad dreams
Living bad dreams

• Living bad dreams (Judas Priest)

[Stacy2]

They try to trace her in the town
Appeal for information on the local news
Someone must have missed her by now
A mother or a father or
a friendly face to talk her down
She’s heading for the great escape
Heading for the rave
Heading for the permanent holiday…

I. Wave

Hold your breath 'till you feel it begin
Here it comes
Do you feel that?
Feel this?
Get used to it

She had the face of the Statue of Liberty
Oh free me
The fire and ice of Amazon and Eskimo
Take me home
The edge and the glance of high fashion
Ask me about next year

II. Mad

Tell me I’m mad
How should I know
Tell me I’m mad
I have been here for so long
Help me paint a picture
They say it’s a lie
Tell me I’m mad
You’re a fine one to decide

Burn me in the fires of wild heaven
Like it never never never would stop
Tell me I’m mad
Tell me I imagined that
Was it something I didn’t say?
Or was it something I said
Leave that stuff alone
Use me instead

I know I’m always falling off the edge of the world
I got space in my bed
You’ve got Egypt in your head
I’ve got a headful of Troy
Chandeliers and Charlemagne
Fireworks and toys

III. The Opium Den

“Hold your breath till you feel it begin
Here it comes
Get used to it”

But you sleep like a ghost with me
It’s as simple as that
So tell me I’m mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again

IV. The Slide

Make a drug of my senses
I’ll get you out of your head
I’m sick for you
Love wastes us together
Love holds us together
Love folds us together
Flowers

V. Standing In The Swing

I don’t know what you’re doing here
When there’s murder on the street
I appreciate your concern
But don’t waste your time on me
I’m ashes on the water now
Somewhere far away
You think you came here just in time
But you’re twenty years too late
You won’t have long to wait

“Easy, you said I was easy. This world sharpens teeth. Eat your words…”

• Goodbye to all that (Marillion)

[wildflower]

Child Of Babylon - Whitesnake

Well, I heard the sound of thunder
On the day that I was born
I was blinded by the lighting
And baptized in the storm

My father started crying
When he saw what he had done
But my mother started praying
Have mercy on my son
He is a child of Babylon

I am a child of Babylon
Lord, have mercy on a wayward son
And nowhere to hide, nowhere to run
I am a child, a child of Babylon

Well, I’ve fooled around so many times
When I’ve known it ain’t been right
But I paint it all in colors
When it really should be black and white

I sail my ship through muddy water
Try to open every door
When I saw the seven wonders
It left me wanting more

I am a child of Babylon
Lord, have mercy on a wayward son
And nowhere to hide, got no place to run
I am a child, a child of Babylon

On my day of judgement
I know how it will be
I’m prepared to meet my maker
With no hope for charity

I’ll stand alone and pay the price
For everything I’ve done
'Cause there ain’t a guardian angel
For a child of Babylon

I am a child, child of Babylon
I am a child of Babylon
Lord, have mercy on a wayward son
Nowhere to hide, got no place to run
I am a child, child of Babylon

Child of Babylon

[wildflower]

Feelin’ - Van Halen

Outta touch most the time
Gotta lotta things on my mind
Kickin’ down, where to start
It’s the hardest thing
Oh Lord
Grow it long, shave it off
Life is hard, never soft
I need a change, I need it quick
Before it makes me sick
That’s what’s on my mind
Now pay attention, watch your back
Pay your dues and stay on track
Got no room to second-guess
Puts me under stress
Oh Lord
If I were you, if you were me
I wonder who I’d want to be
With just one wish you can’t refuse
I wouldn’t know what to choose
Yeah, feelin’ no
I don’t like what I’ve been told I’m feelin’
Feelin’ what no one else will ever know I’m feelin’
Oh
Now black is white and white is black, ah
Got politicians smokin’ crack
And John Paul’s all bullet-proofed
And it puts me through the roof
And yeah
If I were you and you were me
I wonder who I’d rather be
If I had one wish I’d take it
Feelin’ oh, I don’t like what I’ve been told I’m feelin’
And I’m seein’
What no one else will ever know I’m Seein’
Come on, feelin’
Hey, I don’t understand these things I’m feelin’
No
Yeah
Hey, hey yeah
Oh, yeah
Huh
Outta touch most all the time
Got too many things on my mind
Shuttin’ down, I gotta stop this thing
Yeah, feelin’ no, I don’t like what I’ve been told I’m feelin’
And I’m bleeding like no one else will ever know I’m bleeding
Oh dealin’
I’m dealin’ with these things I’m feelin’
Oh, I’m dreamin’
I’m dreamin’
I’m dreamin’ things that show me what I’m seein’
Yeah, Seein’
I’m seein’ things that I don’t Know I’m feelin’
I’ve been feelin’
I’m feelin’
I’m feelin’ things that I don’t
I don’t know, I don’t know what I’m seein’
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey, I don’t understand

[Stacy2]

Tomorrow soon turns into yesterday
Everything we see just fades away
There’s sky and sand
where mountains used to be
Time drops by a second to eternity

It doesn’t matter if we turn to dust
Turn and turn and turn we must!
I guess I’ll see you dancing in the ruins tonight!
Dancing in the ruins!
Guess I’ll see you dancing in the ruins tonight!

There’s laughter where I used to see your tears
It’s all done with mirrors, have no fears
There’s nothing pure or sacred in our time
The nights we spend together are no crime

It doesn’t matter if we turn to dust
Turn and turn and turn we must!
I guess I’ll see you dancing in the ruins tonight!
Dancing in the ruins!
Guess I’ll see you dancing in the ruins tonight!

Like marble statues all with gold inlaid
In castles built of silence, let us play
Even though our skulls rot in our flesh
We can build a laser, tear the mesh

It doesn’t matter if we turn to dust
Turn and turn and turn we must
I guess I’ll see you dancing in the ruins tonight! Dancing in the ruins!
Guess I’ll see you dancing in the ruins tonight! Dancing in the ruins!
Guess I’ll see you dancing in the ruins tonight! Dancing in the ruins!
Guess I’ll see you dancing in the ruins tonight!
Dancing in the ruins!

• Dancin’ in the ruins (Blue Oyster Cult)

[Stacy2]

You know I need your love
You’ve got that hold over me
Long as I got your love
You know that I’ll never leave
When I wanted you to share my life
I had no doubt in my mind
And it’s been you, woman
Right down the line

I know how much I lean on you
Only you can see
The changes that I’ve been through
Have left a mark on me
You’ve been as constant as the Northern Star
The brightest light that shines
It’s been you, woman
Right down the line

I just wanna say this is my way
Of tellin’ you everything
I could never say before

Yeah, this is my way
Of tellin’ you that every day
I’m lovin’ you so much more

'Cause you believed in me
Through my darkest night
Put something better inside of me
You brought me into the light
I threw away all those crazy dreams
I put them all behind
And it was you, woman
Right down the line

I just wanna say this is my way
Of tellin’ you everything
I could never say before

Yeah, this is my way
Of tellin’ you that every day
I’m lovin’ you so much more

If I should doubt myself
If I’m losin’ ground
I won’t turn to someone else
They’d only let me down
When I wanted you to share my life
I had no doubt in my mind
And it’s been you, woman
Right down the line

• Right down the line (Gerry Rafferty)

[Stacy2]

I’m caught in a dream
Sometimes it ain’t what it seems
I’m all in a daze
Can’t find my way out of this maze

I’m looking for clues
And wanting a change in the rules
I’m locked in a cage
Acting out on the wrong stage

Don’t want your sympathy, no no no
Don’t need the third degree, no no no
Just gotta break away and scream
I’m caught in a dream

I’m stood at the edge and I’m looking down
Caught in the danger zone
I feel like a king that has lost his crown
And now I stand here alone

Don’t want your sympathy, no
Don’t need the third degree, no
Just gotta break away and scream
I’m caught in a dream!!!

Fractured love, fractured love
Iron fist in a velvet glove
Fractured love, fractured love
Cracks in the mirror of this fractured love

I don’t care if you pull down the sky
Angry passion is a friend of mine
Reach out for the sky above
It’s just a fractured love

Fractured love, fractured love
Iron fist in a velvet glove
Fractured love, fractured love
Cracks in the mirror of this fractured love

I’m caught in a dream
Why don’t you set me free?

Don’t want your sympathy
Don’t want your third degree
Just gotta break…
Break away and scream!!!

Caught in a dream
Why don’t you set me free?

Fractured love, fractured love
Iron fist in a velvet glove
Fractured love, fractured love
Cracks in the mirror of this fractured love

Fractured love, fractured love
Fractured love, fractured love
Iron fist in a velvet glove
Fractured love, fractured love
Fractured love, fractured love
Don’t give me your fractured love!

• Fractured love (Def Leppard)