Here's a selection of lyrics for some of my favourite songs.
As you will see, these songs mean a lot me. A song for every mood...
Please note: This list is sorted alphabetically. FIRST by band/artist name, THEN by song title. The album the song appears on will be placed in brackets next to the song title.
Lovesong For A Vampire
Come into these arms again And lay your body down The rhythm of this trembling heart Is beating like a drum
It beats for you - It bleeds for you It knows not how it sounds For it is the drum of drums It is the song of songs...
Once I had the rarest rose That ever deigned to bloom Cruel winter chilled the bud And stole my flower too soon
Oh loneliness - oh hopelessness To search the ends of time For there is in all the world No greater love than mine
Love, oh love, oh love... Still falls the rain... (still falls the rain) Love, oh love, oh, love... Still falls the night... Love, oh love, oh love... Be mine forever.... (be mine forever) Love, oh love, oh love....
Let me be the only one To keep you from the cold Now the floor of heaven's lain With stars of brightest gold
They shine for you - they shine for you They burn for all to see Come into these arms again And set this spirit free
Like A Stone
On a cobweb afternoon In a room full of emptiness By a freeway I confess I was lost in the pages Of a book full of death Reading how we'll die alone If we're good we'll lay to rest Anywhere we want to go
In your house i long to be Room by room patiently I'll wait for you there Like a stone I'll wait for you there Alone
On my deathbed i will pray To the gods and the angels Like a pagan to anyone Who will take me to heaven To a place i recall I was there so long ago The sky was bruised The wine was bled And there you led me on
In your house i long to be Room by room patiently I'll wait for you there Like a stone I'll wait for you there Alone
And on I read Until the day was gone And i sat in regret Of all the things i've done For all that i've blessed And all that i've wronged In dreams until my death I will wander on
In your house i long to be Room by room patiently I'll wait for you there Like a stone I'll wait for you there Alone
I Hope You Die
...You must die I alone am best!
I hope ya flip some guy the bird He cuts you off and you're forced to swerve In front of the Beatles' tour bus A Bookmobile and a Mack truck Hauling hazardous biological waste The light turns red you have no brakes And "Hard Copy" gets it all on tape So you can see the look on your face
...Die Die Die Die Die Die Die! ...Die Die Die Die Die Die Die!
I hope your Pinto begins to spin Takes out a disabled Vietnam Veteran Mows down a Nobel Peace Prize Winner And maybe some orphans having Christmas dinner Perhaps even the British Royal Family And the Rabbi that's clutching the bottle-fed puppy And we can't forget the newlyweds And those Jerry's Kids are as good as dead
I hope this helps to emphasize I hope this helps to clarify I hope you die
I hope your cellmate thinks he's God But C.N.N. refer to him as "Bowling Ball Bag Bob" Serving time again for abuse of a corpse Only this time the victim's a Clydesdale horse While he masturbates to photos of livestock He does the "Silence of the Lambs" dance to Christian Rock Eats faeces and quotes from "Deliverance" And fights with his imaginary playmate Vince
...Die Die Die Die Die Die Die! ...Die Die Die Die Die Die Die!
I hope he grins like Jack Nicholson And forces you to play a game called Balls On Chin And whatever happens next is all a blur But you remember "fist" can be a verb And when you finally regain consciousness You're bound and gagged in a wedding dress And the prison guard looks the other way 'Cause he's the guy ya flipped the bird the other day
I hope this helps to emphasize I hope this helps to clarify I hope you die
...I hope you die!
A Forest
Come closer and see See into the trees Find the girl If you can Come closer and see See into the dark Just follow your eyes Just follow your eyes
I hear her voice Calling my name The sound is deep In the dark I hear her voice And start to run Into the trees Into the trees
Into the trees
Suddenly I stop But I know it's too late I'm lost in a forest All alone The girl was never there It's always the same I'm running towards nothing Again and again and again and again
Pictures Of You
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you That I almost beleive that they're real I've been living so long with my pictures of you That I almost believe that the pictures are all I can feel
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain As I ran to your heart to be near And we kissed as the sky fell in, holding you close How I always held close in your fear Remembering you running soft through the night You were bigger and brighter and whiter than snow Screamed at the make-beleive, screamed at the sky And you finally found all your courage to let it all go
Remembering you, fallen into my arms Crying for the death of your heart You were stone white, so delicate, lost in the cold You were always so lost in the dark Remembering you, how you used to be Slow drowned, you were angels So much more than everything Hold for the last time then slip away quietly Open my eyes but I never see anything
If only I'd thought of the right words I could've held on to your heart If only I'd thought of the right words I wouldn't be breaking apart All my pictures of you
Looking so long at these pictures of you I never hold on to your heart Looking so long for the words to be true But always just breaking apart My pictures of you
There was nothing in the world that I ever wanted more Than to feel you deep in my heart There was nothing in the world that I ever wanted more Than to never feel the breaking apart My pictures of you
Black Celebration
Let’s have a black celebration Black celebration Tonight
To celebrate the fact That we’ve seen the back Of another black day
I look to you How you carry on When all hope is gone Can’t you see?
Your optimistic eyes Seem like paradise To someone like Me
I want to take you In my arms Forgetting all I couldn’t do today
Black celebration Black celebration Tonight
To celebrate the fact That we’ve seen the back Of another black day
I look to you And your strong belief Me, I want relief Tonight
Consolation I want so much Want to feel your touch Tonight
Take me in your arms Forgetting all you couldn’t do today
Black celebration I’ll drink to that Black celebration Tonight
Enjoy The Silence
Words like violence Break the silence Come crashing in Into my little world Painful to me Pierce right through me Can’t you understand Oh my little girl
All I ever wanted All I ever needed Is here in my arms Words are very unnecessary They can only do harm
Vows are spoken To be broken Feelings are intense Words are trivial Pleasures remain So does the pain Words are meaningless And forgettable
All I ever wanted All I ever needed Is here in my arms Words are very unnecessary They can only do harm
Enjoy the silence
Beat The Bastards
Slaves to the system there's no way out Slaves to the system do you have a shout You've got to beat the bastards and beat 'em now Sick of policies putting me down
Beat the bastards, beat them now Beat the bastards, beat them now Beat the bastards, beat them now
Just out of school don't have a clue No income support for you Can't get a job don't get a chance Sick of politics leaving you out
Beat the bastards, beat them now Beat the bastards, beat them now Beat the bastards, beat them now
Money, money power and strength Teenage kids with not to spend Hungry, homeless, cities are shit Sick of policies leaving me out
Beat the bastards, beat them now Beat the bastards, beat them now Beat the bastards, beat them now
You've got to beat the bastards, beat the bastards, Beat the bastards, you've got to beat the bastards, Beat the bastards, you've got to beat the bastards, You've got to beat the bastards, You've got to beat the bastards, beat the bastards
Slaves to the system there's no way out Slaves to the system do you have a shout You've got to beat the bastards and beat 'em now Sick of policies leaving you out
Beat the bastards, beat them now Beat the bastards, beat them now Beat the bastards, beat them now
Falling To Pieces
Back and forth, I sway with the wind Resolution slips away again Right through my fingers, back into my heart Where it's out of reach and it's in the dark Sometimes I think I'm blind Or I may be just paralyzed
Because the plot thickens every day And the pieces of my puzzle keep crumblin' away But I know, there's a picture beneath
Indecision clouds my vision No one listens... Because I'm somewhere in between My love and my agony You see, I'm somewhere in between My life is falling to pieces Somebody put me together
Layin' face down on the ground My fingers in my ears to block the sound,/br> My eyes shut tight to avoid the sight Anticipating the end, losing the will to fight Droplets of "yes" and "no" In an ocean of "maybe"
From the bottom, it looks like a steep incline From the top, another downhill slope of mine But I know, the equilibrium's there
Indecision clouds my vision No one listens Because I'm somewhere in between My love and my agony You see, I'm somewhere in between My life is falling to pieces Somebody put me together
Midlife Crisis
Go on and wring my neck Like when a rag gets wet A little discipline For my pet genius My head is like a lettuce Go on and dig your thumbs in I cannot stop giving I'm thirty-something
Sense of security Like pockets jingling Midlife crisis Suck ingenuity Down through the family tree
You're perfect, yes, it's true But without me you're only you Your menstruating heart It ain't bleedin' enough for two
It's a midlife crisis...
What an inheritance The salt and the Kleenex Morbid self attention Bending my pinky back A little discipline A donor by habit A little discipline Rent an opinion
Sense of security Holding blunt instrument Midlife Crisis I'm a perfectionist And perfect is a skinned knee
You're perfect, yes, it's true But without me you're only you Your menstruating heart It ain't bleeding enough for two It's a midlife crisis...........
The Bitterest Pill
In your white lace and your wedding bells You look the picture of contented new wealth But from the on-looking fool who believed your lies I wish this grave would open up and swallow me alive For the bitterest pill is hard to swallow The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows
When the wheel of fortune broke, you fell to me Out of grey skies to change my misery The vacant spot, your beating heart took its place But now I watch smoke leave my lips and fill an empty room
For the bitterest pill is hard to swallow The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows
The bitterest pill is mine to take If I took if for a hundred years, I couldn't feel anymore ill
The bitterest pill is mine to take If I took if for a hundred years, I couldn't feel anymore ill
Now autumn's breeze blows summer's leaves through my life Twisted and broken dawn, no days with sunlight The dying spark, you left your mark on me The promise of your kiss, but with someone else
For the bitterest pill is mine to swallow The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows
The bitterest pill is mine to take If I took if for a hundred years, I couldn't feel anymore ill
The bitterest pill is mine to take If I took if for a hundred years, I couldn't feel anymore ill
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
The future teaches you to be alone The present to afraid and cold So if I can't shoot rabbits Then I can shoot fascists
Bullets for your brain today But we'll forget it all again Monuments put from pen to paper Turns me into a gutless wonder
And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next Will be next Will be next Will be next
Gravity keeps my head down Or is maybe shame At being so young And being so vain
Holes in your head today But I'm a pacifist I've walked La Ramblas But not with real intent
And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next Will be next Will be next Will be next
'And on the streets tonight An old man plays With newspaper cuttings Of his glory days'
And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next Will be next Will be next Will be next
Motorcycle Emptiness
Culture sucks down words Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles Organise your safe tribal war Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto
Each day living out a lie Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever
Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness
Life lies a slow suicide Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths From feudal serf to spender This wonderful world of purchase power
Just like lungs sucking on air Survivals natural as sorrow, sorrow, sorrow
Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us All we want from you are the kicks you've given us All we want from you are the kicks you've given us All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness
Drive away and it's the same Everywhere death row, everyone's a victim Your joys are counterfeit This happiness corrupt political shit
Living life like a comatose Ego loaded and swallow, swallow, swallow
Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness Under neon loneliness, motorcycle emptiness Under neon loneliness, everlasting nothingness
Alice
Alice pressed against the wall (live version is 'She stands pressed...') So she can see the door In case the laughing strangers crawl and Crush the petals on the floor
Alice in her party dress She thanks you kindly So serene She needs you like she needs her tranqs To tell her that the world is clean To promise her a definition Tell her where the rain will fall Tell her where the sun shines bright And tell her she can have it all Today
Pass the crystal spread the Tarot In illusion comfort lies The safest way the straight and narrow No confusion, no surprise
Alice in her party dressed to kill She thanks you turns away She needs you like she needs needs her pills To tell that the world's okay To promise her a definition Tell her where the rain will fall Tell her where the sun shines bright And tell her she can have it all Today
Today
Alice Don't give it way
Driven Like The Snow
Still night, nothing for miles White curtain come down Kill the lights in the middle of the road And take a look around... It don't help to be one of the chosen One of the few, to be sure When the wheels are spinning around And the ground is frozen through, and you're Driven like the snow Pure in heart Driven together And given Away to the west A white dress 'Til the river don't run A black dress Looking like mine 'Til the sun don't shine no more Where the sky meets the ground Where the street fold round Where the voice you hold don't Make no sound, look Snow on the river and two by two Took a lot to live a lot like you I don't go there now, but I hear they sung their "Fuck me and marry me young" Some wild idea and a big white bed, now You know better than that, I said Like a voice in the wind blows little crystals down Like brittle things will break before they turn Like lipstick on my cigarette And the ice get harder overhead Like think it twice but never never learn...
And the mist will wrap around us And the crystal, if you touch it...
And the cars Lost in the drift Are there And the people that drive Lost in the drift Are there And the cares I've Lost in the drift Are there Theirs, ours Lost in the drift Are... Driven Driven together And driven Apart
I Was Wrong
You say stay and never leave You say meant for ever I could believe you, but I don't You say we're almost all alone together All alone You say You say you will
I know you won't I was wrong I was wrong to ever doubt I can get along without I can love my fellow man But I'm damned if I'll love yours
In a bar that's always closing In a world where people shout I don't wanna talk this over I don't wanna talk it out I was quite impressed until I hit the floor Isn't that what friends are for? Pain looks great on other people That's what they're for
I was wrong I was wrong to ever doubt I can get along without I can love my fellow man But I'm damned if I'll love yours
You say stay and never leave You say meant for ever I could believe you but I don't You say we're almost all alone together You say You say you will I know you won't
So I was wrong I was wrong to ever doubt I can get along without I can love my fellow man But I'm damned if I'll love yours
In a bar that's always closing In a world where people shout I don't wanna talk this over I don't wanna talk it out I was quite impressed until I hit the floor Isn't that what friends are for? Pain looks great on other men That's what they're for
I was wrong I was wrong to ever doubt I can get along without Yes, I can love my fellow man But I'm damned if I'll love yours
Some Kind Of Stranger
And yes, I believe in What we had But words got in the way And only yesterday As I was leaving Lord knows I tried to say But I've heard a millions conversations Going where they've been before Seen the way that careful lingers undecided At the door
And all I know for sure All I know for real Is knowing doesn't mean so much When placed against the feelings The heat inside When bodies meet When fingers touch
All of my words are second-hand And uselss in the face of this Rationale, rhyme and reason Pale beside the single kiss And I've heard so many things I fail to understand it all I'd settle anytime for unknown footsteps In the hall outside
And all I know for sure All I know for real Is knowing doesn't mean so much When placed against the feelings The heat inside When bodies meet When fingers touch
Because the world is cruel And promises are broken Don't try to tell me anything Don't try to tell me You'll be true to me We know the real truth is never spoken
And I know the world is cold But if you hold on tight to what you find You might not mind too much Though even this must pass away And memories may last for years But names are just for souvenirs Some kind of angel Let me look into your eyes Don't give me whys and wherefores Reason for surprise I don't care for words that don't belong But I don't care what you're called Tell me later if at all I can wait a long long time Before I hear another lovesong
Come here, I think you're beautiful My door is open wide Some kind of angel, come inside
Come here, I think you're beautiful I think you're beautiful, beautiful Some kind of angel, come inside
Come here, I think you're beautiful I think you're beautiful Some kind of angel, come inside
Come here, I think you're beautiful My door is open wide Some kind of stranger, come inside
Come here, I think you're beautiful I think you're beautiful, beautiful Some kind of stranger, come inside
Come here, I think you're beautiful I think you're beautiful Some kind of stranger, come inside
Under The Gun
You don't have to say you're sorry To look on further down the line Into the sun Too close that heaven Love is fine But you can't hold it like a ...
Two worlds apart, two together Into that good night kiss away Into that good night kiss away One takes the hard, one the other Kiss away
Are you living for love? Are you living for love? When the road gets too tough Is your love strong enough?
Are you living? Are you living for love? Are you living for love? Are you living? Are you living for love? Are you living for love?
Do you feel your head is full of thunder? Questions never end? Empty nights alone? No wonder It all comes back again
Are you living for love? Are you living for love? I've been under the gun I've lost and I've ... Are you living for love? Are you living for love? I've been under the gun I'm lost and I've won ..
Forget the many steps to heaven It never happened and it ain't so hard Happiness is a loaded weapon and a Short cut is better by far Explosive bolts, ten thousand volts At a million miles an hour Abrasive wheels and molten metals It's a semi-automatic, get in the car Corrosive heart and frozen heat We're worlds apart where we could meet Where the street fold round and the motors start And the idiot wields the power Where the chosen hold the highest card On the field of honour where the ground is hard So the highest hand is joking wild And the house soon fold and no one stands I put my finger on and dialled The tower, the moon, the gun, and Nine nine nine, singer down Cloudburst and all around The first are last, the blessed get wired The best is yet to come I put my finger on and fired Heat-seeking, out of the sun You can set the controls for the heart or the knees And the meek'll inherit what they damn well please Get ahead, go figure, go ahead and pull the trigger Everything under the gun
Die Laughing
Gimme some room to breathe Gimme a reason to live Close your eyes and see What you had inside
I think I've gone insane I can't remember my own name I think I've gone insane
Now the dream has gone And your friends just tell you lies Then you realise You're gonna die anyway
I think I've gone insane I can't remember my own name I think I've gone insane
Lost in world with no reality I'm frightened to move I'm frightened to speak And will kill for a good nights' sleep I'm feelin' I'm feelin' dead Dead Dead Dead
I Think I've gone insane I can't remember my own name I Think I've gone insane
I can't remember I can't remember I can't remember I can't remember
Beloved
It seems colder than before The seasons took all they had come for Now winter dances here It seems so fitting don't you think? To dress the ground in white And grey
It's so quiet I can hear My thoughts touching every second that I spent Waiting for you But circumstances afford me No second chance To tell you How much I have missed you
My beloved do you know When the warm wind comes again Another year will start to pass And please don't ask me why I'm here Something deeper brings me That I need to remember
We were both young and blessed with wings No height we could not reach There was no Heaven in which we did not soar Though something deeper burned in us I don't regret the choices that I've made I know you feel the same
My beloved do you know How many times I stared at clouds I thought I saw you dancing there These are feelings that do not pass so easily How can I forget what we claimed was ours
Moments lost though time remains I am so proud of what we were No pain remains No feelings Just Eternity awaits Grant me wings that I might fly My restless soul is longing No pain remains No feeling Eternity awaits
My beloved do you know When the warm wind comes again Another year will start to pass And please don't ask me why I'm here Something deeper brings me That I need to remember
My beloved did you know When the warm wind comes again Another year will start to pass Something deeper bound in us I don't regret the choices that I made I know you feel the same
Moments lost though time remains I am so proud of what we were No pain remains No feeling Eternity awaits Grant me wings that I might fly My restless soul is longing No pain remains No feeling Eternity awaits
Moments lost though time remains I am so proud of what we were No pain remains No feelings Eternity awaits Grant me wings that I might fly My restless soul is longing No pain remains No feeling
Eternity awaits
Standing
Eyes betray the soul and bear it's thinking Beyond words they say so many things to me A stranger here reborn it seems Awaking wonders deep in me If nothing's ventured, nothing's gained So I must seize the day
And fighting time so hard I pray That this moment lasts forever And will the world stay standing still at least for me Through my eyes stare into me I bear my heart for all to see With my face turned to the sun there ever standing still
It wasn't you, it wasn't me, it wasn't anyone It was a day so long awaited and a chance to be as me I let the wind run through my hands Before I turned to walk away In distant days I long to sense it all so clear
And fighting time so hard I pray That this moment lasts forever And will the world stay standing still at least for me Through my eyes stare into me I bear my heart for all to see With my face turned to the sun there ever standing still
And fighting time so much I ask I will this moment last forever Though seasons change and things come to pass Remain inside of me And fighting time so hard I pray That this moment lasts forever And will the world stay standing still at least for me
I had no faith before that day in any vow or deed Days followed days and years were meaningless Despite the wisdom of defeat I bore my heart for all to see the wonders I'd seen The wonders I'd seen
And fighting time so hard I pray That this moment lasts forever And will the world stay standing still at least for me Through my eyes stare into me I bear my heart for all to see With my face turned to the sun there ever standing still
And fighting time so much I ask I will this moment last forever Though seasons change and things come to pass Remain inside of me And fighting time so hard I pray That this moment lasts forever And will the world stay standing still at least for me
