Your favourite song

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  1. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    Leonard Cohen

    "Everybody Knows"


    Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
    Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
    Everybody knows that the war is over
    Everybody knows the good guys lost
    Everybody knows the fight was fixed
    The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
    Everybody knows that the captain lied
    Everybody got this broken feeling
    Like their father or their dog just died

    Everybody talking to their pockets
    Everybody wants a box of chocolates
    And a long stem rose
    Everybody knows

    Everybody knows that you love me baby
    Everybody knows that you really do
    Everybody knows that you've been faithful
    Ah give or take a night or two
    Everybody knows you've been discreet
    But there were so many people you just had to meet
    Without your clothes
    And everybody knows

    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows

    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows

    And everybody knows that it's now or never
    Everybody knows that it's me or you
    And everybody knows that you live forever
    Ah when you've done a line or two
    Everybody knows the deal is rotten
    Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
    For your ribbons and bows
    And everybody knows

    And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
    Everybody knows that it's moving fast
    Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
    Are just a shining artifact of the past
    Everybody knows the scene is dead
    But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
    That will disclose
    What everybody knows

    And everybody knows that you're in trouble
    Everybody knows what you've been through
    From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
    To the beach of Malibu
    Everybody knows it's coming apart
    Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
    Before it blows
    And everybody knows

    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows

    Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows

    Everybody knows
     
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  3. A4Ever Knows where his towel is Registered Senior Member

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    Haaaa, that reminds me of another favourite of mine:

    Famous Blue Raincoat
    It's four in the morning, the end of December
    I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
    New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
    There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.
    I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
    You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record.

    Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
    She said that you gave it to her
    That night that you planned to go clear
    Did you ever go clear?

    Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
    Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
    You'd been to the station to meet every train
    And you came home without Lili Marlene

    And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
    And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

    Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
    One more thin gypsy thief
    Well I see Jane's awake --

    She sends her regards.

    And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
    What can I possibly say?
    I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
    I'm glad you stood in my way.

    If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
    Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

    Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
    I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

    And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
    She said that you gave it to her
    That night that you planned to go clear --

    Sincerely, L. Cohen
     
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  5. %BlueSoulRobot% Copyright! Copyright!! Registered Senior Member

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    Hey, cool! The Tea Party did a cover of that Rolling Stones song...pretty good, too, I say.

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    This was my mother's favourite song, but I could never be able to play it on the guitar for her

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    <center>Vincent - Don Mclean
    Starry, starry night
    Paint your palette blue and gray
    Look out on a summer's day
    With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
    Shadows on the hills
    Sketch the trees and the daffodils
    Catch the breeze and the winter chills
    In colours on the snowy linen land.

    *Chorus: Now I understand what you tried to say, to me
    And how you suffered for your sanity
    And how you tried to set them free
    They would not listen, they did not know how
    Perhaps they'll listen now...

    Starry, starry night
    Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
    Swirling clouds in violet haze
    Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
    Colours changing hue
    Morning fields of amber grain
    Weathered faces lined in pain
    Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

    *Chorus:
    Bridge: For they could not love you
    But still, your love was true
    And when no hope was left inside
    On that starry, starry night
    You took your life as lovers often do
    But I could've told you, Vincent
    This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you...

    Starry, Starry night
    Portraits hung in empty halls
    Frameless heads on nameless walls
    With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
    Like the strangers that you've met
    The ragged men in ragged clothes
    The silver thorn, a bloody rose
    Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

    Chorus: Now I think I know
    What you tried to say, to me
    And how you suffered for your sanity
    And how you tried to set them free
    They would not listen, they're not listening still
    Perhaps they never will... </center>
     
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  7. Tyler Registered Senior Member

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    "The Tea Party did a cover of that Rolling Stones song...pretty good, too, I say."

    Ug, no offense Blue but that cover was just more of the mindless pop-rock for the teeny-bopper rock wannabe crowd we have today. Creed, Tea Party, Default, Sum41, Teble Charger, Coldplay, P.O.D., Linkin Park...... All of it is brainless, self-indulgent, repetitive and thoughtless "music".

    I'll post a couple of my favourites in a bit.
     
  8. Thor "Pfft, Rebel scum!" Valued Senior Member

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    To Xev


    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

    Love Thor
     
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    None taken

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  10. Thor "Pfft, Rebel scum!" Valued Senior Member

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    To be honest I agree with Tyler about the actual bands. But that was taken too far. Nice responce Blue, again, Kudos.
     
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  12. Thor "Pfft, Rebel scum!" Valued Senior Member

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    Any time
     
  13. Tyler Registered Senior Member

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    The last section of the last Beatles album ever was 3 songs linked together beautifully...

    Lyrically not one of The Beatles' greatest songs these three are amazing musically and, in my opinion, The End features one of the coolest sets of guitar solos ever.


    That song's really only good if you hear it. And it's just one of my personal favs.





    What can I say; when I get high I'm 100% psychedelic!
     
  14. spookz Banned Banned

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    Come listen to my tale of woe
    It happened many years ago
    When stakes were high and morals low
    In hoary old Jerusalem.

    In days of old there lived a maid,
    She was the mistress of her trade,
    A prostitute of high repute,
    The Harlot of Jerusalem.

    Chorus:
    Hi, Ho Kafoozalum
    The harlot of Jerusalem;
    Prostitute of ill repute
    The daughter of the Baba.

    Kafoozalum was a wily witch
    A wanton whore, a brazen bitch
    And she caused every dong to twitch
    That dangled in Jerusalem

    A prince there was, both great and tall
    His cock so strong, could break a wall
    Which fascinated nearly all
    The harlots in Jerusalem.

    Chorus:

    One day, returning from a spree
    His customary hard on, he
    Thought to get a piece for free
    Of the harlot named Kafoozalum.

    He looked and made a forward pass
    Knocked her down onto the grass
    He missed her hole but hit her ass
    The pride of all Jerusalem.

    Chorus:

    Kafoozalum she knew her art
    She arched her back and blew a fart
    That sent him flying like a dart,
    Sailing o'er Jerusalem.

    Now, when the moon is big and red
    His flying form soars overhead
    Raining curses on the head
    Of that wanton whore, Kafoozalum.

    Chorus:
     
  15. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    title and author?

    cmon- why do people forget those

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  16. spookz Banned Banned

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    oh dearie me!

    Kafoozalum, The Harlot of Jerusalem

    translated from assyrian cuneiform texts circa 700 bc
    by MacCrotch, Phil circa 1965
     
  17. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    now we're talkin

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    thanx-

    now to download the song.....
     
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  19. NightFall Lazy Hedonist Valued Senior Member

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    did you really put "Phil MacCrotch" in the search slot?? HAHAHAHA
     
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    My favourites change like the wind, but one always remains constant...

    Winding your way down on Baker Street,
    Light in your head and dead on your feet.
    Well, another crazy day, you’ll drink the night away
    And forget about everything.

    This city desert makes you feel so cold,
    It’s got so many people but it’s got no soul,
    And it’s taken you so long to find out you were wrong
    When you thought it held everything.

    You used to think that it was so easy, you used to say that it was so easy,
    But you’re tryin’, you’re tryin’ now.
    Another year and then you’d be happy, just one more year and then you’d be happy,
    But you’re cryin’, you’re cryin’ now.

    Way down the street there’s a light in his place,
    He opens the door, he’s got that look on his face,
    And he asks you where you’ve been, you tell him who you’ve seen
    And you talk about anything.

    He’s got this dream about buyin’ some land,
    He’s gonna give up the booze and the one night stands,
    And then he’ll settle down, in some quiet little town
    And forget about everything.

    But you know he’ll always keep movin’, you know he’s never gonna stop movin’,
    ’Cause he’s rollin’, he’s the rollin’ stone.
    And when you wake up it’s a new morning, the sun is shining, it’s a new morning,
    And you’re going, you’re going home.

    "Baker Street", Gerry Rafferty

    That SAX! oh god, that sax... the story goes, they were looking for a stand in saxophone player to do the song after deciding a guitar couldn't fill the emotional requirement. They go through heaps of guys, none work... and in walks this old black man with his sax all taped up with masking tape where its cracked. the rest is history.
     
  22. Adam §Þ@ç€ MØnk€¥ Registered Senior Member

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    Squid Vicious

    Damn good choice there.

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  23. Brolly Surivior of third impact Registered Senior Member

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    well this was my personal favorite

    Pure hearts by Rikki (this is the lyric version of aeris theme in FF7 if you want to know or anyone heard it)

    Beyond this road, running on far and long
    Must surely be something we can believe in

    If, like a traveler in the wind
    You went on, aiming for the northern skies

    The hot emotions that have begun to disappear
    Glitter and wave once more
    Within my heart

    I don't want to cry, you see
    So I don't give in to my weak self

    Huge wings
    Unseen only by eyes
    Held by undecorated hearts

    Spread your hands; while singing
    Be embraced by eternal time
    And connect with life

    Beyond this road, running on far and long
    Must surely be something we can believe in
     

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