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Old 06-02-2010, 04:32 PM   #461 (permalink)
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Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking

This song is 3:39 of pure poetic excellence!

The piano has been drinking
my necktie is asleep
and the combo went back to New York
the jukebox has to take a leak
and the carpet needs a haircut
and the spotlight looks like a prison break
cause the telephone's out of cigarettes
and the balcony's on the make
and the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking...

and the menus are all freezing
and the lightman's blind in one eye
and he can't see out of the other
and the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid
and he showed up with his mother
and the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking

cause the bouncer is a Sumo wrestler
cream puff casper milk toast
and the owner is a mental midget
with the I.Q. of a fencepost
cause the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking...

and you can't find your waitress
with a Geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends
and you just can't get served
without her
and the box-office is drooling
and the bar stools are on fire
and the newspapers were fooling
and the ash-trays have retired
the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking
not me, not me, not me, not me, not me
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Old 06-02-2010, 04:58 PM   #462 (permalink)
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"Now I have an American Dream but it involves Black Masks and Gasoline!"-Rise Against. Song Black Masks and Gasoline.
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Old 06-03-2010, 02:02 AM   #463 (permalink)
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Then there are times when I can't seem to understand at all
And yes
It seems as though I'm going nowhere
Really ****ing fast

There are so many others, but that one came to mind first. See my signature for another favorite.
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Old 06-03-2010, 11:17 AM   #464 (permalink)
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F**k it all and no regrets
I hit the lights on these dark sets
I need a voice to let myself
To let myself go free
F**k it all and f**king no regrets
I hit the lights on these dark sets
Medallion noose, I hang myself
St. Anger 'round my neck

I don't like the song too much but it's nice to listen to when you are pissed off.
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Old 06-03-2010, 07:32 PM   #465 (permalink)
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And I wonder, still I wonder who'll stop the rain
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Old 06-03-2010, 07:52 PM   #466 (permalink)
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May Elvis turn in his grave and Les Paul curse my dirty calloused fingers.
or
I lost the confidence to right a song so I found three simple chords and held them together with my weak voice on an out of tune guitar my father gave to me.
Both are from "What We Worked For"
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Old 06-03-2010, 10:09 PM   #467 (permalink)
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Quote:
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the single line i'm digging the most currently would have to be:

why can't i see the sunspots in your eyes?

mostly because of how it's delivered.
damn good song, chap.
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Old 06-04-2010, 07:26 PM   #468 (permalink)
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Now some of us are weak, and some endure
And some people live their lives, with a violence that's pure and clean
But I saw a man cry once, down on his knees
In the corner of a darkened cell, and his pain meant nothing to me
But I was younger then, and young men never die
When I walked out in the sun, I was strong, clear minded,
and blind
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Old 06-05-2010, 12:10 AM   #469 (permalink)
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I want something good to die for to make it beautiful to live-Go With the Flow by Queens of the Stoneage is one of my all time favorites
Im really digging the lyrics from Wake Up right now, "Children Wake Up, Hold Your Mistake Up, Before they turn summer into dust" I think hes saying if people dont start repenting God will come and destroy the earth leaving it to dust..and of course his screaming line "We're just a million little gods causi nrainstorms, turning every good thing to rust"
I just did a cover of it if you wanna check out my youtube profile
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Old 06-05-2010, 07:50 AM   #470 (permalink)
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Poison oak, some boyhood bravery
When the telephone was a tin can on a string
And I fell asleep with you still talking to me
You said you weren't afraid to die

In Polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes
Were you made ashamed?
Why did you lock them in the drawer?
And I don't think that I ever loved you more

Than when you turned away
When you slammed the door
When you stole the car and drove towards Mexico
And you wrote bad checks just to fill your arm
I was young enough, I still believed in war

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep
And all their tearful words could turn back into steam

But me, I'm a single cell on a serpent's tongue
And there's a muddy field where a garden was
And I'm glad you got away, but I'm still stuck out hear
My clothes are soaking wet from your brother's tears

And I never thought this life was possible
You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for

The end of paralysis, I was a statuette
Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench
And when I press the keys, it all gets reversed
The sound of loneliness makes me happier


Poison Oak - Bright Eyes
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