Your favorite paragraph from a song...

[DownInFlames]

There are so many but here's one I just thought of:

Peppermint, miniskirts, chocolate candy
Champion sax and a girl named Sandy
There's only four ways to get unraveled
One is to sleep and the other is travel, da da
One is a bandit up in the hills
One is to love your neighbor 'till
His wife gets home

Love that whole album....

 

[bballbaby]

Ice Cube: Today was a Good day


Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God
I don't know but today seems kinda odd
No barking from the dogs, no smog
And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog
I got my grub on, but didn't pig out
Finally got a call from a girl wanna dig out
Hooked it up on later as I hit the do'
Thinking will i live, another twenty-fo'
I gotta go cause I got me a drop top
And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop
Had to stop at a red light
Looking in my mirror not a jacker in sight
And everything is alright
I got a beep from Kim and she can f**k all night
Called up the homies and I'm askin y'all
Which park, are y'all playin basketball?
Get me on the court and I'm trouble
Last week f**ked around and got a triple double
Freaking niggaz everyway like M.J.
I can't believe, today was a good day

Drove to the pad and hit the showers
Didn't even get no static from the cowards
Cause just yesterday them fools tried to blast me
Saw the police and they rolled right past me
No flexin, didn't even look in a niggaz direction
as I ran the intersection
Went to $hort Dog's house, they was watchin Yo! MTV Raps
What's the haps on the craps
Shake em up, shake em up, shake em up, shake em
Roll em in a circle of niggaz and watch me break em
With the seven, seven-eleven, seven-eleven
Seven even back do' lil Joe I picked up the cash flow
Then we played bones, and I'm yellin domino.
Plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A.
Today was a good day

Left my niggaz house paid
Picked up a girl been tryin to f**k since the twelve grade
It's ironic, I had the brew she had the chronic
The Lakers beat the Supersonics I felt on the big fat fanny
Pulled out the jammy, and killed the punanny
And my dick runs deep so deep so deep
put her ass to sleep
Woke her up around one
she didn't hesitate, to call Ice Cube the top gun
Drove her to the pad and I'm coasting
Took another sip of the potion hit the three-wheel motion
I was glad everything had worked out
Dropped her ass off, then I chirped out
Today was like one of those fly dreams
Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams
No helicopter looking for a murder
Two in the morning got the fat burger
Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp
And it read Ice Cube's a pimp
Drunk as hell but no throwing up
Half way home and my pager still blowing up
Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
I got to say it was a good day.

Hey wait, wait a minute Pooh
Stop the s**t
What the f**k am I thinking about?

 

[DLP036]

Its a bit long But its a true story of the rappers Dad's missions in Vietnam He was a chopper pilot.. Listen to the song to check out his cadence his verse is the second one.. If hip hop is not your thing then run away from this post...

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0KpWMNxnM"]YouTube- Jedi Mind Tricks- Uncommon Valor (A Vietnam Story)[/nomedia]

True story...
Call me Thorburn, John H. Staff Sergeant, Marksman
Skilling, killing, illing
I'm able and willing
Kill a village elephant, rapin' and pillage your village
Illegitimate killers, US Military guerillas
This ain't no real war, Vietnam shit
World War II, that's a war, this is just a military conflict
Soothing, drug-abusing, Vietnamese women screwing
Sex, gambling and boozin', all the shit is amusing
Bitches and guns, this is every man's dream
I don't want to go home, where I'm just a ordinary human being
Special OP, Huey chopper gun ship, run shit
Gook run when the mini-gun spit, won't miss, kill shit
Spit four-thousand bullets a minute
Victor Charlie, hit trigger, hit it
I'm in it to win it, get it
The lieutenant hinted the villain, I've ended up killing
I did it, cripple, did it, pictures I painted is vivid, live it
A wizard with weapons, a secret mission we about to begin it
Government funded, behind enemy lines bullets is spraying
It's heating up, a hundred degrees
The enemies the North-Vietnamese, bitch please
Ain't no sweat, I'm told be at ease.
Until I see the pilot got hit, and we about to hit some trees
till the rotor broke, crash land, American man
Cambodia, right in the enemy hand
Take a swig of the whiskey to calm us
Them yellow men wearing black pajamas
They want to harm us
They all up on us
Bang, bang, bullet hit my chest, feel no pain
To my left, the captain caught a bullet right in his brain
Body parts flying, loss of limbs, explosions
Bad intentions, I see my best friend's intestins
Pray to the one above, It's raining and I'm covered in mud
I think I'm dying, I feel dizzy, I'm losing blood
I see my childhood, I'm back in the arms of my mother
I see my whole life, I see Christ, I see bright lights
I see Israelites, Muslims and Christians at peace, no fights
Blacks, Whites, Asians, people of all types
I must have died, then I woke up, suprised I'm alive
I'm in a hospital bed, they rescued me, I survived
I escaped the war, came back
But ain't escape Agent Orange, two of my kids born handicapped
Spastic, quadriplegia, micro cephalic
Cerebral palsy, cortical blindness, name it they had it
My son died he ain't live, but I still try to think positive
Cause in life, God take, God give

 

[Shmear]

Friday Night B!tch Fight by Kesha

I saw you by the pool
Rubbin' up on his leg
Tell him he's lookin' fine
Even though you know he's mine
So then I walk over
You act like nothin's up'Oh hey, are you with him?'
You know that, you dirty slut.

You can go to hell, girl
You better watch yourself
I'm feelin' feisty, alright
Friday night bitch fight

 

[Shmear]

Nickelback- Hero

I am so high. I can hear heaven.
I am so high. I can hear heaven.
Oh but heaven, no heaven dont hear me.

And they say that a hero can save us.
Im not gonna stand here and wait.
I'll hold onto the wings of the eagles.
Watch as we all fly away.

Someone told me love will ALL save us.
But how can that be, look what love gave us.
A world full of killing, and blood-spilling
That world never came.

And they say that a hero can save us.
Im not gonna stand here and wait.
I'll hold onto the wings of the eagles.
Watch as we all fly away.

Now that the world isnt ending, its love that Im sending to you.
It isnt the love of a hero, and thats why I fear it wont do.

And they say that a hero can save us.
Im not gonna stand here and wait.
I'll hold onto the wings of the eagles.
Watch as we all fly away.

 

[ChazHollywood]

"I believe I can see the future
Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
But then again
That might have been a dream
I think I used to have a voice
Now I never make a sound
I just do what I've been told
I really don't want them to come around"

NIN "Every Day Is Exactly The Same"

My favorite lines from that song:
--
I can't remember how this got started
but I can tell you exactly how it will end
--

-Charles

 

[theribdoctor]

What on earth is going on in my heart
Has it turned as cold as stone
Seems these days I don't feel anything
Less it cuts me right down to the bone
What on earth is going on in my heart

My oh my you know it just don't stop
It's in my mind I wanna tear it up
I've tried to fight it tried to turn it off
But it's not enough
It takes a lotta love
It takes a lotta love my friend
To keep your heart from freezing
To push on till the end
My oh my

- David Gray

 

[ChazHollywood]

If y'all can stand a little more NIN, here's one of many excerpts I really enjoy. It's from "We're in This Together". It may be somewhat inaccessible if industrial music puts you off, but if you can dig it it's an achingly beautiful song of hope and devotion in the face of adversity.

--
the farther i fall, i'm beside you
as lost as i get, i will find you
the deeper the wound, i'm inside you
for ever and ever i'm a part of

you and me
we're in this together now
none of them can stop us now
we will make it through some how

you and me
if the world should break in two
until the very end of me
until the very end of you
--

-Charles

 

[CWS]

There's battle lines being drawn,
Nobodys right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Gettin so much resistence from behind,
We gotta stop hey, what's that sound
everybody look what going down...

 

[Northshore04]

"Nothingman" by Pearl Jam

Once divided...nothing left to subtract...
Some words when spoken...can't be taken back...
Walks on his own...with thoughts he can't help thinking...
Future's above...but in the past, he's slow and sinking...
Caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go...

 

[stephen_hannibal]

Can't choose just one paragraph...

"January, 1979 saw a terrible crash (and couldn't help but laugh.)
My ear pressed against the pass like a glass on a wall of a house in a photograph.
My forehead no longer sweet with the holy kisses worthy of your fiery lips.
I was floating in a peaceful sea 'rescued' by a sinking ship.
If I could become the servant of all - no lower place to fall. you watched me like a 10 car highway wreck with detached, vulgar curiosity. this looking
down at the tops of the hats of us passers-by from your 7th story balcony... from such a height you missed the creatures too small for sight carry on covert
conversation and the misguided insects crowned me their grasshopper king with a dance of celebration! after years with a crown on my head I've grown
overfed, unconcerned, and comfortably numb kept busy indulging in pleasures of the wealthy (someone make me afraid of what I've become!) At the first sign
of possible trouble I turned my heels and ran (Oh, I'll never learn) my life is a cup of sugar I borrowed before time began and forgot to return, it was a
matter of time - I always said I could see now I'm going blind, it was a matter of miserable time -- but I heard somewhere there was a cure for useless eyes?"

January 1979- mewithouYou

 

[Doctor Zhivago]

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[Cigar Cowboy]

White Trash
by Fred Eaglesmith

When I met her she was a beauty queen
Who wanted something more
Now she's hanging out with me
In front of the liquor store.
And it won't start when I shut it off
So she has to get the beer
She puts it in the back seat
And she quietly says to me...

When, exactly, did we become white trash?
How come we've got seven dogs living in the g'rage?
How come the only eight-track in our car is Johnny Cash?
When, exactly, did we become white trash?

 

[red]

Aesop rock - 9-5ers anthem
''We the American working population
Hate the fact that eight hours a day
Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us
And we may not hate our jobs,
But we hate jobs in general
That don't have to do with fighting our own causes.
We the American working population
Hate the nine-to-five day-in/day-out
When we'd rather be supporting ourselves
By being paid to perfect the pasttimes
That we have harbored based solely on the fact
That it makes us smile if it sounds dope...''

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rkf5H7J-S0"]YouTube- Aesop Rock - 9-5ers Athem[/nomedia]

 

[cmhicksusmc]

I've got the understanding of a four year old
I've got the piece of mind of a killer's soul
I've got the rationale of a New York cop
I've got the patience of a chopping block

I've got the accumen of a seasoned pro
I've got the legacy of a billion souls
I've got the world down my back, but I don't seem to care
I've got the comprehension of a world unaware

Can't you trip like I do?

-Filter and Crystal Method (Trip Like I Do)

 

[tobii3]

People tell me A and B
They tell me how I have to see
Things that I have seen already clear
So they push me then from side to side
They're pushing me from black to white
They're pushing 'til there's nothing more to hear

But don't push me to the maximum
Shut your mouth and take it home
'Cause I decide the way things gonna be


:cjump:

 

[Dave]

Wow....so many great ones come to mind...a couple that still make me stop and listen closer when I hear them....

Neil Young:
Now you're underneath the stairs
And you're givin' back some glares
To the people who you met
And it's your first cigarette

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon
You're leaving there too soon
****************************
Bruce Springsteen:
The interstate's choked with nomadic hordes
in Volkswagen vans with full running boards dragging great anchors
Followin' dead-end signs into the sores
The angel rides by humpin' his hunk metal whore
**********************************
Elvis Costello:
Nice girls, not one with a defect
Cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct
Red dogs under illegal legs
She looks so good that he gets down and begs
******************************
Cake
Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse,
Assail him, impale him with monster-truck force.

 

[strife]

"Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses"

 

[mwlabel]

I could literally go on for days about this one.

Off the top of my head...

Sleep Serapis, Sleep - Ed Gein Just Wasn't Comfortable In His Own Skin
"You wiped that smile right from my face
So I will scrape that face right from its skull".

Chris LeDoux - This Cowboy's Hat
"You'll ride a black tornado 'cross the western sky
rope an ol blue northern and milk it till it's dry
bulldog the Mississippi, pin it's ears down flat
long before you take this cowboys hat"

Devil Wears Prada - Danger: Wildman!
"All mistakes can be marked by borders,
All of love can be traced to a maker.
It seems as if what is most important,
Isn't noticed when forgotten."

I Killed The Prom Queen - Your Shirt Would Look Better With A Columbian Necktie
"Once ive drawn my final painful breath, and disfigured any beauty my mind has of you.
This princess of pain can be ended elegantly.
With no distaste, no fear of soul decay.
I felt betrayed for so long.
These failures dragged me down.
I whither away.
I will never forgive or forget, a constant reminder, your lifeless heart on a rope around my neck. "

 

[jayro75]

You wanna go down why not
I be like herbie and hand-you-a-cock
And tell you that my name is ak'
Get on your kness, make like the breeze begin to
Blow
But don't give me no ralph lauren grin
If you're not down to go low (deep in my mouth)
I'm all about mouth fuckin
Only if you down for dick suckin
If not, b.j. and a beer...keep truckin
And fuck chapsticks
I'm comin ashy as hell, wit chapped dicks
For your chapped ass lips (down in my mouth)
Creamin your teeth like dentists as I'm rubbin them
With an erection like injections, fuck it I be
Druggin them
Numbing up your tonsils, like ambesol anesthetic
Cummin down your throat like chloraseptic (take it
Out my mouth)
No time for apologin.. girlfriend if you..
Swallowin {gurgle}.. garglin
I'm givin bitches permanent beards
Put your lips here and catch these damn facial hairs
In your mouth

:grin: