Music soothes even the savage beast
Yes, I listen to a lot of music. I have over a hundred CDs and
they're probably by close to 40 different groups. And I listen to
most of them. So my tastes are a little varied. I also like quotes
from lyrics, some of which are pretty instructive about life. (Others
are just plain amusing...)
So here, in no particular order, are some of my favorite bands and the
occasional quote:
Jethro Tull
You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake
up in the Present Day, a million generations removed from expectations
of being who you really want to be.
--"Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day"
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and
in the present tense? Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems
like you're the only person sitting in the audience?
--"Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day"
The
Eagles
You know I've always been a dreamer, spent my life running round, and
it's so hard to change, can't seem to settle down
--"Take It To The Limit"
Hopeless romantics, here we go again...
--"New Kid In Town"
Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table,
but you only want the ones you can't get.
--"Desperado"
Take another shot of courage. Wonder why the right words never
come. You just get numb.
--"Tequila Sunrise"
You don't care about winning but you don't want to lose, after the
thrill is gone.
--"After The Thrill Is Gone"
The Grateful
Dead
Sometimes you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you
look at it right.
--"Scarlet Begonias"
Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little
bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
--"Even The Losers"
The teacher stands in front of the class, but the lesson plan he can't
recall. The student's eyes don't perceive the lies bouncing off every
fucking wall. His composure is well kept. I guess he fears playing
the fool. The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
bullshit that he learned in school
--"Take The Power Back"
Yes, I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight
me. Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance,
hypocrisy, brutality, the elite. All of which are American dreams
--"Know Your Enemy"
I eat too much. I drink too much. I want too much. Too much.
--"Too Much"
Never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught, or
half a page of scribbled lines. Hanging on in quiet desperation is
the English way. The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd
something more to say.
--"Time"
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritter and
waste the hours in an off hand way
--"Time"
And if you're taking your girlfriend out tonight, you better park the
car well out of sight, 'cause if they catch you in the back seat
trying to pick her locks, they're gonna send you back to mother in a
cardboard box
--"Run Like Hell"
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a
wonder I can think at all
--"Kodachrome"
Medicine is magical and magical is art
--"The Boy In The Bubble"
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
--"Homeward Bound"
My mind's distracted and confused, my thoughts are many miles away
--"Kathy's Song"
I don't know why I spend my time writing songs I can't believe with
words that tear and strain to rhyme
--"Kathy's Song"
Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks and I learned much from
both of their styles.
--"Son Of A Son Of A Sailor"
Altan
And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal, pourin' off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
--"Tangled Up In Blue"
All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.
--"Tangled Up In Blue"
Beastie Boys
The Moody Blues
You've gotta have fun sometimes. You've gotta have some fun times.
--"Gotta Have Fun"
The McKrells
The Band
She thinks she's tough. She ain't no English rose.
--"Portobello Belle"
Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers,
and then came the rules
--"Telegraph Road"
When I break down just a little and lose my head, nothing I try to do
can work the same way. Where are all the friends who used to talk to
me, all they ever told me was good news
--"Breakdown"
Think of a boy with the stars in his eyes, longing to reach them but
frightened to try
--"Day After Day"
All that I seem to do is spend the night just talking 'bout you and
your problems. No matter what I say I can't get it right.
--"Let's Talk About Me"
And if the road he's taken isn't leading anywhere, he seems to be
completely unaware
--"Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)"
Abandoning reality, unsure of what he'll find, the traveller in me is
close behind
--"Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)"
If I seem to be calm, well it's all an illusion. Tell me what to do
when the fear of the night comes over me. There's a smile on my face
just to hide the confusion.
--"The Same Old Sun"
I get so lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my
heart. When I want to run away, I drive off in my car.
--"In Your Eyes"
Yeah I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a
little paint...
--"Human Touch"
Baby in a world without pity, do you think what I'm asking's too much?
I just want to feel you in my arms and share a little of that human
touch.
--"Human Touch"
I sat listening to the hours and minutes tickin away. Yeah, just
sittin' around waitin' for my life to begin while it was all just
slippin' away.
--"Better Days"
Then the lights go down and they dance real close and for one brief
instant they pretend they're safe and warm. Then the beat gets louder
and the mood is gone. They hold one another just a little too long.
Then they move apart and then move on. On to the street, on to the
next, safe in the knowledge that they tried. Faking the smile, hiding
the pain, never satisfied.
--"The Fire Inside"
I stood proud, I stood tall, high above it all. I still believed in my
dreams.
--"Like A Rock"
Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely. All of my hopes fading away.
I've longed for love, like everyone else does. I know I'll keep
searching, even after today.
--"We've Got Tonight"
Last Update: 23-Mar-98