Song Quotes/Lyrics

When in Rome--The Promise

If you need a friend,
Don't look to a stranger,
You know in the end,
I'll always be there.

And when you're in doubt,
And when you're in danger,
Take a look all around,
And I'll be there.

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. (I promise)
But if you wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you I will.

When your day is through,
And so is your temper,
You know what to do,
I'm gonna always be there.

Sometimes if I shout,
It's not what's intended.
These words just come out,
With no gripe to bear.

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. (I promise)
But if you wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you...

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. (I promise)
And if I had to walk the world, to make you fall for me,
I promise you, I promise you I will.

I gotta tell ya, I need to tell ya, I gotta tell ya, I gotta tell yaaaa ...

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. (I promise)
But if you wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me,
I promise you, I promise you...

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. (I promise)
And if I have to walk the world to make you fall for me,
I promise you, I promise you I will ...
I will...
I will...
I will...

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.

When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head,
Feed your head"

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This will make my 77th post in this thread. Today is a new beginning. Most of my post in this thread have been directed towards someone. This will happen no more. For now on, they are just for fun.

Oh, I know something
About the ways of loving
And I tell you, baby,
That something’s wrong
Look to the sky above and the mud below
Something drives me crazy, got to got to get away
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!

Without a doubt, I’m telling you I’m burnt out
My tank is running on empty for far too long
Woah! I need fuel ’cause I’m getting so low
Something drives me crazy, got to, got to get away
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!

I need fuel, just the kind you give me
Makes me feel so bad
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!

I can’t believe
I’m still around
It’s getting kinda late
Gonna leave
For a change of scenery
I’m going crazy
It’s not the same
Since you’ve been around

I’m crazy, so crazy
You treat me like a dirty clown
You’re always kickin’ my dog around
I never get nothin’ but constant abuse from you
You couldn’t care less what I think, or my point of view

You’re always puttin’ the make on my friends, always giving
Them eyes and the dirty lies ’bout me and you, well i’m
Through, it’s the end of the line for you babe, here’s a
Ticket one way cincinnati, I’m sendin’ you home to your ma
And your daddy, so don’t try to call me, you’ll only be wastin’ your
Time!

Oh, I know something
About the ways of loving
And I tell you, baby,
That something’s wrong
Look to the sky above and the mud below
Something drives me crazy, got to got to get away
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!


LOL!

You know who this song is for...

You jump in front of my car when you,
You know all the time that
Ninty miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive
You tell me it’s alright, you don’t mind a little pain
You say you just want me to take you for a ride

You’re just like crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don’t need to run over you
Crosstown traffic
All you do is slow me down
And I’m tryin’ to get on the other side of town

I’m not the only soul who’s accused of hit and run
Tire tracks all across your back
I can see you had your fun
But darlin’ can’t you see my signals turn from green to red
And with you I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead

You’re just like crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don’t need to run over you
Crosstown traffic
All you do is slow me down
And I got better things on the other side of town

Fiyero!
Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen

Let his flesh not be torn
Let his blood leave no stain
Though they beat him
Let him feel no pain
Let his bones never break
And however they try
To destroy him
Let him never die:
Let him never die:

Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen
Eleka nahmen nahmen
Ah tum ah tum eleka: eleka:

What good is this chanting?
I don't even know what I'm reading!
I don't even know which trick I ought to try
Fiyero, where are you?
Already dead, or bleeding?
One more disaster I can add to my
Generous supply?

No good deed goes unpunished
No act of charity goes unresented
No good deed goes unpunished
That's my new creed
My road of good intentions
Led where such roads always lead
No good deed
Goes unpunished!

Nessa:
Doctor Dillamond:
Fiyero:
Fiyero!!

One question haunts and hurts
Too much, too much to mention:
Was I really seeking good
Or just seeking attention?
Is that all good deeds are
When looked at with an ice-cold eye?
If that's all good deeds are
Maybe that's the reason why

No good deed goes unpunished
All helpful urges should be circumvented
No good deed goes unpunished
Sure, I meant well -
Well, look at what well-meant did:
All right, enough - so be it
So be it, then:
Let all Oz be agreed
I'm wicked through and through
Since I can not succeed
Fiyero, saving you
I promise no good deed
Will I attempt to do again
Ever again
No good deed
Will I do again!

Ooooh yeah!!!...
Aall right!!!...

Well, I don't show off, don't criticize,
I'm just livin' by my own feelings.
And I won't give in, won't compromise,
Coz I only have a steadfast heart of gold...

I don't know why. I can't leave though it might be tough,
But I ain't out of control, just livin' by my word.
Don't ask me why, I don't need a reason.
I got my way. My own way!!!

It doesn't matter now what happens. I will never give up the fight!!!
Long as the voice inside drives me to run and fight,
It doesn't matter who is wrong and who is right!

Well, I won't look back I don't need to,
Time won't wait and I got so much to do.

Where do I stop now, it's all a blur, it's so unclear.
Well, I don't know but I can't be wrong!

It doesn't matter now what happens. I will never give up the fight!!!
Long as the voice inside drives me to run and fight,
Place all your bets on the one you think is right!

(Guitar Solo)

Ooh.. It doesn't matter now what happens. I will never give up the fight!!!
Long as the voice inside drives me to run and fight,
It doesn't matter who is wrong and who is right!

No! No! No! No...

It doesn't matter!!!

Later,
Trisa

I don't know why I feel this way
I don't know if it's right or wrong to laugh at misfortune
Darkness can never last too long

Every time I think I'm falling
And there's nobody around to hold me up
And it seems like the world has come to an end
I look for miles but not a face is friendly
Then suddenly a hole opens up in the ground
The bottom of the hole is a raging fire
I try to jump over but there's no way
The next thing I know, I'm going down


Does it hurt?
Oh, it really doesn't matter
Does it burn?
Oh, I don't feel a thing
Does it sting?
Oh, yeah, it really doesn't matter
Does it hurt?
Oh, I don't give a damn
When I find myself falling and I hit the bottom
It only makes me laugh
It only makes me laugh
When I go down the hole and I hit the bottom

The last time that I fell in love
The love was milk and honey but the milk turned sour
The woman became a monster
And everyone I knew had become a stranger
And the room went black and my luck was spent
The floor opened up, down I went

Does it hurt?
Oh, it really doesn't matter
Does it burn?
Oh, I don't feel a thing
Does it sting?
Oh, yeah, it really doesn't matter
Does it hurt?
Oh, I don't give a damn
When I find myself falling and I hit the bottom
It only makes me laugh
It only makes me laugh
When I go down the hole and I hit the bottom

It only makes me laugh
It only makes me laugh
It only makes me laugh
Coming right back
Coming right back
'Cause you can't keep me down
Can't keep me down
Oh, in the ground

Does it hurt?
Oh, it really doesn't matter
Does it burn?
Oh, I don't feel a thing
I don't mind just a little pain
Ooh, oh yeah
Whoa...

Remembering when I was a young man
How everything seemed to turn against me
I didn't know a soul, it was an alien place
The sun was covered by a dark cloud
And though I tried, I couldn't find a way to escape
The only way to go was straight down

Does it hurt?
Oh, it really doesn't matter
Does it burn?
Oh, I don't feel a thing
Does it sting?
Oh, yeah, it really doesn't matter
Does it hurt?
Oh, I don't give a damn
When I find myself falling and I hit the bottom
It only makes me laugh
It only makes me laugh
When I go down the hole and I hit the bottom


It only makes me laugh
It only makes me laugh
It only makes me laugh
It only makes me laugh

I don't know why I feel this way
I don't know if it's right or wrong to laugh at misfortune
Darkness can never last too long...
When you laugh in its face
When you laugh in its face
I don't know why I feel this way...

"Semi-Charmed Life"


DU-DU-DU x's 24

I'm packed and I'm holding
I'm smiling, she's living, she's golden
And she lives for me
She says she lives for me
Ovation
She's got her own motivation
She comes round and she goes down on me
And I make her smile
It's like a drug for you
Do ever what you want to do
Coming over you
Keep on smiling, what we go through
One stop to the rhythm that divides you
And I speak to you like the chorus to the verse
Chop another line like a coda with a curse
And I come on like a freak show takes the stage
We give them the games we play, she said
I want something else
To get me through this
Semi-charmed kind of life BABY!! BABY!!
I want something else
I'm not listening when you say
Good-bye......
DU-DU-DU x's 24
The sky it was gold, it was rose
I was taking sips of it through my nose
And I wish I could get back there
Some place back there
Smiling in the pictures you would take
Doing crystal myth
Will lift you up until you break
It won't stop
I won't come down, I keep stock
With a tick-tock rhythm and a bump for the drop
And then I bumped up
I took the hit I was given
Then I bumped again
And then I bumped again
How do I get back there to
The place where I fell asleep inside you?
How do I get myself back to
The place where you said
I want something else
To get me through this
Semi-charmed kind of life BABY!! BABY!!
I want something else
I'm not listening when you say
Good-bye.............
I believe in the sand beneath my toes
The beach gives a feeling
An earthy feeling
I believe in the faith that grows
And the four right chords can make me cry
When I'm with you I feel like I could die
And that would be all right
All right...
When the plane came in
She said she was crashing
The velvet it rips
In the city we tripped
On the urge to feel alive
But now I'm struggling to survive
The days you were wearing
That velvet dress
You're the priestess, I must confess
Those little red panties
They pass the test
Slide up around the belly
Face down on the mattress
One
Now you hold me
And we're broken
Still its all that I want to do
Feel myself with a head made of the ground
I'm scared but I'm not coming down NO!! NO!!
And I won't run for my life
She's got her jaws just locked now in smile
But nothing is all right
All right.........
I want something else
To get me through this
Semi charmed kind of life baby...
I want something else....
I'm not listening when you say
Good-bye...
Good-bye....
GOOD-BYE!!!!!!!!!!
GOOD BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
DU-DU-DU!!! x's 24!!!

There are two of us talking in circles
And one of us who wants to leave
In a world created for only us
An empty cage that has no key
Don’t you know we’re working with flesh and blood
Carving out of jealousy
Crawling into each other it’s smothering
Every little part of me

What kind of love is this that keeps me
Hanging on
Despite everything it’s doing to me
What is this love that keeps me coming
Back for more
When it will only end in misery

I know too many people unhappy
In a life from which they’d love to flee
Watching others get everything offered
They’re wanton for discovery
Oh my brother my sister my mother
You’re loosing your identity
Can’t you see that it’s you in the window
Shining with intensity

What kind of love is this that keeps me
Hanging on
Despite everything it’s doing to me
What is this love that keeps me coming
Back for more
When it will only end in misery

With you in my usual sight, I can breath
Even though that's already plenty enough to me

The petty me does nothing but repeat mistakes
How strong a strength do I need to have so that nothing will get hurt?

Without hesitation, I believe in this love and live on
I'll tightly embrace your unbandaged wound

And together we'll keep on walking, because we can't go back
Even now, the inerasable sin deep in my chest hurts, but-
Darling

I remember the painfulness of the love I lost back then
I'm a little perplexed by the vivid blueness of this sky

For example, even if I sacrificed something, I'd only believe in one thing
The color of the bloomed flowers in the instant when your straightforward eyes reflect

Even if I'm powerless, I'll live on strongly in this destiny
We'll join our hands and our warmths will melt together forever
If so, even if the sins of more things to come will be painful

For example, if as long as I'm with you, even if we just turn against the waves of the world...

Without hesitation, I believe in this love and live on
I'll tightly embrace your unbandaged wound

Without hesitation, I live in this destiny and live on
If I'm with you, surely we'll be connected forever

And together we'll only look forward, even if nothing came to be done
Nevertheless, I'll keep on protecting you with my hands by all means-

Darling

Later,
Trisa

watashi wa dareka no ou-sama dewa nai
watashi wa dareka no heitai demo nai

kudaketa kagami wo hari awasete iku you ni
kowareta sekai wo hiroi atsumete iru no da!

ware wa KOREKUTAA!
ware wa KOREKUTAA!_KOREKUTAA!

watashi wa ashita wo tebanashi wa shinai
watashi wa kinou wo houmuri wa shinai

gosenfu no ue ni naranda onbu no you ni
chigareta jikan wo narabe naoshite iru no da!

ware wa KOREKUTAA!
ware wa KOREKUTAA!_KOREKUTAA!

miru ga ii... shifuku no hikari wo
kiku ga ii... tenjou no shirabe wo

watashi wa chijou ni shibarare wa shinai
watashi wa sora kara mioroshi wa shinai
PURIZUMU no naka ni tojikometa yume wo
dakishimete itai...
sore ga watashi no... KOREKUSHON!

i told you i was sorry, i told you i was wrong,
i said it was an accident and don't tell anyone.

but you love to circle round and round, you're so misunderstood.
yeah, you love to circle round and round and you know that we should
forget about it -

let's forget about it....

you lied about how much you knew, i thought you were my friend.
you lied upon the mattress, c'mon tell me where you've been.
you lied about this night apart, you lied about the room.
if you're gonna have to lie to me then....

let's forget about it
let's forget about it
let's forget about it
let's forget about it

and i'll stop crying on the mountain that we made
from the molehill where we spilt the milk.
yeah...
i'll stop crying on the mountain that we made
from the molehill where we spilt the milk.

so you say this never happened, perhaps not the way i thought?
did i throw this out of focus - or was it just the way we fought?
that it seemed to me you took this girl, but you swear to God it's not.

Uhhh...

let's forget about it...
let's forget about it...
let's forget about it...
let's forget about it...

i'll stop crying, if you'll stop.
let's forget about it...
i'll stop crying, if you'll stop.
let's forget about it...
i'll stop crying, if you'll stop.
let's forget about it...
i'll stop crying, if you'll stop lying to me................

It makes you blind, it does you in
It makes you think you're pretty tough
It makes you prone to crime and sin
It makes you say things off the cuff

It's very small and made of glass
and grossly overadvertised
It turns a genius to an ass
and makes a fool think he is wise

It could make you regret your birth
or turn cartwheels in your best suit
It costs a lot more than it's worth
and yet there is no substitute

They keep it on a higher shelf
the older and more pure it grows
It has no color in itself
but it can make you see rainbows

You can find it on the Bowery
or you can find it at Elaine's
It makes your words more flowery
It makes the sun shine, makes it rain

You just get out what they put in
and they never put in enough
Love is like a bottle of gin
but a bottle of gin is not like love

when you run, digger, runner,
listener, thief, you carry it all with you.

today i woke up uncertain,
and you know that gives me the fits,
so i left this land of fungible convictions
because it seemed like the pits.

and when i say, "conviction" i mean it's something to abjure
and when i say "uncertain" i mean to doubt i'll not turn out a caricature.
so i set off in search of my forebears,
coz my forbearance was in need,,
but the only job i could get in dear old blighty
was working on the railway between selby and leeds.
so i took a ferry to belfast, where i had cause to think:
they wanted none of my arm-chair convictions
but nobody seemed to mind when i was putting on the drinks!

and you didn't think they could hate you, now did you?
you didn't think they could hate you, now did you?
you didn't think they could hate you, now did you?
ah, but they hate you, and they hate you 'coz you're guilty,

so...i stayed out all night in ibixa,
by way of san sebastian, where they said
'yanque, you better watch what you're saying, unless you're sayin'
it in basque or in catalan!"
so all the way east to novi-sad,
where narry a bridge was to be seen,
but mother russia, she laid her pontoons on down,
so i crossed over, if you know what i mean...
then on the road to damascus, yes,
the scales, they fell from my eyes,
and the simplest lesson i learned at the mount of olices: everybody lies.
and the french foreign legion
you know they did their best - but i never believed in t.e.
lawrence, so how the hell could i believe in beau gest?
and you didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

you didnt think they could hate you, now did you?
you didnt think they could hate you, now did you?
ah, but they hate you, and they hate you 'coz you're guilty,

so...i spent a night in kigali in a five diamond hotel,
where maybe someday, they'll do the wa-tutsi down in hutu hell.
and i fell in with a merchant marine who promised to take me home,
but when i woke up beaten and bloodied,
i couldn't tell if it was jersey or sierra leone!

and you didn't think they could hate you, now did you?
you didn't think they could hate you, now did you?
you didn't think they could have you, now did you?
ah, but they hate you, and they hate you coz you're guilty...

and the knocking in my head, just like the knocking at my door.
and maybe it was me or maybe it was my brother,
but either me or me and him went down to the bar,
where i got seven powersin me for to give me the cure,
but when seven powers failed to spin me,
i had to get me seven more.
and when i say, "me" i mean my brain.
and when i say "give me the cure" i mean to kill the pain.
and when i say "kill the pain" i meant to get the devil out.
and when i say "devil" i mean the manifestation of doubt!

and you didnt think they could hate you,
now did you you didn't think they could hate you, now did you?
you didn't think they could hate you, now did you?
ah, but they hate you, make no mistake - they hate you...

Somewhere over the rainbow
There is a light that shines
Like saying prayers on a Sunday
Makes me feel so divine

I never knew such a burning love before
Ooh, you stop and and you hear me crying out for more

The boys are back in town
They'll never let you down
That much is true
(Ca me fait grand plaisir)
(Peux-tu raccoucher a cote de moi)

We'll spend the summer in Oslo
Land of the midnight sun
By the time that it's over
We will have just begun

Oh how I love you lying by the pool
Ooh, we listen to Agneta, Anifrid, Benny and Bjorn

The boys are back in town
They'll never let you down
That much is true
(Ca me fait grand plaisir)
(Peux-tu raccoucher a cote de moi)

I never knew such a burning love before
Ooh, you stop and and you leave me crying out for more

The boys are back in town
They'll never let you down
That much is true
(Ca me fait grand plaisir)
(Peux-tu raccoucher a cote de moi)

The boys are back in town
They'll never let you down
That much is true
(Ca me fait grand plaisir)
(Peux-tu raccoucher a cote de moi)

The boys are back in town
They'll never let you down
That much is true
(Ca me fait grand plaisir)
(Peux-tu raccoucher a cote de moi)

This one came to mind today - I played it at one of my sisters wedding.


Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull’d by the moonlight have all pass’d away!

Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody;
Gone are the cares of life’s busy throng

Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!

Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea,
Mermaids are chaunting the wild lorelie;
Over the streamlet vapors are borne,
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.

Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,
E’en as the morn on the streamlet and sea;
Then will all clouds of sorrow depart,

Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!

Pontius Pilate came to our town
Up to the dockyards to see the picket line
We asked him to help but he just turned around
He's the leader of the union now

Leader of the union
All of our questions he ignored
He washed his hands and he dreamed of his reward
A seat in the House of Lords

One by one
The ships come sailing in
One by one
The ships go sailing out

We live for words and die for words
Principles we can afford
When all our Brothers turn to Lords
Whose side are you on?

You tell the world your hands are tied
History three times denied
A sea of changes three miles wide
Whose side are you on?

One by one
The ships come sailing in
One by one
The ships go sailing out

This conspiracy of shame
Murder by some other name
Play up and play the game
Whose side are you on?

If any ask us why we died
We tell them that our leaders lied
Sold us out down the riverside
Whose side are you on?

One by one
The ships come sailing in
One by one
The ships go sailing out

Later,
Trisa

GLINDA
Elphaba - why couldn't you have stayed calm for
once, instead of flying off the handle!
I hope you're happy!
I hope you're happy now
I hope you're happy how you
hurt your cause forever
I hope you think you're clever!

ELPHABA
I hope you're happy!
I hope you're happy, too
I hope you're proud how you
would grovel in submission
to feed your own ambition

BOTH
So though I can't imagine how
I hope you're happy right now!

GLINDA
Elphie, listen to me. Just say you're sorry:
you can still be with the Wizard
what you've worked and waited for
you can have all you ever wanted...

ELPHABA
I know:
but I don't want it -
No - I can't want it
anymore:

Something has changed within me,
something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
of someone else's game
too late for second-guessing
too late to go back to sleep
it's time to trust my instincts
close my eyes: and leap!

It's time to try
defying gravity
I think I'll try
defying gravity
and you can't pull me down!

GLINDA
Can't I make you understand?
you're having delusions of grandeur:

ELPHABA
I'm through accepting limits
'cuz someone says they're so
some things I cannot change
but till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
losing love I guess I've lost...
Well, if that's love,
it comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy
defying gravity
kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
and you can't pull me down:

Glinda - come with me. Think of what we could
do: together.

Unlimited
together we're unlimited
together we'll be the greatest team
there's ever been
Glinda -
dreams, the way we planned 'em

GLINDA
If we work in tandem:

BOTH
There's no fight we cannot win
just you and I
defying gravity
with you and I
defying gravity

ELPHABA
They'll never bring us down!
Well? Are you coming?

GLINDA
I hope you're happy
Now that you're choosing this

ELPHABA
You too
I hope it brings you bliss

BOTH
I really hope you get it
And you don't live to regret it
I hope you're happy in the end
I hope you're happy, my friend:

ELPHABA
So if you care to find me
look to the western sky!
As someone told me lately:
"Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!"
And if I'm flying solo
at least I'm flying free
to those who'd ground me
take a message back from me!
Tell them how I am
defying gravity!
I'm flying high,
defying gravity!
And soon I'll match them in renown!
And nobody in all of Oz
no Wizard that there is or was
is ever gonna bring me down!

GLINDA
I hope you're happy!

CITIZENS OF OZ
Look at her, she's wicked!
Get her!

ELPHABA
Bring me down!

CITIZENS OF OZ
No one mourns the wicked!
So we've got to bring her

ELPHABA
Ahhh!

CITIZENS OF OZ
Down!