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Share the lyrics to 43 songs that I really like!

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'God Loves America' by The Swans 4 weeks ago

And All Across America
The Poison Fires Glow
And In The Blood Of Our Procreation
Annihilation Grows
Yes Love Was Meant For Slaves Like Us
Designed To Fetishize
Consumption, Waste And An Identity
Based On A Dying Lie

So God Forgive America
The End Of History Is Now
And God May Save The Victim
But Only The Murderer Holds Real,
Power…

We Came Across The Seas
We’d Fill With Offal And Disgust
And Any Object Industry Required
We Bought, Enslaved, Or We Crushed
And Now Our Minds Are As Naked As
The Paradise We Stripped
And Our Reward Is Our Entropy
Our Emptiness Is Our Gift

So God Forgive America
And Every Human On This Earth
And God Forgive The Ruined Lives
And Nothing Is What It’s Worth



The Large Hadron Rap by Alpine Cat 11 months ago

Twenty-seven kilometers of tunnel under ground
Designed with mind to send protons around
A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France
Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance
Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride
‘Til in the hearts of the detectors, they’re made to collide
And all that energy packed in such a tiny bit of room
Becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum
And then…

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.
We see asteroids and planets, stars galore
We know a black hole resides at each galaxy’s core
But even all that matter cannot explain
What holds all these stars together – something else remains
This dark matter interacts only through gravity
And how do you catch a particle there’s no way to see
Take it back to the conservation of energy
And the particles appear, clear as can be
You see particles flying, in jets they spray
But you notice there ain’t nothin’, goin’ the other way
You say, “My law has just been violated – it don’t make sense!
There’s gotta be another particle to make this balance.”
And it might be dark matter, and for the first
Time we catch a glimpse of what must fill most of the known ‘Verse.
Because…

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
Antimatter is sort of like matter’s evil twin
Because except for charge and handedness of spin
They’re the same for a particle and its anti-self
But you can’t store an antiparticle on any shelf
Cuz when it meets its normal twin, they both annihilate
Matter turns to energy and then it dissipates
When matter is created from energy
Which is exactly what they’ll do in the LHC
You get matter and antimatter in equal parts
And they try to take that back to when the universe starts
The Big Bang – back when the matter all exploded
But the amount of antimatter was somehow eroded
Because when we look around we see that matter abounds
But antimatter’s nowhere to be found.
That’s why…

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.
The Higgs Boson – that’s the one that everybody talks about.
And it’s the one sure thing that this machine will sort out
If the Higgs exists, they ought to see it right away
And if it doesn’t, then the scientists will finally say
“There is no Higgs! We need new physics to account for why
Things have mass. Something in our Standard Model went awry.”
But the Higgs – I still haven’t said just what it does
They suppose that particles have mass because
There is this Higgs field that extends through all space
And some particles slow down while other particles race
Straight through like the photon – it has no mass
But something heavy like the top quark, it’s draggin’ its *
And the Higgs is a boson that carries a force
And makes particles take orders from the field that is its source.
They’ll detect it…
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
Now some of you may think that gravity is strong
Cuz when you fall off your bicycle it don’t take long
Until you hit the earth, and you say, “Dang, that hurt!”
But if you think that force is powerful, you’re wrong.
You see, gravity – it’s weaker than Weak
And the reason why is something many scientists seek
They think about dimensions – we just live in three
But maybe there are some others that are too small to see
It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends
Which makes it seem weaker, here on our end.
And these dimensions are “rolled up” – curled so tight
That they don’t affect you in your day to day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton
You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on
And they’d find you…
When LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head!



Child of God by Antony & the Johnsons 13 months ago

I know a man who curses his brother
I know a man who lives for no other
Always chasing after money
Thinks a poor man is funny
It’s hard, it’s hard to believe he’s a child of God

I know a woman who steals from her mother
That same woman she gets drunk from one day to another
Kicks her kids out in the street
There’s another man under their father’s sheets
I find it hard, I find it hard, I find it hard
It’s hard to believe she’s a child of God

I know some people who go to church on sunday
These same people, they wear a sheet on monday
Talk about justice being free
They’re watching lynchings so easily
I find it hard, I find it hard, I find it hard
It’s hard to believe these are children of God

I find it hard to believe right now
These people call themselves children of God.



Another World by Antony and the Johnsons 14 months ago

I need another place
Will there be peace?
I need another world
This one’s nearly gone.

Still have too many dreams
Never seen the light
I need another world
A place where I can go.

I’m gonna miss the sea
I’m gonna miss the snow
I’m gonna miss the bees
I’ll miss the things that grow
I’m gonna miss the trees
I’m gonna miss the sound
I’ll miss the animals
I’m gonna miss you all

I need another place
Will there be peace?
I need another world
This one’s nearly gone

I’m gonna miss the birds
Singing all their songs
I’m gonna miss the wind
Been kissing me so long

Another world, Another world, Another world, Another world..



The Queen and the Soldier by Suzanne Vega 15 months ago

The soldier came knocking upon the queen’s door
He said, “I am not fighting for you anymore”
And the queen knew she’d seen his face someplace before
And slowly she let him inside.

He said, “I’ve watched your palace up here on the hill
And I’ve wondered who’s the woman for whom we all kill
But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will
Only first I am asking you.. why?”

Down in the long narrow hall he was led
Into her rooms with her tapestries red
And she never once took the crown from her head
She asked him there to sit down.

He said, “I see you now, and you are so very young
But I’ve seen more battles lost than I have battles won
And I’ve got this intuition, says it’s all for your fun
And now will you tell me why?”

The young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
She said, “You won’t understand, and you may as well not try”
But her face was a child’s, and he thought she would cry
But she closed herself up like a fan.

And she said, “I’ve swallowed a secret burning thread
It cuts me inside, and often I’ve bled”
He laid his hand then on top of her head
And he bowed her down to the ground.

“Tell me how hungry are you? How weak you must feel
As you are living here alone, and you are never revealed
But I won’t march again on your battlefield”
And he took her to the window to see.

And the sun, it was gold, though the sky, it was gray
And she wanted more than she ever could say
But she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away
And would not look at his face again.

And he said, “I want to live as an honest man
To get all I deserve and to give all I can
And to love a young woman who I don’t understand
Your highness, your ways are very strange.”

But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break
And she stood there, ashamed of the way her heart ached
She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
She would only be a moment inside.

And out in the distance her order was heard
And the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word
And while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred
The battle continued on



The Ecology by Marvin Gaye (for the 38th Earth Day, 2008) 20 months ago

Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain’t what they used to be
No, no
Where did all the blue sky go?
Poison is the wind that blows
From the north,and south, and east

Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain’t what they used to be
No, no
Oil wasted on the oceans
and upon our seas,
Fish full of mercury

Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain’t what they used to be
No, no
Radiation under ground and in the sky
Animals and birds who
live nearby are dying

Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain’t what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land
How much more abuse from
man can she stand?
My sweet Lord
My sweet Lord
My sweet Lord



'Things That Scare Me' by Neko Case 3 years ago

Fluorescent lights engage
Blackbirds frying on a wire
Same birds that followed me to school when I was young
Were they trying to tell me something,
Were they telling me to run?

The hammer clicks in place
The world’s gonna pay
Right down in the face of God and his saints
Claim your soul’s not for sale
I’m a dying breed who still believes
Haunted by American dreams
Haunted by American dreams



"Brand New Key" by Melanie 3 years ago

I rode my bicycle past your window last night.
I roller-skated to your door at daylight.
It almost seems like you’re avoiding me.
I’m okay alone, but you got something I need.

Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates,
You got a brand new key.
I think that we should get together
And try them out to see.
I been looking around a while,
You got something for me.
Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates,
You got a brand new key

I ride my bike, I roller skate, don’t drive no car.
Don’t go too fast, but I go pretty far.
For somebody who don’t drive,
I been all around the world.
Some people say I done alright for a girl.

Oh, yes yea,
Oh, yea, yea, yea
Oh, yea, yea, yea
Oh, yea, yea, yea

I asked your mother if you were at home.
She said yes but you weren’t alone.
Oh sometimes I think that you’re avoiding me.
I’m okay alone, but you got something I need

Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key.
I think that we should get together
And try them out to see.
La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key



Aimee Mann, I know there's a word for this 3 years ago

I know there’s a word for this
I know there’s a word for the way I’m feeling
I know there’s a word for this
I know it, and it’s on the tip of my tongue
But it won’t go any further.

I know there’s a word for this
I know, ‘cause it’s in the dictionary
and when I find what it is
I’ll write it down in case it comes up again
I’ll be certain to avoid it.

So, take this down:
I just feel so beat
And I think it’s time,
to admit defeat.
I thought I got mine,
but that uphill climbing
is never through.

I know there’s a word for this
I know ‘cause we’ve all at sometime said it,
Like when we were little kids,
We’d fight each other ‘til someone would give in,
and you’d make him tell you ‘uncle’.

So, take this down:
I just feel so beat
And I think it’s time
to admit defeat
I thought I got mine
but that uphill climbing
is never through.



Paul Simon - El Condor Pasa 3 years ago

I’d rather be a sparrow than a snail.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.
I’d rather be a hammer than a nail.
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.

Away, I’d rather sail away
Like a swan that’s here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world
Its saddest sound,
Its saddest sound.

I’d rather be a forest than a street.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.
I’d rather feel the earth beneath my feet,
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.



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