make a list of favorite songs

43 favorite songs list, maybe will add more later 5 years ago

O Fortuna O Fortune,
velut luna like the moon
statu variabilis, you are changeable,
semper crescis ever waxing
aut decrescis; and waning;
vita detestabilis hateful life
nunc obdurat first oppresses
et tunc curat and then soothes
ludo mentis aciem, as fancy takes it;
egestatem, poverty
potestatem and power
dissolvit ut glaciem. it melts them like ice.

Sors immanis Fate – monstrous
et inanis, and empty,
rota tu volubilis, you whirling wheel,
status malus, you are malevolent,
vana salus well-being is vain
semper dissolubilis, and always fades to nothing,
obumbrata shadowed
et velata and veiled
michi quoque niteris; you plague me too;
nunc per ludum now through the game
dorsum nudum I bring my bare back
fero tui sceleris. to your villainy.

Sors salutis Fate is against me
et virtutis in health
michi nunc contraria, and virtue,
est affectus driven on
et defectus and weighted down,
semper in angaria. always enslaved.
Hac in hora So at this hour
sine mora without delay
corde pulsum tangite; pluck the vibrating strings;
quod per sortem since Fate
sternit fortem, strikes down the string man,
mecum omnes plangite! everyone weep with me!

—carl orff 5 years ago

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And makin’ love was just for fun
Those days are gone

Livin’ alone
I think of all the friends I’ve known
But when I dial the telephone
Nobody’s home

All by myself
Don’t wanna be all by myself anymore
All by myself
Don’t wanna live all by myself

Hard to be sure
Sometimes I feel so inescure
And love so distant and obscure
Remains the cure

All by myself
Don’t wanna be all by myself anymore, yeah
All by myself
Don’t wanna live all by myself, yeah
Don’t wanna live
All by myself
Don’t wanna live
All by myself
Don’t wanna live

All by myself
Don’t wanna live all by myself anymore

—babes in toyland 5 years ago

Late at night
When it’s dark and cold
I reach out
For someone to hold
When I’m blue
When I’m lonely
She comes through
She’s the only one who can
My baby grand
Is all I need

In my time
I’ve wandered everywhere
Around this world
She would always be there
Any day
Any hour
All it takes
Is the power in my hands
This baby grand’s
Been good to me

I’ve had friends
But they have slipped away
I’ve had fame
But it doesn’t stay
I’ve made fortunes
Spent them fast enough
As for woman
They don’t last with just one man
But baby grand
Will stand by me

They say that no one’s gonna play this on the radio
They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone
But only songs like these
Played in minor keys
Keep those memories holding on

I’ve come far
From the life I’ve strayed in
I’ve got scars
From those dives I’ve played in
Now I’m home
And I’m weary
In my bones
Every dreary one night stand
But baby grand
Came home with me

Ever since this gig began
My baby grand’s
Been good to me

—billy joel 5 years ago

you let me violate you, you let me desecrate you
you let me penetrate you, you let me complicate you
help me I broke apart my insides, help me I’ve got no soul to sell
help me the only thing that works for me, help me get away from myself
I want to xxxx you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to xxxx you like an animal
my whole existence is flawed
you get me closer to god
you can have my isolation, you can have the hate that it brings
you can have my absence of faith, you can have my everything
help me tear down my reason, help me its your xxx I can xxxxx
help me you make me perfect, help me become somebody else
I want to xxxx you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to xxxx you like an animal
my whole existence is flawed
you get me closer to god

through every forest, above the trees
within my stomach, scraped off my knees
I drink the honey inside your hive
you are the reason I stay alive

_NIN 5 years ago

You might think I’m crazy
to hang around with you
Maybe you think I’m lucky
to have something to do
But I think that you’re wild
and inside me is some child

You might think it’s foolish
or maybe it’s untrue
You might think I’m crazy
but all i want is you

You might think it’s hysterical
but i know when you’re weak
You think you’re in the movies
and everything’s so deep
But i think that you’re wild
when you flash that fragile smile
You might think it’s foolish
what you put me through
You might think I’m crazy
but all i want is you

And it’s so hard to take
there’s no escape without a scrape
You kept it going till the sun fell down
You kept it going

You might think I’m delirious
the way I run you down
but somewhere sometime
when you’re curious
I’ll be back around
And I think that you’re wild
and so uniquely styled
You might think it’s foolish
this chancey rendezvous
You might think I’m crazy
but all I want is you

—the cars 5 years ago

Welcome to the jungle
We’ve got fun n’ games
We got everything you want
Honey, we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money, honey
We got your disease

In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your knees, knees
I wanna watch you bleed

Welcome to the jungle
We take it day by day
If you want it you’re gonna bleed
But it’s the price you pay
And you’re a very sexy girl
That’s very hard to please
You can taste the bright lights
But you won’t get them for free
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my serpentine
I, I wanna hear you scream

Welcome to the jungle
It gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You’ll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me

In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your knees, knees
I wanna watch you bleed

And when you’re high you never
Ever want to come down, YEAH!

You know where you are
You’re in the jungle baby
You’re gonna die
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
knees, knees
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my serpentine
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
knees, knees
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
It’s gonna bring you down -HA!

—guns n roses 5 years ago

We’re talking away
I don’t know what
I’m to say I’ll say it anyway
Today’s another day to find you
Shying away
I’ll be coming for your love, OK?
Take on me, take me on
I’ll be gone
In a day or two

So needless to say
I’m odds and ends
But that’s me stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is OK.
Say after me
It’s no better to be safe than sorry

Take on me, take me on
I’ll be gone
In a day or two

Oh the things that you say
Is it live or
Just to play my worries away
You’re all the things I’ve got to remember
You’re shying away
I’ll be coming for you anyway

Take on me, take me on
I’ll be gone
In a day or two

—a-ha 5 years ago

Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills
and put your helmet on

Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown,
engines on
Check ignition
and may God’s love be with you

[spoken]
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff

This is Ground Control
to Major Tom
You’ve really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it’s time to leave the capsule
if you dare

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I’m stepping through the door
And I’m floating
in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do

Though I’m past
one hundred thousand miles
I’m feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much
she knows

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit’s dead,
there’s something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you….

Here am I floating
round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do.

—david bowie 5 years ago

Somewhere out there
Beneath the pale moonlight
Someone’s thinking of me
And loving me tonight

Somewhere out there
Someone’s saying a prayer
That we’ll find one another
In that big somewhere out there

And even though I know
How very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing
On the same bright star

And when the night wind
Starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we’re sleeping
Underneath the same big sky

Somewhere out there
If love can see us through
Then we’ll be together
Somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true

And even though I know
How very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing
on the same bright star

And when the night wind
Starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we’re sleeping
Underneath the same big sky

Somewhere out there
If love can see us through
Then we’ll be together
Somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true…

—linda ronstadt and james ingram 5 years ago

I want love, but its impossible
A man like me, so irresponsible
A man like me is dead in places
Other men feel liberated

I cant love, shot full of holes
Dont feel nothing, I just feel cold
Dont feel nothing, just old scars
Toughening up around my heart

But I want love, just a different kind
I want love, wont break me down
Wont brick me up, wont fence me in
I want a love, that dont mean a thing
Thats the love I want, I want love

I want love on my own terms
After everything Ive ever learned
Me, I carry too much baggage
Oh man Ive seen so much traffic

So bring it on, Ive been bruised
Dont give me love thats clean and smooth
Im ready for the rougher stuff
No sweet romance, Ive had enough

—elton john 5 years ago

My friend the communist
Holds meetings in his RV
I can’t afford his gas
So I’m stuck here watching TV
I don’t have digital
I don’t have diddly squat
It’s not having what you want
It’s wanting what you’ve got

[CHORUS:]
I’m gonna soak up the sun
Gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I’m gonna tell ‘em that)
I’ve got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I’m looking up o I’m gonna soak up the sun
I’m gonna soak up the sun
I’ve got a crummy job
It don’t pay near enough
To buy the things it takes
To win me some of your love
Every time I turn around
I’m looking up, you’re looking down
Maybe something’s wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do
Maybe i am crazy too

[CHORUS]

I’m gonna soak up the sun
While it’s still free
I’m gonna soak up the sun
Before it goes out on me
Don’t have no master suite
I’m still the king of me
You have a fancy ride, but baby
I’m the one who has the key
Every time I turn around
I’m looking up, you’re looking down
Maybe something’s wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do
Maybe I am crazy too

[CHORUS]

I’m gonna soak up the sun
Got my 45 on
So I can rock on.

—sheryl crow 5 years ago

Conversion, software version 7.0,
Looking at life through the eyes of a tire hub,
Eating seeds as a past time activity,
The toxicity of our city, of our city,

New, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder, disorder,
Now, somewhere between the sacred silence,
Sacred silence and sleep,
Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep,
Disorder, disorder, disorder.

More wood for their fires, loud neighbors,
Flashlight reveries caught in the headlights of a truck,
Eating seeds as a past time activity,
The toxicity of our city, of our city,

New, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder, disorder,
Now, somewhere between the sacred silence,
Sacred silence and sleep,
Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep,
Disorder, disorder, disorder.

New, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder, disorder,
Now, somewhere between the sacred silence,
Sacred silence and sleep,
Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep,
Disorder, disorder, disorder.

When I became the sun,
I shone life into the man’s hearts,
When I became the sun,
I shone life into the man’s hearts.

—system of a down 5 years ago

I keep on fallin’
In and out of love
With you
Sometimes I love ya
Sometimes you make me blue
Sometimes I feel good
At times I feel used
Lovin you darlin’
Makes me so confused

I keep on
Fallin’
In and out of love with you
I never loved someone
The way that I love you

Oh, oh, I never felt this way
How do you give me so much pleasure
And cause me so much pain?
Just when I think
I’ve taken more than would a fool
I start fallin’ back in love with you

I keep on
Fallin’
In and out of love with you
I never loved someone
The way that I love you

Oh, baby
I, I, I, I?m fallin’
I, I, I, I?m fallin’
Fall

I keep on
Fallin’
In and out of love with you
I never loved someone
The way that I love you

I’m fallin
In and out of love with you
I never loved someone
The way that I love you

I’m fallin
In and out of love with you
I never loved someone
The way that I love you

What?

—alicia keys 5 years ago

stabbing westward song i cant find anywhere

‘how can i exist without you’ etc 5 years ago

I need an easy friend
I do, With an ear to lend
I do, Think you fit this shoe
I do, Won’t you have a clue

I Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can’t see you every night free
...I do

I’m standing in your line
I do Hope you have the time
I do Pick a number too
I do Keep a date with you

I Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can’t see you every night free
... I do

I need an easy friend
I do With an ear to lend
I do Think you fit this shoe
I do Won’t you have a clue

I Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can’t see you every night,
no I can’t see you every night…
Free
I do…
I do…
I do…
I do…

—nirvana 5 years ago

(Chorus)
Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don’t go to heaven where the angels fly
go to the lake of fire and fry
see them again ‘till the fourth of July

I knew a lady who came from Duluth
bitten by a dog with a rabid tooth
She went to her grave just a little too soon
flew away howling on the yellow moon

(Chorus)
Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don’t go to heaven where the angels fly
go to the lake of fire and fry
see them again ‘till the fourth of July

people crying people moan
look for a dry place to call their home
try to find some place to rest their bones
While the angels and the devils try to make them their own

(Chorus)
Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don’t go to heaven where the angels fly
go to the lake of fire and fry
see them again ‘till the fourth of July

Originally by the Meat Puppets

—nirvana 5 years ago

All at once,
I finally took a moment and I’m realizing that
You’re not coming back
And it finally hit me all at once
All at once,
I started counting teardrops and at least a million fell
My eyes began to swell,
And all my dreams were shattered all at once

Chorus:
Ever since I met you
You’re the only love I’ve known
And I can’t forget you
Though I must face it all alone
All at once, I’m drifting on a lonely sea
Wishing you’d come back to me
And that’s all that matters now
All at once, I’m drifting on a lonely sea
Holding on to memories
And it hurts me more than you know
So much more than it shows
All at once

All at once,
I looked around and found that you were with another love
In someone else’s arms,
And all my dreams were shattered, all at once
All at once
The smile that used to greet me brightened someone else’s day
She took your smile away
And left me with just memories, all at once

chorus

all at once im drifting on a lonely sea,
wishing youd come back to me,
and it hurts me more then you know,
so much more than it shows,
all at once

—whitney houston 5 years ago

Once in your life you find her
Someone that turns your heart around
And next thing you know you’re closing down the town
Wake up and it’s still with you
Even though you left her way across town
Wondering to yourself, “Hey, what’ve I found?”

When you get caught between the Moon and New York City
I know it’s crazy, but it’s true
If you get caught between the Moon and New York City
The best that you can do …...
The best that you can do is fall in love

Arthur he does as he pleases
All of his life, he’s mastered choice
Deep in his heart, he’s just, he’s just a boy
Living his life one day at a time
And showing himself a really good time
Laughing about the way they want him to be

When you get caught between the Moon and New York City
I know it’s crazy, but it’s true
If you get caught between the Moon and New York City
The best that you can do …..
The best that you can do is fall in love

When you get caught between the Moon and New York City
I know it’s crazy, but it’s true
If you get caught between the Moon and New York City
The best that you can do …..
The best that you can do is fall in love

—christopher cross 5 years ago

Verse 1:
I get lost in your eyes
And I feel my spirits rise
And soar like the wind..
Is it love that I am in?

I get weak in a glance
Isn’t that what’s called romance?
...And now I know
‘Cause when I’m lost I can’t let go

Chorus:
I don’t mind not knowing what I’m headed for
You can take me to the skies…
It’s like being lost in heaven
When I’m lost in your eyes

Verse 2:
I just fell, don’t know why
Something’s there we can’t deny…
And when I first knew
Was when I first looked at you

And if I can’t find my way
If salvation seems worlds away
Oh, I’ll be found
When I am lost in your eyes

CHORUS

Verse 3:
I get weak in a glance
Isn’t this what’s called romance?
Oh, I’ll be found
When I am lost in your eyes

—debbie gibson 5 years ago

Baby, can’t you see?
I’m callin’
A guy like you should wear a warnin’
It’s dangerous, I’m fallin’
There’s no escape, I can’t wait
I need a hit, Baby give me it
You’re dangerous, I’m lovin’ it

Too high, can’t come down
Losing my head, spinning round and round
Do you feel me now?

[Chorus]
With a taste of your lips I’m on a ride
You’re toxic, I’m slipping under
With the taste of a poison paradise
I’m addicted to you
Don’t you know that you’re toxic?c
And I love what you do
Don’t you know that you’re toxic?

It’s getting late to give you up
I took a sip from a devil’s cup
Slowly it’s taking over me

Too high, can’t come down
It’s in the air and it’s all around
Can you feel it now?

[Chorus]
With a taste of your lips I’m on a ride
You’re toxic, I’m slipping under
With the taste of a poison paradise
I’m addicted to you
Don’t you know that you’re toxic?c
And I love what you do
Don’t you know that you’re toxic?

(ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh)
(ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh)

Taste of your lips I’m on a ride
You’re toxic, I’m slipping under
With the taste of a poison paradise
I’m addicted to you
Don’t you know that you’re toxic?

With a taste of your lips I’m on a ride
You’re toxic, I’m slipping under (Toxic)
With the taste of a poison paradise
I’m addicted to you
Don’t you know that you’re toxic?

Intoxicate me now
With your lovin’ now
I think I’m ready now (I think I’m ready now )
Intoxicate me now
With your lovin’ now
I think I’m ready now

—britney spears 5 years ago

I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take a breath that’s true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life
You go in shadows
You’ll come apart and you’ll go blind
Some kind of light into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what’s not there

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it’s strange you never knew

A stranger’s light comes on slowly
A stranger’s heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then smiles cover your heart

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it’s strange you never knew

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it’s strange you never knew
I think it’s strange you never knew

—mazzy star 5 years ago

Here come Dick, he’s wearing a skirt
Here comes Jane, y’know she’s sporting a chain
Same hair, revolution
Same build, evolution
Tomorrow who’s gonna fuss

And they love each other so
Androgynous
Closer than you know, love each other so
Androgynous

Don’t get him wrong and don’t get him mad
He might be a father, but he sure ain’t a dad
And she don’t need advice that’ll center her
She’s happy with the way she looks
She’s happy with her gender

Mirror image, see no damage
See no evil at all
Kewpie dolls and urine stalls
Will be laughed at
The way you’re laughed at now

Now, something meets Boy, and something meets Girl
They both look the same
They’re overjoyed in this world
Same hair, revolution
Unisex, evolution
Tomorrow who’s gonna fuss
And tomorrow Dick is wearing pants
And tomorrow Janie’s wearing a dress
Future outcasts and they don’t last
And today, the people dress the way that they please
The way they tried to do in the last centuries

—the replacements 5 years ago

Wow, I’m sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain
South
Cruel bindings
The servants have the power
dog-men & their mean women
pulling poor blankets over
our sailors
I’m sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the T.V.
Tower. I want roses in
my garden bower; dig?
Royal babies, rubies
must now replace aborted
Strangers in the mud
These mutants, blood-meal
for the plant that’s plowed
They are waiting to take us into
the severed garden
Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful
comes death in a strange hour
unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring over-friendly guest you’ve
brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven’s
claws
No more money, no more fancy dress
This other Kingdom seems by far the best
until its other jaw reveals incest
& loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
Prefer a Feast of Friends
To the Giant Family

—jim morrison/doors 5 years ago

Magician, magician
Take me upon your wings, and
Gently roll the clouds away

I’m sorry, so sorry
I have no incantations
Only words to help sweep me away

I want some magic to sweep me away
I want some magic to sweep me away
I want to count to five
Turn around and find myself gone
Fly through the storm
And wake up in the calm

Release me from this body
From this bulk that moves beside me
Let me leave this body far away

I’m sick of looking at me
I hate this painful body
That disease has slowly worn away

Magician take my spirit
Inside I’m young and vital
Inside I’m alive, please take me away

So many things to do, it’s too early
For my life to be ending
For this body, to simply rot away

I want some magic to keep me alive
I want a miracle, I don’t want to die
I’m afraid that if I go to sleep I’ll never wake
I’ll no longer exist
I’ll close my eyes and disappear
And float into the mist

Somebody, please hear me
My hand can’t hold a cup of coffee
My fingers are weak, things just fall away

Inside I’m young and pretty
Too many things unfinished
My very breath taken away

Doctor you’re no magician
And I am no believer
I need more than faith can give me now

I want to believe in miracles
Not just belief in numbers
I need some magic to take me away

I want some magic to sweep me away
I want some magic to sweep me away
Visit on this starlit night
Replace the stars the moon the light, the sun’s gone
Fly me through this storm
And wake up in the calm
I fly right through this storm
And I wake, up, in, the, calm

—lou reed 5 years ago

We who have so much to you who have so little
To you who don’t have anything at all
We who have so much more than any one man does need
And you who don’t have anything at all, ah
Does anybody need another million dollar movie
Does anybody need another million dollar star
Does anybody need to be told over and over
Spitting in the wind comes back at you twice as hard

Strawman, going straight to the devil
Strawman, going straight to hell
Strawman, going straight to the devil

Strawman
Strawman
Strawman
Strawman, yes

Does anyone really need a billion dollar rocket
Does anyone need a 60,000 dollars car
Does anyone need another president
Or the sins of swaggart parts 6, 7, 8 and 9, ah
Does anyone need yet another politician
Caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole
Does anyone need another racist preacher
Spittin’ in the wind can only do you harm, ooohhh

Strawman, going straight to the devil
Strawman, going straight to hell
Strawman, going straight to the devil

Strawman
Strawman
Strawman
Strawman

Does anyone need another faulty shuttle
Blasting off to the moon, venus or mars
Does anybody need another self-righteous rock singer
Whose nose he says has led him straight to god
Does anyone need yet another blank skyscraper
If you’re like me I’m sure a minor miracle will do
A flaming sword or maybe a gold ark floating up the hudson
When you spit in the wind it comes right back at you

Strawman, going straight to the devil
Strawman, going straight to hell
Strawman, going to the devil

Strawman, strawman
Strawman, ...., ah
Strawman
Strawman

—lou reed 5 years ago

There’s a down town fairy singing out proud mary
As she cruises christopher street
And some southern queen is acting loud and mean
Where the docks and the badlands meet

This halloween is something to be sure
Especially to be here without you

There’s a greta garbo and an alfred hitchcock
And some black jamaican stud
There’s five cinderellas and some leather drags
I almost fell into my mug

There’s a crawford, davis and a tacky cary grant
And some homeboys lookin’ for trouble down here from the bronx

But there ain’t no hairy and no virgin mary
You won’t hear those voices again
And johnny rio and rotten rita
You’ll never see those faces again

This halloween is something to be sure
Especially to be here without you

There’s the born again losers and the lavender boozers
And some crack team from washington heights
The boys from avenue b and the girls from avenue d
A tinkerbell in tights

This celebration somehow get me down
Especially when I see you’re not around

There’s no peter pedantic saying things romantic
In latin, greek or spic
There’s no three bananas or brandy alexander
Dishing all their tricks

It’s a different feeling that I have today
Especially when I know you’ve gone away

There’s a girl from soho with a teeshirt saying I blow
She’s with the jive five 2 plus 3
And the girls for pay dates are giving cut rates
Or else doing it for free

The past keeps knock, knock, knocking on my door
And I don’t want to hear it anymore

No consolations please for feelin’ funky
I got to get my head above my knees
But it makes me mad and mad makes me sad
And then I start to freeze

In the back of my mind I was afraid it might be true
In the back of my mind I was afraid that they meant you

The halloween parade
At the halloween parade
At the halloween parade
See you next year, at the halloween parade

—lou reed 5 years ago

You can’t depend on your family
You can’t depend on your friends
You can’t depend on a beginning
You can’t depend on an end

You can’t depend on intelligence
Ooohhh, you can’t depend on god
You can only depend on one thing
You need a busload of faith to get by, watch, baby

Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
You need a busload of faith to get by

You can depend on the worst always happening
You can depend on a murderer’s drive
You can bet that if he rapes somebody
There’ll be no trouble having a child

You can bet that if she aborts it
Pro-lifers will attack her with rage
You can depend on the worst always happening
You need a busload of faith to get by, yeah

Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by, baby
Busload of faith to get by

You can’t depend on the goodly hearted
The goodly hearted made lamp-shades and soap
You can’t depend on the sacrament
No father, no holy ghost

You can’t depend on any churches
Unless there’s real estate you want to buy
You can’t depend on a lot of things
You need a busload of faith to get by, woh

Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by

You can’t depend on no miracle
You can’t depend on the air
You can’t depend on a wise man
You can’t find ’em because they’re not there

You can depend on cruelty
Crudity of thought and sound
You can depend on the worst always happening
You need a busload of faith to get by, ha

Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by

—lou reed 5 years ago

It might be fun to have a kid that I could kick around
A little me to fill up with my thoughts
A little me or he or she to fill up with my dreams
A way of saying life is not a loss

I’d keep the tyke away from school and tutor him myself
Keep him from the poison of the crowd
But then again pristine isolation might not be the best idea
It’s not good trying to immortalize yourself

Beginning of a great adventure
Beginning of a great adventure

Why stop at one, I might have ten, a regular tv brood
I’d breed a little liberal army in the wood
Just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar
With their tribe of mutant inbred piglets with cloven hooves

I’d teach ’em how to plant a bomb, start a fire, play guitar
And if they catch a hunter, shoot him in the nuts
I’d try to be as progressive as I could possibly be
As long as I don’t have to try too much

Beginning of a great adventure
Beginning of a great adventure

Susie, jesus, bogart, sam, leslie, jill and jeff
Rita, winny, andy, fran and jet
Boris, bono, lucy, ethel, bunny, reg and tom
That’s a lot of names to try not to forget

Carrie, marlon, mo and steve, la rue and jerry lee
Eggplant, rufus, dummy, star and the glob
I’d need a damn computer to keep track of all these names
I hope this baby thing don’t go too far

I hope it’s true what my wife said to me
I hope it’s true what my wife said to me, hey
I hope it’s true what my wife said to me

She says, baby, it’s the beginning of a great adventure
Babe, beginning of a great adventure
Take a look

It might be fun to have a kid that I could kick around
Create in my own image like a god
I’d raise my own pallbearers to carry me to my grave
And keep me company when I’m a wizened toothless clod

Some gibbering old fool sitting all alone drooling on his shirt
Some senile old fart playing in the dirt
It might be fun to have a kid I could pass something on to
Something better than rage, pain, anger and hurt

I hope it’s true what my wife said to me
I hope it’s true what my wife said to me
I hope it’s true what my wife said to me
She says, lou, it’s the beginning of a great adventure
Lou, lou, lou, beginning of a great adventure
She says, babe, how you call your lover boy
Sylvia, quite you call your lover man

—lou reed 5 years ago

I don’t know what colour your eyes are, baby
But your hair is long and brown
Your legs are strong, and you’re so, so long
And you don’t come from this town

My head is full of magic, baby
And I can share this with you
The feel I’m on a cross again, lately
But it’s nothing to do with you

I’m alive
Oh Oh, so alive
I’m alive
Oh Oh, so alive

This drug makes me crazy
Makes me see you more clearly.
Oh, baby, now I can see you.
Wish I could stop,
Switch off the clock,
Make it all happen for you.

I’m alive
Oh Oh, so alive
I’m alive
Oh Oh, so alive

OOOOHOOOOH

Don’t know what colour your eyes are, baby
But your hair is long and brown
Your legs are strong, and you’re so, so long
And you don’t come from this town

My head is full of magic, baby
And I can share this with you
The feel I’m on top again, baby
That’s got everything to do with you

I’m alive
Oh Oh, so alive
I’m alive
Oh Oh, so alive

—love and rockets 5 years ago