quotes ~ lyrics

Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand and take it easy.
-Jackson Browne & Glenn Frey/Take It Easy

Awake to understand you are not dreaming
It is not seaming just to be this way
Dying men draw numbers in the air
Dream to conquer little bits of time
Scuffle with the crowd to get their share
And fall behind their little bits of time.
-Jackson Browne/Colors of the Sun

It's such a clever innocence with which you show myself to me
As if you know how it feels to never be who you wanted to be
I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled
I thought that I was free but I'm just one more prisoner of time
Alone within the boundaries of my mind
I thought I was a child.
-Jackson Browne/I Thought I Was a Child

Well they've got a little list of all those things of which they don't approve
They've got to keep their eyes on you or you might make your move
Little one--
I really wish you would
Little one--
I think the damage would do you good.
-Jackson Browne/Red Neck Friend

Now we're lying here
So safe in the ruins of our pleasures
Laughter marks the place where we have fallen
And our lives are near
So it wouldn't occur to us to wonder
Is this the past or the future that is calling.
-Jackson Browne/The Times You've Come

Everybody's just waiting to hear from the one
You can give them the answers
And lead them back to that place in the warmth of the sun
Where sweet childhood still dances
Who'll come along
And hold out that strong and gentle father's hand?
Long ago I heard someone say something 'bout Everyman.
-Jackson Browne/For Everyman

Though the years give way to uncertainty
And the fear of living for nothing strangles the will
There's a part of me
That speaks to the heart of me
Though sometimes it's hard to see
It's never far from me
Alive in eternity
That nothing can kill.
-Jackson Browne/The Fuse

I'm sitting down by the highway
Down by that highway side
Everybody's going somewhere
Riding just as fast as they can ride
I guess they've got a lot to do
Before they can rest assured
Their lives are justified
Pray to God for me baby
He can let me slide.
-Jackson Browne/Your Bright Baby Blues

No sooner had I hit the streets
When I met the fools that a young fool meets
All in search of truth and bound for glory
And listening to our own heart beats
We stood around the drum
Though it's fainter now
The older I become
Living your life day after day
Soon all your plans and changes
Either fail or fade away
Leaving so much still left to say.
-Jackson Browne/Daddy's Tune

I'm going to be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Thought true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender.
-Jackson Browne/The Pretender

Science chases money
and money chases its tail
and the best minds of my generation
can't make bail
but the bacteria are coming to take us down
that's my prediction
it's the answer to this culture
of the quick fix prescription.
-Ani Difranco/Garden of Simple

And the big plan is just to keep spinning
cuz the big bang is only just beginning
and sometimes it's all that we can do just to hang on.
-Ani DiFranco/Garden of Simple

There was light and then there was darkness
but there was no line in between
and asking her heart for guidance
was like pleading with a machine
cuz joy, it has its own justice
and dreams are languid and lawless
and everything bows to beauty
when it is fierce
and when it is flawless.
-Ani Difranco/Fierce Flawless

'Cause this whole world needs an Anthem
And I'm trying to put the words where they belong
Yeah this whole world needs an Anthem
And I'm hoping everyone will sing along.
-Phantom Planet/Anthem

"Do you accept what you are told
without even thinking?
Throw it all and make your own
and give me something
something to believe in...
If you take home anything
let it be your will to think."
-The Offspring/Something To Believe In

Do I stress you out
My sweater is on backwards and inside out
And you say how appropriate.
-Alanis Morissette/All I Really Want

Why are you so petrified of silence?
Here can you handle this?
Did you think about your bills, you ex, your deadlines
Or when you think you're gonna die?
Or did you long for the next distraction?
And all I need now is intellectual intercourse
A soul to dig the hole much deeper.
And I have no concept of time other than it is flying
If only I could kill the killer.
-Alanis Morissette/All I Really Want

I'm broke but I'm happy
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful baby
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine.
-Alanis Morissette/Hand In My Pocket

Hello Mr. Man
You didn't think I'd come back
You didn't think I'd show up with my army
And this ammunition on my back
Now that I'm Miss Thing
Now that I'm a zillionaire
You scan the credits for your name
And wonder why it's not there
-Alanis Morissette/Right Through You

I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone
I recommend walking around naked in your living room
Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)
It feels so good (swimming in your stomach)
Wait until the dust settles
-Alanis Morissette/You Learn

You took our lives away to increase your self esteem.
An underlie in the public eye.
You're dubbed insane if and when you try to speak your mind...
IN YOUR OWN WAY!
Ignore the past and...
SPEAK FREE!
-Incubus/Speak Free

Picture the scene, where whatever you thought,
would, in the blink of an eye, manifest and become illustrated.
You'd be sure man that every line drawn reflected a life that you loved
not an existence that you hated.
So, must we demonstrate that we can't get it straight?
We've painted a picture, now we're drowning in paint.
Lets figure out what the fuck it's about
before the picture we painted chews us up and spits us out.
-Incubus/Redefine

I'm born
I'm alive
I breathe
In a moment or two I realize,
that the sphere upon which I reside,
is asleep on its feet.
Should I go back to sleep?
-Incubus/Vitamin

We orbit the sun I grow up my open eyes see...
A zombified, somnambulist society.
Leaving us as vitamins for the hibernating human animal.
Do you see what I mean?
-Incubus/Vitamin

Fallacious cognitions
spewed from televisions
do mold our decisions.
So stop and take a look,
and you'll see what I see now.
-Incubus/New Skin

You keep your riches and I'll sew my stitches,
you can't make me think like you, mundane.
I've got a message for all those
who think that they can etch his words inside my brain.
-Incubus/Idiot Box

Let me see past the fatuous knocks.
I've gotta rid myself of this idiot box!
Let you see past the feathers and flocks,
and help me plant a bomb in this idiot box!
From the depths of the sea
to the tops of the trees
to the seat of a lazy boy...
staring at a silver screen!!
-Incubus/Idiot Box

I'm thinking of my soul's sovereignty,
and I know everything you hate in me.
Fill me up with over-pious badgerings,
to throw them up, oh, one of my favorite things.
Remember all the lessons fed to me?
Me the young sponge, so ready to agree.
Years have gone; I recognize the walking dead,
now aware that I'm alive and way ahead.
-Incubus/Favorite Things

Blink and you miss a beat.
Keep one of your eyes open at all times.
Think that you're on the brink?
The shit hasn't even begun to hit the fan.
Consequence you'll see will be
stranger than a gang of drunken mimes.
Situation has a stink.
Better clear the air before your son becomes a man.
-Incubus/Consequence

Do you think I should adhere
to that pressing new frontier?
And leave in my wake a trail of fear(?)
Or should I hold my head up high
and throw a wrench and spokes by
leaving the air behind me clear?
Don't let the world bring you down.
Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold.
Remember why you came
and while you're alive
experience the warmth before you grow old.
-Incubus/The Warmth

Yes, I feel emphatic
about not being static
and not buying philosophies
that are sold to me, at a steal.
Just when you thought it was safe to think,
in comes mental piracy!
What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me.
I wish they all would stop trying cause'
what I want and what I need,
is and will always be free.
-Incubus/When It Comes

If I hadn't made me,
I would've been made somehow.
If I hadn't assembled myself,
I'dve fallen apart by now.
If I hadn't made me,
I'd be more inclined to bow.
Powers that be would have swallowed me up,
but that's more than I can allow.
If you let them make you,
they'll make you papier-mache.
At a distance you're strong,
until the wind comes
then you crumble and blow away.
-Incubus/Make Yourself

So if I decide to waver my chance
to be one of the hive
will I choose water over wine
and hold my own and drive?
It's driven me before and it seems to be the way
that everyone else gets around.
But lately I'm beginning to find that when I drive myself
my light is found.
-Incubus/Drive

Say what you will, say what you mean.
You could never offend, your dirty words come out clean.
-Incubus/Clean

Not two days ago, I was having a look in a book
and I saw a picture of a guy fried up above his knees.
I said, "I can relate,"
cause' lately I've been thinking of combustication
as a welcomed vacation from the burdens of the planet earth.
Like gravity, hypocrisy, and the perils of being in 3-D...
and thinking so much differently.
-Incubus/Pardon Me

So pardon me while I burst into flames.
I've had enough of the world
and it's people's mindless games.
So pardon me while I burn
and rise above the flame.
Pardon me, pardon me
....I'll never be the same.
-Incubus/Pardon Me

To resist is to piss in the wind.
Anyone who does will end up smelling.
Knowing this, why do I defy?
Because my inner voice is yelling.
There is a fist pressing against
anyone who thinks something compelling.
Our intuit we're taught to deny,
yes our soul we're told's for selling.
-Incubus/Out From Under

Better than watching Gellar bending silver spoons
Better than witnessing newborn nebulas in bloom
She who sees from up high smiles and surely sings
Perspective pries your once weighty eyes and it gives you wings.
-Incubus/Nice to Know You

I saw you standing in my headlights (blink, blink, blink)
I thought I'd run you down for the weight you left on me
Instead I pushed rewind, reversed and drove away
And seeing you disappear in my rearview
Brought to me the word reciprocity.
-Incubus/Circles

The world's a roller coaster and I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care but my hands are busy in the air.
-Incubus/Wish You Were Here

Call it women's intuition, but I think I'm onto something here
Temporaryism has been the black plague and the Jesus of our age
I know I must sound opinionated, maybe biased and quite possibly jaded
But sooner than later they'll be throwing quarters at you on stage.
-Incubus/Just a Phase

Hand over my mouth I'm earning the right to my silence
In quiet discerning between ego and timing
Good judgement is once again proving to me that it's
Still worth it's weight in gold.
-Incubus/Blood on the Ground

High fives to a better judgement
By saying less today I will gain more
Low twos to you my fickle friend
Who brought the art of silent war.
-Incubus/Blood on the Ground

Bat your eyes girl
Be otherworldly
Count your blessings
Seduce a stranger
What's so wrong with
Being happy
Kudos to those who
See through sickness.
-Incubus/Warning

There's something about the look in your eyes
Something I noticed when the light was just right
It reminded me twice that I was alive
And it reminded me that you're so worth the fight.
-Incubus/Echo

To get up and walk away would be too easy
So stay and stand your ground, just watch your mouth with me
On the back of every right there's a wrong looming
So here you and I should tread as soft as these razor blades for boots will let be.
-Incubus/Have You Ever

When I close my eyes
I can see for miles
There's comfort in my dark seat
And chaos in the aisles
These eyes are not your eyes
And these eyes are not the color that
Your arid eyes might be
No, I was not around
When those eyes of yours decided so
I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see.
-Incubus/Under My Umbrella

I'm building an antenna
Transmissions will be sent when I am through
Maybe we'll meet again further down the river
And share what we both discovered...
Then revel in the view.
-Incubus/Aqueous Transmission

If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all OK
And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
And useless in times like these
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
For light does the darkness most fear.
-Jewel/Hands

Poverty stole your golden shoes
It didn't steal your laughter
And heartache came to visit me
But I knew it wasn't ever after
We'll fight, not out of spite
For someone must stand up for what's right
'Cause where there's a man who has no voice
There ours shall go singing.
-Jewel/Hands

Heaven's inside inside inside
I knew it all the time
Got me somethin to believe in
but all I really want now is
a handful of salvation.
-Beth Hart/Delicious Surprise

So people tell me to clean up my mess
Like I was sweet sixteen in a dirty dress
But I'm wiser now so I must confess
That I get it all while I can.
-Beth Hart/Is That Too Much to Ask

She wears a million colors
there's rainbows on her soles
she got a sign above her
that says I'm never growin' old.
-Beth Hart/By Her

She may be waiting
'round the comer of your mind
but still you know
she's there you can feel her inside
so don't forget about the reasons
that brought you her
'cause she's a miracle.
-Beth Hart/By Her

Did you take it too far
did you forget who you are
did you stash your soul
into the closet forever?
-Beth Hart/Get Your Shit Together

When I was young just a little girl
I'd sing to the sun & dream with the world
Now I got a suitcase full of memories..
-Beth Hart/Stay

Coke bottle glasses & a smile on his face
He stands on the comer screamin' don't mix the race
commanding all the children to confess all their sins
then he beats his wife with a bottle of Gin
& they'll
whip your mind just to strip your faith
counterfeit people comin' to dominate
& they'll get you high just to greet you down.
Spin you in circles movin' round & round.
-Beth Hart/G.O.P.

People got no clothes on
Naked without the blinds drawn
Welcome to my kingdom
We're living our own freedom.
-Beth Hart/Girls Say

I believe & holds me so high
yes I am free
saying why hold the anger
it won't let you fly...
-Beth Hart/Mama

Cashin' in on the glory of my biggest mistakes
fading in the grass basking in the sunlight
Go & say to mama I'll just drive 98
Hold her in my arms tell her I'll be alright
Breath in faith & hope & a big fat cigarette
Drowning in the wine having no regrets
Yeah these are some of my favorite things.
-Beth Hart/Favorite Things

And the piano sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say "Man what are you doing here?"
-Billy Joel/Piano Man

Time
Don't let it slip away
Raise yo' drinkin' glass
Here's to yesterday
-Aerosmith/Full Circle

If I could change the world
Like a fairy tale
I would drink the love
From your holy grail.
-Aerosmith/Full Circle

Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter 'n sing for the tears
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away
Dream On, dream on, dream on
Dream yourself a dream come true.
-Aerosmith/Dream On

Should I apologize if what I say burns your ears and stains your eyes?!
Oh, did I crack your shell?
When it falls away, you'll see we exist as well!
-Incubus/Glass

Oh, if only it could be different
we could uncover the you, you deny.
between two, a small discrepancy,
one complicates and one simplifies.
TAKE THOSE FUCKING BLINDERS OFF YOUR EYES!!
-Incubus/Glass

I was dancing
With your shadow
Slow down memory's hall
I said "Wait have I been seduced and forgotten"
You said "Baby, haven't we all."
-New Radicals/Crying Like a Church on Monday

You're 22, why aren't you free?
You're mom and daddy's victory
A soul thats lived a thousand lives
Don't hide behind a child's eyes.
-New Radicals/Flowers

See I took a train to New York
And then I rolled into Chicago, yeah
I've been all around this mean mean world
Just trying to find a heart of gold.
-New Radicals/In Need of a Miracle

You watch 4.5 hours of TV a day
And we should listen to what you say?
-New Radicals/Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

Greedy banks bought all the farms
Chemical food, aren't our lives charmed?
-New Radicals/Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

Most ignorance is bred at home
Good Christian families? then why condone
Petty hatred of anything different or new?
-New Radicals/Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

Get loud and stand up every time
If you give a fuck about mankind
Cuz if human nature don't evolve soon
Don't kid yourself, you're fucking doomed
Don't run away from change and growth
Let's start right now, "I take the oath!"
But first accept one simple truth
That maybe you've been brainwashed too.
So cynical,
So hip,
So full of shit,
They told us to shut the fuck up and write another hit.
-New Radicals/Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

Social Security Number please
Credit card number please
Money please
Money please
Money please
Soul please.
Please deposit $85 dollars
for the next three minutes, please.
-New Radicals/Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

Wake up kids
We've got the dreamers disease
Age 14 we got you down on your knees
So polite, you're busy still saying please.
-New Radicals/You Get What You Give

But when the night is falling
and you cannot find the light
If you feel your dream is dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget you only get what you give.
-New Radicals/You Get What You Give

This whole damn world can fall apart
You'll be okay, follow your heart
You're in harms way
I'm right behind..
-New Radicals/You Get What You Give

Fly high
What's real can't die
You only get what you give.
-New Radicals/You Get What You Give

Championed by a soulless media misleading
people unaware they're bleeding
No one with a brain is believing
It's so sad you lost the meaning
Never knew it anyway
Human natures so predictable
I'm a fool to do your dirty work whoa, whoa.
-New Radicals/You Get What You Give

"I'm frightened for your children, that the life that we are living is in vain."
-The Moody Blues/"The Story in Your Eyes"

"Purple Haze all in my brain, lately things don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky."
-Jimi Hendrix/"Purple Haze"

"Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command."
-Bob Dylan/"The Times They are A-Changin'"

"We can change the world, rearrange the world. It's dying - if you believe in justice. It's Dying - if you believe in freedom. It's Dying - let a man live his own life. It's Dying - rules and regulations, who needs them! Open up the door."
-Crosby, Stills & Nash/"Chicago"

"White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."
-Jimi Hendrix/"If Six Was Nine"

"Don't ask her why she needs to be so free. She'll tell you it's the only way to be."
-Rolling Stones/"Ruby Tuesday"

"Nobody living can ever stop me. 'As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me."
-Woody Guthrie/"This Land Was Made For You and Me" (1940)

"Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?"
-Don McLean/"American Pie"

"We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden."
-Joni Mitchell "Woodstock"

"And maybe it's the time of year. Yes, and maybe it's the time of man. And I don't know who I am. But life is for learning."
-Joni Mitchell/CS&N "Woodstock"

"For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels."
-Paul Anka; Frank Sinatra; Elvis Presley, My Way

"Hero-not the handsome actor who plays a hero's role, hero-not the glamour girl who'd love to sell her soul."
-Rush, Nobody's Hero

"I'd rather be a hammer than a nail."
-Simon and Garfunkel, El Condor Pasa

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints."
-Billy Joel, Only The Good Die Young

"I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man."
-Bob Seger, Feel Like A Number

"Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand."
-Dan Fogelberg, Part Of The Plan

"Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency."
-Bob Dylan, Slow Train

"One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see."
-Bob Seger, No Man's Land

"Silence means security, silence means approval, watch a zenith on the TV. Tiger run around the tree, follow the leader, run and turn to butter."
-REM, Begin The Beguine

"Space ain't man's final frontier, man's final frontier is the soul.
-Arrested Development, Man's Final Frontier

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
-Simon and Garfunkel, The Sounds Of Silence

"Too many churches and not enough truth."
-The Guess Who, Undone

"We all want to change the world."
Beatles
Source: Revolution

"It's a fool who plays it cool by making this world a little colder. "
Beatles
Source: Hey Jude

"The battle outside ragin' will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls."
Bob Dylan
Source: The Times they are a-changin'

"Get up, stand up! Stand up for your right! Don't give up the fight!"
Bob Marley
Source: Get Up, Stand Up!

I have often asked myself for reason for sadness
In a world where tears are just a lullabye
If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.
-Carole King/Beautiful

Why do we crucify ourselves
Every day I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day I crucify myself
And my HEART is sick of being in chains.
-Tori Amos/Crucify

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands
Drive another nail in
Just what GOD needs
One more victim.
-Tori Amos/Crucify

And in the mist there she rides
And castles are burning in my heart
And as I twist I hold tight
And I ride to work every morning wondering why
"Sit in the chair and be good now"
and become all that they told you
the white coats enter her room
and I'm callin' my baby callin' my baby callin' my baby callin'
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own.
-Tori Amos/Girl

Years go by will I still be waiting
For somebody else to understand
Years go by if I'm stripped of my beauty
And the orange clouds raining in my head
Years go by will I choke on my tears
Till finally there is nothing left
One more casualty
You know we're to EASY easy easy.
-Tori Amos/Silent All These Years

He says when you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna CHANGE so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change my dear.
-Tori Amos/Winter

Or will I see you dear and wish I could come back
You found a girl that you could TRULY love again
Will you still call for me when she falls asleep
Or do we soon forget the things we cannot see?
-Tori Amos/Happy Phantom

We danced in graveyards with vampires till dawn
We laughed in the faces of king never afraid to burn
and I hate
and I hate
and I hate
and I hate disintegration
Watching us wither
Black winged roses that safely changed their COLOR.
-Tori Amos/Little Earthquakes