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FAVORITE ROCK LYRICS

Here are a few of my favorite rock lyrics.

From........Lennon & McCartney's........Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Picture yourself on a boat in a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
                       &
Newspaper taxies appear on the shores
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
and you're gone

From...........Jagger/Richards'........... Sympathy For The Devil

I watched in glee as your Kings and Queens
Fought for ten decades for the gods they made
                       &
I rode a tank, held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank! (woo, woo, who, who!)

From...........Stevie Wonder's............Living For The City

His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty
He spends his life walking the streets of New York City
He's almost dead from breathing in air pollution
He tried to vote but to him there's no solution
Living just enough, just enough for the city...
yeah, yeah, yeah!

From............Bob Dylan's...............Mr Tambourine Man 

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'.

From .......Lennon & McCartney's........Strawberry Fields Forever

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me
                  &
No one, I think, is in my tree
I mean, it must be high or low
That is, you can't, you know, tune in, but it's alright
That is, I think it's not too bad

From..............Ray Davies'.................Lola

Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy
But when she squeesed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my Lola, la la la la Lola
                             &
Well, we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
She said, little boy won't you come home with me

From ......Jagger/Richards'...........Brown Sugar

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight

From..........David Bowie's.............Ziggy Stardust

So where were the Spiders
While the fly tried to break our balls
With just the beer light to guide us
So we bitched about his fans
And should we crush his sweet hands
                    &
Making love with his ego
Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man
I had to break up the band

From.........Kris Kristofferson's...........Me & Bobby McGee

I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty, red bandana
And I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blues
Windshield wipers slappin' time, I was holdin' Bobby's hand in mine
We sang every song that driver knew
                                      &
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose
Nothin' don't mean nothin' if it ain't free

From.............Bob Dylan's............All I Really Want To Do

I ain't lookin' to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you
                &
I don't want to meet your kin
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you

From.............Marc Bolan's...........Jeepster

Just like a car, you're pleasing to behold
I'll call you Jaguar, if I may be so bold

From..............Rod Stewart's..............Maggie Mae

I guess I should unpack my book and get on back to school
I'll steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool
I'll find myself a rock n roll band, that needs a helping hand
Oh Maggie I wish I've never seen your face

From..........John Lennon's............Give Me Some Truth

I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

From..........Bob Dylan's...............Like A Rolling Stone

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it

From...........Sly Stone's.............Everyday People

There is a longhair who doesn't like the short hair
for being such a rich one that will not help the poor one.
                                    &
There is a yellow one who won't accept the black one
that won't accept the red one that won't accept the white one.
Diffferent strokes for different folks, And so on and so on,
and scooby dooby doo-bee, doo-sha-sha. We got to live together!
I am everyday people!

From.............Don McLean's..............American Pie

Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my chevy to the levee But the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die This'll be the day that I die

From.......Jagger/Richards'.......... Jumping Jack Flash

I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain

From.............Bruce/Cooper's...........Desperado

Step into the street by sundown, step into your last goodbye
You're a target just by living, twenty dollars will make you die. 

&

Your as stiff as my smokin' barrel
You as dead as a desert night
You're a notch and I'm a legend
Your at peace and I must hide

From...........John Prine's............Sam Stone

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose
                               &
Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon,
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair.
Well, he played his last request,
While the room smelled just like death,
With an overdose hovering in the air.

From.........Lou Reed's...........Walk On The Wild Side

Candy came from out on the Island
In the back room she was everybody's darlin'
But she never lost her head
Even when she was givin' head
She says hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
                               &
Jackie is just speedin' away
Thought she was James Dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would've helped that bash
She said hey babe, take a walk on the wild side

From...........Collins/VanZant's..........Ballad of Curtis Loew

Well, I used to wake the mornin' before the rooster crowed,
Searchin' for soda bottles to get myself some dough.
Run 'em down to the corner, down to the country store,
Cash 'em in, and give my money to a man named Curtis Loew.
                                       &
On the day old Curtis died, nobody came and prayed.
Ol' preacher said some words, and they chucked him in the clay.
Well, he lived a lifetime, playin' the black man's blues
And on the day he lost his life, that's all he had to lose.

From.........Paul Simon's...........Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard

The Mama looked down and spit on the ground
Every time my name gets mentioned
The Papa says, oy, if I get that boy
I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention

From.........George Harrison's.........Piggies

In their sty's with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.
                        &
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.

From..........Neil Young's ...........Like A Hurricane

You are like a hurricane There's calm in your eye.
And I'm gettin' blown away
To somewhere safer where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.

From.......Jagger/Richards'........... Honky Tonk Woman

I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis,
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind.

From..........David Bowie's.............Suffragette City

Hey man, oh leave me alone you know
Hey man, oh Henry, get off the phone, I gotta
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face
This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place

From.........Lou Reed's...........I'm Waiting For The Man

I'm waiting for the man
Twenty six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, One Two Five
So sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for the man
                 &
Hey white boy, what you doing uptown?
Hey white boy, you're chasing all the women around
Oh pardon me sir it's last thing on my mind
I'm just looking for a very good friend of mine
I'm waiting for the man

From..........Pete Townsend's..........My Generation

Why don't you all fade away
And don't try to dig what we all sa-sa-say
I'm not trying to cause a big sensation
Just talkin' 'bout my generation
                     &
Hope I die before I get old!