Haunting lyrics.......by other bands.

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mantheylovetohate wrote:
ThruBeingCool wrote:"I JUST CANT YOU GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD LA, LA, LA, LA, LA, LA LA, LA!"...ad infinitum.

KYLIE MONOGUE

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So haunting its scary!

Yeah but without this Kylie song there would be no 'European Super State' would there Owen :?: :wink:
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i'm a jumper on the wrong way with the label sticking ooouuuttt
sorry i'll get me coat :(
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Shipbuilding - written by Elvis Costello and Clive Langar.

Is it worth it
A new winter coat and shoes for the wife
And a bicycle on the boy's birthday
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
By the women and children
Soon we'll be shipbuilding
Well I ask you
The boy said 'DAD THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE ME TO TASK
BUT I'LL BE BACK BY CHRISTMAS'
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding
With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
A telegram or a picture postcard
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again
It's all we're skilled in
We will be shipbuilding
WITH ALL THE WILL IN THE WORLD
DIVING FOR DEAR LIFE
WHEN WE COULD BE DIVING FOR PEARLS
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XTC - Books Are Burning ( particularly the second line of the second verse, could apply any form of suffering) :cry:

Books are burning in the main square,
and I saw there the fire eating the text
Books are burning in the still air,
and you know where they burn books people are next
I believe the printed word should be forgiven
Doesn't matter what it said
Wisdom hotline from the dead back to the living
Key to the larder for your heart and your head

Books are burning in our own town,
Watch us turn 'round and cast our glances elsewhere
Books are burning in the playground
Smell of burnt book is not unlike human hair
I believe the printed word is more than sacred
Beyond the gauge of good or bad
The human right to let your soul fly free and naked
Above the violence of the fearful and sad

The church of matches anoints in ignorance with gasoline
The church of matches grows fat by breathing in the smoke of dreams
It's quite obscene.

Books are burning more each day now,
and I pray now you boys will tire of these games
Books are burning I hope somehow,
this will allow a phoenix up from the flames
Isolate the critisism and pass it on.
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Good call - and that performance on the Late Show was particularly nice.

Jim

suchi wrote:XTC - Books Are Burning ( particularly the second line of the second verse, could apply any form of suffering) :cry:

Books are burning in the main square,
and I saw there the fire eating the text
Books are burning in the still air,
and you know where they burn books people are next
I believe the printed word should be forgiven
Doesn't matter what it said
Wisdom hotline from the dead back to the living
Key to the larder for your heart and your head

Books are burning in our own town,
Watch us turn 'round and cast our glances elsewhere
Books are burning in the playground
Smell of burnt book is not unlike human hair
I believe the printed word is more than sacred
Beyond the gauge of good or bad
The human right to let your soul fly free and naked
Above the violence of the fearful and sad

The church of matches anoints in ignorance with gasoline
The church of matches grows fat by breathing in the smoke of dreams
It's quite obscene.

Books are burning more each day now,
and I pray now you boys will tire of these games
Books are burning I hope somehow,
this will allow a phoenix up from the flames
"I bathed in sun and walked in rain
It taught me how to laugh again"
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