Wisdom from the World of Rock

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Even the world has wisdom of sorts. Here are some words of wisdom from the world of rock.

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be. -- The Beatles

You can't always get what you want. -- The Rolling Stones

Take your time... don´t live too fast,
Troubles will come and they will pass.
Go find a woman and you´ll find love,
And don´t forget son,
There is someone up above. -- Lynyrd Skynyrd

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow -- Bill Withers

Wise men say, only fools rush in. -- Elvis Presley

Here´s wishing you the bluest sky,
And hoping something better comes tomorrow.
Hoping all the verses rhyme,
And the very best of choruses to
Follow all the doubt and sadness. -- The Kinks

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out -- The Beatles

Don't stop thinkingabouttomorrow. -- Fleetwood Mac

Somethin' changin' for me inside
Took a long time
Now there's nothin' for me to hide
I say what's on my mind
Changes, makin' me see the light
I finally see wrong from right
Now I can see every sign. -- Boston

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky
You can see the stars and still not see the light (that's right)
...
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key -- The Eagles

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world -- Louis Armstrong

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the French I took
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me too
What a wonderful world this would be -- Sam Cooke

Everybody's got a hungry heart. -- Bruce Springsteen

You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody. -- Bob Dylan
 
Teach your children well. -- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
...
I can hardly wait
To see you come of age
But I guess we´ll both just have to be patient
´cause it´s a long way to go
A hard row to hoe
...
Life is what happens to you
While you´re busy making other plans -- John Lennon

Say goodbye to the
Oldies but goodies
'Cause the good ole days weren't
Always good
And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems -- Bill Joel

Beyond the door there's peace I'm sure
And I know there'll be no more tears in heaven -- Eric Clapton

Won't you look down upon me Jesus
You got to help me make a stand
You just got to see me through another day
My body's achin' and my time is at hand
And I won't make it any other way -- James Taylor

I was there when they crucified my Lord
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword
I threw the dice when they pierced his side
But I've seen love conquer the great divide -- U2
 
I'm in a hurry to get things done
Oh I rush and rush until life's no fun
All I really gotta do is live and die
But I'm in a hurry and don't know why -- Alabama

My mama said
You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love
No, you just have to wait
You got to trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes -- Diana Ross

[Edited on 6-8-2005 by VirginiaHuguenot]
 
Shot through the heart and you're to blame, baby you give love a bad naaame!

I guess that really isn't wise, but it is awesome. :sing:
 
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun -- The Animals

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
'Cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love -- Willie Nelson

Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be
When our time has come
We will be as one
God bless our love
God bless our love -- John Lennon

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow -- Bill Withers

[Edited on 7-23-2005 by VirginiaHuguenot]
 
...I've long since retired,
my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day.
I said, I'd like to see you,
if you don't mind, he said
I'd love to, dad,
if I could find the time.
You see my new job's a hassle and the kids got the flu
But it's been sure nice talkin' to you, yeah
Sure nice talkin' to you.
And as I hung up the phone it occured to me,
He'd grown up just like me, yeah.
My boy was just like me...
Harry Chapin
 
What if God Were One of Us? by Joan Osbourne


If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

If God had a face what would it look like
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints and all the prophets

And yeah yeah god is great yeah yeah god is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
He's trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

What if god was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome



Robin

[Edited on 7-23-2005 by Robin]
 
wow.......

who woulda thought Bon Jovi would have ever made it.......

i love the pounding of hoofs
i love engines that roar
i love the wild music of waves on the shore
and the spiral perfection of a hawk when it soars
i love my sweet woman down to the core
hear the wind moan in the bright diamond sky
these mountains are waiting, brown green and dry
i'm too old for the term but i'l l use it anyway
i'll be a CHILD OF THE WIND till the end of my days
----bruce cockburn

the tides of love can leave your prizes scattered
take your place with grace and then be on your wway
---bruce cockburn

bang your head
metal health will drive you mad:banana:
----quiet riot

round and round
well love will find a way just give it time:banana:
---ratt


if the bible is right the world's gonna explode
------bob dylan

meet the new boss, same as the old boss
------the who

were not gonna' take it, no we ain't gonna' take it
were not gonna' take it anymore (for all you confessing evangelicals!!)
----twisted sister
 
Well, I´ve been afraid of changing
´cause I´ve built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
I´m getting older too -- Fleetwood Mac
 
Gordon Lightfoot/The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee'
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.
That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early.

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
T'was the witch of November come stealin'.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the Gales of November came slashin'.
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind.

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'.
Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya.
At Seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it's been good t'know ya
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
And the good ship and crew was in peril.
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searches all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
May have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the Gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral.
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'.
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early!
 
Now you´re climbin´ to the top of the company ladder
Hope it doesn´t take too long
Can´tcha you see there´ll come a day when it won´t matter
Come a day when you´ll be gone

I understand about indecision
But I don´t care if I get behind
People livin´ in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind. -- Boston
 
When I think back on all the [stuff] I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall -- Paul Simon

We don´t need no [statist] education.
We don´t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
[Public school] Teachers, leave those kids alone.
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone! -- Pink Floyd
 
When I was a little boy, (when I was just a boy)
And the Devil would call my name (when I was just a boy)
I'd say "now who do,
Who do you think you're fooling?" (when I was just a boy)
I'm a consecrated boy (when I was just a boy)
I'm a singer in a Sunday choir
Oh , my mama loves, she loves me
She get down on her knees and hug me
Like she loves me like a rock
She rocks me like the rock of ages
And loves me
She love me, love me, love me, love me -- Paul Simon

May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
and let others do for you
May you build a latter to the stars
and climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
Forever young forever young
May you stay forever young -- Bob Dylan

You see it all around you
Good lovin' gone bad
And usually it's too late when you, realize what you had
And my mind goes back to a girl I left some years ago,
Who told me,
Just Hold On Loosely, but don't let go
If you cling to tightly,
you're gonna lose control
Your baby needs someone to believe in
And a whole lot of space to breathe in -- 38 Special

I wanna make you smile,
Whenever you're sad.
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad.
All I wanna do,
Is grow old with you

I'll get you medicine,
When your tummy aches.
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks.

It would be so nice,
Growin' old with you
I'll miss you, kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold.
Need you, feed you.
I'll even let you hold the remote control

So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink
Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink
Oh I could be the man,
Who grows old with you
I wanna grow old with you -- Adam Sandler
 
{Refrain
Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high

Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say

{Refrain

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say

{Refrain
No!

Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
The center lights around your vanity
But surely heaven waits for you

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry (don't you cry no more)

Kansas

[Edited on 10-19-2005 by lwadkins]
 
If you´re ever in Houston, well, you better do right;
You better not gamble and you better not fight, at all
Or the sheriff will grab ya and the boys will bring you down.
The next thing you know, boy, oh! you´re prison bound. -- CCR

[Edited on 10-19-2005 by VirginiaHuguenot]
 
Just take those old records off the shelf
I'll sit and listen to 'em by myself
Today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old time rock 'n' roll
Don't try to take me to a disco
You'll never even get me out on the
In ten minutes I'll be late for the door
I like that old time rock'n' roll

Still like that old time rock'n' roll
That kind of music just soothes the soul
I reminisce about the days of old
With that old time rock 'n' roll
Won't go to hear them play a tango
I'd rather hear some blues or funky old soul
There's only sure way to get me to go
Start playing old time rock 'n' roll
Call me a relic, call me what you will
Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill
Today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old time rock 'n' roll -- Bob Segar
 
Black

Hey...oooh...
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did
All five horizons revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn
Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything?
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...
I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything?
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...
All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll ever be...yeah...
Uh huh...uh huh...ooh...
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun
In somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine

Eddie Vedder - Pearl Jam
 
Grievance

Have a drink they're buying.
Bottom of bottle of denial.
Big eye, big eye watching me.
Have to wonder what it sees. Sin.
Progress laced with ramifications.
Freedom's big punch. Oh.

Pull the innocent from a crowd.
Raise those sticks them bring them down.
If they fail to obey.
Ah, if they fail to obey. Yeah yeah.

For every tool they lend us a loss of independence.

I pledge my grievance to the flag.
Cause you don't give blood then take it back again.
Oh we're all deserving something more.

Progress. Taste it. Invest it all.
Champagne breakfast for everyone. Everyone.

Break the innocent when they're proud.
Raise those stakes then bring them down.
If they fail to obey.
Yeah, ha, if they fail to obey.

Pledge your grievance to the flag.
Cause, don't give blood then take it back again.
Oh, we're all deserving something more.

Have a, have a drink, drink. Have a, have a drink, drink.

I want to breathe part of the scene.
I want to taste everyone I see.
I want to run when I'm up high.
I want to run to the sea.
I want life to be.
I just want to be.
I will feel alive as long as I am free.

Eddie Vedder - Pearl Jam
 
Masters Of War

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death place
You that held all the guns
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know I can see through your masks

You that never done nothing
But to build and destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a drug in my head
Then you hide from my eyes
Then you turn and run following the fast foolish line

Like Judas of old
You lie and decieve
A world war can be won
You won't need to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water that runs down my drain

You that fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
While the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansions
While young peoples blood
Flows out of their bodies and is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That could ever be hurled
The fear to bring children
Into this world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn?
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?
Do you think that it could?
Oh I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I'll follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch as you're lowered
Into your deathbead
And I'll stand on your grave til I'm sure that you're dead

Bob Dylan
 
I Won't Back Down

Well I won´t back down, no I won´t back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won´t back down

Gonna stand my ground, won´t be turned around
And I´ll keep this world from draggin´ me down
Gonna stand my ground and I won´t back down

Hey baby, there ain´t no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won´t back down.

Well I know what´s right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin´ me around
But I´ll stand my ground and I won´t back down

Hey baby there ain´t no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won´t back down
No, I won´t back down

Tom Petty
 
Okay, so your heart is broken
You sit around mopin'
Cryin' and cryin'
You say you`re even thinkin' about dyin'
Well, before you do anything rash, dig this

Everybody plays the fool sometime
There's no exception to the rule
Listen, baby, it may be factual, may be cruel
I ain't lyin', everybody plays the fool -- The Main Ingredient
 
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