Great Song Lyrics

This is a list of some of my favorite song lyrics. They are not necessarily in any order. Some I identify with while others...

1. And then one day you find 10 years have got behind you, know one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun (Pink Floyd- Time)

2. Every meeting with his so-called superiors, is a humiliating kick in the crotch (The Police- Synchronicity II)

3. I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die (Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues)

4. Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief, All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief (U2- The Fly)

5. Bow down before the one you serve. You're going to get what you deserve. (Nine Inch Nails- Head Like a Hole)

6. I went out walking With a bible and a gun The word of God lay heavy on my heart I was sure I was the one (Johnny Cash- The Wanderer)

7. In my dreams, I was drowning in sorrow, but my sorrows, they learned to swim (U2- Until the End of the World)

8. Is something wrong, she saidWell of course there isYoure still alive, she saidOh, and do I deserve to be Is that the question? (Pearl Jam- Alive)

9. I am the Anti-Christ…I am an Anti-Christ. Don’t know what I want, but I know where to get it. I wanna Destroy the passerby (The Sex Pistols- Anarchy in the UK)

10. And if you ever catch the midnight ramblerI'll steal your mistress from under your noseI'll go easy with your cold fanged angerI'll stick my knife right down your throat, babyAnd it hurts! (The Rolling Stones- Midnight Rambler)

11. We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control. A dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teachers leave them kids alone (Pink Floyd- Another Brick in the Wall Part II)
12. Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings,And a king aint satisfied till he rules everything. (Bruce Springsteen- Badlands)

13. I stuck around st. petersburgWhen I saw it was a time for a changeKilled the czar and his ministersAnastasia screamed in vainI rode a tankHeld a generals rankWhen the blitzkrieg ragedAnd the bodies stank (Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the Devil)

14. There’s a hole in the somewhere (Genesis- Abacab)

15. When they kick at your front doorHow you gonna come? With your hands on your headOr on the trigger of your gun (The Clash- Guns of Brixton)

16. I know this chick she lives down on MelroseShe ain't satisfied without some pain (Guns N Roses- Pretty Tied Up)

17. There's a war outside still ragingYou say it ain't ours anymore to win (Bruce Springsteen- No Surrender)

18. The insurgency began and you missed it (REM- Begin the Begin)

19. Father if Jesus exists, how come he never comes here? (Sting-All This Time)

20. Just wrap your legs round these velvet rimsAnd strap your hands across my engines (Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run)

21. All over people changing their votesAlong with their overcoats If Adolf Hitler flew in todayTheyd send a limousine anyway (The Clash- White Man in Hammersmith's Palais)