Favorite classic songs:

[sixxswine]

What a great song... One of a my favorites.What's one of yours? I know it's hard to pick just one...

"Cold Sweat"
I put my money in the suitcase
And headed for the big race
I felt a chill on my backbone
As I hung up the telephone

Stone cold sober and stone cold sweat
Running down the back of my neck
To lose means trouble, to win pays double
And I got me a heavy bet

Cold, cold sweat

They say chances on the outside
Are looking very slim
Ive been so lucky on the inside
I feel Im going to win

Stone cold sober and stone cold sweat
Running down the back of my neck
Take a little money, theres nothing left to lose
And I got me a heavy bet

Cold, cold sweat

Ive got me a whole months wages
I havent seen that much in ages
I might spend it in stages
And move out to las vegas

Stone cold sober and stone cold sweat
Running down the back of my neck
To lose means trouble, to win means double
And I got me a heavy bet

Cold, cold sweat

I put my money in the suitcase
They say chances on the outside
I got a whole months wages

Stone cold sober and stone cold sweat
Stone cold crazy
Place another bet

 

[Powermetal Rebel]

Just one - Cool idea Six ....

Chance
He was standing all alone
Trying to find the words to say
When every prayer he ever prayed was gone
And the dreams he's never owned
Are still safely tucked away
Until tomorrow he just carries on
Carries on
Carries on
Carries on

See the devil on the streets at night
See him running in the pouring rain
See him grinning 'neath a twisted light
I'll be back again!
See the people standing in a row
See them nodding like a field of grain
No one sees the sickle though
Coming 'cross the plain!

And this he knows, if nothing more
That waiting in the dark like destiny
Are those who kiss the dogs of war?
And there is no tomorrow, no tomorrow
Take a chance
Take a, take a chance, yeah

See the devil, he is so intense
See the devil go and change his name
What's the going price of innocence
It can't be the same!
Is it dark when the moon is down
Is it dark with a single flame
If there's glass falling all around
I am not to blame!

And this he knows, if nothing more
That waiting in the dark like destiny
Are those who kiss the dogs of war?
And there is no tomorrow, no tomorrow
Take a chance
Take a, take a chance, yeah
Take a chance
Take a, take a chance, oh yeah

Burn the night away
Burn the night away
Burn the night...

Pictures at an exhibition
Played as he stood in his trance
Staring at his inhibitions
All the time believing
That it now came down to
Nothing but this chance
Chance
Chance
Chance

I fear you, your silence, your blindness
See what you want to see
In darkness one kindness, one moment
Tell me what you believe

I believe in nothing
Never really had to
In regards to your life
Rumors that are not true
Who's defending evil
Surely never I
Who would be the witness
Should you chance to die

Father, can you hear me?
This is not how it was meant to be
I am safe and so are you
As for the other's destiny

I believe that situations
All depend on circumstance

Look away
Look away

Pictures at an exhibition
Played as he stood in his trace
Staring at his inhabitions
All the time believing
That it now came down to
Nothing but this chance
Chance
Chance
Chance

[close]​

 

[Wyvern]

Sixx you just won 100 points with me: Thin 'Fucking' Lizzy
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In a way because this is what happened to me (months not years but same difference), and because is one hell of a song (although not very classic)

'One More Fucking Time'

All life is a mystery,
All things come to he who waits
All things just a twist of fate
It's just a state of mind
All your time is not your own
It's real hard to find out why
It's real hard to say good-bye
To move on down the line...

Both your eyes wide open
You see the shape I'm in
It wasn't of my choosing
It's only bones and skin
And I will plead no contest
If loving you's a crime
So go on and find me guilty
Just one more fucking time

All your life is in your head
All you dreams are in your sleep
And if your dreams are hid too deep
They're just a waste of time
When you try to chase the dream
You never seem to know the time
You never recognize the signs
And nothing's what it seems

Both your eyes wide open
You see the shape I'm in
It wasn't of my choosing
It's only bones and skin
And I will plead no contest
If loving you's a crime
So go on and find me guilty
Just one more fucking time

And if I would have been a bad man
You would have seen the good in me
You would have seen the other
The good man I could be
But since I am a good man
The same was all the same
Nothing I could do, nothing I could do

All life is a mystery,
All things pass you by in time
All things just a perfect crime
It's just the way we are
All instincts let you down
It's not a case of love in vain
It's not a case of love insane
It's enough to break your heart

Both your eyes wide open
You see the shape I'm in
It wasn't my idea
That I be the one to sin
And so all those years together
Weren't worth a fucking dime
So go on and find me guilty
Just one more fucking time
And so all our years together
Weren't worth a fucking dime
So go on and find me guilty
Just one more fucking time
And so all our years together
Weren't worth a fucking dime
So go on and find me guilty
Just one more fucking time

 

[Marco Spain]

You´ve just put two songs from two of my favourites: Thin Lizzy y Savatage. Personally I´d have picked "Emerald" and "When the crowds are gone" (maybe from 20 songs from Savatage) but "Cold sweat" and "Believe" are overwhelming. Unfortunately I don´t like Motorhead at all.

Hard decission but I pick this one One of the best singer performances ever I guess!!!

Trapped in their world no free passage to leave
You accept their tyrannical dream
You pray to their gods not to your chosen ones
Freedom's clutched in the jaw of red kings

Give us your freedom, we'll give you hell
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil
Give us your freedom, we'll give you hell
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil

Glory to red sharks
Answer to your red dictators
Feeding from your dreams
Cast into a sea of red sharks

Holding the power a hand that grips fate
Stripping from you all but fear
Hovering vultures like demons feed
On all who bow to their communist scheme

Give us your freedom, we'll give you hell
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil
Give us your freedom, we'll give you hell
Hear no freedom, see no freedom, speak no freedom

Glory to red sharks
Answer to your red dictators
Feeding from your dreams
Cast into a sea of red sharks

Bloody red sharks

 

[Metal79]

Impossible to pick THE song, but what the hell, here's mine.

Make my decisions, carry my flame
Reading my lines for the camera's stare
Sentenced to follow
Mental incision easy to trace
Recycled all of my daily rhymes
Force me to read them the same
Minds that were not made for dreaming
Raise a functional
Hand that was not made for seeing
What we have become
There are no uncensored programs
We must refrain
Clear your minds
Run to be free
Waking in circles, man or machine
What are these programs we enter now
Are they not really the same
Minds that were not made for dreaming
Raise a functional
Hand that was not made for seeing
What we have become
There are no uncensored programs
We must refrain
Clear your minds
Run to be free
I'm reading your life line
There is no time all systems go
Waking in circles, man or machine
What are these programs we enter now
Are they not really the same
Minds that were not made for dreaming
Raise a functional
Hand that was not made for seeing
What we have become
There are no uncensored programs
We must refrain
Clear your minds
Run to be free
I'm reading your life line
There is no time all systems go
Man or machine

 

[kittybeast]

Chip Away The Stone- Aerosmith


YOU ACT LIKE A PRIMA DONNA
PLAYIN' SO HARD TA GET
SITTIN' SO COOL AND NONCHALANT
DRAGGIN' ON A CIGARETTE

YOU KEEP A WALL ALL AROUND YA
WHEN I GET THROUGH SOME DAY
AN' I WANT YOUR LOVE BABE
IF PUSH COMES TA SHOVE
GONNA CHIP THAT WALL AWAY

CHIP AWAY
CHIP AWAY AT THE STONE
AN' I WON'T STOP UNTIL YOUR LOVE IS MY VERY OWN

CHIP AWAY
THAT'S WHAT I'M GONNA DO
SWEET LITTLE MAMA I WANNA GET NEXT TA YOU

YOU STAND LIKE A MARBLE STATUE
TRYIN' TA LOOK SO HARD
AN' ALL DECKED OUT IN YOUR ANTIQUE DRESS
WHILE THE BOYS ALL PROMENADE

EVEN A ROCK WILL CRUMBLE
IF YOU STRIKE IT NIGHT AND DAY
IF HAMMER I MUST
I'M GONNA GET THROUGH YOUR CRUST
GONNA CHIP THAT STONE AWAY

CHIP AWAY
CHIP AWAY AT THE STONE
AN' I WON'T STOP UNTIL YOUR LOVE IS MY VERY OWN

CHIP AWAY
THAT'S WHAT I'M GONNA DO
SWEET LITTLE MAMA I WANNA GET NEXT TA YOU
heah

CHIP AWAY
CHIP AWAY AT THE STONE
HONEY I WON'T STOP 'TIL YOUR LOVE IS MY VERY OWN

CHIP AWAY
THAT'S WHAT I'M WANNA DO
SWEET LITTLE MAMA I WANNA GET NEXT TA YOU
YES I DO YES I DO

CHIP AWAY CHIP AWAY AT THE STONE
CHIP AWAY CHIP AWAY AT THE STONE

I WON'T STOP I WON'T STOP
I WON'T STOP I WON'T STOP
I WON'T STOP I WON'T

I WON'T STOP I WON'T STOP
I WON'T STOP I WON'T STOP
I WON'T STOP I WON'T STOP

AN' CHIP IT
I'M GONNA NIP IT ALL NIGHT LONG


Simple, sweet and I love this song. I could've picked a deeper song with more meaningful lyrics, but this one has been in my player for a couple weeks

 

[Death Animal]

I have been listening lots of Twisted Sister lately and this come first on my mind.

A GLINT OF STEEL
A FLASH OF LIGHT
YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT GOING HOME TONIGHT
BE IT JACK OR SWITCH
DOCTOR'S OR MIND
NOWHERE TO RUN, EVERYWHERE YOU'LL FIND
YOU CAN'T ESCAPE
FROM THE BED YOU'VE MADE
WHEN YOUR TIME HAS COME, YOU'LL ACCEPT THE BLADE!

YOU'RE CORNERED IN THE ALLEY WAY
YOU KNOW YOU'RE ALL ALONE
YOU KNOW IT'S GONNA END THIS WAY
THE CHILL GOES TO THE BONE
NOW HERE IT COMES THAT GLISTENING LIGHT
IT GOES INTO YOUR SIDE
THE BLACKNESS COMES
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT
THE BLADE IS GONNA RIDE

'CAUSE YOU'RE UNDER THE BLADE
OHHH
YOU'RE UNDER THE BLADE

IT'S NOT ANOTHER PARTY HEAD
THIS TIME YOU CANNOT RISE
YOUR HANDS ARE TIED, YOUR LEGS ARE STRAPPED
A LIGHT SHINES IN YOUR EYES
YOU FAINTLY SEE A RAZOR'S EDGE
YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH TO CRY
YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T
IT'S OVER NOW
THE BLADE IS GONNA RIDE

'CAUSE YOU'RE UNDER THE BLADE
OHHH
YOU'RE UNDER THE BLADE

A GLINT OF STEEL
A FLASH OF LIGHT
YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT GOING HOME TONIGHT
BE IT JACK OR SWITCH
DOCTOR'S OR MIND
NOWHERE TO RUN, EVERYWHERE YOU'LL FIND
YOU CAN'T ESCAPE
FROM THE BED YOU'VE MADE
WHEN YOUR TIME HAS COME, YOU'LL ACCEPT THE BLADE!

YOU'VE TRIED TO MAKE IT TO THE FRONT
YOU'RE PINNED AGAINST THE SIDE
A MONSTER STANDS BEFORE YOU NOW
ITS MOUTH IS OPEN WIDE
THE LIGHTS GO ON, THE NIGHT EXPLODES
IT TEARS INTO YOUR MIND
WHEN THE NIGHT DOES END, YOU'LL COME AGAIN
THE BLADE IS GONNA RIDE

'CAUSE YOU'RE UNDER THE BLADE
OHHH
YOU'RE UNDER THE BLADE
HERE IT COMES BABY
WHOAAAAAAAHHHH...
YOU'RE GOIN' DOWN, DOWN, DOWN,
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN...

 

[Wyvern]

Personally I´d have picked "Emerald"

Right!

Unfortunately I don´t like Motorhead at all.

Apostata, hereje
***********************************************************
Another great song for me:

'You Won't Change Me'

I'm just a man and I am what I am, yeah
Nobody will ever change my ways
I don't need money and I
Don't need no lies, yeah
I only need to live for today
But I'd like to talk things
Over with you
I want to hear the things
That you say today
Although you won't change me
Anyway. Oh, no way
I wish you'd come and see me
I'd like to hold you
I want to see my mind all free
You understand me, woman
You give me time, yeah
But I don't need no sympathy
Still I wonder what it's
Like to be loved
Instead of hiding in myself
Nobody will change me anyway, no, no way
Nobody's gonna change my world
That's something too unreal
Nobody will change the way I feel
So listen to me now, hear what I say, yeah
Please, give me time and maybe love
If there's a God up there,well
I hope he helps me
I need him now to set me free
'cause it maybe that it's over for me
If you don't hear the things
That I say today
Nobody will change me
Anyway, no, no way
Nobody's gonna change my world
That's something too unreal
Nobody will change the way I feel.

NP: Onward - 'No Miracles For Me'

 

[sixxswine]

Whorehouse Blues by Motorhead

Well we come up from the gutter
The wrong side of the tracks
Yeah we come up from the gutter
Wrong side of the tracks
You know the music brought us out babe
And we ain’t never been back

Cause we went city to city
All around the world
Yes we went city to city
All around the world
You know it never looked like enough honey
Even after thirty years

Cause we come blazing like a shooting star
We light you up real good
Yes we come blazing like a shooting star
We light you up real good
We gonna hit you like a flash of lightning
Just like a bad boy would

You know the only thing that’s missing
Is a little mouth harp blues
You know the only thing that’s missing
Is a little mouth heart blues
And you know life’s full of surprises
You know we do that too

You know we ain’t too good looking
But we are satisfied
No we ain’t never been good looking
But we are satisfied
We shoulda opened up a little whorehouse honey
Get a little booty on the side

 

[Wyvern]

Barely 17 years old, but still rocks me:

See You In Hell (Don't Be Late)

Can't bow for a rule
Cause I'm nobody's fool
No puppet on a string when what counts is to win
Sometimes I might be rude
Acting in my mood
I'm trying to be straight
Cause I don't want to be late

There's nothing you can say to make
me feel worse than I do (how are you)
You can't buy my freedom
Keep me locked in your cell

Sad how we waste our energy
When all our days are few (makes me blue)
We're two of a kind me and you
I guess that I'll see you in hell

Who is my friend
Who will remain
Seems like I always stand alone in the end
Nobody lasts until the end

There's nothing you can say to make
me feel worse than I do (how are you)
You can't buy my freedom
Keep me locked in your cell

Sad how we waste our energy
When all our days are few (makes me blue)
You can't buy my life and freedom
It's more than just buy and sell
You can't keep me locked in your cell
I guess that I'll see you in hell
See you in hell

 

[Bryant]

Great thread Sixx !!!


However........ I don't care much about lyrics less Howe era Metal Church. Ya'll can pick one for me.......


Bryant

 

[Wyvern]

Great thread Sixx !!!


However........ I don't care much about lyrics less Howe era Metal Church. Ya'll can pick one for me.......


Bryant

Excelent idea, great lyrics in there. But one in particular I consider it very good and very truthful and I've always revered the band for it.

'In Harm's Way'

In the empty spaces of the mind, that's here I store my past
A ghostly image that I fear has yet to be surpassed
I pray that I won't carry all the pain 'till the end

No direction from your guardian, the one who should protect
I'm innocent of their decisions, I wonder why dad left
Every night I hide in bed and plan to run away...

A lonely child with battered eyes
No joy in innocence they cry
Always has to lie his way through life

I've fallen down while playing ball
But mom beat me up and down the hall
Just because she had one of those nights

Instinct to defend, where does it all end
How does a child get himself out of harm's way?
A lifelong price to pay

It's not that mommy hits that hurts me, it's when she goes away
Get home from school all by myself and won't see her for days
A kid deprived of love in life has no alternative in sight
He throws up barriers to get him through
A human life's a gift from God
Your conscience and your heart are gone
You're much to cruel to have a point of view

No one to turn to, oh, how dare you
How does a child get himself out of harm's way?
A price no one should pay

Can't you see the tears they're crying
Don't you care your kids are dying?
From the senseless torment that you put them through

There's different kinds of lies to tell
Abuse is from the pit of hell
A demon with a goal that is to kill

You better hear the words I say
Deliverence may be far away
You'll look like you have been run through the mill

Instinct to defend, where does it all end
How does a child get himself out of harm's way?
A lifelong price to pay

NP: The Flower Kings - 'Garden Of Dreams'

 

[Wicked Child]

One song (there's many) that automatically comes to mind....the ONE song that completely encompasses everything that defines metal, IMO, in just under 3 fucking minutes. HELL. BENT. FOR. LEATHER.


Seek him here, seek him on the highway
Never knowing when he'll appear
All await, engine's ticking over
Hear the roar as they sense the fear

Wheels! A glint of steel and a flash of light!
Screams! From a streak of fire as he strikes!

Hell bent, hell bent for leather
Hell bent, hell bent for leather

Black as night, faster than a shadow
Crimson flare from a raging sun
An exhibition, sheer precision
Yet no one knows from where he comes

Fools! Self destruct cannot take that crown
Dreams! Crash one by one to the ground

Hell bent, hell bent for leather
Hell bent, hell bent for leather

There's many who tried to prove that they're faster
But they didn't last and they died as they tried

There's many who tried to prove that they're faster
But they didn't last and they died as they tried

Hell bent, hell bent for leather
Hell bent, hell bent for leather
Hell bent, hell bent for leather
Hell bent, hell bent for leather

 

[Wyvern]

One that really hits me because is true but nobody wants to acknowledge it.

We All Bleed Red

People divided by color or creed
won't unite to fight the powers supreme
division & hypocrisy the governmental seed
freedom has a price, no, freedom isn't free
no longer can we hide in our private prison cells
we must socialize to live together well
understand, communicate,
we're practically the same
different style models of the basic human frame.

when done and said
it's in the head
we all bleed red... we all bleed red

unite! to find a better way
unite! together we'll have a say
we gotta fight together
we gotta bleed together
if need be, die together, together

when done and said
it's in the head
we all bleed red... we all bleed red

mosh...

Chinese people tinkering with nukes and human rights
Pakistan and India, your dots are so alike
the fucking English monarchy, just can't bear the sight
of their little princess Di impaled on Dodi's might

America the melting pot of nationalities
Polacks hate the Greeks who hate the Lebanese
Christian killing Protestants in the name of Christ
Israel and Palestine both think they are right

Muslims who hate everyone there's no time for you
Buddhist seeking higher grounds wake the fuck up too
people are so ignorant, why can't they understand
we all bleed red, we're all one man, we all bleed red

 

[JonnyD]

Fake Healer

I prey upon your morbid fear
Of terminal disease
You won't know the difference
Now it's time for surgery
Another shot, another pill
Two weeks therapy
I take all major credit cards
Your money is what I need

I'm a healer
I will keep you all alive
I'm a healer

A villain at your bedside
Take this and you'll be fine
Severely educated
Just pay your bill on time
I think it's time for another test
I need more of your blood
Sign this affidavit
So my insurance won't go up

I'm a healer
I will keep you all alive
I'm a healer

Research and development
Spend millions every year
You sickly and decrepit ones
Keep my yacht safe on the pier

You're dying on a stretcher
We'll try to save your life
If you can't afford my service
I will let you die
I'm trusted and respected
Says my diploma on the wall
Before I will do anything
I'll give your bank a call

I'm a healer
I will keep you all alive
I'm a healer

 

[Wyvern]

Another great one by MC, good call JD

 

[poundingmetal74]

Some great songs you guys are posting. I've always loved the lyrics to that MC song as well.

Here's one of my favorite sets of lyrics:
For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on

Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

I'm tired of all this bullshit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam

They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale

I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through

 

[Priest of Evil]

Cold Sweat with Tom Angelrippers accent = tres cool!

Lots of tracks come to mind, some arent old and most arent literary works but how bout Sabbat?

Our tounges they could not silence,
with their malicious lies,
their unforgotten violence,
remember those who died.

And as my flesh is put to fire,
I hear their voices still,
their unjust accusations,
demanding I am killed.

'We shall show no mercy to heathen
such as thee,
who stand accused and have refused
the Church's clemency,
your wicked acts are endless,
though the crimes they cannot name,
innocent or guilty proved,
we'll burn you just the same.'

Burning, into the fire.
Burning, a funeral pyre.
Burning, into the fire.
Burning, a funeral pyre.

This self-righteous inquisition,
is a plague upon our land,
as false as the confessions they force
from shattered hands.

Abused my broken body is cleansed
by righteous flame,
their God a 'God of Mercy' -
yet in whose name I'm slain.

My innocence the victim of their
superstitious fears,
religious persecution for the past
three hundred years,
preaching peace and mercy 'neath the
shadow of the knife,
a papal reign of terror -
slaughter in the name of Christ.

For Those Who Died

 

[Priest of Evil]

Yep that Metal Church song gets the blood boiling alright

 

[sixxswine]

Here's another:

UFO - Lights Out

Wind blows back and the batons charging
It winds all the way
Right to the butt of my gun
Maybe now your time has come

From the back streets there's a rumblin'

Smell of anarchy
No more nice time, bright boy shoe shines
Pie in the sky dreams

(1) Lights out, lights out in London
Hold 'em tight 'til the end
Better now you know we'll never
Wait 'til tomorrow
Lights out, lights out in London
Hold 'em tight 'til the end
God knows when I'm comin' on [my] run

Heaven help those who help themselves
That's the way it goes
The frightening thoughts of what's been taught
And now it shows

(1) Repeat

(1) Repeat

You keep comin', there's no runnin'
Tried a thousand times
Under your feet grass is growin'
Time we said goodbye

(1) Repeat

Lights out, lights out in London
Lights out, lights out in London