Offensive Rock and Roll Song Lyrics

Did you hear that Canada is banning a Dire Straits song from the radio because it contains the word "faggot"?

"Money for Nothing" came out 26 years ago and was a number one hit.  The word faggot was not used in a deragatory manner, it was used (imo) sarcastically to describe  Boy George or maybe a metal hair band (it was 1985).  You have to understand the song and the context it was used in.  Its a song about a working class guy  watching music videos and thinking, "these dudes have it made, I should have been a rock star..."

"See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup, Yeah buddy that’s his own hair. That little faggot got his own jet airplane. That little faggot he’s a millionaire."

I think its ridiculous to ban this song from the air.  If these lyrics are offensive what about all the other lyrics out there that are no longer politically correct in today's overly sensitive world?

Let's lists a list of all the "offensive" song lyrics we can think of.  (Please note - rock and roll type songs only, rap/hip hop doesn't count...which by the way they play on Canadian radio with the N word because that is not offensive.....?)

(I've heard Mark Knopfler was in an appliance store when he thought of this song, that's why the references to all the appliances, but I don't know if that's true).

lyrics in my mind....

Crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak
reveal yourself all now to me girl while you've got the strength to speak
Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks
But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask.
And don't call for your surgeon even he says it's too late
It's not your lungs this time, it's your heart that holds your fate

and

'Cause I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors
And who am I to ask you to lick my sores
And you should know that's true
I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency

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How Well Do You Know Lyrics?

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Okay, I haven't done this in a while.  Do you know the song each of these lyrics come from?  Key word:  "know".  Anyone can look them up on Google!  If you need a hint or two let me know....


1.  And we don't need the ladies
Cryin' 'cause the story's sad

2.  But he can't be a man cause
He doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as mine

3.  You can call me Joe
Buy me a drink and shake my hand

4.  I've got to keep on chasin' that dream, though I may never find it
I'm always just behind it.

5.  Cause I get down on my knees, Oh, I pray that love won't die
And if I always try to please, I don't know the reason why, yeah

6.  Feeling all alone and without a friend you know you feel like dying

7.  How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing,
For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips.

8.  When you see a hand that's held out toward you,
Give it some love, some day it may be you.

9.  Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll 'lotta soul

10.  But someone among them had the skill of deceit
And raised the hand that would open the road to Hell
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Recognize These Lyrics:

I haven't done this in a while.  I heard a few of these songs today, can you guess what they are by these lines from they lyrics?


1.  "Mama told me not to look into the eyes of the sun, but Mama, that's where the fun is."

2.  "Alvin Tostig has a son today"

3.  "Now me and my mate were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box
She said, I can't take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk."

4.  "To find a queen without a king
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings."

5.  "How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget  ."

Bonus points:  Song 2 has a connection to something about song 3, do you know what it is?

Who Sang It?

Update: I put the answers in the comments. Some of these were really hard. One interesting thing about this lyric, several of you guessed Def Lepard which is correct, they did sing this in their song Pyromania, but I was thinking of Neil Young when I used it:

"It's better to burn out, than fade away"

That line was made famous to a generation that probably didn't listen much to either Neil or Def Lep, because Kurt Cobain used it in his suicide note.

Can you name the artist and the song?

1. All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars.
2. And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. The Beatles,
   
3. Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
4. Freedom, well, that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
5. I don't need no money, fortune, or fame. I got all the riches baby, one man can claim.
6. I understand about indecision, but I don't care if I get behind. People living in competition, all I want is to have my peace of mind.
7. I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
8. I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.
9. It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
10. My uniform is leather and my power is my age.
11. Nobody wants him, he just stares at the world. Planning his vengeance, that he will soon unfold.
12. Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea. All we do, crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see, dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.
13. Send me dead flowers to my wedding and I won't forget to put roses on your grave.
14. So tonight you better stop and rebuild all your ruins, because peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing.
15. Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, one man gathers what another man spills.
16. Then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
17. There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
18. Thinking is the best way to travel.
19. You bought a guitar to punish your Mom.
20. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
21. You're dangerous cause your honest, you're dangerous cause you don't know what you want.
    

Lyrics Quiz (with HINTS)

No one seems to ever get the lyrics I post so this time I added some nice HINTS.

You think you’re so illustrious, you call yourself intense (hint: from the chorus, band called The ____)

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Tap on my window, knock on my door, I want to make you feel beautiful (hint: name of band has a color and a number, not a classic rock band)

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When you were young and on your own, how did you feel to be alone (hint: first line of song by Canadian with initials NY)

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Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth (hint: by a former Beatle)

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One man caught on a barbed wire fence, one man he resist, one man washed on an empty beach.
one man betrayed with a kiss (hint: by my favorite band)

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No more speed I’m almost there, gotta keep cool now, gotta take care, last car to pass here I go
and the line of cars goes down real slow (hint, this was their one big hit)

POINTS:

The name of the band: 2 points
The name of the song: 4 points
Both: 8 points
Bonus: if you can figure out one thing all these songs have in common: 100 points!

What you win: Nothing! But I you get to have the highest score :) No cheatin'.

Lyrics Quiz

There's an eclectic mix here. Some old, some new, some rock, some not so much....but sort of. Some of them are hard, others are too easy :)

Which song/artist each of these lyrics came from?

There's something happening here, and what it is ain't exactly clear

I get home at five o'clock
And I take myself out a nice, cold beer
Always seem to be wonderin'
Why there's nothin' goin' down here

A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on

Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive

Look like nothing's gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same, yes

Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room
Safe within my womb
I touch no-one and no-one touches me

Thankful Lyrics

In honor of Thanksgiving here in the USA, help me think of songs, titles, lyrics and or band names with any form of the word "Thanks" in the title, including words such as grateful, thank you, etc. etc.

I will start off with the most obvious:

Thank You by Led Zeppelin
The Grateful Dead
"I just want to THANK YOU for letting me be myself" (from song by Sly & the Family Stone")

Politically Correct Lyrics - Part One

You know what I love about this blog? The comments you people leave! I could spend all day responding in depth to some of the things said here. I can rarely find anyone in person to get into good discussions with, but here something always sparks a thought.

This thought was sparked by Jeff's comment on the last post. He shared a lyric from John Lennon's song "Woman is the Nigger of the World". I just cringed typing the "N" word. Its considered to be such a negative word that books containing it have been banned from school libraries, its not allowed to be said on radio shows, its rarely used because of the controversy surrounding it.

Even back in 1972 when John and Yoko (she coined the phrase) recorded the song, it was banned from many radio stations even though the message behind the song was something a lot of people agreed with.

My question is: Do you think John would use that same term today in the title/lyric of a song?

Part Two on another day. My mind works faster than my energy lasts, if that makes sense.

25 Best Opening Lyrics

Check out this list, it's got many of the classics but I am sure they left some out that you would like to add...so please do!

here are a few I thought of:

"Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home? "
Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb

"There must be some kind of way out of here, said the joker to the thief"
Jimi Hendrix All Along the Watchtower

"Johnny was a schoolboy
When he heard his first Beatles song
Love Me Do I think it was
And from there it didn't take him long"
Bad Co. Shooting Star

She never mentions the word addiction
In certain company
Yes, shell tell you shes an orphan
After you meet her family"
Black Crowes She Talks to Angels

Bobby's got a gun that he keeps beneath his pillow
Out on the streets your chances are zero
Bruce Springsteen Murder Incorporated

"One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come, he to justify
One man to overthrow"
U2 Pride

"Celestial Beings"

Can you recognize these five songs? The title and who recorded them? Don't peak on Google. Hint: all the titles have one word in common.....

No I'm no stranger to the dark
Let me rock your cradle
Let me start a fire with your spark
Oh come on baby
Come and let me show you my tattoo

Sure enough this morning came unto me
Silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise
And my angel she said unto me,
"Today is the day for you to rise
Take my hand, you're gonna be my man,
You're gonna rise
(Where did you go?)

She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket
She wears a cross around her neck
The hair is from a little boy
And the cross is someone she has not met, not yet

Blue light on the avenue
God knows they got to you
An empty glass, the lady sings
Eyes swollen like a bee sting
Blinded you lost your way
Through the side streets and the alleyway
Like a star exploding in the night
Falling to the city in broad daylight

She took her life
Within her hands
She took her life
Within her own two hands
And no-one can tell her
What to do now

And I believed in you
I believed in you
Like Elvis Presley
Singing live from Las Vegas

Misheard Lyrics

I have always got a huge kick out of misheard lyrics...some of my own are pretty dang embarrassing! While at Metal Mark's today I got to thinking about Van Halen, here are a few from songs. Here they are -( I listed the real lyrics first).

Please leave any you can think of in the comments. For a great list that is sure to entertain you check out Am I Right?

Little Guitars:
Non-stop talker, what a rocker.
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Non stop taco, I wanna rocko.

Ain't Talking About Love:

I heard the news baby
All about your disease
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I'm on the loose baby
Like a warm stack o' cheese

and last but not least:

Panama:

I reach down between my legs and
ease the seat back...
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I reached down between my legs
and eased the SEED BAG.

Universal Soilder by Donovan

This song was written in the 60's:
He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put the end to war.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Eric Clapton

Mr. Clapton is 63 years old today.
What's your favorite song by him?

I'll give you a hint what mine is...he wrote it with Jim Gordon and recorded it when he was with Derek and the Dominoes....

It's kind of scary how parts of this first verse seem to be right where I'm at these days:

What'll you do when you get lonely
No one waiting by your side?
You've been running and hiding much too long.
You know it's just your foolish pride.

Love Songs

I found a list of 249 songs with the word "LOVE" in the title.

How many can you list. I'll throw out a few obvious ones:

Love Me Do
Love Me Tender
Baby, I Love Your Way
Addicted to Love
Tunnel of Love
Love Stinks
and this song that says it all:
I LOVE ROCK AND ROLL!



(oh, by the way - Happy Valentine's Day!)