Best opening song lyrics.

[DavidHatton]

Funny how I find myself, In love with you
If I could buy my reasoning, I'd pay to lose
One half won't do.

Talk Talk-It's my life.

 

[Tanglefoot]

I could be the driver an articulated lorry
I could be a poet I wouldn't need to worry

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I could be a teacher in a classroom full of scholars

 

[Banbeer]

One of my favourite songs from 2010.


As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left
cause I've been blasting and laughing so long,
that even my mama thinks that my mind has gone
but I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of
you better watch how you're talking and where you're walking
or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
I really hate to trip but I gotta, loc
As I Grow I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
on my knees in the night, saying prayers in the streetlight

been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise

They got the situation, they got me facin'
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes
so I gotta be down with the hood team
too much television watching got me chasing dreams
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger
and my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24
the way things are going I don't know

Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise

Power and the money, money and the power
minute after minute, hour after hour
everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
what's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's kickin'
they say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me
if they can't understand it, how can they reach me
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me

Fookin hell Chippy, hell of an intro.

 

[Banbeer]

London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls

Classic Clash.

 

[Linalmeemow]

Fookin hell Chippy, hell of an intro.

Also surely from the 1990s?

 

[VW911]

Tell me the legends of long ago

Black Rose? (or Roisin Dubh)...

 

[DavidHatton]

I could be the driver an articulated lorry
I could be a poet I wouldn't need to worry

Classic

 

[stigman]

Well she wore big knickers and she worked on't sewage farm.
I got my hands down her jeans and I nearly lost arf me arm.

Sweaty Betty. Macc lads

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Also surely from the 1990s?

I thought it was older than that when i saw 2010 when i googled it and of course it is -

Gangsta's Paradise was one of those songs that, for the second half of 1995, took over the world. Its blend of introspective lyrics, a gospel-inspired singalong chorus and its hook - sampled from Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise - proved the perfect mix for a global smash.

Released in UK 25 years ago this week (following its August release in America), Gangsta's Paradise was released to tie in with Michelle Pfeiffer movie Dangerous Minds. The song and its memorable video (which heavily featured Pfeiffer) quickly eclipsed the film itself and ultimately broke new ground for hip-hop in the mainstream.

 

[Mr_S_Jerusalem]

1).
It was a slow day
And the sun was beating
On the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage
Was wired to the radio
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all


2).
Listen, do you hear them drawing near in their search for the sinners?
Feeding on the power of our fear and the evil within us
Incarnation of Satan's creation of all that we dread
When the demons arrive those alive would be better off dead!

There must be something worth living for
There must be something worth trying for
Even some things worth dying for
And if one man can stand tall
There must be hope for us all
Somewhere, somewhere, in the spirit of man

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad

 

[Chippy_Tea]

If you're feeling down depressed and lonely
I know a place where we can go
22 Acacia Avenue

meet a lady that I know
So if you're looking for a good time
And you're prepared to pay the price
Fifteen quid is all she asks for
Everybody's got their vice

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Remember when you were young?
You shone like the sun

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell

 

[DavidHatton]

Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within
Only see
Starless and bible black.

 

[MattHudds]

"The Mississippi Delta
Was shining like a national guitar."

 

[Keith 66]

Someone beat me to Sweaty betty, But so many of the Macc lads songs are classics, " I spent last night trying to chuck me bird, she were clinging to me leg like a homesick turd, I said yer **** are too small yer legs are too short i want a fit bird from't sunday sport" Fluffy pup, Lead singer Muttley is one of the best shakesperean lyricists of all time.

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Listen to the wind blow
watch the sun rise
run in the shadows
damn your love, damn your lies

 

[StoutWolf]

Listen to the wind blow
watch the sun rise
run in the shadows
damn your love, damn your lies

Love this song.