Song Lyrics That Remind You Of The Watchtower

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  jeeprube

  Don't Know When but a Day's Gonna Come by Bright Eyes

  Is it true what I heard about the Son of God?
  Did he come to save? Did he come at all?
  And if I dried his feet,
  with my dirty hair,
  would he make me clean again?
  They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come,
  when there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun.
  It will just go black, It'll all go back, to the way it was before.
  I knew a lovely girl, with such pretty pride, and every man wanted her, yeah and so did I.
  So did I.
  But she up and died in a fit of vanity.
  Now men with purple hearts, carry silver guns.
  And they will kill a man for what his father has done.
  But what my father did, you know it don't mean shit. I'm not him.
  So you think I need some discipline, well, I had my share.
  I have been sent to my room. I've been sat in a chair.
  And I held my tongue. I didn't plug my ears.
  No, I got a good talking to.
  
  And now I don't know why,
  but I still try to smile when they talk at me like I'm just a child.
  Well, I'm not a child.
  No, I am much younger than that.
  And now I have read some books and have grown quite brave.
  If I could just speak up I think I would say that there is no truth.
  There is only you and what you make the truth.
  So I will just sing my song and I'll pass a hat.
  Then I'll leave your town and never look back.
  No, I don't look back because the road is clear and laid out ahead of me.
  I'll get home and meet my friends at our favorite bar.
  We'll get some lighter heads for our heavy hearts.
  And we will share a drink.
  Yeah we will share our fears and they will know how I love them.
  They will know how I love.
  They will know how I love them.
  I am nothing without their love
  .
  I don't know when but a day is gonna come
  when there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun.
  It will all go black.
  It will all go back to the way it is supposed to be.
  Is it true what I heard about the Son of God?
  Did he die for us? Did he die at all?
  And if I sold my soul for a bag of gold,
  which one of us would be the foolish one?
  Which one of us would be the fool?
  Which one of us would be the foolish one?
  Which one of us would be the fool?
  
  Could you please start explaining?
  You know, I need some understanding.
  Could you please start explaining?
  You know, I need some understanding.
  Could you please start explaining?
  You know, I need some understanding.
  I could do good with some explaining.
  You know. I want to understand.
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  Paralipomenon

  There must be some kind of way out of here
  Said the joker to the thief
  Theres too much confusion
  I cant get no relief
  Businessman they drink my wine
  Plow men dig my earth
  None will level on the line
  Nobody of it is worth
  Hey hey
  
  No reason to get excited
  The thief he kindly spoke
  There are many here among us
  Who feel that life is but a joke but uh
  But you and I weve been through that
  And this is not our fate
  So let us not talk falsely now
  The hours getting late
  Hey
  
  Hey
  
  All along the watchtower
  Princes kept the view
  While all the women came and went
  Bare-foot servants to, but huh
  Outside in the cold distance
  A wild cat did growl
  Two riders were approachin
  And the wind began to howl
  Hey
  Oh
  All along the watchtower
  Hear you sing around the watch
  Gotta beware gotta beware I will
  Yeah
  Ooh baby
  All along the watchtower
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  purplesofa

  The Heart Of The Matter Lyrics
  » Don Henley

  I got the call today, I didn't wanna hear
  But I knew that it would come
  An old true friend of ours was talkin' on the phone
  She said you found someone
  And I thought of all the bad luck,
  And the struggles we went through
  And how I lost me and you lost you
  What are these voices outside love's open door
  Make us throw off our contentment
  And beg for something more?
  
  I'm learning to live without you now
  But I miss you sometimes
  The more I know, the less I understand
  All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again
  I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
  But my will gets weak
  And my thoughts seem to scatter
  But I think it's about forgiveness
  Forgiveness
  Even if, even if you don't love me anymore
  
  These times are so uncertain
  There's a yearning undefined
  ...People filled with rage
  We all need a little tenderness
  How can love survive in such a graceless age
  The trust and self-assurance that can lead to happiness
  They're the very things we kill, I guess
  Pride and competition cannot fill these empty arms
  And the work I put between us,
  Doesn't keep me warm
  
  I'm learning to live without you now
  But I miss you, Baby
  The more I know, the less I understand
  All the things I thought I figured out, I have to learn again
  I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
  But everything changes
  And my friends seem to scatter
  But I think it's about forgiveness
  Forgiveness
  Even if, even if you don't love me anymore
  
  There are people in your life who've come and gone
  They let you down and hurt your pride
  Better put it all behind you; life goes on
  You keep carrin' that anger, it'll eat you inside
  
  I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
  But my will gets weak
  And my thoughts seem to scatter
  But I think it's about forgiveness
  Forgiveness
  Even if, even if you don't love me anymore
  
  I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
  Because the flesh will get weak
  And the ashes will scatter
  So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness
  Forgiveness
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  nvrgnbk

  The Gash- The Flaming Lips

  Is that gash in your leg really why you have stopped?
  Cause I've noticed, all the others,
  Though they're gashed, they're still going.
  Cause I feel like the real reason
  That you're quitting and admitting that
  You've lost all the will to battle on.
  
  Will the fight for sanity be the fight of our lives?
  Now that we've lost all the reasons that we thought that we had.
  
  Still the battle that we're in
  Rages on till the end
  With explosions, wounds are open,
  Sights and smells, eyes and noses,
  But the thought that went unspoken
  Was understanding that you're broken...
  Still the last volunteer battles on,
  Battles on...

  Actually, this is about the post-cult wreckage called my life.
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  ninja

  stuck in the middle with you
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  NeonMadman

  Changing of the Guards

  Bob Dylan

  Sixteen years,
  Sixteen banners united over the field
  Where the good shepherd grieves.
  Desperate men, desperate women divided,
  Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves.
  
  Fortune calls.
  I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
  Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
  She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,
  On midsummer's eve, near the tower.
  
  The cold-blooded moon.
  The captain waits above the celebration
  Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
  Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
  The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.
  
  They shaved her head.
  She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.
  A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
  I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow,
  Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
  
  I stumbled to my feet.
  I rode past destruction in the ditches
  With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
  Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
  Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.
  
  The palace of mirrors
  Where dog soldiers are reflected,
  The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
  The empty rooms where her memory is protected,
  Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
  
  She wakes him up
  Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
  Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
  She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking.
  He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.
  
  Gentlemen, he said,
  I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
  I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
  But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
  Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
  Peace will come
  With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
  But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
  And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
  Between the King and the Queen of Swords.
  
  
  Copyright © 1978 Special Rider Music
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  NeonMadman

  Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)

  Bob Dylan

  There's a long-distance train rolling through the rain, tears on the letter I write.
  There's a woman I long to touch and I miss her so much but she's drifting like a
  satellite. There's a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze, laughter down on
  Elizabeth Street
  And a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone where she bathed in a stream of pure
  heat. Her father would emphasize you got to be more than street-wise but he practiced
  what he preached from the heart.
  A full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted to me the time and the place that the trouble would start.
  
  There's a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage
  And a longtime golden-haired stripper onstage
  And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page
  Of a book that no one can write.
  Oh, where are you tonight?
  
  The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you have to explode.In that last hour of need, we entirely agreed, sacrifice was the code of the road.
  I left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. John, strong men belittled by doubt.
  I couldn't tell her what my private thoughts were but she had some way of finding
  them out. He took dead-center aim but he missed just the same, she was waiting,
  putting flowers on the shelf.
  She could feel my despair as I climbed up her hair and discovered her invisible self.
  
  There's a lion in the road, there's a demon escaped,
  There's a million dreams gone, there's a landscape being raped,
  As her beauty fades and I watch her undrape,
  I won't, but then again, maybe I might.
  Oh, if I could just find you tonight.
  
  I fought with my twin, that enemy within, 'til both of us fell by the way.
  Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees while the law looks the other way.
  Your partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes, the guy you were lovin'
  couldn't stay clean.
  It felt outa place, my foot in his face, but he should-a stayed where his money was
  green.
  I bit into the root of forbidden fruit with the juice running down my leg.
  Then I dealt with your boss, who'd never known about loss and who always was
  too proud to beg.
  There's a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room and a pathway that leads
  up to the stars.
  If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, remind me to show you the
  scars.
  
  There's a new day at dawn and I've finally arrived.
  If I'm there in the morning, baby, you'll know I've survived.
  I can't believe it, I can't believe I'm alive,But without you it just doesn't seem right.
  Oh, where are you tonight?
  
  
  Copyright © 1978 Special Rider Music
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  sandy

  The newest one that makes me think of the org is Defying Gravity from the musical WICKED. I can't wait to see the play next week. Artist: Kristin Chenoweth Lyrics Song: Defying Gravity Lyrics GLINDA (spoken) Elphaba - why couldn't you have stayed calm for once, instead of flying off the handle! (sung) I hope you're happy! I hope you're happy now I hope you're happy how you Hurt your cause forever I hope you think you're clever! ELPHABA I hope you're happy I hope you're happy, too I hope you're proud how you Would grovel in submission To feed your own ambition BOTH So though I can't imagine how I hope you're happy right now GLINDA (spoken) Elphie, listen to me. Just say you're sorry: (sung) You can still be with the Wizard What you've worked and waited for You can have all you ever wanted: ELPHABA (spoken) I know: (sung) But I don't want it - No - I can't want it Anymore: Something has changed within me Something is not the same I'm through with playing by the rules Of someone else's game Too late for second-guessing Too late to go back to sleep It's time to trust my instincts Close my eyes: and leap! It's time to try Defying gravity I think I'll try Defying gravity And you can't pull me down! GLINDA Can't I make you understand? You're having delusions of grandeur: ELPHABA I'm through accepting limits 'Cuz someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost! I'd sooner buy Defying gravity Kiss me goodbye I'm defying gravity And you can't pull me down: (spoken) Glinda - come with me. Think of what we could do: together. (sung) Unlimited Together we're unlimited Together we'll be the greatest team There's ever been Glinda - Dreams, the way we planned 'em GLINDA If we work in tandem: BOTH There's no fight we cannot win Just you and I Defying gravity With you and I Defying gravity ELPHABA They'll never bring us down! (spoken) Well? Are you coming? GLINDA I hope you're happy Now that you're choosing this ELPHABA (spoken) You too (sung) I hope it brings you bliss BOTH I really hope you get it And you don't live to regret it I hope you're happy in the end I hope you're happy, my friend: ELPHABA So if you care to find me Look to the western sky! As someone told me lately: "Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!" And if I'm flying solo At least I'm flying free To those who'd ground me Take a message back from me Tell them how I am Defying gravity I'm flying high Defying gravity And soon I'll match them in renown And nobody in all of Oz No Wizard that there is or was Is ever gonna bring me down!
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  flipper

  They're coming to take me away, HA HAAA, to the funny farm, to the happy home, where life is beautiful all the time! ...And I'll be HAPPY to see those nice young men in their clean white coats....They're coming to take me away HA HA HA HA HAHAAAAAAAAAAAA.........Mrs. Flipper Her favorite holiday song
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  anakolouthos

  This song is from a concept album about joining and then in time waking up and escaping from a religious cult.... Quite fitting. :-)

  A Touch Of Blessing by Evergrey

  Climbing walls of an endless circle
  Walking paths you never heard of
  Struggling in an endless battle
  Searching for a higher purpose

  Drowning in betrayal's river
  The freezing cold will make you shiver
  Join the world of greater learning
  Crown me king and be my servant

  Mislead by beauty
  One you rarely find
  So loving and friendly
  It's one of a kind

  Their arms wide open
  Willing to take me in
  No doubts in choosing
  A world free from sin

  All the dreams I had
  All my future wishes
  Put aside for a greater journey
  All the things I planned
  Left my friends so coldly
  Put aside for a
  Higher...

  Mislead by beauty
  One you rarely find
  So loving and friendly
  It's one of a kind

  One single army
  Unite as one
  A touch of blessing
  Which cannot be undone

  Drowning in betrayal's river
  The freezing cold will make you shiver
  Join the world of greater learning
  Crown me king and be my servants

  All the dreams I had
  All my future wishes
  Put aside for a greater journey
  All the things I planned
  Left my friends so coldly
  Put aside for a higher purpose

  (Face melting solo)

  All the dreams I had
  All my future wishes
  Put aside for a greater journey
  All the things I planned
  Left my friends so coldly
  Put aside for a
  Higher...