TOOL - Sober (this is one of my personal favorites, but I could add about 10 here and they'd all be as good or better....

There's a shadow just behind me,

shrouding every breath I take,

making every promise empty,

pointing every finger at me.

Waiting like a stalking butler

who upon the finger rests.

Murder now the path called must we

just before the son has come.

Jesus, won't you whistle

something but the past and done?

Why can't we not be sober?

I just want to start this over.

Why can't we drink forever.

I just want to start things over.

I am just a worthless liar.

I am just an imbecile.

I will only complicate you.

Trust in me and fall as well.

I will find a center in you.

I will chew it up and leave,

I will work to elevate you

just enough to bring you down.

Trust me.

Mother Mary won't you whisper

something but what's past and done.

Trust me.

I want what I want.

When riding in a peloton, here's my theme song:

Ms New Booty - Bubba Sparxxx

Booty, booty, booty, booty, rockin' everywhere [3x]
Rockin' everywhere [2x]

[Bubba Sparxxx]
I found you MS NEW BOOTY
Get it together and bring it back to me
Hit the playas club for about month or 2
Put his hand on it then see what he do [2x]

Get it ripe, get it right, get it tight [4x]

[1st verse (Bubba Sparxxx)]
Girl I don't need you, but chu need me
Take it off, let if flop, shake it freely
And I don't tell stories, I let em tell theyself
And you aint gotta sell sex, girl, it sells itself, Like nothing else
Yeah I'm a country boy, but that big city bottom fill me up with joy
Aint life grand (life's grand) livin up daddy
Here go da whisper song, baby this is us ready?
Put it on me enthusiastically, what ever it is that chu do, you do it admirably
And I aint choose it, that thang chose me
Its bubba and ying yang, all the way in this thang
YO!

[Chorus (Ying Yang Twins)]
Booty, booty, booty, booty, rockin' everywhere [3x]
Rockin' everywhere [2x]

[Bubba Sparxxx]
I found you MS NEW BOOTY
Get it together and bring it back to me
Hit the playas club for about month or 2
Put his hand on it then see what he do [2x]

Get it ripe, get it right, get it tight [4x]

[2nd Verse]
Quarter to twelve and we just getting in
Bubba gonna make ya spark wit da Ying Yang Twins
Sippin on patron, blong blong blong
Shawdy in a thong, whom whom whom
A$$ get da jiggling, M***** F**** WIGGLYING
Get that thang shakin, like she frost bit shivering
A$$ be delivering, all type of flashes, cashes
Got these hoes shaking that molasses
SHHHHHH
Let me whisper in your ear
Get your self together go and buy some new gear
Something with your hair den
Hit da club, shake ya a$$ and da brothuhz gonna sho some love
Do that move ya did just a minute ago
I guarantee you'll make all da dough
So gon do ya thing baby, work what chu got, to get what chu want
Make that money, don't let it make u

[Chorus (Ying Yang Twins)]
Booty, booty, booty, booty, rockin' everywhere [3x]
Rockin' everywhere [2x]

[Bubba Sparxxx]
I found you MS NEW BOOTY
Get it together and bring it back to me
Hit the playas club for about month or 2
Put his hand on it then see what he do [2x]
Get it ripe, get it right, get it tight [4x]

[3rd Verse (Bubba Sparxxx)]
hi there, how are things?
I once was breast man now it seems
Ever since I had the pleasure
of getting you together, your chest is just whatever
I found the buried treasured
Yes ma'am, heres the plan
Meet me over yonder ok- don't play
Ill bring the whip whoop, you bring your cook book
And ima fix that stuff up, everything is good good

[Chorus (Ying Yang Twins)]
Booty, booty, booty, booty, rockin' everywhere [3x]
Rockin' everywhere [2x]

[Bubba Sparxxx]
I found you MS NEW BOOTY
Get it together and bring it back to me
Hit the playas club for about month or 2
Put his hand on it then see what he do [2x]

Get it ripe, get it right, get it tight [4x]

You have to admire the simple, yet profound lyricism of Richard Perriman:

Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!

That song is awesome!  When I was in high school I taped the video and would play it over and over again.  Tool is one of the most interesting bands to listen to.  So much going on in their music. 

More tool lyrics

I want to be your sledgehammer
Why dont you call my name
Oh let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony

another tool

It's Hammer go Hammer MC Hammer Yo Hammer and the rest can go and play

Is there no end to tool lyrics?

Screwdriver
Now that you have heard my story now
I've got a little ending to it now
Whenever you go out alone
Take a little dog a bone

Hope Alone - Emily Saliers

let's not drag this out
everything's in motion
though i've only ever loved you kind
and with devotion
remember when i met you
you were leaving from the start
i thought one day you'd probably just come home
and break my heart
it's funny what you know
and still go on pretending
with no good evidence
you'll ever see that happy ending
you
looking for your distance
and sensing my resistance
you had to do your will
i
had to learn the hard way
we were just an empty dream too big
for hope alone to fill
i know i'm a dreamer
(i know that i'm a)
so i'll give you that
(dreamer)
still i hope i'm more than just a place
(still i hope i'm more)
you laid your hat
(than a place you laid your hat)
you're a land of secrets
(you are its only)
its only citizen
(citizen) and though i paid my dues
(though i paid)
i was never allowed in
(i was never allowed in)
and so i am a stranger
(so i am a stranger)
especially today
(especially today)
cause i get sad and lonely
and you get your way
you
were looking for your distance
and sensing my resistance
you had to do your will
i
i had to learn the hard way
that we were just an empty dream too big
for hope alone to fill
holding on for change i know
we never stood a chance
(no we never stood a chance)
so i could only wait
and watch you slip right through my hands
(watch you slip right through my hands)
you
were always looking for your distance
and sensing my resistance
you had to do your will
i
i had to learn the hard way
we were just an empty dream too big
for hope alone to fill

Here's one for all of us who are/have been/consider themselves to be slightly/massively insane/messed up/psychotic.  This always hits home with me and makes me feel warm inside.

Partial lyrics from Madman Across the Water - Bernie Taupin (Elton John)

Take my word I'm a madman don't you know
The ground's a long way down but I need more
Is the nightmare black
or are the windows painted?
Will they come again next week
Can my mind really take it?

....why do so many women like that song?

Jane's Addiction- Had a Dad (I don't really feel like these lyrics are complete...

Had a dad
Big and strong
Turned around found my daddy gone
He was the one
Made me what i am today
It's up to me now

My daddy has gone away...

Well i spoke to the mountain
I listened to the sea
Both told me that the fountain
Was the best that you could be
My daddy's hand it around
Show to the lickin
Sonny boy
Grow to whip him!

If you see my dad
Tell him my brothers
All gone mad
They're beating on each other
I walked around
Even tried to call
Got that funny feeling

He's not there at all…

And for the not-faint-of-heart....

Ani DiFranco....

blood in the boardroom

sitting in the boardroom
the i'm so bored room
listening to the suits
talk about their world
they can make straight lines out of almost anything
except for the line of my upper lip when it curls
dressed in my best greasy skin and squinty eyes
i'm the only part of summer that made it inside
in the air-conditioned building decorated with a corporate flair
i wonder can these boys smell me bleeding thru my underwear
there's men wearing the blood of the woman they love
there's white wearing the blood of the brown
but every woman learns how to bleed from the moon
and we bleed to renew life every time it's cut down
i got my vertebrae all stacked up high as they can go
but i still feel myself sliding from the earth that i know
so i excuse myself and leave the room
saying my period came early but it's not a minute too soon
i go and find the only other woman on the floor
it's the secretary sitting at the desk by the door
i ask her if she's got a tampon i can use
she says oh honey what a hassle for you sure i do you know i do
i say it ain't no hassle no it ain't no mess
right now it's the only power that i possess
these businessmen got the money
they got the instruments of death
but i can make life i can make breath
sitting in the boardroom
the i'm so bored room
listening to the suits talk about their world
i didn't really have much to say the whole time i was there
so i just left a big brown blood stain on their white chair

Anything by Bob Dylan...as long as he isn't singing it.