I went through all the songs I wrote over the years and found my favorite lines. I guess I was in a reflective mood. I hope you find a gem or two. You'll see a lyrical excerpt and the title of the song after. Check em out:
“Walking the fault line with reckless abandon, where does the fault lie it's stored in a canyon, the desert is so beautiful, a guilty conscience always leaves a trace.” -WHEN I FALL FROM GRACE
"As we look at both sides of it; all the time I was full of shit, well yeah, both of us made our mistakes. But no matter who’s fault it is, I’m that grape soda that lost it’s fizz, you’re that saccharin sweet aftertaste" -DEJAVU
“Insignificant others will fall, no they can’t hurt you at all. Why do you work so hard to impress, all those people that don’t care about you and you’ll never miss? Tell me why do you turn your cheek for Judas to kiss?"
-INSIGNIFICANT OTHERS
“In the beginning there was a bad vibe, mankind was spoken as a diatribe.It gets worse It's like a curse, like a percentage of the national purse. We get collected like statuettes While they place their bets, we run around like we got Tourettes. It's a police state this shit is crazy, we blame it on the guy yelling bro don't taze me. I'm a high school teacher that's the truth of it, but if I teach the truth I'll lose my job and shit! OK I quit! Cause I won't lie to kids and get paid for it. I won't be a part of the mis-education of the American youth, and that's the goddamn truth” -FLY FREE
“What if all our wars are really alien video games? Programmed avatars they love to blow to smithereens?” -A MURDER OF CROWS
“His heart’s not capable of conjuring a smile as he approaches the press line.” -BEFORE KINGS
“I need to stop orbiting other people's planets, I know that I was born to build a planet of my own. And this Planet X will not be bound by gravity."
-PLANET X
“I got no idea how to navigate social media, and if I ask for a date what’ll I text you? Some kinda Newspeak? Like an emoji with a cute wink?! Walk over to the Kit Kat club, women in their 20’s make me miss the 80’s. I’m talkin’ to a cosplay girl. She told me her past life was in the Palliates with antennas on the ladies!” -LET US BREATHE
“What’s an egg to do but sit and incubate? Over easy with the home fries and hot cakes! What’s a fish to do but fight entanglement? Only to be hooked on you!”
-PROVOCATEUR
“With these boots on, I stand about 6 foot 10. I drew a line in the sand & I ain’t movin.’ This ain’t no snake oil pitch, ain’t no old time religion. I won’t do what I’m told, like Brando in the Wild One he’s hell on wheels, like Prince killin’ on stage even in high heels, I won’t back down like Tom Petty vs MCA, just like all you rebels in the USA” -REBELS
“Don’t let another day go by, looking for an alibi, they don’t understand me and you. No need to apologize, for the fire in your eyes, let it burn all the way through. I should know because I’ve wilted and closed, but I’ll walk this road with strings and timpani!” -SHRINKING VIOLETS
“Traveling on plastic and chrome, burning all the dinosaur bones. Spinning ever closer with my guitar and Elvis poster, I can see the story unfold.” -SILVER PLATED
“This is the tale of the rain and the moon, you are the moon glowing for me. The moonlight is pale, and the rain will come soon, I am the rain falling for you." -TALE OF THE RAIN AND THE MOON
“Well I guess I gotta make some money, so the master gets a new slave. Be a good citizen & pay them taxes, smoke a fat joint but then behave. Soon I’ll have to buy carbon credits, just to breathe in my back yard. Gotta get me Dot Gov insurance, so I can die with the proper card."
-THE UPSIDE DOWN
"All the inmates run the asylum, a prison complex reptilian brain. Erect them statues with the likeness, of the stone faced, criminally insane. Data Mining in the desert, ain’t no privacy anymore. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. What’s that government building for?" -THE UPSIDE DOWN
“Oh my god this song’s too syncopated, it’s like ghetto ghetto, we need our lyrical content complicated, like Elvis Costello.” -HIPSTERS
If you’d like to listen to my 25 best songs and follow along with the lyrics, just click the slimline player and read along while you listen on this page: http://geoffbyrd.com/lyrics/ Check out my consciousness music, art and handcrafted orgonite here: http://geoffbyrd.com/
All songs written by Geoff Byrd, Liquid Chrome Music, ASCAP
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