100 Greatest Song Lyrics
100Dan Fogelberg
Part Of The Plan
Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.
99Pat Benatar
Love Is A Battlefield
Love is a battlefield.
98Kiss
A World Without Hero's
A world without hero?s is like a world without sun, you can?t look up to anyone.
97Friends of Distinction
Grazing In The Grass
I can dig it, he can dig it, she can dig it, we can dig it, they can dig it, you can dig it, oh let's dig it. Can you dig it, baby?
96Death Cab for Cutie
I Will Follow You Into The Dark
If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied, illuminate the No's on their Vacancy signs, if there's no one to guide you when your soul departs, then I will follow you into the dark.
95Jerry Lee Lewis
Great Balls Of Fire
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.
94B-52s
Private Idaho
You're living in your own private Idaho.
93In Flames
Come Clarity
I want you to lead me, take me somewhere... Don't want to live in a dream one more day.
92It Prevails
Today Is Yesterdays Tomorrow
It makes me sick to know my life will be represented by the world we're in now.
91Life In Your Way
Salty Grave
Upon my arrival, I either learned to swim or drowned.
90The Marshall Tucker Band
Can't You See
Can?t you see? Oh can?t you see, what that woman is doing to me.
89Lynyrd Skynyrd
Free Bird
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?
88Wilco
We're Just Friends
If love's so easy, why's it hard?
87Pete St. John
Fields Of Athenry
Low lie the fields of Athenry, where once we watched, the small free-birds fly.
86U2
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
You're dangerous cause your honest, you're dangerous cause you don't know what you want.
85Johnny Cash
Ring Of Fire
I fell into a burning ring of fire, I went down down down and the flames went higher.
84Jackson Browne
Say It Isn't True
You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.
83The Offspring
Self Esteem
May be a loser but i?m not a dweeb. I?m just a sucker with no self-esteem.
82AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top
It's a long way to the top, if you wanna rock n roll.
81Bruce Springsteen
Jungleland
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
80Grateful Dead
St. Stephen
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, one man gathers what another man spills.
79Moneen
The Day No One Needed To Know
Sing for choices, sing for everyone, without voices.
78Sublime
40. Oz To Freedom
A 40. Oz to freedom is the only chance I have, to feel good even though I feel bad.
77The Eagles
Victim Of Love
Some people never come clean, I think you know what I mean. You're walking a wire between pain and desire, and looking for love in-between.
76Arrested Development
Man's Final Frontier
Space ain't man's final frontier, man's final frontier is the soul.
75Elliott Smith
Say Yes
I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl, who's still around the morning after. We broke up a month ago, and I grew up - but didn't know I'd be around the morning after.
74Brand New
Jesus
Well Jesus Christ i?m alone again, so what did you do those three days you were dead? Cause this problem?s gonna last, more than a weekend.
73Wilco & Billy Bragg
California Stars
So I'd give this world, just to dream a dream with you, on our bed of California stars.
72The Trews
Highway Of Hero's
Carry me home, down the highway of hero?s. People above with their flags flying low.
71The Tragically Hip
Fiddler's Green
Balloons all filled with rain as children's eyes turn sleepy-mean and falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain for a boy in fiddler's green.
70R.E.M.
Begin The Beguine
Silence means security, silence means approval, watch a zenith on the TV. Tiger run around the tree, follow the leader, run and turn to butter.
69The Beatles
Hard Day's Night
It's been a hard days night.
68The National
Bloodbuzz Ohio
I never thought about love when I thought about home.
67For Today
Seraphim
Take your flame, ignite the world.
66Pink Floyd
The Great Gig In The Sky
And I am not afraid of dying, why should I be? We all gotta go sometime.
65Anti-Flag
911 For Peace
We are all human, it's time to prove it.
64Rush
Nobody's Hero
Hero not the handsome actor who plays a hero's role. Hero not the glamour girl who'd love to sell her soul.
63Alexisonfire
Boiled Frogs
Poor little tin-man, still swinging his axe even though his joints are clubbed with rust.
62Foo Fighters
Everlong
And I wonder when I sing along with you, if everything could ever feel this real forever, if anything could ever be this good again. The only thing I'll ever ask of you, you've got to promise not to stop when I say when. She sang.
61Jimmy Buffett
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.
60Avenged Sevenfold
Fiction
Now I think I understand, how the world can overcome a man.
59The Who
Substitute
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
58The Temptations
My Girl
I don't need no money, fortune, or fame. I got all the riches baby, one man can claim.
57The Doors
The End
Beautiful friend this is the end. My only friend, the end, It hurts to set you free but you'll never follow me.
56Kansas
The Wall
The path that I have chosen now has led me to a wall, and with each passing day I feel a little more like something dear was lost. It rises now before me, a dark and silent barrier between all I am, and all I would ever want to be.
55Every Time I Die
Buffalo Gals
So we hit the town like our parachutes failed.
54Tibuk 3
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
53The Beatles
In My Life
There are places I remember all my life, though some have changed. Some forever, not for better, some have gone and some remain.
52Bruce Springsteen
No Surrender
We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school.
51Attack In Black
Footprints
What if there's a footprint I left a life ago.
50Golden Earring
Twilight Zone
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far?
49The Yardbirds
Spoonful
It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.
48The Who
Baba O?Riley
The exodus is here the happy ones are near, let's get together before we get much older.
47Misery Signals
Ebb And Flow
In dreams, I'll promise you'll never be alone, how much I wish your voice could send me home.
46Radiohead
There, There
Just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there.
45Elvis Presley
Can't Help Falling In Love
Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can't help falling in love with you.
44The Rolling Stones
Far Away Eyes
The preacher said, you know you always have the Lord by your side. And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran twenty red-lights in his name.
43Simon and Garfunkel
The Sound Of Silence
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
42Bob Dylan
I And I
The swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.
41Pink Floyd
Time
Then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
40La Dispute
New Storms For Older Lovers
I guess love?s a funny thing, the way it fades away without a warning and when it?s gone oh it?s gone. It aint ever coming back.
39Marvin Gaye
What's Goin' On
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
38The Moody Blues
The Best Way To Travel
Thinking is the best way to travel.
37Eric Clapton
Tears In Heaven
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
36Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin'
You better start swimming or sink like a stone, cause the times they are a-changing.
35U2
Zooropo
Get your head out of the mud, baby. Put flowers in the mud, baby.
34Janis Joplin
Me And Bobby McGee
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't nothing, but it's free.
33Misery Signals
In Summary Of What I Am
And all the great things that I will never do.
32Creedence Clearwater Revival
Fortunate Son
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no Senator's son, son. It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one.
31The Righteous Brothers
Rock And Roll Heaven
If you believe in forever, then life is just a one night stand. If there's a rock and roll heaven, well, you know they got a hell of a band.
30The Eagles
Desperado
Freedom, well, that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
29Crosby, Stills, and Nash; Jefferson Airplane
Wooden Ships
If you smile at me I will understand, cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language.
28Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl.
27Bob Seger
Feel Like A Number
Im not a number damnit. I'm a man.
26Anthrax
Schism
If we were blind and had no choice, would we hate each other by the tone of our voice?
25Simon and Garfunkel
El Condor Pasa
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
24Bob Dylan; The Byrds
My Back Pages
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
23Boston
Peace Of Mind
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.
22mewithoutyou
Oh, Porcupine
And all I ever want to say for the rest of my life, Is how the light is GOD! And through I've been mistaken on this or that point,That light is God.
21Ramones
Got A Lot To Say
I got a lot to say, I got a lot to say, I got a lot to say. I can't remember now, I can't remember now, I can't remember now.
20Rush
Freewill
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
19Wilco
Ashes Of American Flags
All my lies are always wishes.
18Led Zeppelin
The Battle Of Evermore
The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath.
17Kool Moe Dee
Knowledge Is King
Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king.
162 Pac
Me Against The World
Even the genius asks questions.
15Woodie Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land
This land was made for you and me.
14The Beatles
The End
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
13Simon and Garfunkel
The Boxer
All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
12Rush
The Pass
All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars.
11Bob Dylan
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.
10Frank Sinatra
My Way
For what is a man? What has he got? If not himself - Then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels And not the words of one who kneels.
9Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.
8Semisonic
Album
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
7Fleetwood Mac
Oh Well
Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
6Bob Dylan
Its Alright, Ma
Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.
5Bo Diddley; Creedance Clearwater Revival; Eric Clapton
Before You Accuse Me
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
4John Cougar Mellencamp
Minutes To Memories
An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.
3The Beatles
All You Need Is Love
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
2Bob Dylan
Blowin' In The Wind
How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows that too many people have died?
1Neil Young
My My, Hey Hey
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.