What are your favorite pieces of lyrical advice?

As an example one of mine would be:





';Breathe, breathe in the air. Don't be afraid to care.'; Pink FloydWhat are your favorite pieces of lyrical advice?
';You don't get something for nothing, You can't have freedom for free';


Rush-Something For Nothing





You ask the best questions Gorgon, kudos.What are your favorite pieces of lyrical advice?
I love the ones that call attention to how temporary and ever-changing the world is... The ones that remind me that every day is precious.





Time ~ Pink Floyd


Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day


You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way


Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town


Waiting for someone or something to show you the way


Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain


You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today


And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you


No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun


And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking


And racing around to come up behind you again


The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older


And shorter of breath and one day closer to death


Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time


Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines


Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way


The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
I like uneven metre, like --





Citizens of Hope %26amp; Glory, ( 2 measures )


Time goes by, ( 1 measure )


it's the time of your ';life'; .. ( 1 measure, with ';life'; starting the 5th )





-- or the way that Genesis would maintain a tempo -- but stay constant with some of the lyrics, yet speed-up others to make to the end of each phrase, on time. - Example --





music is ';jig'; tempo -- ba-bop-ba-bop-ba-bop-ba-bop (accent on the ';bop';)





I'll give you the names of those you must kill, ( fast )


All must die with their ( fast ) chil-dren. ( slow )


Carry their heads to the palace of old, ( fast )


Hang them high, let the ( fast ) blood flow ( slower )


Now ! ( short pause )





I'll give you the names of those you must kill ( fast )


Then have all ( fast ) burned and quick-ly ( slower )


Cover them up in Trafalgar Square ( fast )


Hurry to see, you'll ( fast ) see them dead ( slower )





Each (slower) is on the beat, but still using the same syncopation to complete each equivalent measure, per line of lyrics.





Did I make any sense ?? LOL


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You know you're right, breathing is good advice! XD





Hmm,


'Music, is your, only friend, until the end' [When The Music's Over - The Doors]





Oh yeah, how could I forget, the most important life advice of all!


'Don't you eat that yellow snow!' [Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa]
Funny, the first thing that popped into my mind was Pink Floyd as well.





';...and did we tell ya the name of the game, boy? They call it ridin' the Gravy Train.';





Just like advice, if we tell you how it works, you'll never learn the lesson for yourself.
311 - Speak Easy








';Nice and easy, and your breathing will be pleasing, just speak easy, and say what's on your mind';








Song


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dtOEKo8A鈥?/a>





Lyrics


http://www.lyrics007.com/311%20Lyrics/Sp鈥?/a>
the whole of baz lurhmans sunscreen





great song, great advice, so true and obvious but you stil need someone to tell you it for some reason before you think of it or do it
Only the one who hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one who inflicts the pain can take it away - Madonna (Erotica)
My personal athem from the Monty Pythons:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_3lMpSDq鈥?/a>
And Freedom, oh and Freedom


Well, that's just some people talking


Your prison is walking through this world all alone


Glenn Frey Desperado
';you gotta know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run';
maybe this from ween... take heed...
'; Remember that u are perfect God makes no mistakes '; - BON JOVI








its beautiful...
DOn't pay the ferryman.
';**** you I wont do what you tell me'; not exactly advice, but i like the message!
';Doubt your doubts and believe your beliefs'; - Switchfoot
';Hand Over Fist';


-Rush
Listen this new song:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54aiNhs_a鈥?/a>