Classic Cooley lyrics

[mhc]

I might as well of slipped that ring on your finger from a window of a van
as it drove away.
Now she’s found herself, and I lost mine
and I’m just another guy who can’t give her anything.

[never going back]

You know that blood red carpet at the Salem Church of Christ AIN'T GONNA EVER SEE NO WEDDIN' BETWEEN ME AND YOU...

[Penny Lane]

Cocaine rich comes quick and that's why the small dicks have it all

Rock and Roll means well, but it can’t help tellin’ young boys lies.

It don't make you do a thing it just lets you

[Clams]

The highway's humming in my head and it's hard to hear
Won't you read my lips if I pull you near enough
Could you read my fortune in the bottem of this coffee cup
Tell me how to tell when I've had enough


(Really, the whole song should be in this thread, but I went with the above)

[Penny Lane]

The highway's humming in my head and it's hard to hear
Won't you read my lips if I pull you near enough
Could you read my fortune in the bottem of this coffee cup
Tell me how to tell when I've had enough


(Really, the whole song should be in this thread, but I went with the above)

Yes.

[boyyourself]

he said boy come here i said boyyourself i aint done nothing wrong muthafucka!

[Duke Silver]

Pretty girls from the smallest towns get remembered like storms and droughts that old men talk about for years to come.

[beagle001]

Once a country boy's seen
the way the steam rises off a man's insides on the sidewalk.
Tends to change the way he thinks, the way he sees everything
and he goes back to where he came from.

One of these days when my face looks like a roadmap gonna find my way back home.
And I'll go walking on the west side after dark and leave my gun locked in my car.
One of these days you'll take one look at me and run

[beantownbubba]

I AINT GOT NO GOOD INTENTIONS!

[boyyourself]

If I Make It Through This Year

[CooleyGirl]

Dead is dead and it ain't no different than walking around if you ain't living
Living in fear's just another way of dying before your time


You'll never lose your mind as long as your heart always reminds you where you left it
And don't ever let them make you feel like saying what you want is unbecoming
If you were supposed to watch your mouth all the time I doubt your eyes would be above it

[hpz4]

All my friends are restless
all they do is talk it down
two or eight lanes it don't matter it's just another town
there's a fool on every corner
on every street in every one
and I'd rather be your fool nowhere than go somewhere and be no one's.

Uncle Frank couldn't read or write
so there was no note or letter found when he died
just a rope around his neck
and the kitchen table turned on it's side.


The second verse of A Ghost To Most and all of Zip City.

[Smitty]

Good ideas always start with a full glass
and just breathing here can make a girl's nose bleed
Dreams here live and die just like a stray dog
On a dirt road somewhere in Tennessee

[mgsooner]

You know the bottle ain't to blame, and I ain't trying to
Cause it don't make you do anything, it just lets you

[Fool No Where]

I said "Dylan Who" and you told me to kiss yer ass.

Daddy tell me another story, tell me bout' the lows and the highs.
Tell me how to tell the difference between what they tell me is the truth or a lie.
Tell me why the ones who have so much make the ones who don't go mad.
With the same skin stretched over their white bones and the same jug in their hand.

Seems like it's always hot down here, no matter when you come.
It's the kind of heat that holds you like a mama holds her son.
Tight when he tries to walk, even tighter when he runs.

...you're running from a broken heart, or to a heart that you gotta break.

[Duke Silver]

Dammit Elvis, I swear son I think it's time you came around
Making money you can't spend ain't what being dead's about
You gave me all but one good reason not to do all of the things you did
Now Cadillacs are fiberglass, if you were me you'd call it quits

[Slipkid42]

You got me real good, girl, and I must admit
You pack a purty mean punch for such a pretty little dish

[mgsooner]

One of these days - the whole damn song.
Space city - the whole damn song.

I get goosebumps every single time I hear these, no matter how many times I hear them.

[bovine knievel]

Pin Hits The Shell
And I ain't gonna crawl upon no high horse
Cause I got thrown off of one
when I was young and I ain't no cowboy
so I ain't going where I don't belong.
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72 (This Highway's Mean
It's the kind of heat that holds you like a mama holds her son
Tight when he tries to walk, even tighter if he runs
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Shut Up And Get On The Plane
Well your wishes and your feelings
Your bad dreams and intuitions
Are about as much good to me right now as a brand new set of golf clubs
We've been this close to death before, we were just too drunk to know it
Guess the price of being sobers being scared out of your mind
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Love Like This
Coming home with a bottle, trying not to break the seal.
This Friday evening traffic's about enough to break a man's will.

[Duke Silver]

It ain't about the money or even being #1
You gotta know when it's all over you did the best you could've done
Knowing that it's in you and you never let it out
Is worse than blowing any engine or any wreck you'll ever have

[Jeremy]

"Well i was over there at the hotel earlier, and I was talking to myself and somebody walked in.
Well shit she didn't speak no English, and it ain't like it mattered none.
So i just kept talking to myself.
She got this horrified look on her face. And I said, "what the hell."
And she said, well hell i don't know what she said cuz i don't speak Spanish."
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"First Time I got pulled over, for driving under the influence,
I was coming out of nashville late one night
I was drinking right good whiskey, it didnt agree with me
and i showed my ass to everyone that night"....

"Grinned just a little, and then asked if i been drinking,
lied and said the 2 was all i had
Well if you can hold that ole truck on the road going that fast
Well in my book you cant be doing that bad"...

"Son I hope you listen, theres a lesson to be learned,
but its probably not the one your thinking about
You dont need me to tell you, a hard head and harder liquor
wont turn you into nothin but inside out
Theres one thing I aint done since that night in Tennessee
Something I aint done one time since
Changed me forever and I think Im better for it
I never cussed that ole pick-up again."
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[Smitty]

She'd have a life of her own if she had a lil pride
Some silicone implants and another man on the side

[Fool No Where]

Well if you can hold that ole truck on the road going that fast
Well in my book you cant be doing that bad"...

[Clams]

Bob aint light in the loafers
He might kneel but he never bends over

[Smitty]

If daddy's quiet it probably means he's thinking way too much

[never going back]

Your mama called the law and they're gonna take me away
down so far even the devil won't stay
where I call to the Lord with all my soul
I can hear him rattling the chains on the door
He couldn't get in I could see He tried
through the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light

and

My hands are as good to me as they've ever been
Aad I ain't ashamed of anything my hands ever did
but sometimes the words I used were as hard as my fist
she had the strength of a man and the heart of a child I guess

[TruckerClown]

Well my daddy didn't pull out, but he never apologized.
Rock n' Roll means well but it can't help telling young boys lies.

(With all due respect to all the wonderful members of the band - Cooley is the master wordsmith in the band)

[Sirk]

Totally screwed while chicken wing puke eats the candy apple red off his Corvette

[colodogdoc]

I used to hate the fool in me, but only in the morning
Now I tolerate him all day long.

[Frog Man]

Keep your drawers on, girl, it ain't worth the fight
By the time you drop them I'll be gone
And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life