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Dye
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BEST Lyrics of Jamiroquai!
Hello Jamirotalkers,
We've had all kind of topics about Jamiroquai's music. But I think there isn't a topic about the lyrics of the band, some of them which are very powerful.
So, the question is, WHICH DO YOU THINK ARE THE BEST LYRICS FROM JAMIROQUAI??
If I had to choose, I'm between a lot (Manifest Destiny, Scam, etc etc etc). But this is my vote:
Jamiroquai
'Revolution 1993'
Yes you've got to stand up, stay strong, start moving in the right direction,
Don't wait too long, for people promising divine intervention
Nineteen nine three, now I'm taking matters into my own hands
So fast, I can't see
A revolution is the only way we can change, change, change
I wanna fight the power!
Well it's hard times, white lines,kids of nine getting down with gun crime
War zones, no homes, ain't it the time we gave the dog a bone
Say brothers, sisters, get up and put yourself in the picture
This time you know a revolution is the only way we can change, change, change
I want to fight the power!
Question, answer, shake your hand and smile for the camera
But it's no good you should spend time in your neighbourhood
Where black kids, white kids
Now you're working overtime to be a crack kid
No job, no cash,
A revolution is the only way we can change, change, change
I wanna fight the power!
Still we don't seem to understand we need a Revolution,
Everubody wants a Revolution
Now who is this man, I'm having trouble knowing where I'm coming from
Pre-conceptions, it's eternal human infection
One chance, learn how you're gonna change the habit of a lifetime my soul, concerned,
That Revolution is the only way that we can change, change, change
I wanna fight the power!
Higher, higher, now we're gonna learn how to fight the power
Sunshine, new day, I only know how to go to the right way
Faster, stronger I help my brother and my soul lives longer
Blinded I can't see
A Revolution is the only way that we can change, change, change
I wanna fight the power!
No doubt in time, everything is sweet sunshine but in the
Meantime, mankind is having trouble where to draw the line
We still don't, respect, and yet I thought we had intellect
Sometimes I think the music is the only hope we have for Revolution
Still we don't seem to understand we need a Revolution
Everybody needs a Revolution!
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Catalonia is not Spain
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 19:49 |
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Yeah, it's a very good choice, I think it's one of the most brilliant and social lyrics they've ever written. It's a symbol of "first" Jay Kay, isn't it?
I like the ambiguity of Canned Heat, the chickadee of Alright, the sobriety of Half the Man, the criticism of Virtual Insanity...I can't choose!!  But well, probably my favourite lyrics are Falling and Talulah. They describe very well this fact of be alone (again)  |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 20:14 |
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Mr . Moon
Have you gone astray?
Or lost your way?
You should have seen me yesterday
Well I knew this kind of love
Was written in the stars
It"s only once or twice that you're in line with Mr. Moon
Then it was you
Took me on your cloud
Give me flowers for my pain
But with some degree of certainty
My destiny
Seemed to slip away from me
Before I got to know your name.
Just give me a chance
I'll do what you want me to
Everybody wants to dance
So how come I can't dance with you
You really turn me on
You're the one thatmakes me smile
It's Mr. Moon who plays in tune, Mr. Moon who knows
And if it's Mr. Moon who gives the sign then that's the sign that goes
I never know what to do
Till I'm there with you.
Did you lose your mind
For a day
You don't remember anyway
Like the waters of a dream
Encapsulate my mind
A place! haven't seen sits at the end of space and time
So lost in time
Than I think I'm blond
To perhance upon this circumstance is something of a miracle
So spiritual
It's verging on the physical
Searching for a love I cannot find
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jamirokaki
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 22:25 |
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so many great lyrics, i really can't choose one.......
when you gonna learn lyrics are just a classic together with to young to die ones, also as said revolution 1993 are great, in fact i think all the political or social tunes by jamiroquai got very good lyrics
(just another story, manifest destiny, virtual insanity, twenty zero one, world that he wants....)
and of course the love ones are also great
(mr moon, blow your mind, fallng, where do we go from here.......)
i think more than choose one, we should discuss all the lyrics song by song........  :-p
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mr.az
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 01:51 |
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| jamirokaki wrote: |
so many great lyrics, i really can't choose one.......
i think more than choose one, we should discuss all the lyrics song by song........ :-p |
yea good idea
we are gonna discuss all the lirics song by song
here is my song
COSMIC GIRL
I must've died and gone to heaven
Cos it was a quarter past eleven
On a Saturday in 1999
Right across from where I'm standing
On the dance floor she was landing
It was clear that she was from another time
Like some baby Barbarella
With the stars as her umbrella
She asked me if I'd like to magnetise
Do I have to go star-trekking
Cos it's you I should be checking
So she lazer beamed me with her cosmic eyes
She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world
Putting me in ecstasy
Transmitting on my frequency
She's cosmic
I'm scanning all my radars
We'll she said she's from a quasar
Forty thousand million light years away
It's a distant solar system
I tried to phone but they don't list 'em
So I asked her for a number all the same
She said, step in my transporter
So I can teleport ya
All around my heavenly body
This could be a close encounter
I should take care not to flounder
Sends me into hyperspace, when I see her pretty face
She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world
Putting me in ecstasy
Transmitting on my frequency
She's cosmic
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face...
She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
Transmitting on my frequency yeah cosmic, oh
Can't you be my cosmic woman?
I need you, I want you to be my cosmic girl
For the rest of time
that song remember me many ''cosmic girls'' i meet in my life...
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jamirokaki
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lol! yeah so many cosmic girls out there.......
not long ago i was in a party and there was a girl dancing in some kind of jays style it was amazing and from another galaxy.....so i started dancing in the same way and we finished dancing together in the middle of the dancfloor, it was great! 
the lyris of cosmic girl are a funny way of describing things like that, when you are out partying, presumibly drunk and stoned and a girl amazeds you "send me into hyperspace when i see her pretty face"....
i remember back in 99 when i use to call the saturdays cosmic girl days 8or nights hehehe)
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mr.az
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 02:16 |
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| jamirokaki wrote: |
lol! yeah so many cosmic girls out there.......
not long ago i was in a party and there was a girl dancing in some kind of jays style it was amazing and from another galaxy.....so i started dancing in the same way and we finished dancing together in the middle of the dancfloor, it was great! |
cool 
| jamirokaki wrote: |
the lyris of cosmic girl are a funny way of describing things like that, when you are out partying, presumibly drunk and stoned and a girl amazeds you "send me into hyperspace when i see her pretty face"....
i remember back in 99 when i use to call the saturdays cosmic girl days 8or nights hehehe) |
yea i know what are you talking about ...i feel that feeling many times...
funny thing about the 99 saturdays
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FunkEducation
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 02:33 |
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My song: Manifest Destiny
| Jay Kay and Toby Smith wrote: |
Four hundred years or more
Since you came to crucify
They were taken far away from home
There were promises of paradise
But if they had been told that day
They would be told that this way
To satisfy the souls of chosen men
See I had to look carefully
At the same of my ancestry
To re-define the story line again.
If I was taken for a day
And shown another day
Every child can learn a different thing
See I tried a million times
But I had to change my mind
Sadness was the best thing I could bring
On the inside he was dead and this is what he said
As he took away the blue above the clouds
Superiority was clearly meant to be
So destiny will manifest in time.
So where has the love all gone
A troubled trail of tears will tell the tale
Of how I was put down where I don't belong
Woman, Child and man for sale
For ethical slavery is just an absurdity
How can you be alive when you are dead
With these chains of hypocrisy
The shame of my ancestry
Forever stained by blood in which you tread. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 03:34 |
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wow... this is hard but i'd choose high times because of its chorus.
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Dye
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 17:24 |
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Another good one I really like, and suits with the musical background:
Main Vein
What are you going to do to make me hate me
I can't see how you can this time
A fistful of lies and a verbal decimation
It's so sad but keep on trying
I got no chains or fancy aspirations
But I've still got a losing streak
I don't need praise or instand admiration
It takes more than you to make me weak
What are you going to do to stop me this time baby
You being trying to funk around my mind lately
Well I'm getting so sick and tired of
Hearing about it
Like I'm not the man and I don't exist
You wanna know about this and you wanna
Know things about me
But what you're saying always has a vicious poison twist
Why do you do it to me
Why do you do it to me
You're messing with my mind
I'm breaking out, I'm breaking out
I'm flying higher than a pig in space
And they've been so blind, they've been so blind
I was born in '69
Amd I'm telling the world
But they don't wanna know about me
No no no
I wanted just to do my thing
I wanted just to make my life
Have that swing and Ooo feel so good
But all they wanna do is mess with my mind
Now, I was wondering, is there any lyrics you don't remember? For example, I know all the lyrics from the last 4 albums at least, but is hard to remember some of the first 2 album, specially 'Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop', I never remember that one!!!!
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 18:39 |
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| FunkEducation wrote: |
My song: Manifest Destiny
| Jay Kay and Toby Smith wrote: |
Four hundred years or more
Since you came to crucify
They were taken far away from home
There were promises of paradise
But if they had been told that day
They would be told that this way
To satisfy the souls of chosen men
See I had to look carefully
At the same of my ancestry
To re-define the story line again.
If I was taken for a day
And shown another day
Every child can learn a different thing
See I tried a million times
But I had to change my mind
Sadness was the best thing I could bring
On the inside he was dead and this is what he said
As he took away the blue above the clouds
Superiority was clearly meant to be
So destiny will manifest in time.
So where has the love all gone
A troubled trail of tears will tell the tale
Of how I was put down where I don't belong
Woman, Child and man for sale
For ethical slavery is just an absurdity
How can you be alive when you are dead
With these chains of hypocrisy
The shame of my ancestry
Forever stained by blood in which you tread. |
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Yes!!!!is strong lyric/TROSC totaly superlyrical!!!!
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 19:27 |
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COTE, Black Crow, Manifest Destiny, King For A Day, Talullah, Soul Education & Everyday
Oh! And POML! I remember I didn't have a diskette at the cyber cafe so I had to copy it myself, and I almost couldn't do it because tears didn't allow me to see 
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 19:30 |
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Tallulah:) |
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JamiroFan2000
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 21:11 |
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 Hello,
So many great lyrically strong Jamiroquai songs to pick from....such a hard choice ! Well, for me, my fav would have to be "Just Another Story", still one of the most underrated Jamiroquai songs of all time, and the lyrics go.....
Just Another Story
Nobody make a move
This kid's got you covered
He was just seventeen
Trying to get on like his dead brother
Mama couldn't do a thing for him
Though she hurt inside
And daddy wants his son back
While he knows he's still alive.
Stick up kid
Thinking you're a glory boy
Fronting that stupid toy
But you don't get that it's yourself you will destroy
Running that rock on the frontline
Get to hell before your time
If you your face on the cover of High Times
Push in.
Now it occured to me
As I awoke from deeper dreams
All this evolution
And still I don't know what it means
And it gets so hard for me to change
When there's an easy way to earn
Why should I work my fingers to the bone.
Can you give more than get
Get down
With a conscious train of thought.
Light years
Can pass me by without me realising
I'm water in a stream
But ya got to keep it clean.
Dirty dreams
Purity.
How can
So many people think they're right when
Everybody's wrong?
Thanks for listening and Peace!
Sincerely,
JamiroFan2000
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dannyev
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 19:58 |
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Lyrics I can't remember?
Diego//Twenty Zero Three wrote:
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| Now, I was wondering, is there any lyrics you don't remember? For example, I know all the lyrics from the last 4 albums at least, but is hard to remember some of the first 2 album, specially 'Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop', I never remember that one!!!! |
This is the honestly my situation. The only lyrics I cannot remember are the lyrics towards the end of Black Devil Car - 'cant stop, black heart, she should never let me stop' and to be honest I've never really gone out my way to try and memorise them. With every other song, i've just heard them so many times that I know them all!!!
As for my favourite lyrics - I can't and refuse to choose.
But seems you asked i'll say Revolution 1993.
D'oh I chose!
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