Songs that you wish you wrote.

[dave is ok]

Anyways,

John Frusciante - Ricky.

[Korly]

All Star - Smashmouth.


You know they make shit-tons of money off of that one.

[The_Meach]

I'm taking it this thread means BOTH the music and lyrics. Not one or the other. That said:

Radiohead - Creep
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name

[arjue]

This isn't a complete list. I just skimmed over my playlist and picked out some of them.

Tool - Disposition/Reflection/Triad
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - Pushit
Tool - 46 & 2
Tomahawk - God Hates a Coward
Steroid Maximus - Seventy Cops
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking the Girl
Queens of the Stone Age - Hangin' Tree
Pavement - Stop Breathin'
Oceansize - You Wish
Muse - Ruled By Secrecy
Muse - Space Dementia
murder by death - you are the last dragon (you possess the power of the glow)
Mr. Bungle - Slowly Growing Deaf
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Ramp of Death
Interpol - Say Hello To The Angels
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
Dredg - Symbol Song
dredg - Traversing Through The Arctic Cold We Search For The Spirit Of Yuta
Desert Sessions - Covered In Punk's Blood
Denali - Relief
Cog - Anarchy OK
Cog - Paris Texas
Cog - Holes
Cog - The Spine
At the Drive-In - Quarantined
At the Drive-In - Arcarsenal
A Perfect Circle - The Package
A Perfect Circle - Gravity
Eliot Smith - Needle in the Hay
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Radiohead - Exit Music
Alphawezen - Frost
Custom Blue - Hazel's Groove
Mars Volta - Drunkship of Lanterns

[Error]

Candle in the Wind. Song made a shit load of money.

[frostwolf ex]

hey ya-outkast. for purely financial reasons, that song will be around longer than any of us.

[Spent]

In My Tree, Present Tense, or Elderly Woman Behing the Counter In a Small Town by PJ for sure....

Naveed and Everyones a Junkie by OLP....

Working Class Hero by John Lennon.

Great lyrics.

[station82o]

hmm...

U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger or Breaking the Silence
Faith No More - Evidence or Last Cup of Sorrow
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark, Rainmaker, The Journeyman
Blind Guardian - Last Candle, Majesty
Europe - I'll Cry For You
Edguy - Lavatory Love Machine

[Opaque]

Anything by The White Stripes. It's all so simple that it makes you wonder how no one else thought it up first.

[station82o]

Working Class Hero by John Lennon.

Great lyrics.

I agree - great lyric in that song.