Favourite Lyrics: Great lines in a song

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Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:28 pm

haoli25 wrote:
Don Henley must have came up with this after a few
guitar lessons from Neil.


"The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, Im learning again."



:laugh:


Bill
Great song! That was the first one I thought of before I read through the thread. So many great lines in there, including:

I've been tryin to get down
To the heart of the matter
Because the flesh will get weak
And the ashes will scatter
So I'm thinkin about forgiveness...

On the topic of forgiveness, another good one, if you can get past the fact that it was played ad nauseum in the Chevy commercials:

There's room enough here
For science to live
And there's room enough here
For religion to forgive
And try to understand
All the people of this land
This is our country -- Mellencamp


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Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:35 pm

Wow, so hard to pick! I find certain song lyrics appeal to me at a particular time because they just happen to trigger some emotion in me that is relevant for that specific moment. That said, I seriously think there hasn't been a time that I haven't laughed out loud at some part of "A Boy Named Sue." i've heard that song hundreds of times, but there always seems to be some part that I never quite appreciated or noticed before. Today it came on my iPod, and I noticed the line,

My daddy left home when I was three
And he didn't leave much to ma and me
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.


An EMPTY bottle of booze. Man, that is sad!


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Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:37 pm

AcousticAl wrote:
'Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun..
But Mama... that's where the fun is!!'

-Springsteen
"Reved up like a duece another runner in the night"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love that song as done by Manfred Mann, but what the HECK was Springsteen smokin' when he wrote those lyrics........

Also his song "Spirits in the Night" as done by Manfred Mann:

My head was out the window, Janies fingers in the cake (huh???????)

:woohoo:


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Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:26 pm

Great Thread...Lyrics category will be added next week in the restructure..Lyrics for me are a very important part of the reason I really listen to music..I love the music element, sometimes I love a particular singing style or voice, but it all really comes together when I hear all 3 ..this is when a song becomes magic to me, doesnt have to have a guitar anywhere near it..

Here is my first go..

Queensryche - Silent Lucidity, when My dad died..this song became my theme..

Hush now dont cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
Youre lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over...or has it just begun?

Theres a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run to in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didnt realize it and you were scared
Its a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the tears
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly, you hear and see
This magic new dimension

Chorus
I-will be watching over you
I-am gonna help you see it through
I-will protect you in the night
I-am smiling next to you...in silent lucidity

If you open your mind for me
You wont rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumblng down, and a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
You7re safe froom pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly
A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize
Your dreams alive, you can be the guide but...

I-will be watching over you
I-am gonna help you see it through
I-will protect you in the night
I-am smiling next to you...in silent lucidity


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Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:27 pm

Who wants to live forever - Queen..

Words and music by brian may

Theres no time for us
Theres no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams yet slips away
From us

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever....?

Theres no chance for us
Its all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?

Who dares to love forever?
When love must die

But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever?
Forever is our today

Who waits forever anyway?


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Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:30 pm

Nick Cave - Love letter...
Anyone who has a love relationship and has a moment..buy this tune for your loved one..and give them the next one I will list from Nick Cave..Into my arms

I hold this letter in my hand
A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
I hope it does as I have planned
Losing her again is more than I can bear
I kiss the cold, white envelope
I press my lips against her name
Two hundred words. We live in hope
The sky hangs heavy with rain

Love Letter Love Letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love Letter
Go tell her Go tell her

A wicked wind whips up the hill
A handful of hopeful words
I love her and I always will
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The sky is ready to burst
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
Said something I did not mean to say
It all came out the wrong way

Love Letter Love letter
Go get her Go get her
Love Letter Love letter
Go tell her Go tell her

Rain your kisses down upon me
Rain your kisses down in storms
And for all who'll come before me
In your slowly fading forms
I'm going out of my mind
Will leave me standing in
The rain with a letter and a prayer
Whispered on the wind

Come back to me
Come back to me
O baby please come back to me


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Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:32 pm

the sister to love letter also by Nick Cave..

Into my arms

"Into My Arms"

I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

And I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candlew burning
And make her journey bright and pure
That she will keep returning
Always and evermore

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms


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Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:36 pm

Robbie Williams - Feel...

Come on hold my hand,
I wanna contact the living.
Not sure I understand,
This role I�ve been given.

I sit and talk to god
And he just laughs at my plans,
My head speaks a language, I don�t understand.

(chorus)
I just wanna feel real love,
Feel the home that I live in.
�cause I got too much life,
Running through my veins, going to waste.

I don�t wanna die,
But I ain�t keen on living either.
Before I fall in love,
I�m preparing to leave her.
I scare myself to death,
That�s why I keep on running.
Before I�ve arrived, I can see myself coming.

(chorus)
I just wanna feel real love,
Feel the home that I live in.
�cause I got too much life,
Running through my veins, going to waste.

And I need to feel, real love
And a life ever after.
I cannot get enough.

(instrumental)

(chorus)
I just wanna feel real love,
Feel the home that I live in,
I got too much love,
Running through my veins, going to waste.

I just wanna feel real love,
In a life ever after
There�s a hole in my soul,
You can see it in my face, it�s a real big place.

(instrumental)

Come and hold my hand,
I wanna contact the living,
Not sure I understand,
This role I�ve been given

Not sure I understand.
Not sure I understand.
Not sure I understand.
Not sure I understand.


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Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:43 pm

The Shins - Pink Bullets

Awesome lyrics, particularly the line:

Since then it's been a book you read in reverse
So you understand less as the pages turn
Or a movie so crass
And awkardly cast
That even I could be the star.

The whole song is here:


I was just bony hands as cold as a winter pole
You held a warm stone out new flowing blood to hold
Oh what a contrast you were
To the brutes in the halls
My timid young fingers held a decent animal.

Over the ramparts you tossed
The scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
Tied to a brick
Sweet as a song
The years have been short but the days were long.

Cool of a temperate breeze from dark skies to wet grass
We fell in a field it seems now a thousand summers passed
When our kite lines first crossed
We tied them into knots
And to finally fly apart
We had to cut them off.

Since then it's been a book you read in reverse
So you understand less as the pages turn
Or a movie so crass
And awkardly cast
That even I could be the star.

I don't look back as much as a rule
And all this way before murder was cool
But your memory is here and I'd like it to stay
Warm light on a winter day.

Over the ramparts you tossed
The scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
Tied to a brick
Sweet as a song
The years have been short but the days go slowly by
Two loose kites falling from the sky
Drawn to the ground and an end to flight.


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Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:56 pm

The Eagles

Just two lines say alot.

So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains
and we never even know we have the key.


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