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Old 15-03-2015, 15:47
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"I've got another confession to make
I'm your fool
Everyone's got their chains to break
Holdin' you

Were you born to resist or be abused?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?"
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Old 15-03-2015, 15:48
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I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
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Old 15-03-2015, 15:59
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I like to singy singy singy
Like a bird on a wingy wingy wingy.
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Old 15-03-2015, 16:05
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By far the best Lyrics ever in a song ..pure poetry

Well, I'm running down the road
tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on
my mind,
Four that wanna own me,
Two that wanna stone me,
One says she's a friend of mine

Take It easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels
drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
and take it easy

Well, I'm a standing on a corner
in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed
Ford slowin' down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
gonna save me
We may lose and we may win though
we will never be here again
so open up, I'm climbin' in,
so take it easy

Well I'm running down the road trying to loosen
my load, got a world of trouble on my mind
lookin' for a lover who won't blow my
cover, she's so hard to find
Take it easy, take it easy
don't let the sound of your own
wheels make you crazy
come on baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet love is
gonna save me, oh oh oh
Oh we got it easy
We oughta take it easy
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Old 15-03-2015, 16:07
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Boy I'm that thorough, i'm like a pitbull
Windex in my pen to make it crystal
170 but in rap i'm a big dude
Oh yeah, i got bars like a gym room
Boy i'm that dirrty, So tell a rap jury
That tennis, the only way a sucka gon' serve me
My black mac Bernie, I even mack Siri
Sh*t , i'm killin' the mic like Conrad Murray
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Old 15-03-2015, 16:37
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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, original version as written by Larry (lorenz) Hart from the show Pal Joey.

Hart was probably the greatest lyricist who ever lived.

Full lyrics here
http://www.lorenzhart.org/bewitched_...bewildered.htm

This song has been "interpreted" (sanitised) in recorded versions over the years, as the lyrics are near the knuckle.

On every line, the words rhyme, sometimes rhyming within that one line, and with the next one.

The very last part shows what I mean

Romance-Finis
Your chance-finis
Those ants that invaded my pants-finis
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered no more.
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Old 15-03-2015, 18:23
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'Cause nothin' lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds

So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go

I heard the voices of friends, vanished and gone

Ain't no angel gonna greet me.

It's just you and I my friend, Night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake,

I can feel myself fading away
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Old 15-03-2015, 19:00
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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, original version as written by Larry (lorenz) Hart from the show Pal Joey.
Blimey..........out of the hundreds of thousands of songs I was coming into the thread to post that very one !



The version by Ella Fitzgerald where she speak-sings it is one of the greatest things ever recorded......in my opinion !
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Old 15-03-2015, 19:17
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Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...
Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...life

One
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Old 15-03-2015, 20:08
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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
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Old 15-03-2015, 21:39
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Van Morrison - In the Garden

The streets are always wet with rain
After a summer shower when I saw you standin'
Standin' in the garden, in the garden wet with rain

You wiped the teardrops from your eye in sorrow
Yeah we watched the petals fall down to the ground
And as I sat beside you I felt the great sadness that day
In the garden

And then one day you came back home
You were a creature all in rapture
You had the key to your soul and you did open
That day you came back to the garden

The olden summer breeze was blowin' against your face, alright
The light of God was shinin' on your countenance divine
And you were a violet colour as you sat beside your father
And your mother in the garden

The summer breeze was blowin' on your face
Within your violet you treasure your summery words
And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine
Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden

And you went into a trance, your childlike vision became so fine
And we heard the bells within the church, we loved so much
And felt the presence of the youth of eternal summers in the garden

Alright, and as it touched your cheeks so lightly
Born again you were and blushed
And we touched each other lightly
And we felt the presence of the Christ
Within our hearts in the garden

And I turned to you and I said
"No guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
And the Father in the garden"

Listen, no guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
And the Father and the Son
And the Holy Ghost in the garden wet with rain

No guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
And the Father and the Son
And the Holy Ghost in the garden
In the garden wet with rain

No guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
And the Father in the garden
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Old 15-03-2015, 23:26
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"In Color"-James Otto/Jamey Johnson/Lee Thomas Miller

I said Grandpa what's this picture here
It's all black and white, and it ain't real clear
Is that you there, he said yeah, I was eleven
And times were tough, back in thirty-five
That's me and Uncle Joe just tryin' to survive
A cotton farm, in the Great Depression

And if it looks like we were scared to death
Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other
You should've seen it in color

This one here was taken overseas
In the middle of hell, in nineteen forty-three
In the winter time, you can almost see my breath
That was my tail gunner ole' Johnny McGee
He was a high school teacher from New Orleans
And he had my back, right through the day we left

If it looks like we were scared to death
Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other
You should've seen it in color

A picture's worth a thousand words
But you can't see what those shades of gray keep covered
You should've seen it in color

And this one is my favorite one
This is me and grandma in the, summer sun
All dressed up, the day we said our vows
You can't tell it here but it was hot that June
And that rose was red and her eyes were blue
And just look at that smile, I was so proud

That's the story of my life
Right there in black and white

And if it looks like we were scared to death
Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other
You should've seen it in color

Yeah a picture's worth a thousand words
But you can't see what those shades of gray keep covered
You should've seen it in color
(Should've seen it in color)

God bless you and the writers of this award winning song always!!!

Holly
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Old 15-03-2015, 23:33
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Blimey..........out of the hundreds of thousands of songs I was coming into the thread to post that very one !



The version by Ella Fitzgerald where she speak-sings it is one of the greatest things ever recorded......in my opinion !
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pal-Joey-Cas...words=pal+joey

There was a new recording made a few years ago of Pal Joey, where they found the original orchestrations in an abandoned building, plus the cut song "I'm Talking to my Pal" which was performed for the first time ever.

Patti Lupone plays Mrs Simpson

Has all the original lyrics - "Plant you now Dig you later" is also amazing - I want that played at my funeral !!!

Bebe Neuwirth - Lilith in Frasier - sang the part of the journalist who sings "Zip" - I am glad this was not a DVD as the character does a strip while singing the number.
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Old 15-03-2015, 23:58
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Morrissey had many , too many to go into here
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Old 16-03-2015, 01:38
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I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
"Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all
It was you and me

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Old 16-03-2015, 01:46
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Morrissey had many , too many to go into here
You're right. He deserves his own thread

Anyway my choice:
'I am the son
and the heir
of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does'
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Old 16-03-2015, 02:27
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I was a Highwayman
Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of 25
But I am still alive

I was a sailor
I was born upon the tide
With the sea I did abide
I sailed a schooner round the horn of Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still

I was a dam builder
Across the river deep and wild
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around
I'll always be around
And around
And around
And around
And around

I'l fly a starship
Across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a Highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again
And again
And again
And again
And again

My favourite ever song, favourite ever lyrics. As a child the lyrics were so different to the stuff in the charts; they told little stories and I could picture them in my mind. As an adult the song has taken on a deeper meaning. If you don't know the song I highly recommend you give it a listen:

http://youtu.be/aFkcAH-m9W0
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Old 16-03-2015, 11:20
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My grandad had Alzheimer's, and these two songs always strike a cord with me. I think they're both beautiful in a sad way.

Missy Higgins - Cooling Of The Embers

You put your hand on top of mine
You're talking fast but talking blind
And I can't bring myself to meet your eyes

'Cause death is slowly covering you
In galaxies of black and blue
And under your skin all his colours bloom

And you're only half here
Like someone left a frail body and took the rest

But I remember when you were strong
And never wanted help from no-one
What you've become is not who I remember
Is this the cooling of the embers?

She's off again through summers past
The smell of rain and freshly cut grass
Seems those ordinary days are the ones that last

'Cause he was there, the one you loved
The one you never could let go of
And there's something you know as you're looking up

That your only half here
Llike someone left a frail body and stole the rest

But I remember when you were strong
And never wanted help from no-one
What you've become is not who I remember
Is this the cooling of the embers?
Is this the cooling of the embers?

'Cause you are not who I remember
It's like you are a child, you are a child, you are a child once more
And all of our yesterday's have gone

You put your hand on top of mine
You're talking fast but talking blind
And I can't bring myself to meet your eyes

Carrie Underwood - Forever Changed

She remembers the nights he’d come calling
His yellow-silk tie
In love she saw him falling for her in the fire of July
Then one day as the nights grew longer
Blackberry winter in a little white church
Stood a young pretty bride

Forever changed, Forever changed,
Nothing ever stays the same
Forever named, Forever changed

She remembers the change in her body
The blooming within
And how her heart seemed to flutter with the wind
Then one night as the days grew longer
That Indian summer
She brought love into the world
Cried and held me then

Forever changed, Forever changed,
Nothing ever stays the same
Forever child, Forever changed

Some days she’ll talk about aunt Rosie
The sister she lost
Asking when she’s coming over
And why she hasn’t called
Some days I just hold her fragile hand
As time creeps across the floor
Some days it almost kills me
Watching her memories slip away a little more

Forever changed, Forever changed,
Nothing ever stays the same
Forever named, Forever child,
Forever loved, Forever changed.

Although I could include pretty much every Missy Higgins song in this thread, in my opinion!
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Old 16-03-2015, 15:55
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So hard to pick lyrics as my favourites always change. There are some pretty obvious ones but a couple of more obscure ones that I've always loved are:

"I know a woman
with a picture of Roger Moore
in a short towelling dressing gown
pinned to her bedroom wall
She married a man
who works on a building site
Now they make love beneath Roger
every Friday night"

"Yeah, the river flows on beneath pudgy fifteen-year olds addicted to coffee whitener, courting couples naked on Northern Upholstery and pensioners gathering dust like bowls of plastic tulips. And it finally comes above ground again at Forge Dam: the place where we first met.
I went there again for old time's sake, hoping to find the child's toy horse ride that played such a ridiculously tragic tune. It was still there - but none of the kids seemed interested in riding on it. And the cafe was still there too; the same press-in plastic letters on the price list and scuffed formica-top tables. I sat as close as possible to the seat where I'd met you that autumn afternoon. And then, after what seemed like hours of thinking about it, I finally took your face in my hands and I kissed you for the first time and a feeling like electricity flowed through my whole body. And I immediately knew I'd entered a completely different world. And all the time, in the background, the sound of that ridiculously heartbreaking child's ride outside.
At the other end of town the river flows underneath an old railway viaduct; I went there with you once - except you were somebody else - and we gazed down at the sludgy brown surface of the water together. Then a passer-by told us that it used to be a local custom to jump off the viaduct into the river, when coming home from the pub on a Saturday night. But that this custom had died out when someone jumped and landed too near to the riverbank and had sunk in the mud there and drowned before anyone could reach them. Maybe he'd just made the whole story up. You'd never get me to jump off that bridge. No chance. Never in a million years."
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Old 16-03-2015, 19:42
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I was a Highwayman
Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of 25
But I am still alive

I was a sailor
I was born upon the tide
With the sea I did abide
I sailed a schooner round the horn of Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still

I was a dam builder
Across the river deep and wild
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around
I'll always be around
And around
And around
And around
And around

I'l fly a starship
Across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a Highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again
And again
And again
And again
And again

My favourite ever song, favourite ever lyrics. As a child the lyrics were so different to the stuff in the charts; they told little stories and I could picture them in my mind. As an adult the song has taken on a deeper meaning. If you don't know the song I highly recommend you give it a listen:

http://youtu.be/aFkcAH-m9W0
I have always loved this song too!

God bless you and the remaining highway men always!!!

Holly

P.S. May Waylon and Johnny rest in peace.
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Old 17-03-2015, 09:15
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Aside from the obvious singer/songwriter candidates (Dylan/Cohen) i always really liked Stephen Malkmus from Pavement's lyrics.
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Old 17-03-2015, 09:59
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And the winner is:

The Cure - Disintegration

Oh I miss the kiss of treachery
The shameless kiss of vanity
The soft and the black and the velvety
Up tight against the side of me

And mouth and eyes and heart all bleed
And run in thickening streams of greed
As bit by bit it starts the need
To just let go my party piece

Oh I miss the kiss of treachery
The aching kiss before I feed
The stench of a love for a younger meat
And the sound that it makes when it cuts in deep

The holding up on bended knees
The addiction of duplicities
As bit by bit it starts the need
To just let go my party piece

But I never said I would stay to the end
So I leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
Screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy
Screaming me over and over and over

I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew how the ending would be

So it's all come back round to breaking apart again
Breaking apart like I'm made up of glass again
Making it up behind my back again
Holding my breath for the fear of sleep again

Holding it up behind my head again
Cut in deep to the heart of the bone again
Round and round and round and it's coming apart again
Over and over and over

And now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces
I'll pull out my heart and I'll feed it to anyone
I'm crying for sympathy, crocodiles cry for the love of the crowd
And the three cheers from everyone

Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof
Through the roof of your mouth, through the mouth of your eye
Through the eye of the needle, it's easier for me to get closer to Heaven
Than ever feel whole again

I never said I would stay to the end
I knew I would leave you with babies and everything
Screaming like this in the hole of sincerity
Screaming me over and over and over

I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew how the end always is
How the end always is

How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
Always is, always is
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Old 17-03-2015, 12:36
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He's got a degree in economics
Maths, physics and bionics
He thinks that I'm a cabbage
'Cause I hate University Challenge.

Even at the age of ten
Smart boy Kevin was a smart boy then
He always beat me at Subbuteo
Cause he flicked the kick and I didn't know.
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Old 17-03-2015, 13:12
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The last verse of Dylan's Masters Of War takes some beating;
'And I hope that you die, and your death will come soon,
I will follow your casket, in the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered down to your deathbed,
And I'll stand over your grave till I'm sure that your dead.'
Still chilling.
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Old 17-03-2015, 18:21
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I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour
And when I die I expect to find Him laughing

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You set my teeth on edge
You set my teeth on edge
You think you're a vegetable
Never come out of the fridge

C-c-c-cucumber
C-c-c-cabbage
C-c-c-cauliflower
Men on Mars
April showers

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Every second counts
When I am with you
I think you are a pig
You should be in a zoo
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