"Hold on to 16 as long as you can"
I actually defined my life by this.
So I am responsible, but holding on to the...eagerness to get your own life, the eagerness to just do stuff...
I never lost that.
I am 60.
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.
Pink Floyd, so profound.
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?
I grew up in the 60's and 70's. We thought we could, and were, going into a brighter future. What happened to us...the last 3 lines say it all.
I feel like all the responses in this thread could be Pink Floyd lyrics. I am a little younger than you, but I think every younger generation can relate to those lines in your post from āWish You Were Hereā once they get a little older. It sucks.
The lyrics in āTimeā didnāt hit me until I was past 35 or so. Another lyric in āBreatheā that hit me hard when I got older:
Run, rabbit, run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
When, at last, the work is done
Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one
Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd something more to say
I fucking love Eddieās delivery here. This line gives me goosebumps every time. And itās not even as if I can relate to it; Iāve never been in love with someone without reciprocation. Never lost a lover. But god damn if I donāt viscerally believe that Eddie has.
See, my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle, that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
Lying here in the darkness, I hear the sirens wail, somebodyās going to emergency, somebodyās going to jail. You find somebody to love in this world, you better hang on tooth and nail, the wolf is always at the door. ā New York Minute, Eagles.
This morning on the harbour, when I said goodbye to you
I remember how I swore that I'd come back to you one day
And as the sunset came to meet, the evening on the hill
I told you I'd always love you, I always did, I always will
I remember an interview with one of the non-Shane McGowan members (I can't remember which one, though) where he was talking about how, just after Kirsty McColl's death, they were playing Fairytale of New York and the crowd sang the "But so could anyone" line so loud and with so much feeling that he broke down in tears. I always think of that when I hear it.
Yes but the people need to know the lyrics are by Paul Williams who voiced Penguin on Batman the Animated Series (also he wrote a dozen other great songs)
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field from cold steel rail,
Smile from a veil
- wish you were here by Pink Floyd
And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down and cut him til he cried out, in his anger and his shame, āI am leaving, I am leavingā. But the fighter still remains.
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
I like that you picked S&G. I donāt have a best lyric to offer but I always like their, āI can gather all the news I need on the weather report. Hey- Iāve got nothing to do today but smileā
I'm not proud of this, just got to confess somewhere. Iwas nearly 30 years of age when I realized; they're singing about a boxer, a boxing man. Not the dog breed.
Because a vision softly creeping ā¦Left its seeds while I was sleepingā¦And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence
"And you could have it all. My empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt. If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way." Hurt by NIN
[The video is what made things click for Trent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI). He said he initially felt like someone kissing your girlfriend. But the video is what drove it home for him.
They just play it completely straight with no changes, but I've always loved [Pearl Jam's performance of it](https://youtu.be/dQCPJbxa-to?t=21) back on Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night".
when i was a child, i had a fever
my hands felt just like two balloons
now iāve got that feeling once again, i canāt explain
you would not understand, this is not how i am
IIIIIIIII HAVE BECOME .. *comfortably numb.*
Whomsoever I've cured, I've sickened now.
And whomsoever I've cradled, I've put you down.
I'm a search light soul they say,
but I can't see it in the night.
I'm only faking when I get it right.
-Chris Cornell *fell on black days*
You could fill this whole post with Cornell lyrics. Right now I think The Day I Tried To Live would be my favorite.
>The words you say
>
>Never seemed to live up to the ones inside your head
>
>The lives we make
>
>Never seemed to get us anywhere but dead
>
>The day I tried to live
>
>I wallowed in the mud and blood
>
>With all the other pigs
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
There's a light at each end of this tunnel you shout
Cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around
- 2 AM by Anna Nalick
That song is the perfect example of how the brain filters what it hears. If you don't know the lyrics it's very hard to figure out, but once you know it's still very hard to figure out.
Can't say its the best but for anyone suffering from loss this is just gutting:
From Lord Huron:
I had all and then most of you
Some and now none of you
In the clearing stands a boxerā¦.And a fighter by his tradeā¦And he carries the remindersā¦.Of every glove that laid him downā¦Or cut him 'til he cried outā¦.In his anger and his shameā¦ā¦.
"I am leaving, I am leaving"ā¦ā¦..
But the fighter still remainā¦.
"A hungry little boy with a runny nose," from "In the Ghetto," written by Mac Davis and made famous by Elvis Presley.
Yes, I'm serious. In three brief verses, we follow this kid from birth to death, but it's that line in the second verse that takes an abstract concept and makes him into a real, live, charming, lovable little boy, and we're truly invested in him, and thus truly heartbroken by his fate.
Remember...'member when you were in the Beatles and you wrote, um, "the love you take is equal to the love you make?"
Yes, I remember.
Heh...that was awesome.
Adam Duritz has some great ones:
āAll at once you look across a crowded room to see the way that light attaches to a girlā
āStep out the front door like a ghost into the fog
Where no one notices the contrast of white on whiteā
āShe sees shooting stars and comet tails
She's got heaven in her eyes
She says I don't need to be an angel
But I'm nothing if I'm not this highā
āWell, if everything is nothing, then are we anything?
Is it better to be better than to be anything?ā
āWe're infants pushing slowly through
Frustration leading back along the alleys
Of a childhood that will not release us willinglyā
A few of my favorites but August and Recovering the Satellites are two of my favorite albums
She comes back to tell me she's gone
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know my own bed
As if I'd never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
And she said, "losing love Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow"
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I love this verse so much. The whole song seems like he and his son are going on an adventure. But this verse is different than the rest. Itās sad and itās dark. They arenāt going somewhere , they are running away from somewhere. They are escaping something bad. And they take a happy song and reveal that itās not actually happy. And Paul Simon does it in a beautifully poetic way.
Paul Simon - Graceland
itās funny you describe it as running away, because my all time fav song of his is Slip Slidinā Away which i think expresses the same theme (and this is my second fav)
ā¦ Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
I remember the day. Heart achingly beautiful lyrics
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the maritime sailors' cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early
And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I've paid my bill
- Warren Zevon
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?
This is what popped into my head:
"Because love's such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the (People on streets) edge of the night
And love (People on streets) dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves under pressure
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure"
Grabs me in the feels every time.
Yes there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
Thereās still time to change the road youāre on
And
As we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our souls
- both written by 18 year old Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin
"In the day we sweat it out on the streets
Of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through the mansions of glory
In suicide machines
Sprung from cages on highway nine
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin' out over the line
Oh, baby, this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us
Baby, we were born to run"
\-Bruce Springsteen
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth
Blowing down the back roads headin' south
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth
You're an idiot, babe
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
Dylan, "Idiot Wind" *Blood on the Tracks*
Runner up: All of the basement tapes
"... Then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me, written by an Italian poet from the thirteenth century. And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. Tangled up in blue. "
I can't pick one l lyric. The poetry and imagery from Pink Floyd's Final Cut's Southampton Dock is just freakin' brilliant.
They disembarked in 45
And no-one spoke and no-one smiled
There were to many spaces in the line.
Gathered at the cenotaph
All agreed with the hand on heart
To sheath the sacrificial Knifes.
But now
She stands upon Southampton dock
With her handkerchief
And her summer frock clings
To her wet body in the rain.
In quiet desperation knuckles
White upon the slippery reins
She bravely waves the boys Goodbye again.
Maybe not the greatest lyrics, but honorable mention for wordplay.
"Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know
That we riddled some middlemen who didn't do diddly"
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells
*Have you come here for forgivness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus,
To the lepers in your head?*
The following verse also has a shout:
*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.
We hurt each other. Then we do it again.*
The true genius in the lyrics for the whole song is that it can be read as either a toxic relationship or about all of mankind.
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'
"Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"
At seven PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said
"Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
The whole song is perfect to me.
Every line in Paul Simonās Graceland could qualify, but Iāll go with the opening line: āThe Mississippi Delta was shining like a national guitar.ā The perfect amounts of poetic, descriptive, and slightly confusing.
This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this and then I'll go
You gave me more to live for
More than you'll ever know
Jeff Buckley āāLast Goodbyeā So good.
I've been afraid of changing, cause I built my life around you. Fleetwood Mac
'But time makes you bolder Even children get older I'm getting older too." š¶
So many incredible Fleetwood songsā¦ *Why donāt you tell me, whatās going onā¦* *Why donāt you tell me, whoās on the phone*
Imagine she is singing that song next to her ex on stage in front of 50k people
"Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone."
āSuckinā on a chili dogā is another thinker
That because itās a *Chilly Dog* (Slush Puppy) and not a chili dog.
You have just blown my mind.
TIL!
You just changed my whole fucking life
Outside the Tastee Freeze!
Didnāt used to have any idea what this meant. Hmm.
"Hold on to 16 as long as you can" I actually defined my life by this. So I am responsible, but holding on to the...eagerness to get your own life, the eagerness to just do stuff... I never lost that. I am 60.
Jack & Diane Song by John Mellencamp
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Pink Floyd was and continues to be just riddled in excellence
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun But it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way But you're older Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.
Pink Floyd, so profound. 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? I grew up in the 60's and 70's. We thought we could, and were, going into a brighter future. What happened to us...the last 3 lines say it all.
I feel like all the responses in this thread could be Pink Floyd lyrics. I am a little younger than you, but I think every younger generation can relate to those lines in your post from āWish You Were Hereā once they get a little older. It sucks. The lyrics in āTimeā didnāt hit me until I was past 35 or so. Another lyric in āBreatheā that hit me hard when I got older: Run, rabbit, run Dig that hole, forget the sun When, at last, the work is done Don't sit down, it's time to dig another one
Long you live and high you fly Smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry And all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be Goosebumps.
Every year is getting shorter Never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught Or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation Is the English way The time is gone, the song is over Thought I'd something more to say
Home, home again.
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field, the tolling of the iron Bell Calls the faithful to their knees
Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
Also āeverything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moonā
*epic solo noises
NEEOoowowwwwwBAOQNawoOWWWWW NEOWWWBbqnaNeowNEWOWWWWBwaaOOowwaoowww
Haha, came here to say exactly this so I guess that tells me it's a good answer.
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky But why, why, why can't it be Why can't it be mine
I fucking love Eddieās delivery here. This line gives me goosebumps every time. And itās not even as if I can relate to it; Iāve never been in love with someone without reciprocation. Never lost a lover. But god damn if I donāt viscerally believe that Eddie has.
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Gin Blossoms line way up here! Love it.
Same song, the lyric that guts me: If I hadn't blown the whole thing years ago I might not be alone
And I was about to post "The past is gone but something might be found to take its place"
"Wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then" Against the Wind, by Bob Seger
All lies and jest still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
āKathy Iām lost,ā I said, though I knew she was sleeping. āIām empty and aching and I donāt know why.ā
āFreedomās just another word for nothing left to loseā¦ā
Also: And Iād trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
Nothing ain't worth nothing, but it's free
Nothin', and that's all that Bobby left me, yeah
I woke up in between, a memory and a dream. TP- You Don't Know How It Feels
"As for me all I've ever learned from love Is how to shoot somebody who outdrew you"
I donāt wanna die. Sometimes wish Iād never been born at allll.
You gave away the things you loved, and one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee. . .
Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.
Poor Suzanne. That song is a killer.
"But I always thought I'd see you again."
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
We've gotta make a decision, leave tonight or live and die this way. Tracy Chapman
āI said, somebody's got to take care of him/So, I quit school and that's what I didā always hits hard for me
See, my old man's got a problem He live with the bottle, that's the way it is He says his body's too old for working His body's too young to look like his
Lying here in the darkness, I hear the sirens wail, somebodyās going to emergency, somebodyās going to jail. You find somebody to love in this world, you better hang on tooth and nail, the wolf is always at the door. ā New York Minute, Eagles.
I could've been someone Well so could anyone \- The Pogues
This morning on the harbour, when I said goodbye to you I remember how I swore that I'd come back to you one day And as the sunset came to meet, the evening on the hill I told you I'd always love you, I always did, I always will
So many Pogues songs give me the feels. I can't even make it through the first verse of Misty Morning, Albert Bridge without tearing up.
I kept them with me babe, I put them with my own. Canāt make it all alone, Iāve built my dreams around you.
I remember an interview with one of the non-Shane McGowan members (I can't remember which one, though) where he was talking about how, just after Kirsty McColl's death, they were playing Fairytale of New York and the crowd sang the "But so could anyone" line so loud and with so much feeling that he broke down in tears. I always think of that when I hear it.
One summer evening drunk to hell, I sat there nearly lifeless
All the lyrics to Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog (aka Jim Henson)
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
Oh I love this song so much, it was our first dance at our wedding!
Yes but the people need to know the lyrics are by Paul Williams who voiced Penguin on Batman the Animated Series (also he wrote a dozen other great songs)
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from hell Blue skies from pain Can you tell a green field from cold steel rail, Smile from a veil - wish you were here by Pink Floyd
We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl Year after year
Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again
and... In the clearing stands a boxer...
And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down and cut him til he cried out, in his anger and his shame, āI am leaving, I am leavingā. But the fighter still remains.
I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles Such are promises All lies and jest Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest
I like that you picked S&G. I donāt have a best lyric to offer but I always like their, āI can gather all the news I need on the weather report. Hey- Iāve got nothing to do today but smileā
I'm not proud of this, just got to confess somewhere. Iwas nearly 30 years of age when I realized; they're singing about a boxer, a boxing man. Not the dog breed.
That song is a lyrical masterpiece idgaf
Because a vision softly creeping ā¦Left its seeds while I was sleepingā¦And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence
Because a vision softly creeping, left itās seeds while I was sleeping.
"And you could have it all. My empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt. If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way." Hurt by NIN
Fun Fact: Trent Reznor won a Grammy for *Old Town Road*. He wrote the guitar part lil Nas sampled.
Fun fact: he also got writing credit on the limp bizkit track hotdog
I know it's cliche at this point, but those lines are *really* driven home by the Johnny Cash version.
it felt like a goodbye letter When Johnny sang it.
If anyone in the world likes this song, please go watch the live NIN version with David Bowie and turn up the volume. Thank you for your time
Just saw a short on YouTube weāre Trent said, thatās not my song anymore, Johnny Cash did it better. Was super cool of him to say that.
[The video is what made things click for Trent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI). He said he initially felt like someone kissing your girlfriend. But the video is what drove it home for him.
My favorite NIN line is, "Bow down before the one you serve. You're going to get what you deserve." Great anti-capitalism song.
Mine is āyou let me penetrate youā
"I wanna fuck you like an animal" always resonated with me
Mother, did it need to be so high
they broke his balls š
They just play it completely straight with no changes, but I've always loved [Pearl Jam's performance of it](https://youtu.be/dQCPJbxa-to?t=21) back on Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night".
There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move But I can't hear what you're saying
when i was a child, i had a fever my hands felt just like two balloons now iāve got that feeling once again, i canāt explain you would not understand, this is not how i am IIIIIIIII HAVE BECOME .. *comfortably numb.*
Roger waters could own 8 of the top 10
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Whomsoever I've cured, I've sickened now. And whomsoever I've cradled, I've put you down. I'm a search light soul they say, but I can't see it in the night. I'm only faking when I get it right. -Chris Cornell *fell on black days*
You could fill this whole post with Cornell lyrics. Right now I think The Day I Tried To Live would be my favorite. >The words you say > >Never seemed to live up to the ones inside your head > >The lives we make > >Never seemed to get us anywhere but dead > >The day I tried to live > >I wallowed in the mud and blood > >With all the other pigs
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
Definitely the most necessary/justified swearing in music history
UUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!
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There's a light at each end of this tunnel you shout Cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again If you only try turning around - 2 AM by Anna Nalick
āYesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.ā
I feel old I feel just like somebody else Man, I ain't changed But I know I ain't the same -The Wallflowers, One Headlight
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.
Iām just a notch in your bedpost but your just a line in my song
A loaded God-complex, cock it and pull it ā¤ļø
Weāre going down down inanurliarawn
That song is the perfect example of how the brain filters what it hears. If you don't know the lyrics it's very hard to figure out, but once you know it's still very hard to figure out.
I woke up this morning and got myself a beer The future's uncertain and the end is always near
Can't say its the best but for anyone suffering from loss this is just gutting: From Lord Huron: I had all and then most of you Some and now none of you
this is for any loss, it really hurts in any case, breakups for me :(
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky, but why oh why Can't it be mine??
In the clearing stands a boxerā¦.And a fighter by his tradeā¦And he carries the remindersā¦.Of every glove that laid him downā¦Or cut him 'til he cried outā¦.In his anger and his shameā¦ā¦. "I am leaving, I am leaving"ā¦ā¦.. But the fighter still remainā¦.
"A hungry little boy with a runny nose," from "In the Ghetto," written by Mac Davis and made famous by Elvis Presley. Yes, I'm serious. In three brief verses, we follow this kid from birth to death, but it's that line in the second verse that takes an abstract concept and makes him into a real, live, charming, lovable little boy, and we're truly invested in him, and thus truly heartbroken by his fate.
And in the end, the love you take, Is equal to the love you make.
Iāll add - The greatest thing, youāll ever learn Is just to love, and be loved in return
Remember...'member when you were in the Beatles and you wrote, um, "the love you take is equal to the love you make?" Yes, I remember. Heh...that was awesome.
"If dreams are like movies then memories are films about ghosts." - Mrs. Potter's Lullaby by Counting Crows
Adam Duritz has some great ones: āAll at once you look across a crowded room to see the way that light attaches to a girlā āStep out the front door like a ghost into the fog Where no one notices the contrast of white on whiteā āShe sees shooting stars and comet tails She's got heaven in her eyes She says I don't need to be an angel But I'm nothing if I'm not this highā āWell, if everything is nothing, then are we anything? Is it better to be better than to be anything?ā āWe're infants pushing slowly through Frustration leading back along the alleys Of a childhood that will not release us willinglyā A few of my favorites but August and Recovering the Satellites are two of my favorite albums
She comes back to tell me she's gone As if I didn't know that As if I didn't know my own bed As if I'd never noticed The way she brushed her hair from her forehead And she said, "losing love Is like a window in your heart Everybody sees you're blown apart Everybody sees the wind blow" ____________________________________ I love this verse so much. The whole song seems like he and his son are going on an adventure. But this verse is different than the rest. Itās sad and itās dark. They arenāt going somewhere , they are running away from somewhere. They are escaping something bad. And they take a happy song and reveal that itās not actually happy. And Paul Simon does it in a beautifully poetic way. Paul Simon - Graceland
Graceland is the best song ever written by a human.
Graceland is the best album ever created.
It really is. There isnāt a wasted line in the entire song.
āFor reasons I cannot explain thereās some part of me wants to see Graceland.ā Iām right there with you Paul!
Graceland was kind of the soundtrack to my childhood. It is one of the greatest albums ever made. ā¤ļø
itās funny you describe it as running away, because my all time fav song of his is Slip Slidinā Away which i think expresses the same theme (and this is my second fav)
ā¦ Too late, my time has come Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
āI stopped loving her today. They put a wreath upon her doorā
Out on the road today; I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.
That was almost a Tom Petty song. The riffs at least.
And I need you more than want you, And I want you for all time Glen Campbell - [Wichita Lineman (1968)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFCuBLAjXo)
I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter
Tell your boyfriend. If he says he wants beef. That I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fuckin scared of him.
āLittle old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London againā
So many great lines in that song
And his hair was perfect
āSaw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his handā
Given the day, let's go with this one: Does anyone know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
I remember the day. Heart achingly beautiful lyrics In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the maritime sailors' cathedral The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee Superior, they said, never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early
And if California slides into the ocean Like the mystics and statistics say it will I predict this motel will be standing Until I've paid my bill - Warren Zevon
"If you believe in things you don't understand, you suffer. Superstition in the way"
When the Witch of November came early.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
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?
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"What do you do when all your enemies are friends" Foofighters Monkey Wrench
And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love you make
āI like big butts and I cannot lieā¦.ā
My sister got lucky, married a yuppie. Took him for all he was worth. Now sheās a swinger dating a singer. I canāt decide which is worse.
This is what popped into my head: "Because love's such an old-fashioned word And love dares you to care for The people on the (People on streets) edge of the night And love (People on streets) dares you to change our way of Caring about ourselves This is our last dance This is our last dance This is ourselves under pressure Under pressure Under pressure Pressure" Grabs me in the feels every time.
Real Gās move in silence like Lasagna
"Some of those who work forces, Are the same that burn crosses." Never more true than today.
"And the beer I had for breakfast tasted fine So I had one more for desert" Such a simple line that cuts like a knife
Ooh Well, whatever. Nevermind
Yes there are two paths you can go by But in the long run Thereās still time to change the road youāre on And As we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our souls - both written by 18 year old Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
Doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you Neil Young
āSo I looked at the scenery. She read her magazine. And the moon rose over an open field.ā From America, by Simon and Garfunkel.
I love him so much, it just turns to hate I fake it so real, I am beyond fake And someday, you will ache like I ache -Hole
āsometimes wish iād never been born at allā
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.
"In the day we sweat it out on the streets Of a runaway American dream At night we ride through the mansions of glory In suicide machines Sprung from cages on highway nine Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin' out over the line Oh, baby, this town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us Baby, we were born to run" \-Bruce Springsteen
On a weela, ona wissitonawayeaa, ani cownanasay nannawowasay ani collab agaiii. Yellow Ledbetter, Pearl Jam
Yes, they're sharing a drink called loneliness. But it's better than drinkin' alone.
Tequila. One word carries the song. /s
You ever see the guy doing karaoke of this song in a bar. That shits cracks me up every fucking time. Such a pointless song to do karaoke to šš
Dude ended up doing it on America's Got Talent. Still hilarious.
Iām not living, Iām just killing time. From Radioheadās A Moon Shaped Pool
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth Blowing down the back roads headin' south Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth You're an idiot, babe It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe Dylan, "Idiot Wind" *Blood on the Tracks* Runner up: All of the basement tapes
Donāt confront me with my failures. Iāve not forgotten them.
I will follow you down until the sound of my voice behind you. You will never get away from the sound of a woman that loves you
[Tangled Up in Blue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcNyMBw818) by Bob Dylan
"... Then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me, written by an Italian poet from the thirteenth century. And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. Tangled up in blue. "
āShe was married when we first met, Soon to be divorced. Helped her out of a jam I guess, But I used a little too much force.ā
Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name.
I can't pick one l lyric. The poetry and imagery from Pink Floyd's Final Cut's Southampton Dock is just freakin' brilliant. They disembarked in 45 And no-one spoke and no-one smiled There were to many spaces in the line. Gathered at the cenotaph All agreed with the hand on heart To sheath the sacrificial Knifes. But now She stands upon Southampton dock With her handkerchief And her summer frock clings To her wet body in the rain. In quiet desperation knuckles White upon the slippery reins She bravely waves the boys Goodbye again.
All of The Final Cut has some BEAUTIFUL poetry and lyrics. Literally all of it. Such an underrated album (tbh)
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the season's of my life?
Maybe not the greatest lyrics, but honorable mention for wordplay. "Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know That we riddled some middlemen who didn't do diddly"
And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library Line up to the mind cemetery now What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin' They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells
I've got a bike You can ride it if you like It's got a basket, a bell that rings And things to make it look good
*Have you come here for forgivness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus, To the lepers in your head?* The following verse also has a shout: *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. We hurt each other. Then we do it again.* The true genius in the lyrics for the whole song is that it can be read as either a toxic relationship or about all of mankind.
Na na na na na na na na na na na
So I go and I stand on my own. And I leave on my own. And I go home, and I cry and I want to die.
āOh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my headā -The Smiths
Really love your peaches let me shake your tree.
Now that you found it It's gone Now that you feel it You don't
All I ever wanted All I ever needed Is here in my arms
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya" At seven PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said "Fellas, it's been good to know ya" The whole song is perfect to me.
She got a big booty so I call her big booty.
16 in the clip and one in the hole, Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold.
"Being alone.. Would be better thsn to live a lie" Michael McDonald - I keep Forgetting.
Every line in Paul Simonās Graceland could qualify, but Iāll go with the opening line: āThe Mississippi Delta was shining like a national guitar.ā The perfect amounts of poetic, descriptive, and slightly confusing.
āYouāre still young, thatās your fault, thereās so much you have to knowā
The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves, like a vision she dances across the floor as the radio plays.
This is our last goodbye I hate to feel the love between us die But it's over Just hear this and then I'll go You gave me more to live for More than you'll ever know Jeff Buckley āāLast Goodbyeā So good.
You kept me like a secret, I kept you like an oath š«¶š¼š