Brain of GBasic Member Posts:161
7/19/2004 11:38 AM |
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What do ye think deserves to be called the best song lyric ever and why?
I reckon it's got to be the final lines in "Black" by Pearl Jam:
"I know some day you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
But why, why can't it be mine?"
Powerful stuff, like
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El DuderinoBasic Member Posts:179
7/19/2004 11:45 AM |
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This isn't exactly off the beaten track but I have to say I love a line in the Otis Reading song sitting on the dock of the bay: "sitting here resting my bones and this loneliness won't leave me alone"
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
7/19/2004 12:21 PM |
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I have to echo that as I think that 'Sittin On The Dock Of A Bay' by Otis Reading is one of the best songs ever.
Best lyric, hmmmm.
Monty Python 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life': 'Life's a piece of s**t, when you look at it'
Guy Clark 'Too Much': 'Too much money will make you lazy, too much whiskey will drive you crazy'
John Lennon 'Working Class Hero': 'They hate if you're clever and they depise a fool'
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7/19/2004 12:23 PM |
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how aboutAir hostess
I like the way you dress
Though I hate to fly
But I feel much better
Occupied my mind
Writing you a love letter
I messed my pants
When we flew over France
Will I see you soon
In my hotel room
For a holiday romance?
Air hostess
I rest my case
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Brain of GBasic Member Posts:161
7/19/2004 12:28 PM |
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I'm not even going to ask how you know the lyrics to that "song"!! I'm going to presume you surfed the net for my own sanity and the sanity of those around me
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7/19/2004 12:31 PM |
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indeed i did, cut and copy
im bad but not that bad
how about:
"I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything "
I think the lyrics are some of the most sad and depressing but some of the most beautiful
I love it
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Brain of GBasic Member Posts:161
7/19/2004 12:35 PM |
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What song is that and by whom?
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
7/19/2004 12:40 PM |
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"Hurt" written by Trent Reznor and as made famous by Johnny Cash. Great song, but I think Mr Cashs own songwriting can easily rival if not better it, check out the apocalyptic yet optimistic language of "The Man Comes Around" from the same album. Of course it helps that much of it was lifted straight from the good book itself.
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7/19/2004 12:56 PM |
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yeah Johhny Cash is unbelievable,
The way he sings "hurt" is unbeliveable. The video is just as good, so sad.watch it at
http://www.markromanek.com/video/14.html
I must admit though that i feel it doesnt matter how good the lyrics are or how wrote them, it is nothing until the song is sang. Johnny Cash should be given the most credit for the song, The Nne Inch Nails i think buthered a brilliant piece of writing, while Cash delievered the must heartfelt of singing (and acting in the video!
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7/19/2004 1:07 PM |
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sorry about the spelling
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DromedAdvanced Member Posts:900
7/19/2004 2:41 PM |
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"Lonely is the room the bed is made
The open window lets the rain in
Burning in the corner is the only one
Who dreams he had you with him
My body turns and yearns for a sleep
That won't ever come
It's never over,
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles
when I slept so soft against her...
It's never over,
All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over, she's the tear
That hangs inside my soul forever
Oh, but maybe I'm just too young to keep good love
From going wrong"
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Brain of GBasic Member Posts:161
7/19/2004 2:44 PM |
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I've just realised that I mis-quoted those lines from "Black"
It should be:
"I know some day you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why, why can't it be mine?"
Apologies
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7/19/2004 2:49 PM |
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it shouldnt matter
Pearl Jam are rubbish
Eddie Vedder couldnt write his way out of a wet paper bag
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Brain of GBasic Member Posts:161
7/19/2004 2:51 PM |
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Many a great man has failed to write his way out of a wet paper bag. My great great grandfather died trying
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7/19/2004 3:01 PM |
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i heard about that
he was a friend of my granny's who tried to catch a cold, she died of phneumonia
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QsySueBasic Member Posts:119
7/19/2004 4:32 PM |
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Sorry, I'm a bit of a lyrics freak.
I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.
- Nick Drake
Time will come when we know what happened here
Change will come in time and make it clear
We learn one thing if we learn at all
In the secret wars we call our lives
Anything can happen
- Jackson Browne
I stay unseen by the light
I stay untold by the truth
I'm sold by a lie
By this I am able in all of my travels
To make these memories quit
But tonight I clearly recall every little bit
- Patty Griffin
Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat:"
http://www.nick-cave.net/rec.php?id=18#43
In my early years I hid my tears
And passed my days alone
Adrift on an ocean of loneliness
My dreams like nets were thrown
To catch the love that I'd heard of
In books and films and songs
Now there's a world of illusion and fantasy
In the place where the real world belongs
Still I look for the beauty in songs
To fill my head and lead me on
-Jackson Browne
THE GIRL WHO LIVES ON HEAVEN HILL
there's a girl who lives on heaven hill
I go up to her cabin still
she keeps a lantern lit for me
and a bottle up on her mantelpiece
she's the girl who lives on heaven hill
she's got a big room and it's always a mess
worn out shoes and a worn out dress
a worn out smile that she'll wear some more
and a worn out welcome mat by her door
I'd trade big mountains and rooms full of gold
for just one look at the beauty of this woman's soul
up on heaven hill is where I wanna be
that girl that bottle that mattress and me
- Husker Du
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QsySueBasic Member Posts:119
7/19/2004 4:38 PM |
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Sorry, just one more I have to add--these lines just kill me:
Words long gone, lost on journeys we walked on
Lost are voices heard along the way
Sorry for never going by your door
Never feeling love like that anymore
- Sun Kil Moon
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mutchBasic Member Posts:392
7/19/2004 6:15 PM |
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anyone ever heard the version of queen' "one vision" where they had no lyrics so it was a shopping list that he sang?
doesnt count but its funny ,
or metallica's version of sad but true without words, jim hetfield just goes, "hey, nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nha nhanahahaahja./.." on the demo
just like me when im langers in bruxelles of an evening!
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mutchBasic Member Posts:392
7/20/2004 6:33 PM |
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just thought of my serious nomination, from a pair of brown eyes by the pogues, just one line
"You're the measure of my dreams"
within the context of the tune and lifestyle of the writer, it is brilliant.
Another one that pops into my head often is a line from Steve Earle's last song on his latest CD, talkin about his younger wilder days, when he was a street fightin man, shall we say
"...my hands were thunder and my legs were stone"
just like the way he puts it.
Delivery is all important though, some lines need a rusted southern US accent, whilst only a few need a Tipp accent.;)
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fiddlechickNew Member Posts:63
7/21/2004 12:24 AM |
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Being a big Bruce Springsteen fan he wins most of my internal lyrics competitions -
"well Papa go to bed now it's getting late, nothing we can say can change anything now" (Independence Day)
"and my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk from your front porch to my front seat - The door's open but the ride ain't free" and "show a little faith, there's magic in the night - You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright" (Thunder Road)
"seems you can't any more than half free" (Straight Time)
"smokestacks reaching like the arms of God into a beautiful sky of soot and clay" and "once I made you rich enough, rich enough to forget my name" and "when I die I don't want no part of heaven, I would not do heavens work well, I pray the devil comes and takes me to stand in the fiery furnaces of hell" (Youngstown which is my all time favorite song ever!)
And all the lyrics of "the ghost of tom joad", "downbound train", "you're missing" and most of his other songs.
Bob Dylan - Ring them Bells - the entire song is just superb
Townes Van Zandt - to live's to fly -
Won't say I need you babe
But, I'm gonna get you babe
And I will not do you wrong
Livin's mostly wastin' time
I waste my share of mine
But it never feels too good
So let's don't take too long
You're soft as glass
And I'm a gentle man
We got the sky to talk about
And the world to lie upon.
And Simon and Garfunkel who did a brill version of "keep the customer Satisfied" in the RDS on Saturday -
"It's the same old story, yeah
Everywhere I go
I get slandered, libeled
I hear words I never heard in the Bible
And I'm one step ahead of the shoe shine
Two steps away from the county line
Just trying to keep my customers satisfied"
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El DuderinoBasic Member Posts:179
7/21/2004 8:21 AM |
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The song slowdown by the republic of loose has lyrics that really hit home for me. They aren't exactly poetic but they simply describe the predictament many people find themselves in. The whole thing about having a job and money but neither of them are good for you is very relevant to alot of people (I think?)
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flagmanBasic Member Posts:150
7/21/2004 10:19 AM |
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Despite a few criminal lyrics of late Noel Gallagher's early period writing (all done in a shed as legend goes) was magnificent, for me anyhow.
My late teenage years were, like many lads my age were scored by Oasis.
(Live Forever)
Maybe, I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows
Cause I just wanna fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks you to the bone
(Listen Up)
Listen up for the time said today I'm gonna speak my mind
Take me up to the top of the world I wanna see my crime
day by day there's a man in a suit
who's gonna make you pay
for the thoughts that you feel
and the words they won't let you say
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John DoeBasic Member Posts:338
7/21/2004 11:16 AM |
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I'm a big Boss fan myself Fiddlechick. Tunnel Of Love is my favourite album and has some cracking lyrics:
"Well it ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough, yeah
Man meets woman and they fall in love,
But this house is haunted and the ride gets rough
You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above." - Tunnel of Love
The bould Bono has written some good lyrics in his time -
"And you know it's time to go
Through the rain and driving snow
Across a field of mourning lights in the distance
And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape."
f**ked if I know what it means, mind.
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John DoeBasic Member Posts:338
7/21/2004 11:18 AM |
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Sorry, should have mentioned that that U2 lyric is from "A Sort of Homecoming".
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DromedAdvanced Member Posts:900
7/21/2004 12:03 PM |
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Bruce Springteen - 'The River'...great great lyrics, pure storyteller stuff
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Brain of GBasic Member Posts:161
7/21/2004 12:38 PM |
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I love that song of his Dromed. It paints such a depressing picture of the mediocrity and boredom that a lot of people go through in rural America. Catchy tune too.
Whe he marries Mary, the girl he impregnates:
" No wedding smiles,
No walk down the aisle,
No flowers,
No wedding dress"
Brilliant stuff. And I'm no Springsteen fan at that
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DromedAdvanced Member Posts:900
7/21/2004 2:01 PM |
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"Then I got Mary pregnant
and man that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse
and the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers no wedding dress"
Brilliant, and the pain in his voice singing it makes it seem all the more real...he's a legend
"But I remember us riding in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
they haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse"
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
7/21/2004 3:12 PM |
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Jeez, gag me with a spoon, enough with the sincere touchy-feely lyrics already! Are you lot really that melodramatic or am I just really insensitive? (I think we all know the answer to that one)
What you need is some Ramones! Teenage Lobotomy:
"now I guess I'll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum
gonna get my Ph.D.
I'm a teenage lobotomy"
Pure Genius or What? (or What? category I think)
Ah ignore that, I'm just being silly as usual. We all find lyrics that we're touched by and as they say "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" so here's my own drippy choice. Personally I think "I'll be your mirror" by The Velvet Underground and Nico is one of the most lyrically beatiful songs ever written. Its amazing what a walking contradiction Lou Reed was, being quite a nasty guy one minute and then writing a song which shows such touching concern for someone who is obviously feeling a bit insecure the next:
"I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are, in case you don't know
I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you're home
When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
'Cause I see you
I find it hard to believe you don't know
The beauty that you are
But if you don't let me be your eyes
A hand in your darkness, so you won't be afraid
When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
'Cause I see you
I'll be your mirror"
A definitely less drippy choice would be Talking Heads "No Compassion", which contains the gem:
"Other people's problems they overwhelm my mind
They say compassion is a virtue, but I don't have the time"
A sad reflection on our current state of affairs, thats still as true in 2004 as it was in 1977?
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Brain of GBasic Member Posts:161
7/21/2004 3:34 PM |
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All this is making me emotional!
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QsySueBasic Member Posts:119
7/21/2004 5:06 PM |
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One of the best lines ever:
"She wanted nothing...and I delivered"
- Fu Manchu
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
7/21/2004 11:37 PM |
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Who else could've pulled off album after album of utterly mouth watering songs? Who else could've brought a whole new image to an ice-cream man? Who else could've played Captain Hook in Shrek 2? Who else but Tom Waits...the master of the one liners that never seem out of place in his songs. Pure genius.
'There aint no such thing as the Devil, its just God when he's drunk'
'I bet she's still a virgin but its only twenty five to nine'
I could go on all day but instead I'll urge anyone who doesn't have a Tom Waits cd in their colelction to get down to record store asap. 'Closing Time', 'Heart Of Saturday Night', 'Used Songs', 'Alice', 'Nighthawks At The Diner', 'Heartattack And Vine', 'Franks Wild Years'. Buy any of these albums and you WILL NOT be disappointed.
As far as I know he has a new album due out in September. Hopefully I'll get to catch one of his live shows.
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fiddlechickNew Member Posts:63
7/22/2004 1:34 AM |
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The Saw Doctors' lyrics rock....true prophets....mostly ignored in their own land :-)
"Air the bed my auld room, I going back to Tuam."
"I got sunglasses, And I got the shorts
I got factor 50, And a t-shirt of course
I’ve been shopping in penney’s
I’ve walked out to dunne’s
I’m all set for the summer
All set for the sun
Oh god will it ever stop raining?.....
We got barred from the pub
She stole all my money
I thought it was love
And then the wind blew my ice-cream onto the sand
I backed an oul’ greyhound
He stopped in front of the stand"
"Hardly anyone had the telly
It was a different kind of world
Heaven was a game of football
Before I ever kissed the girls
We used to go out driving
We’d travel near and far
Nearly every Sunday in me
Father’s oul’ ford car
He’d be pointing out the landmarks
Everywhere we’d go, through the
Twisting, turning , winding roads
Of Galway and Mayo
Me mother in the front seat
Children in the back
We’d be imagining Indians in the
Fields waiting to attack
And we’d be asking “ are we nearly there?”
Wearing clothes that came
In a parcel from America,
The two of us the same.....
There’s a stillness in the summer air ,
Sheep dog lying in the sun
Three young girls with butterfly nets
Break into a run
Now the time flies by like always
I’ve got my own boy right now
Like cowboys in the oul’ k30
We go and drive around"
"And some where up near inchagoill
In the embers of the night
Switch of all the engines
At the birth of dawns first light
And someone sing a happy song
When everyone’s arrived
And scatter me forever
Where I’ve felt most alive"
"I'll show you what I've got -
A Gibson polka dot and I've got an amp inside in the room
Sure come in and I'll play an aul tune
twinkle twinkle little star
D'ya wanna hear my guitar?
D'ya know what i mean martina?"
"To win just once that would be enough
So come all ye full-time small -town heroes
Cast away your inbred fears of
Standing out from all the rest
The cynics and the pessimists
The self-indulgent almost rich
The blatant hurlers on the ditch
Time is passing so come on
And face the ball, the game is on"
And one of the most ROMANTIC songs ever - Share the Darkness
"Hey I can’t I say that I love you
I can't say that I don’t
I can't say that I couldn’t
And I won't say that I won’t
But I really like your company
I’m enjoying myself no end
But I can’t keep from thinking
Why don’t we share the darkness tonight
Make it warm and burning bright
I’ll not say nothing
I'll be polite
.....Ah life’s too short for wasting
For ifs and might have been's
Life’s too short for wondering if
You could have lived your dreams
And its way too short for loneliness
We don't have to be
Now that we trust each other
Why don’t you stay with me?
Why don't we share the darkness tonight
Make it warm and burning bright
I'll not say nothing
I'll be polite
Why don't we share the darkness tonight
....
When the world belongs to distant dogs
And the air is dark and still
And drunken conversations pass beneath the window sill
And there’s someone singing
Elvis songs as they make their way back home
and all your fears and worries
attack when you're alone"
And then you've got "Michael D rocking in the Dail"
What's that line in Tom Waits "hold on" - don't meet nice girls in coffee shops...?
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fiddlechickNew Member Posts:63
7/22/2004 1:35 AM |
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Apologies for the trigger happy copy and paste of last post!
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
7/22/2004 9:27 AM |
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quote: Originally posted by Gar
I could go on all day but instead I'll urge anyone who doesn't have a Tom Waits cd in their colelction to get down to record store asap. 'Closing Time', 'Heart Of Saturday Night', 'Used Songs', 'Alice', 'Nighthawks At The Diner', 'Heartattack And Vine', 'Franks Wild Years'. Buy any of these albums and you WILL NOT be disappointed.
As far as I know he has a new album due out in September. Hopefully I'll get to catch one of his live shows.
I could never "get" Tom Waits myself. I tried to like his stuff and even ended up buying a copy of "Closing Time", but I hated it, don't know why (must be that insensitivity thing again). Anyway, I ended up giving it away to a friend because I figured it deserved a better home than gathering dust on my shelf. I did like that track called "Hold on" he did a while ago which Fiddlechick already mentioned, but mainly because of his voice rarely sounded so gravely without sounding affected, and its a catchy tune with some nice guitar. I've been told his other albums are different to Closing Time, but I don't get the carnival music thing either. Anything I should listen to before giving up on Mr Waits altogether?
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
7/22/2004 11:38 AM |
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Thats a shame that you didnt get into Tom Waits. He's quite different but thats the genius of him. But I understand its not to everyone's liking. Maybe try 'Used Songs', its a kind of best of. Or 'Heart Of Saturday Night' is a classic.
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The IdiotNew Member Posts:15
7/24/2004 12:35 AM |
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Morrisey is obviously the best lyricist in pop music:
Punctured bicycle
on a hillside desolate
will Nature make a man of me yet?
Why pamper life's complexities
when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?
This Charming Man
What she asked of me at the end of the day
Caligula would have blushed
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
I grabbed you by the guilded beams
that's what Tradition means
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Love, peace and harmony
Love, peace and harmony
Oh, very nice
very nice
very nice
very nice
...but maybe in the next world
Death Of A Disco Dancer
Girlfriend in a coma, I know
I know - it's serious
Girlfriend In A Coma
The pain was enough to make
a shy, bald buddhist reflect
and plan a mass-murder
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
now I know how Joan of Arc felt
as the flames rose to her Roman nose
and her Walkman started to melt
Bigmouth Strikes Again
As Antony said to Cleopatra
as he opened a crate of ale
oh I say
Some girls are bigger than others
some girls are bigger than others
some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Burn down the Disco
Hang the blessed D.J.
Because the music that they constantly play
IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE
Panic
And there are far more examples than this.
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The IdiotNew Member Posts:15
7/24/2004 12:37 AM |
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By the way "you're the measure of my dreams" is from A Rainy Night In Soho not A Pair Of Brown Eyes.
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mutchBasic Member Posts:392
7/26/2004 9:48 AM |
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Re, pogues song,
I stand corrected and slightly bemused as this is twice I have made that same mistake.
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
7/26/2004 10:03 AM |
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Been listening to a track called "Fist City" by Loretta Lynn that just cracks me up everytime I hear it. No offence intended to genuine country fans, but c'mon this is pure comedy gold! You really don't wanna meet miss Lynn down a dark alley:
"You've been makin' your brags around town that you've been a lovin' with my man
But the man I love when he picks up trash he puts it in a garbage can
And that's what you look like to me and what I see is a pitty
You'd better close your face and stay out of my way
If you don't wanta go to Fist City
If you don't wanna go to Fist City you'd better detour round my town
Cause I'll grab you by the hair of the head and I'll lift you off of the ground
I'm not a sayin' my baby is a saint cause he ain't
And that he won't cat around with a kitty
I'm here to tell you gal to lay off of my man if you don't wanna go to Fist City
Come on and tell me what you told my friends if you think you're brave enough
And I'll show you what a real woman is since you think you're hot stuff
You'll bite off more than you can chew if you get too cute or witty
You better move your feet if you don't wanna eat a meal that's called Fist City
If you don't wanna go to Fist City...
I'm here to tell you gal to lay off of my man if you don't wanna go to Fist City"
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RaptermanNew Member Posts:2
7/27/2004 3:49 PM |
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quote: Originally posted by cheesy
it shouldnt matter
Pearl Jam are rubbish
Eddie Vedder couldnt write his way out of a wet paper bag
Amm,someone definitly deserves a bitch slap!Pearl jam are the coolest mother f**kers in the universe and eddie vedder is a genius!!!
"caught a bolt of lightening,
curse the day he let it go."
"..and he who forgets,
shall be destined to remember."
-Pearl Jam: Nothingman.
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7/28/2004 2:14 AM |
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first of all, shame on you GAr for not including 'bome machine' in your list of tom waits must-haves. It is EASILY among my favorites, and chock full of FANTASTIC lyrics (the clip in my signature among them...I won't repeat it here. but read it. and listen to it. yowza.)
another little known one is Paul Westerberg off 'stereo' from 2002. It's sort of one long line...
"the sweet smell of candles burnt low by young women alone on their own for the very first time under posters of rock stars that you vaguely resembles in front of a cat who's responding perhaps means that you'll be the next one in line."
and, erm, has no one anything to say about REM?!?!?!
(they are, ultimately, my favorite band of all time, though if anyone quotes 'everybody hurts' i will gag slightly and and maybe punch something.)
anyway, howsabout-
"i can't look you in the eyes
Seconal, spanish fly, absinthe, kerosene
Cherry-flavored neck and collar
i can smell the sorrow on your breath
the sweat, the victory and sorrow,
the smell of fear. i got it."
-e-bow the letter-
DAMN SON.
x,
-h.
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EricBasic Member Posts:179
7/28/2004 11:59 AM |
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A few favs of mine:
Tom Waits
Heart of Saturday Night
‘Maxwell eyes,
Marmalade thighs and Scrambled yellow hair’
Red House Painters
Rollercoaster
‘Theres the sun going down reminding me I’ll never be able to relive this day except in memories’
Pavement
folk jam
Well pardon my birth i just slipped out
origins i can't brag about.
spawn of a bank inquisitor
And theives i wish.’
Lyle Lovett
Skinny legs
‘See that boy with that guitar
He's got skinny legs like I always wanted
A girlfreind in his car 'cause he's got
Skinny legs like I always wanted
Sister look at me again
You'd love me if I were as skinny as him’
Sonja
Man I need to impress her
'Cause I'd like to undress her
I need a song about Sonja
When I'm singing tonight
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eyeballkidNew Member Posts:51
7/30/2004 1:01 AM |
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You'll have to excuse me if you don't find Eminem funny but "Will Smith don't have to cuss to sell records/but I do so f**k him and f**k you to" always makes me chuckle.
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7/30/2004 7:21 AM |
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ALways loved Incubus:The Warmth. Any time you might feel a bit down
"Don't let the world bring you down
Not everyone here is that f**ked up and cold"
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jimbostarNew Member Posts:1
11/8/2005 11:44 PM |
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Stop talking crap, if u really want to see some nice lyrics searc any of "Joaquin Sabina" for example "Cerrado por derribo", "Ruido" or "Ahora que"
P.D. Air hostess?? what kinda crap is that?
P.D. You need to know some Spanish if you want to understand Joaquin Sabina's songs
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
11/9/2005 12:28 AM |
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we did stop talking crap, in July 2004! (well OK, I personally have spouted a lot more crap on different threads since)
Wow, talk about a blast from the past! this is a real "Golden Oldie" thread, not that theres anything wrong with resurrecting old threads if you've got something interesting to add of course....
Anyway Jimbostar, welcome to Cluas.
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NomingtonNew Member Posts:81
11/9/2005 4:57 AM |
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Death Cab... poets
Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound
But while you debate half empty or half full
It slowly rises, your love is gonna drown
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DaraghAdvanced Member Posts:666
11/9/2005 8:43 AM |
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"half the people can be part right all the time,
some of the people can be all right some of the time,
but all the people cant be all right all the time,
i think abraham lincoln said that,
ill let you be in my dream if i can be in yours,
i said that!"
Bob Dylan - talkin world war iii blues
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vile niallNew Member Posts:9
11/9/2005 11:29 AM |
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Hard to get past Tom Waits 'Martha' for a 'lost love' type theme.
Some of my other favourites are...
"Soldier boy, made of clay, now an empty shell.
twenty-one, only son but he served us well.
bred to kill, not to care, do just as we say.
Finished here, greetings death, he's yours to take away" -Disposable Heroes by Metallica
"She's the main man in the office in the city
and she treats me like I'm just another lackey.
But I can put a tennis racket up against my face
and pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki" -Everythings AOR by Half Man Half Biscuit
"I kicked off my sackcloth, threw away my jostick,
burned my koran and said I was agnostic,
I mean an atheist I cried as they moved in for the kill,
the walls tumbled down as they handed me the bill" -Religious Persuasion by Andy White
"The people from your church agree it's not much of a career,
trying the handles of parked cars -whoops there goes another year
-whoops there goes another pint of beer," Greetings to the New Brunette by Billy Bragg
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
11/9/2005 2:11 PM |
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I really want this to be the first song my new band ever plays live. I think it'd be funny. Opening with covers is lame though.
"lock me in
tied to work
splitting rocks
cutting diamonds
100 days
with no pay
not anymore
cause I'm caught
I can't type
I can't temp
I'm way past college
no ways out
no back doors not anymore
but then once a while
we'll play a show then that makes it worthwhile
our sights set low
as jerry squares off the set - here we go
but...this boy is exhausted
8 years long
a single song
come to this
triple guessing
double down
a v.p.'s faith is one single long
cause I can't write
what I know - it's not worth writing
I can't tell
a hit from hell
from one sing-along
but then greg plugs in
a treble checking that says we might win
hell's henry pearls
the woven strap wins the galloway girls but....
but then kev jumps in
and hits the floor as the stick hits the rim
I guess we're done
cause every win on this record's hard won but...."
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
11/9/2005 2:13 PM |
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Also about the only lyric that can top vile niall's suggestion for a lost love song:
not yet 21 - with introductions done - a first slow dance just ends.
I was at my best - we ignored the rest (my band and your friends).
But as better night became best day we left the party while last records played.
What started as dessert back at your house ended on the couch...
hours at your mouth...sunday's on our hands. We followed where it led.
I followed you to bed. We started secret plans.
Forward 7 months: I've only seen you once...I never call on time.
Trying to seem tough, I said one visit's enough - enough to keep you mine (of course it wasn't...)
We were done by june. You'd graduate and leave for london soon.
Your layover at newark's near my house. We met for dinner there...
just one hour to spare - your 20's all mapped out. I'm in my driest drought
feeling old and shot and how.
And this is what I thought: I seem to still be caught...
I'm a footnote at best...I envy who comes next...wish we could just make out.
'The hour's almost up', you said into your cup. And it makes no difference now, as I help lift your bags out, that I'm lost and out of rope while on my wrist you wrote your newest number down.
I kind of said your name but you'd turned to your plane so I backed my car out.
I knew we'd never write (somehow that seemed all right) but this counts as calling three years out.
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DaraghAdvanced Member Posts:666
11/9/2005 7:57 PM |
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unicron - who wrote that tune?
quality lyrics, would like to get my hands on it
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
11/9/2005 9:34 PM |
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Daragh, last 2 were were both by the wrens, This Boy Is Exhausted and 13 months in 6 minutes, both taken from their album the Meadowlands.
Charles Bissell from the band is quite possibly my favourite lyricist ever, recommended furthur reading:
fourth floor room
each girl I've brought back home to bloom
all fold on close inspection
each one leaves a banner hanging from the eaves
marking the eve of election
ex-girl collection
why/ into why not
into what else you got?
it's just how men mark time ann slams in
another lightening round begins
this could get interesting
where's ann been?
she pours herself a don't-ask gin
no ice and light on the bitters
I'm done with quitters
'why / charles, I found out
wipe that smile off your mouth
I think it's tell-me time...'
britt hit hard
she found my box of beth's best cards
hand cut and signed with 'x's
called at work
'happy anniversary, jerk'
and I just laughed at the timing with you on hold line 2 still crying 'why
play sex on the cuff?
does beth like it rough?
and learn your dirty lines?
and keep her hair cropped
(the other shoe dropped)
'is this how men mark time in couples?', she cursed
(this sounds too rehearsed)
as ann, hand on hip, accusing me to the rafters
the words turn and spit and scorch right through to the plaster
I'm called 10 kinds of a bastard
curses came faster
why / into why not?
into charles gone to pot
in hotter water
line up to lift up a toast
to the ones I hurt most
and how the well's gone lime
with charles on the plow
I'm roger over and how
slower now men mark time
fine
why, what else you got?
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jaypersNew Member Posts:95
11/10/2005 11:08 AM |
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"I watched the A-team and Airwolf too,
before i found drugs and started sniffin glue"
GLC
Classic stuff!
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Tandem FelixNew Member Posts:2
11/10/2005 3:04 PM |
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for me it has to be the emotional rollercoaster experienced by lump,
Lump lingered last in line for brains
And the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane
Small thing’s so sad that birds could land
Is lump fast asleep or rockin’ out with the band
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11/11/2005 10:31 AM |
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John GOrka's "Silence"
I met her in the summertime when her arms
Were the color of silence
So blue her eyes
A new horizon
So I walked that way
And I talked that way too
And I found my way through
To her silence,
To her silence,
My heart was full of bitterness so dark
And so close to violence
The ace of spades
Turned upside down
Nothing beat in my hopeless chest
I could not detect a sound
But she would not let me rest
Bound to my silence,
Bound to my silence,
Love came unexpectedly, late to the bill
An added attraction
The way it goes, the way it stays
And when she is far away
Still I feel her here
Ever since she made the day
And the lonely man disappear
Into that silence,
Into that silence,
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Rev JulesVeteran Member Posts:1041
11/11/2005 5:52 PM |
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"B.J. the D.J.
Only twenty-four
A wreck at ninety miles an hour
He'll spin the hits no more"
I heard a version done by Big Tom where he sang...
"B.J. the D.J.
took too many risks
B.J. the D.J.
has spun his final disc"
Eat your heart out Bob Dylan
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