Song Lyrics You Love!!!

[chickenism]

Okay I will get it started with two of mine:

Where Is My Mind? - Pixies

Stop
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
Where is my mind? Where is my mind? Where is my mind?
Way out in the water, see it swimming
I was swimming in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rock
Except for little fish
When they told me east is west trying to talk to me, coy koi
Where is my mind? Where is my mind? Where is my mind?
Way out in the water, see it swimming
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
Where is my mind? Where is my mind? Where is my mind?
Way out in the water, see it swimming
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah


&


Nothing Compares 2U - Sinnead O'Connor

It's been seven hours + fifteen days
since u took your love away
I go out every night + sleep all day
since u took your love away
since u been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
but nothing
I said nothing can take away these blues,
'cos nothing compares
nothing compares 2 u

it's been so lonely without u here
like a bird without a song
nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
tell me baby where did I go wrong
I could put my arms around every boy I see
but they'd only remind me of you
I went to the doctor guess what he told me
guess what he told me
he said girl u better have fun
no matter what u do
but he's a fool
'cos nothing compares
nothing compares 2 u

all the flowers that u planted mama
in the back yard
all died when u went away
I know that living with u baby was sometimes hard
but I'm willing to give it another try
'cos nothing compares
nothing compares 2 u

[babooshka]

Everybody's doin' a brand new dance now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
I know you'll get to like it
If you give it a chance now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
My little baby sister can do it with ease
It's easier than learning your a b c's
So come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips now
Come on baby, jump up, hmmm jump back
Oh well I think you got the knack

Now that you can do it
Let's make a chain now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
Chug-a chug-a motion like a railway train now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
Do it nice and easy now don't lose control
A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul
So come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now
Come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
Yeah

Move around the floor in a loco-motion
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
Do it holding hands if you got the notion
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
There's never been a dance that's so easy to do
It even makes you happy
When you're feeling blue
So come on come on do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now

Come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
Yeah
Come on, come on,
Do the loco-motion with me
You gotta swing your hips now




Bob Dylan eat your heart out.

[Meg]

I don't think much about the lyrics. I think they are secondary to the music.

[Test Card Girl]

I think the lyrics are very important! A good song is thoughtful or emotional lyrics combined well with a good melody and arrangement.

[chickenism]

Meg said:

I don't think much about the lyrics. I think they are secondary to the music.

Come on Meg, lyrics make a good song!!

[Meg]

Lyrics make a good poem. They also make music easier to remember and of course you need lyrics in order to sing.

I will conceed that bad lyrics can be ruinous, particularly if they are repetitive or inane.

[Test Card Girl]

Bob Dylan has to be my favourite lyricist. His imagery, the stories he tells etc Loads of examples - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, Like a Rolling Stone, Idiot Wind, Tangled Up in Blue, The Hurricane. The lyrics stand by themselves but I prefer to think of these songs with their music and the way he sings them as well.

[4213]

Song lyrics have a huge influence on me. I do see it as poetry.

I post them all the time, depending on what I'm feeling.

[Test Card Girl]

4213 said:

I post them all the time, depending on what I'm feeling.

Yep, I've noticed! ;D
Also, I find that the music helps trigger my memory to remember the lyrics.

[4213]

Fyrrn said:

Yep, I've noticed! ;D
Also, I find that the music helps trigger my memory to remember the lyrics.

;D

You've only seen the 'naughty' side of my lyric posting lately.

Song lyrics can make me cry, and quite often do.
They sing your life sometimes.

[Test Card Girl]

4213 said:

Song lyrics can make me cry, and quite often do.
They sing your life sometimes.

Those are the ones that grab you - like when you're going through something and you hear a song that expresses exactly how you're feeling and why.

[4213]

Fyrrn said:

Those are the ones that grab you - like when you're going through something and you hear a song that expresses exactly how you're feeling and why.

They can catch you off guard however, like on your way to work. I have to put on a rock song to change my mood.

[mangosquarepantz]

Westlife - Flying Without Wings

Everybody's looking for that something
One thing that makes it all complete
You'll find it in the strangest places
Places you never knew it could be

Some find it in the face of their children
Some find it in their lovers eyes
Who can deny the joy it brings
When you've found that special thing
You're flying without wings

Some find it sharing every morning
Some in their solitary lives
You'll find it in the words of others
A simple line can make you laugh or cry

You find it in the deepest friendship
The kind you cherish all your life
And when you know how much that means
You've found that special thing
You're flying without wings

So impossible as they may seem
You've got to fight for every dream
Cos who's to know which one you let go
Would have made you complete

Well for me it's waking up beside you
To watch the sun rise on your face
To know that I can say I love you
at any given time or place

It's little things that only I know
Those are the things that make you mine
And it's like flying without wings
Cos you're my special thing
I'm flying without wings

And you're the place my life begins
And you'll be where it ends
I'm flying without wings
And that's the joy you bring
I'm flying without wings

[Young Larry]

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

My hands are tied
My body bruised, she's got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you


- U2, With or Without You

love that song to death

Your knives are sharp
When you put them in my heart
Though the truth, you'd say,
Is I like them there that way

From this hoodlum skin
I can always run to him
Undeserved, capsized
In the gutters of his eyes

Darling I need you far more than I say
None of my fears are as dear to me

And a great light dims
Every day I'm torn from him
And our stars align
In Elysian Fields at night
And the wheels, they turn
And the fallen heather burns
At a loss and scared
In exile and unprepared

Darling I need you far more than I say
None of my fears are as dear to me

Blessed's the night
Blessed's the night
Blessed's the night

When none of my fears are as dear to me

- The Veils, Wild Son

[Test Card Girl]

I LOVE With of Without You!!!!!!!!I don't think the lyrics of that song is among their best - with regards to lyrics, I prefer Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For on that album. But With or Without You is so anthemic I just love it.