Your personal favorite song lyrics of all time

[LMP]

You know what, LMP? If you dropped McCartney, put Freddie Mercury and Neil Young into slots three and four, moved Waters down to five...you'd have Roger's personal ranking of the best writers of all time. He's certainly not modest.

maybe we'll have something to talk about?

 

[elevation2u]

I almost went with that one...but I ended up taking another one from Cold Roses..."Meadowlake Street".

Meadowlake is beautiful, I like how the song builds up and creeps right under your skin. ..Then again, I love Cold Roses to bits, it's one of those few perfect, solid albums that gets better with each listen.

 

[FitzChivalry]

She has SO MANY great lyrics, and though it's not even my favorite Tori song, for some reason I really like:


In my platforms I hit the floor
Fell face down
Didnt help my brain out
Then the baby came before I found
The magic how to keep her happy
I never was the fantasy
Of what you want wanted me to be

Dont judge me so harsh little girl
So you got a playboy mommy
But when you tell em my name
And you want to cross that bridge all on your own
Little girl theyll do you no harm
Cause they know your playboy mommy
But when you tell em my name
From here to birmingham
I got a few friends

I never was there was there when it counts
I get my way
Youre so like me
You seemed ashamed
Ashamed that I was
A good friend of american soldiers
Ill say it loud here by your grave
Those angels cant ever take my place

Somewhere where the the orchids grow
I cant find those church bells
That played when you died
Played gloria
Talkin bout hosanah

Dont judge me so harsh little girl
You got a playboy mommy, come home
But when you tell them soldiers my name
Cross that bridge all on your own
Little girl theyll do you no harm
They know your playboy mommy
But Ill be home
Ill be home to take you in my arms

 

[Caroni]

I now noone will bother in reading this lyric, but rigth now, my favourite lyric is LUNA by Alessandro Safina (Spanish version):

(Only you can hear my soul, only you can hear my soul)

Luna tu
cuantos son los cantos que escuchaste ya
cuantas las palabras dichas para ti
que han surcado el cielo solo por gozar
una noche el puerto de tu soledad

Los amantes se refugian en tu luz
sumas los suspiros desde tu balcon
y enredas los hilos de nuestra pasion
luna que me miras ahora escuchame

(only you can hear my soul)

Luna tu,
sabes el secreto de la eternidad
y el misterio que hay detras de la verdad
guiame que a ti mi corazon te oye
me siento perdido y no se..

No se que hay amores
que destruyen corazones
como un fuego que todo lo puede abrazar

Luna tu,
alumbrando el cielo y su inmensidad
en tu cara oculta que misterio habra
todos escondemos siempre algun perfil

Somos corazones bajo el temporal
angeles de barro que deshace el mar
sueos que el otoo desvanecera
hijos de esta tierra envuelta por tu luz
hijos que en la noche vuelven a dudar

Que hay amores
que destruyen corazones
como el fuego que todo lo puede abrazar
Pero hay amores
dueos de nuestras pasiones
que es la fuerza que al mundo
siempre hara girar

(only you can hear my soul)

 

[BonosSaint]

"Down By The River"

Be on my side,
I'll be on your side,
baby
There is no reason
for you to hide
It's so hard for me
staying here all alone
When you could be
taking me for a ride.

Yeah, she could drag me
over the rainbow,
send me away
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot her dead.

You take my hand,
I'll take your hand
Together we may get away
This much madness
is too much sorrow
It's impossible
to make it today.

Yeah, she could drag me
over the rainbow,
send me away
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot her dead.

Be on my side,
I'll be on your side,
baby
There is no reason
for you to hide
It's so hard for me
staying here all alone
When you could be
taking me for a ride.

Yeah, she could drag me
over the rainbow,
send me away
Down by the river
I shot my baby
Down by the river,
Dead, oh, shot her dead.


The lyrics are sparse and haunting--conjures up images of fear and anger, love, passion and trust and betrayel. You can go so many directions with this song.

 

[JanuaryStar]

At the moment, I personally find a lot of strength in these lyrics by Tears for Fears. Besides, I find it a great song The song's called 'Break It Down Again':

"Break it down again

So those are my dreams
And these are my eyes
Stand tall like a man
Head a strong like a horse

When it's all mixed up
Better break it down
In the world of secrets
In the world of sound

It's in the way you're always hiding from the light
See for yourself you have been sitting on a time bomb
No revolution maybe someone somewhere else
Could show you something new about you and your inner song
And all the love and all the love in the world
Won't stop the rain from falling
Waste seeping underground
I want to break it down

Break it down again

So those are my schemes
And these are my plans
Hot tips for the boys
Fresh news from the force

When it's all mixed up
Better break it down
In the world of silence
In the world of sound

'No sleep for dreaming' say the architects of life
Big bouncing babies, bread and butter can I have a slice
They make no mention of the beauty of decay
Blue, yellow, pink umbrella save it for a rainy day
And all the love and all the love in the world
Won't stop the rain from falling
Waste seeping underground
I want to break it down

Horsin' around
Pray to power
Play to the crowd with your big hit sound
And they won't simmer won't simmer, won't simmer down
Play to the crowd
Play to the crowd
Play yeah yeah

It's in the way you're always hiding from the light
Fast off to heaven just like Moses on a motorbike
No revolution maybe someone somewhere else
Could show you something new to help
With the ups and downs
I want to break it down
Break it down again

Break it down again
No more sleepy dreaming
No more building up
It is time to dissolve
Break it down it again
No more sleepy dreaming"


This song is, as so many other songs, open to many interpretations. But what I get out of it is that people shouldn't build up their emotions over and over again, but just break them down... "Break it down again, no more sleepy dreaming. No more building up, it is time to dissolve" clearly shows this. Also, these lyrics show that you shouldn't be afraid of life and you just have to 'jump on the rollercoaster'. "It's in the way you're always hiding from the light, see for yourself you have been sitting on a time bomb. No revolution maybe someone somewhere else, could show you something new about you and your inner song" show this. But, like I said, other people may have different interpretations

 

[Zoots]

Dont judge me so harsh little girl
So you got a playboy mommy

I love that song!

At the moment, I personally find a lot of strength in these lyrics by Tears for Fears. Besides, I find it a great song The song's called 'Break It Down Again'

1993 nostalgia!

 

[OnFire]

I haven't read all the posts but nothing can beat this unreleased gem:

Pnemonia Celings:
Dylan/Lennon/McCartney

Words and phrases right
Cigarette ash keeps me up all night
How come your mamma types so fast?
Is daddy's flag flyin at half-mast?
Pnumonia celings, pnumonia floors
Daddy aint gonna take it no more
Elephant guns blazing in my ears
I'm sick and tired of your applesauce tears!
Thermometers don't tell time no more
Since aunt mimi pushed them off the 20th floor
So say goodbye to skyscrapers
You'll read about it in the evening paper
I picked my nose and I'm glad I did

The story behind this collaboration is here, http://expectingrain.com/dok/int/pneumonia.html

 

[Billy Rotten]

"Wish you Were Here" - Pink Floyd

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?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And 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.

....so sad, so desolate. Gotta be my favourite song

 

[elevation2u]

i almost forgot Brian Eno's By This River
beautiful, haunting & flawless

Here we are
Stuck by this river,
You and I
Underneath a sky that's ever falling down, down, down
Ever falling down.

Through the day
As if on an ocean
Waiting here,
Always failing to remember why we came, came, came:
I wonder why we came.

You talk to me
as if from a distance
And I reply
With impressions chosen from another time, time, time,
From another time.

 

[JanuaryStar]

1993 nostalgia!

"Elemental", eh?

"Wish you Were Here" - Pink Floyd

....so sad, so desolate. Gotta be my favourite song

Great song, great lyrics

 

[blueeyedgirl]

Billy Bragg So many to choose from, here's a personal fave:

You and I are victims of a love
That lost a lot in the translation
When I think of all the time that I spent
Sitting on the end of your bed in anticipation
Of you giving in and us living in sin


A hot day, the smell of hairspray
And the sound of a shower running softly
It's things like this that remind me how I felt
The first time you came back for coffee
The way you took it amazed me


Walking in the park, kissing in the dark
And my head against your pillow
And late at night a lover sings
Adam and Eve are finding out all about love
I say Adam and Eve are finding out all about love


There is no real substitute
For a ball struck squarely and firmly
And you're the kind of girl who wants to
Open up the bottle of pop too early in the journey
Our love went flat, just like that


It doesn't matter the colour of the car
But what goes on beneath the bonnet
Is there a flag that flies above your heart
And is my name writ there upon it
Wedding cake and toothache, equals love and pain


Walking in the park, kissing on the carpet
And your tights around your ankles
And late at night a lover thinks of these things
Adam and Eve are finding out all about love
I say Adam and Eve are finding out all about love
Adam and Eve are finding out all about
Adam and Eve are finding out all about
Teresa and Steve are finding out all about love

 

[blueeyedgirl]

And...

It's bad timing and me
We find a lot of things out this way
And there's you
A little black cloud in a dress
The temptation
To take the precious things we have apart
To see how they work
Must be resisted for they never fit together again
If this is rain let it fall on me and drown me
If these are tears let them fall

Must I paint you a picture
About the way that I feel
You know my love for you is strong, girl
You know my love for you is real

It took a short walk and a talk
To change the rules of engagement
While you searched frantically for reverse
And them claiming that virtue never tested is no virtue at all
And so I lost my ignorance
And now the bells across the river chime out your name
I look across to them again

All your friends said come down
It will never fly
And on that imperfect day
We threw it all away
Crisis after crisis, with such intensity
This would never happen if we lived by the sea

Most important decisions in life
Are made between two people in bed
I found that out at my expense
And when I see you
You just turn around and walk away like we never met
Oh, we used to be so brave
I dreamt the world stopped turning as we climbed the hill
I dreamt impossible dreams that we were lovers still

 

[Caroni]

At the moment, I personally find a lot of strength in these lyrics by Tears for Fears. Besides, I find it a great song The song's called 'Break It Down Again':

I love that SONG!!!!!!!

*Running to listen*

 

[blueeyedgirl]

Tim Rogers of You Am I should be world famous, the campaign starts here:

Been watching so much TV
I'm thinner than I should be
I'm like a waterlogged ball
That no-one wants to kick around anymore
An all day morning hair-do
That no comb can get through
It's all granola and beer
A calling card and a silk cut souvenir
I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning when it starts
I don't look so good
Now I got a heavy heart

I talk a lot about football
And girls I kissed in Grade 4
I piss off my friends
And digging a hole just staring at the floor
Now every t-shirt's got a wine stain
I'm loving cigarettes again
I know every tune about guys and girls
and hurts and hearts and moans

I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning when it starts
I don't look so sharp
Now I got a heavy heart

It's just a low rent paying, palpitating pulp under my shirt
But there's a weight that's sitting
Oh God it hurts
Oh God it hurts

Been watching so much TV
I'm thinner than I should be
I'm like a waterlogged ball
That no-one wants to kick around anymore

I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning when it starts
Oh my heavy heart

 

[blueeyedgirl]

More Tim:

To get up the bond for an inner west flat
He'd work for anybody if he wasn't working for her dad.
She' practicing saying I do or I will
'cause she don't know how to tell him that she's going off the pill.
Her curtains are for certain that he'll talk about her ass
But she clings to his photo like a piece of broken glass.
We can't get it together today.
She's looking for his heart while he stares the other way.
He's dad is a nut, he's ex-girl is a slut.
But he'll be yours forever if you just get it together.
If we can't get it together, if we can't get it together
Is it ever gonna be just you and me?

So they met on Tuesday at the town hall steps
To get an eight by ten photo and a wedding date set.
We might as well do it next week
'cause we've met everybody that we're ever gonna meet.

He's dad is a nut, he's ex-girl is a slut
But he'll be yours forever if you just get it together.
If we can't get it together, if we can't get it together
Is it ever gonna be just you and me?

Four seventy to Circular Quay.
A present in your pocket for the TAB

If we can't get it together, if we can't get it together
Is it ever gonna be just you and me?

Would you settle for a mobile home
A good record store and a public phone

If we can't get it together, if we can't get it together

 

[Bluer White]

I seem to recognize your face
Haunting, familiar yet, I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x)

I swear I recognize your breath
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising
me, you wouldnt recall, for I'm not my former
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream...Hello...
My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are, and here I am
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...

Hearts and thoughts they fade......


Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - Vedder

 

[FitzChivalry]

We've all pretty much already admitted his greatness; I really like this one:

I'll take the position
Assume the missionary part
You work by committee,
You had me pegged from the start.
I'll be pounce pony,
Phony maroney,
Pony before the cart.
I'll be pounce pony,
This ceremony
Only fills my heart.

Who cast the final stone?
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to take the fall
Why not me?

A punch toy volunteer
A weakling on its knee.
Is all you want to hear
And all you want to see.
Romantically you'd martyr me
And miss this story's point
It is my strength, my destiny
This is the role that I have chosen.

Who cast the final stone?
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to take the fall
Why not me?
Why not me?

Gentlemen mark your opponents
Fire into your own ranks.
Pick the weakest as strategic
Move. Square off. To meet your enemy.
For each and every gathering
A scapegoat falls to climb.
As I step forward, silently.
Deliberately mine

Who cast the final stone?
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to take the fall
Why not me? Why not me.
Had consequence chose differently
Had fate its ugly head
My actions make me beautiful
And dignify the flesh

Me. I am free. Free.

 

[Chris Martin]

When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?


Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you


High up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down on your face
And I

Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down on your face
And I


Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

 

[Lancemc]

Chris Martin.

 

[angelordevil]

Hearts and thoughts they fade......

Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - Vedder

It was so incredible when PJ began their second show here in Newfoundland with Elderly Woman. It was basically a nod to how great a show they had the night before...I'll never forget it

Thom Yorke's lyrics are cryptic and crazy, and these might just be the best example of how honest they can be, as well. When they're matched with the music, Optimistic is a perfect example of everything that makes Radiohead great.

Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling my bed
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
Big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some

You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough

This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on animal farm

You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
I'd really like to help you man
I'd really like to help you man
Now this messed up millionaire
Flying off on a prison ship

You can try the best you can
You try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Dinosaurs roaming the earth
Dinosaurs roaming the earth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

 

[Zoots]

Who cast the final stone?
Who threw the crushing blow?
Someone has to take the fall
Why not me? Why not me.
Had consequence chose differently
Had fate its ugly head
My actions make me beautiful
And dignify the flesh

Me. I am free. Free. [/B]

Excellent choice!

I need to get Up on CD, only have it on cassette!

 

[angelordevil]

Just reading back, it's really donned on me: I think Michael Stipe is a much better writer than Eddie Vedder, yet I am moved more by his band's music than Michael's.

Very interesting.

 

[Night & Day]

Hurt: NIN

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
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear my crown of shit
on my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stain of time
the feeling disappears
you are someone else
I am still right here
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
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.

Footsteps: Pearl Jam

Don't even think about reaching me. I won't be home.
Don't even think about stopping by. Don't think of me at all.

I did a what I had to do. If there was a reason, it was you.

Aaah, don't even think about getting inside. Voices in my head. Ooh, voices.
I got scratches all over my arms. One for each day since I fell apart.

I did, oh, what I had to do. If there was a reason it was you.

Footsteps in the hall... It was you, you.
Oh, pictures on my chest... It was you. It was you...

I did a what I had to do. Oh, and if there was a reason... Oh, there wasn't no reason. no.
And if there's something you'd like to do. Oh, just let me continue to blame you.

A footsteps in the hall... It was you, you.
Oh, pictures on my chest... It was you, you. Oh



Lover, you should've come over:Jeff Buckley

Looking out the door I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water
And maybe I’m too young to keep good love from going wrong
But tonight you’re on my mind so you never know

When I’m broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it
Where are you tonight, child you know how much I need it
Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun
And much too blind to see the damage he’s done
Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one

So I’ll wait for you... and I’ll burn
Will I ever see your sweet return
Oh will I ever learn

Oh lover, you should’ve come over
’cause it’s not too late

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 will never 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

Well maybe I’m just too young
To keep good love from going wrong

Oh... lover, you should’ve come over
’cause it’s not too late

Well I feel too young to hold on
And I’m much too old to break free and run
Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage I’ve done
Sweet lover, you should’ve come over
Oh, love well I’m waiting for you

Lover, you should’ve come over
’cause it’s not too late.

And of course:

Night & Day: Cole Porter as performed by U2

The tom-tom when the jungle shadows fall
Like the tick tick tock of the eye of the clock
You're standing up against the wall
Like the drip drip drip of the rain drops
When the sun shines through
So a voice within me
Keeps revealing you...you

Night and day
You are the one
Only you beneath the moon
And under the sun
Whether near to me or far
It's no matter, baby, where you are
I think of you
Night and day

Day and night
Why is it so
That this longing for you follows wherever I go
In the roaring traffic gloom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you
Night and day

Night and day
Under the hide of me
Though such a hungry yearning
Burning inside of me
This torment won't be through
'til you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night
Night and day

Night and day
Under the hide of me
Oh, such a hungry yearning
Burning, burning inside of me
This torment won't be through
'til you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night
Night and day

Night and day
Night and day
Night and day
Night, night, night and day
Night and day
Night, night and day
Night and day.

Of course these are all opinions of mine.
They may not be the 'greatest lyrics' but they mean the world to me.
They have pulled me through some of the darkest times of my life.

 

[girlhappy]

Anone knows, by any chance, lyrics of the song Nothing hurts like your beauty by Bush?

Sorry, it is called Nothing hurts like your mouth. Well...i dont know why i remember this one

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I need to get Up on CD, only have it on cassette!

What is this...cassette?

Anone knows, by any chance, lyrics of the song Nothing hurts like your beauty by Bush?

No, but if you hum a few bars I'm sure I can fake it...

I'm glad you resurrected this thread though; I remembered another one of my favorites, No Regrets. Bono used a snippet in SYCMIOYO live.

It's credited to Tom Rush or Emmylou Harris, not sure who the original author is...

No Regrets

I know your leavin's too long overdue
For far too long I've had nothin' new to show to you
Goodbye dry eyes I watched your plane
Fade off west of the moon
And it felt so strange to walk away alone

No regrets, no tears goodbye
Don't want you back, we'd only cry, again
Say goodbye, again

The hours that were yours, echo like empty rooms
The thoughts we used to share, I now keep alone
I woke last night and spoke to you,
not thinking you were gone
It felt so strange to lie awake, alone

No regrets, no tears goodbye
Don't want you back, we'd only cry, again
Say goodbye, again

Our friends have tried to turn my nights to day
Strange faces in your place can't keep the ghosts away
Just beyond the darkest hour, just behind the dawn
Still feels so strange to lead my life, alone

I've no regrets, no tears goodbye
Don't want you back, we'd only cry, again
Say goodbye, again

 

[Zoots]

What is this...cassette?

I hope you are joking!

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I hope you are joking!

Of course, but I didn't know anyone other than my Dad who still listens to music on tape... Dude, that is so 1990...

Vinyl It makes everything sound better...