Yikes! Back to school has begun, and is it ever chaotic. Meetings, lesson plans, sylabi, more meetings. planning sessions, auditions, rehearsals...did I mention MEETINGS????
It's times like these that the Boss's lyric (from above) really hits home to me. Things ARE nutty right now. Not just for me, but the wife too. She's planing a HS reunion (to take place in West Tennessee, no less. These things are no fun, especially long distance) and ...oh by the way... she's pregnant too! There's also a ton of other crapola that I won;t bore you with in blog-land. Suffice it to say that if those dogs DO get it, I feel for 'em!
Anyhoo- enough about me. Here's a nice, non-taxing question for your posting pleasure. What are you top five favorite song lyrics of ALL TIME????
Easy one, no? Lemmee hear ya...
Here's one of my favs:
ReplyDeleteSing a song of sad young men,
Glasses full of rye;
All the news is bad again,
Kiss your dreams good-bye.
All the sad young men
Sitting in the bars,
Knowng neon lights,
Missing all the stars.
All the sad young men,
Drifting through the town,
Drinking up the night,
Trying not to drown.
All the sad young men
Singing in the cold,
Trying to forget
that they're growing old;
All the sad young men
Choking on their youth;
Trying to be brave,
Running from the truth.
Autumn turns the leaves to gold,
Slowly dies the heart;
Sad young men are growing old,
That's the saddest part.
All the sad yound men
Seek a certain smile,
Someone they can hold
For a little while.
Tired little girl
Does the best she can,
Trying to be gay
For a sad young man.
While a grimey moon
Watches from above,
All the sad young men
Play at making love;
Misbegotten moon,
Shine for sad young men
Let your gentle light
Guide them home again,
All the sad young men.
Pogue
Here's another, by Cole Porter:
ReplyDeleteI am dejected,
I am depressed,
Yet ressurected
And sailing the crest.
Why this elation,
Mixed with deflation?
What explanation?
I am in love!
Such conflicting questions ride
Around in my brain,
Should I order cyanide
Or order champagne?
Oh, what is this sudden jolt?
I feel like a frightened colt,
Just hit by a thunderbolt,
I am in love!
I knew the odds
Were against me before.
I had no flair for flaming desire.
But since the gods
Gave me you to adore,
I may lose
But I refuse to fight the fire!
So come and enlighten my days
And never depart.
You only can brighten the blaze
That burns in my heart
For I am wildly in love with you,
And so in need of
A stampede of
Love!
"I had no flair for flaming desire", "you only can brighten the blaze that burns in my heart"...very smooth stuff
Pogue
# 3, by Carolyn Leigh
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling that beneath the little halo on your noble head
There lies a thought or two the devil might be interested to know.
You're like the finish of a novel that I'll fin'lly have to take to bed,
You fascinate me so!
I feel like Christopher Columbus when I'm near enough to contemplate
The sweet geography descending from your eyebrow to your toe.
The possibilities are more than I can enumerate,
That's why you fascinate me so.
So sermonize and preach to me.
Make your sanctimonious little speech to me,
But oh, my darling, you'll forgive my inability to concentrate.
I think I'm dealing with a powder-keg that's just about to blow.
Will the end result deflate me,
Or will you annihilate me?
You fascinate me,
You aggravate me,
You irritate me,
You fascinate me so!
Pogue
Number #4 is by Amanda McBroom:
ReplyDeleteOPHELIA
There's rosemary -that for remembrance
There's pansies-that's for thought
There's fennel for you and columbine too
And rue
Standing in the river
Dress around your knees
Watching your reflection framed by willow trees
Promises and whispers calling on the breeze
Ophelia
Somewhere down the river
Someone waits for you
Locked inside a castle- haunting
You know it in your heart he feels the way you do
Waiting
Wanting
Deep inside your dreams he plays you like a drum
Calling up the memories of what is yet to come
If you knew the ending would you turn and run
Ophelia
Mother's words of wisdom fade away and dim
Covered by the magic
The song you write for him
As long as he will hold you you'll never learn to swim
Ophelia
All this flood of feelings
The happy and the sad
You feel your heart will surely burst
Love will bring you healing
Passion drive you mad
What will he offer first?
Will you be blessed or cursed?
Ophelia
There's rosemary- that's remembrance
And pansies- that's for thought
There's fennel for you and columbine too
And rue for you
And rue for me
Ophelia
Addendum to Ophelia:
ReplyDeleteI inadvertantly left out the second verse:
Floating out of childhood
Past the edge of young
All the strange emotions locked behind your tongue
Life is like a song that has not yet been sung
Ophelia
Last one, from Johnny Mercer:
ReplyDeleteYou're clear out of this world,
When I'm looking at you
I hear out of this world
The music that no mortal ever knew.
You're right out of a book,
The fairy tale I read when I was so high.
No armoured knight out of a book,
Was more enchanted by a Lorelei
Then I.
After waiting so long for the right time,
After reaching so long for a star,
All at once, from the long and lonely nighttime,
And despite time,
Here you are.
I'd cry out of this world
If you said we were through,
So let me fly out of this world
And spend the next eternity or two
With you.
That's my five.
Nicely done Chuck...
ReplyDelete...allthough I was perhaps refering to specific lyrics, as opposed to the whole song, but what the hell! Cyberspace is free!
all night diners
ReplyDeletekeep you up
with black coffee and a hard roll
- J. Brown
shut your f*****g mouth
- D. Whitley
I turned around and my baby was a bunny!!
- ???
more later
I get songwriting credit on the Whitley tune, thank you very much!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely number one:
ReplyDeleteI gave you a brand new ford
and you said "i want a Cadillac"
I bought you a ten dollar dinner
and you said "thanks for the snack"!
I let you live in my penthouse
you said it was just a shack!
I gave you seven children
and now you wanna to give 'em back!
-BB King
Number two:
I was there when they crucified my Lord
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword
I threw the dice when they pierced his side
But I've seen love conquer the great divide
-U2/BB King
Number 3:
He'd headed west cause he felt that a change would do him good
See some old friends, good for the soul
She had been born with a face
That would let her get her way
He saw that face and he lost all control
He had lost all control
Night after night
Day after day
It went on and on
Then came that morning he woke up alone
He spent all night staring down at the lights on LA
Wondering if he could ever go home
-Seger
Number 4:
His mama named him Clay, I'ma call him Clay
-Timbaland
Number 5:
Supposed to be super human
Cover everything
Just like a bird
Cover an egg with it's wing
And knowing there's nothing sacred
And what is the use
No point trying to find
What is worth, what is true
Not supposed to break down
You're not supposed to break down
Swallow the hurt Listen to the dirt
You'll be safe and sound
You're not supposed to break down
You're not supposed to break down
Swallow the hurt
Listen to the dirt
And you'll be safe and sound
-Van Morrison
jb
Ahhhh...thats what i appreciate about you honey....an easy question...who cares if Karl Rove is resigning, who wants to think about another disaster, and who cares about another fallen sports hero....it all comes back to MUSIC. You truly are my kind of man.
ReplyDelete1) "Im just an old lump of coal, but im gonna be a diamond some day"
-Billy Joe Shaver
2) "the clothes she wears, the sexy ways, Make an old man wish for younger days
She knows shes built and knows how to please, Sure enough to knock a grown man to his knees"
-Lionel Ritchie of the Commodores
3)"Something kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything.
What became of subtlety?
How can it mean anything to me
If I really don't feel anything at all? "
-Maynard James Keenan
4)"I went to a party last Saturday night, I didn't get laid, I got in a fight"
-Lita Ford
5) "Bip, bomp, bam alakazam
But only when you're grooving
With the Double Dutch Man"
-Frankie Smith
#1
ReplyDeleteThree little birds, sat on my window.And they told me I don't need to worry.Summer came like cinnamon So sweet,Little girls double-dutch on the concrete.
Maybe sometimes, we've got it wrong, but it's alright
The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same
Oh, don't you hesitate.
Girl, put your records on, tell me your favourite song
You go ahead, let your hair down
Sapphire and faded jeans, I hope you get your dreams,
Just go ahead, let your hair down.
You're gonna find yourself somewhere, somehow.
Blue as the sky, sunburnt and lonely, Sipping tea in the bar by the roadside, just relax..
Don't you let those other boys fool you, Got to love that afro hair do.
Maybe sometimes, we feel afraid, but it's alright...The more you stay the same, the more they seem to change...Don't you think it's strange?
'Twas more than I could take, pity for pity's sake ..Some nights kept me awake, I thought that I was stronger..When you gonna realise, that you don't even have to try any longer? Do what you want to.
Corinne Bailey Rae Lyrics
#2
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there..Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong, Young people speaking their minds..Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
Paranoia strikes deep...Into your life it will creep....It starts when you're always afraid..You step out of line, the man come and take you away..
We better stop, hey, what's that sound...Everybody look what's going down..Stop, hey, what's that sound..
Buffalo Springfield lyrics
#3
Ooh-oo Child, things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo Child, things are gonna get brighter
Some day, we'll get it together and we'll get it all done
Some day, when your head is much lighter
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
The Five Stairsteps lyrics
#4
Still dont know what I was waiting for..And my time was running wild..
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought I'd got it made..It seemed the taste was not so sweet..So I turned myself to face me..But Ive never caught a glimpse..Of how the others must see the faker..Im much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Dont want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man..Time may change me
But I cant trace time
I watch the ripples change their size..But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence..So the days float through my eyes..But stil the days seem the same..And these children that you spit on..As they try to change their worlds..Are immune to your consultations.. They're quite aware of what they're going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Dont tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Wheres your shame
Youve left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you cant trace time
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Ah changes are taking the pace Im going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Oh, look out you rock n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now youre gonna get a little older..Time may change me
But I cant trace time..
I said that time may change me
But I cant trace time...
David Bowie lyrics
#5
If you need water
I'll be your river
Like a wave I will come over you
You need someone to fall into
I'll be your river
And my love will carry you through
You like the flame and you are drawn by desire
Watching and waiting in line for your turn
I've learned to walk with my back to the fire
I like the heat but I don't want to get burned
Here stands a fortress built with great walls of silence
Ready to crumble at the slightest word..Finding the right one is becoming a science..I'd like to scream but I ain't gonna be heard
What if all of these feelings
that we both buy into
melt away and disappear
If you need water
I'll be your river
Like a wave I will come over you
You need someone to fall into
I'll be your river
And my love will carry you through..
Cyndi Lauper/V. Green lyrics
Uhh...Thanks, honey...I think!
ReplyDeleteHere go mine!
1-
"The ones who love us best
are the ones we'll lay to rest
and visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones who love us least
are the ones we'll die to please
If it's any consolation
I don't begin to understand them"
REPLACEMENTS- Bastards of Young
2) "There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers
And I'm pulling out of here to win."
The Boss- Thunder Road
3) " Well I saw you today and realized
How I missed my peace of mind
I feel your breath in my ear
But late at night its you I always think about
That little girl inside of you I once knew
I should have known better
Still the smell of you was on my face
But you were too busy
To notice me last night"
Cheap Trick- I Can't Take it
4) 'Cause I shot a man in Reno
Just to watch him die
When I hear that train a blowing
I hang my head and cry
Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues
5)
"Her kindness bangs a gong
It's moving me along and Anna begins to fade away"
Anna Begins- COUNTING CROWS
Damn...there's hardly anything easy about this for me.... but let's see what i can whip up here:
ReplyDelete1. "Drag a salted kiss
From this cup of bliss
Watch a new lie twist on the breeze
You can paint it red
Leave it all for dead
But it's in my head always."
-David Gray
2."And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right?...Am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
MY GOD!...WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
-Talking Heads
3.
"I believe you’re toying with my affections, honey.
I can’t take it no more baby,
And furthermore, I don’t intend to.
I’m just tired of hanging from the end of a string, honey,
You expect me to fight like a goddamned mule."
-Janis Joplin
4."All the world just stopped now
So you say you don't wanna stay together anymore
Let me take a deep breath babe
If you need me
Me and Neil'll be hangin' out with the dream king
Neil says hi
By the way I don't believe you're leaving
Cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream
I think it's that girl
And I think they're pieces of me you've never seen
Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen."
-Tori Amos
5."going down the kitchen at the top of the stairs
can I mix in with your affairs
share a smoke, make a joke
grasp and reach for a leg of hope
words to memorize, words hypnotize
words make my mouth exercise
words all failed the magic prize
nothing I can say when I’m in your thighs"
-Violent Femmes
excellent choices Laurie!
ReplyDelete1- "Awww! Me so horny! AwAwww! Me so horny! AwAww! Me so horny! Me love you long time!"
ReplyDelete2-"Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do,
Sometimes won't know how to take him.
He ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him,
Do things to make you think he's right."
3- "Look here martian, I'm not sayin' this just 2 be nasty
I sincerely wanna fuck the taste outta your mouth
Can U relate?"
4-"Yeah, you'd better hire him on cuz he's better than the rest
He got the power in his heart and the dragons in his chest
Yeah."
I know that you don't understand
ReplyDeletethe fullness of My love
How I died upon the cross for your sins
And I know that you don't realize
how much that I gave you
But I promise, I would do it all again.
Just to be with you, I've done everything
There's no price I did not pay
Just to be with you, I gave everything
Yes, I gave my life away.
Love Song, Third Day
diva master, I think Scott Reed thought you could use some witnessin'...
ReplyDeleteHey no sweat- all viewpoints ae welcome here at the Clones...and believe me- Diva Master DOES need some witnessin'! :)
ReplyDeleteAwww! you so funny! AwAwww! you so funny..
ReplyDeleteWhich brings to mind an old Eric Clapton song.
ReplyDelete