tobeornot221b wrote:

Mattlocked wrote:

Why didn't you say that? We could have listened to him the whole night!!

Maybe we were kind of distracted by other guys?

By whom? I have no idea. 

I like a lot of Priscilla Ahn's music....it's either because of the lyrics or because I can actually sing with her voice.  Either way, my favourite by her is a collaboration with William Fitzimmons called I Don't Feel It Anymore:
I've worked for so long just to see you mess around
What you've done,
what you've done,
what you've done
I want back the years that you took when I was young
I was young,
I was young,
but it's done

We'll fall just like stars being hung by only string
Everything, everything, here is gone
No map can direct how to ever make it home

This was my theme song for three weeks straight after a friend of mine started ignoring me after taking my entire summer.

Last edited by horserider99 (November 14, 2012 11:05 pm)

Davina wrote:

I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march

Leonard Cohen, again, Allelujah this time.

Wow, I almost posted that myself! All time classic, that song.


And Quiteextraordinary's post reminded me of another great Bruce Springsteen quote:

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?

Actually, I used to mishear that third line, and for a long time I tought it went "is it a dream alive, that won't come true...". I know now that it's wrong, but I still like "my" words too 

I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never, ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes


Porcupine Tree, Blackest Eyes

Mattlocked wrote:

I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never, ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes


Porcupine Tree, Blackest Eyes

Oh, I didn't know that song before. Just listened to it on YouTube. It's beautiful.

QuiteExtraordinary wrote:

Mattlocked wrote:

I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never, ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes


Porcupine Tree, Blackest Eyes

Oh, I didn't know that song before. Just listened to it on YouTube. It's beautiful.

Yes. It's weird. But I love it!

Gosh there are so many great lyrics, but I'm currently spinning an obscure song, from the soundtrack of an old 80's movie that like 3 people saw, me being one of them.

I've got a dream when the darkness is over
We'll be lyin' in the rays of the sun
But it's only a dream and tonight is for real
You'll never know what it means
But you'll know how it feels

I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes
I was hoping for a replacement
When the sun burst through the sky.

Neil Young 'After the Goldrush'.

QuiteExtraordinary wrote:

harleyq wrote:

Gosh there are so many great lyrics, but I'm currently spinning an obscure song, from the soundtrack of an old 80's movie that like 3 people saw, me being one of them.

I've got a dream when the darkness is over
We'll be lyin' in the rays of the sun
But it's only a dream and tonight is for real
You'll never know what it means
But you'll know how it feels

Nice. I just looked it up and it took me to a song called "Tonight is what it means to be young". I had never heard that one before, but I like it. This thread is a little treasure chest.

That's so cool that you looked it up and liked it! Jim Steinman, of Bat Out Of Hell fame, wrote it and he's one of my favorite songwriters. And, you're right, this thread is a neat place to find music. 

Some of my favourite lines:

"Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind, possessing and caressing me"
Beatles - Across the Universe

"I've looked at clouds from both sides now, from win and lose, and still somehow it's love's illusions I recall, I really don't know love at all"
Joni Mitchell - Both sides now

"The first time I saw you, I knew it would never last. I'm not half what I wish I was. I'm so angry now, I don't think it will ever pass. And I was bad news for you, just because... I never meant to hurt you."
Elliott Smith - Pitseleh

"I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul"
Bob Dylan - Don't think twice, it's alright

"Close your eyes and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you"
Morrissey - Let me kiss you

"And if a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die"
The Smiths - There's a light that never goes out

"A heart that’s left at home becomes a heart of stone”
New Order – Lonesome tonight

“Hello there, the angel from my nightmares, the shadow in the background of the morgue”
Blink 182 – Miss you

“And like a weary fox, I need a place to hide”
Manfred Mann – Fox on the run

“Into the night as the stars collide, into the frontiers that divide forests of stone standing petrified to be by your side.”
Nick Cave – To be by your side

“And I wanted to be there with you, for I can only be normal with you.”
Gene – Olympian

“Et au bout du chemin, dis-moi ce qu’il va rester, de notre petit passage dans ce monde éffrené? Après avoir existé pour gagner du temps, on se dira que l’on était finalement des étoiles filantes.”
(And at the end of the way, tell me what will remain of our little stay in that frantic world? After having existed to gain time, we’ll realise that we’re finally just shooting stars)
Les cowboys fringants – Les étoiles filantes

“The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had.”
Tears for fears – Mad world

"They hate you if you're clever, and they despise a fool, till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules"
John Lennon - Working class hero

"And in her eyes, you see nothing. No sign of love behind the tears. Cried for no one. A love that should have lasted years."
The Beatles - For no one

And then there's that song by Don McLean that I've always loved but that I now can't listen to without breaking down. It's about Van Gogh's insanity and suicide. Now it reminds me so much of my husband who suffered from a paranoid illness and killed himself last summer. It's too beautiful to pick just one line... So here's the whole lyrics:

VINCENT

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant
For one as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
A silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will