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Location: CA | With all due respect, Mr. Ovation's thread a few posts down about 'which artists you like' seemed a bit too galactic for meaningful comment. But one response inspired this idea: What is/are some of the most meaningful song lyrics that either stuck in your head or actually meant something in your life? Two of mine are:
Stuck in head: "Weird scenes inside the gold mine..." (Doors 'The End')
Actually mean something: "I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become . . ." (From Toto's 'Africa') |
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Location: SoCal | "And I need you more than want you,
and I want you for all time...."
Jimmy Webb's Wichita Lineman
I heard James Taylor this morning on Good Morning America sing it. Very good.... |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | They shoot without shame
In the name of a piece of dirt
For a change of accent
Or the color of your shirt
Better the pride that resides
In a citizen of the world
Than the pride that divides
When a colorful rag is unfurled
From "Territories" - Rush 1986 |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Best line ever: "I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth." |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Bruce Springstein - Thunder Road |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You put your left foot in
You pull your right leg out
You do the Hokey Pokey
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Greetings from Sodom
How we wish you were here
The weather's getting warmer
Now that the trees are all cleared
There's no time for a conscience
And we recognize no crime
Yeah we got dogs and Valvoline
It's a pretty damn good time |
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Location: big island | Jesus loves me, this I know... |
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Location: NJ | so I open my door to my enemies
and I ask "could we wipe the slate clean?"
and they tell me to "please go fuck myself"
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Location: Avondale, AZ | da da da da
do do do do
is all I want to say to you.
really deep stuff |
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Location: Wichita, KS | Don't forget that I remember
Those words of truth that turned cold
Your promises of love forever
Is like a story left untold
You can't hide what evil's done
Now the devil's got your soul
I remember girl
Les Dudek - I Remember
I can imagine that Les wrote that for my ex... |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Stuck in head:
"...and if California falls into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I'm convinced this hotel will be standing
Until I pay my bill."
Meaningful:
"Oh no, you never let go
Through the calm and through the storm
Oh no, you never let go
In every high and every low
Oh no, you never let go
Lord, you never let go of me." |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Whatcha you going to do with your life
now that I'm leaving?
are you believing
That you'll make it on your own?
Didn't you believe what I said
or was it just madness?
You're living in sadness
and you'll be all alone. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Too many to list.
How about (for stuck in the head)
I don't care if it rains or freezes,
Long as I got my plastic jesus stuck up there next to my pair of fuzzy dice.
I can go about a million miles per hour, as long as I got that almight power .... |
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Location: Tennessee | Sometimes the hardest things to give away are the hardest things to keep. - Dane |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I met a woman, she had a mouth like yours.
She knew your life,
She knew your devils and your deeds.
She said go to him, stay with him if you can,
But be prepared to bleed.
You are in my blood like holy wine.
You taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh, I could drink a case of you
And still, I would be on my feet
I would still be on my feet
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | When I was young and they packed me off to school
And taught me how not to play the game,
I didn't mind if they groomed me for success,
Or if they said that I was just a fool.
-Jethro Tull- Wind Up |
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| I actually do have one that I think of when I see all the campaign ad's and all the rhetoric from the parties this time of year. From Joe Walsh and his great album SO WHAT; Turn to Stone.
"Backyard people when they work all day
Tired of the Speeches and the way that the
reasons keep changing... Just ta make the words rhyme"
And when I think of mortality, and the worth of my life..... it is Chris Squire's solo piece called "Silently Falling" that has lyrics that are timeless to me. Look em up or listen to the song in it's entirety the lyrics are pretty meaningful and you gotta love the Hammond-Bass jam in there, that is a lot of fun to play by the way.
OMA LOL you reminded me of Tull..... "Meanwhile back in the year 1 when you belong to no one....you didn't stand a chance... son.... if your pants were undone. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Sitting on a park bench |
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Location: Cicero, NY | One of the tunes that has always stuck in my head:
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Funny how it's never quite the way they say it is,
And it's not that they really lie,
It's just that there's always two sides to everything,
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Location: Cicero, NY | Ok, Beal...come clean. Is that an original? |
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| Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
When I was young and they packed me off to school
And taught me how not to play the game,
I didn't mind if they groomed me for success,
Or if they said that I was just a fool.
-Jethro Tull- Wind Up Well I was reading through this thread thinking to myself that here's another one for the "too much to list" category because I got all kinds of lyrics stuck in my head that mean a lot to me.
Anyway, I got to Arthur's quote and it all came back. I could hear the music and feel it too. That line and the rest of the lyrics from that song pretty much sums up an earlier part of my life.
It also underscores, for me at least, how useless the education system can be - they hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.
The only thing that I learned in high school was how not to play the game and I'm pretty sure they would have said I was a fool if I'd bothered to ask. Odd thing though, once I got away from those losers, I pretty much breezed through university as well as law school and got my call to the Bar w/out busting a sweat.
My favourite line from Wind Up would be:
I don't believe you.
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| I've seen the likes of you before,
Come and go through a revolving door,
Time'll bear witness to what-ever's in store...
Pointed fingers tend to get sore.
Ummm... Me |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | In light of my bride's past 18 months, Glenn's challenges and TJ's recent scare, "Amazing Grace"!
There are soooo many others that I could post here for entertainment purposes, but the above will do for now. Many are clever, humorous, some profane, and fewer relevant...
Take care and love life! |
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Location: Michigan | Take this job and shove it!!! GWB |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Rush - "Choosing not to decide, you still have made a choice" |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | OK, Weaser, here you go. It got first.
Broken Gospel Band Aug 08, 2008
I think it’s time I went back home
This life here on the road sure is getting old
Playing these Gospel songs At tent revivals all night long
Then pack up and move on down the road
When I was young I thought this would be all kinds of fun
Playing and singing for everyone
The churches all said come With your guitars and drums
The Lord will reward, and then some
Funny how it’s never quite the way they say it is
And it’s not that they really lie
It’s just that there are two sides to everything
But only one side's in the light
Burned up my best years on the road with this band
Cost me a wife and both my children
They went back to Tennessee She said all you’re ever be
Is the guitar guy in that Broken Gospel Band
Now it was hard to face all that pain
I tried everything, even praying
I admit, it helped me some But it was never, quite enough
All the hurt and anger, still remain
Funny how it's never quite the way they say it is,
And it's not that they really lie
It's just that there's always two sides to everything
And only one side's in the light
The hardest thing is to look the truth in the eye
To know you were wrong and living a lie
I gave and got nothing back Except ulcers and a heart attack
It’s time for this guitar guy to see the light
So I’m going, on back home
I’ve had enough beating from the road
I’m workin’ hard and staying poor Paid my dues & then paid some more
Time to give up this heavy load
Give it all up before I’m too old |
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Location: GA USA | What does it avail a man to gain a fortune and lose his soul? - "Golden Ribbons" by Loggins & Messina, though they may have borrowed it from somewhere. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you've got;
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to be where you can see,
Our troubles are all the same;
You want to be where everybody knows your name.
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This reminds me... I need to stop by the local watering hole real soon! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "it must be the jet lag
you hope it'll pass
you check your reflection
in the store front glass
kinda grey at the temples
kinda goes with the hat
kinda round in the middle
but it aint even that
it's nothing you can see
it's nothing you can smell
but you pose no danger
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| YES;
"The sun can warm the coldest dawn
And move the movement on the lawn" |
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Location: CA | I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy
Remember how I made you scream
Don Henley "Boys of Summer"
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Sweet mother, she sang in the Sunday choir
On her head was a halo, she spoke brimstone and fire
Daddy lived by the bottle, and he died by the barn
Well he froze one night, Mama said serves him right
The devil can keep him warm
Michael Johnson 'Cain's Blood' |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | "I wasn't there that morning
When my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say"
The Living Years
Mike and the Mechanics |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | We all got holes to fill
And them holes are all that's real.
And some fall on you like a storm,
Sometimes you dig your own.
The choice is yours to make,
And time is yours to take;
Some dive into the sea,
Some toil upon the stone.
Well to live's to fly
All low and high,
So shake the dust off of your wings
And the sleep out of your eyes;
Well shake the dust off of your wings
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | "What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?"
Hey, where'd everyone go??? |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Our daughter and son-in-law did something different at their wedding. They dedicated a song to honor each set of parents, and we each had to get up and dance to "our" song while they danced with us. Jack and I had no idea they were going to do this; keep in mind, he was nine weeks away from his death.
The last lines of the chorus in the song they picked for us were,
"If you want to see what true love can be
Look at us."
--Karen (Seven years later, the tears still mist up when I think about it...) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I always liked the lyrics to "Ben" by Michael Jackson. Even more fun if you replace the word "Ben" with "Macaulay Caukin"
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Location: NJ | When you've seen beyond yourself -
Then you may find peace of mind, is waiting there -
And the time will come when you see we're all one,
And life flows on Within You and Without You . . .
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Location: Upper Left USA | "She's my girl, Bill." |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Louie, Lou-Eye. Oh, Baby... we gotta go now" |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | "You Just Like Me 'Cause I'm Good In Bed"
Greg Macainsh - The Skyhooks |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I get a different song stuck in my head every day, depending on what I heard on the radio on the way in or some other event. We were trying to return a call to someone named Lisa all weekend, so I had "I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie" from some old song in my head.
As I grow older, it's been, "But in looking back at the faces I've been, I would sure be the first one to say, I wouldn't a done it any other way."
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Hey Oddball, great song from Michael! Have you heard "Emilio" yet? It hasn't been recorded yet, but he does it at his live shows. He's one of my favorite guitarists, and a heck of a nice guy too.
"Emilio lives in an attic
Plays a flamenco guitar
Arpeggios fall out the window
And roll down the fenders of rusted out cars..."
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Location: Slightly northwest of Trader Jim | "cause I'm wasted...and I can't find my way home"
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Location: WNC-God's Country | "Heart of the Matter" Don Henley |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Originally posted by Omaha:
Best line ever: "I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth." Better still is:
The north side of my town faced east and the east was facing south. |
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Location: Chicago | Thought-provoking lyrics from Kansas (with a nice Ovation-featuring video into the bargain):
I close my eyes,
only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams,
pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind,
all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song,
just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do,
crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind,
all we are is dust in the wind
[Now] Don't hang on,
nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away,
and all your money won't another minute buy.
Dust in the wind,
all we are is dust in the wind |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "Nobody loves me, but my mother,
and she could be jivin’ too.
Now you see why I so funny, baby,
When you do the things you do." |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | "How can I miss you when you won't go away?" |
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Location: MA | Whenever I start wondering if my life has been good and I did the right thing by my children, I listen to "Cat's in the Cradle" and I realize I did ok.
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by mcthumber:
I listen to "Cat's in the Cradle" and I realize I did ok. Wow, that struck home! My Dad worked so hard that he could of been the 'subject' of the song; not due to indifference, but toil and providing.
I promised myself that that I would not be 'guilty' of the same. Thankfully, I can also say 'OK'!!!
mcthumber, major thanx for your post! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I get knocked down,
but I get up again,
They're never gonna keep me down (repeat)
"Pissing the night away,
Pissing the ni--ight way" |
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Location: SoCal | "Here's a quarter, call somebody who cares" |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
"Here's a quarter, call somebody who cares" "... you can keep the dime..." |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | "I'd like to find your inner-child
and kick it's little ass.
Get over it!" |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Stuck in my head...
Things are moving so quickly I feel like I'm really losing touch,
Seeing you reminds me of days when nothing really mattered very much...
If you leave me, can I come too? -- Mental as Anything (Australian band)
Meaningful....
Sometimes I lie awake at night and wonder
where the years have gone
They have all passed under
sleep's dark and silent gate
Jackson Browne |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | On that 'Inner Child' note...
You've Gotta Lotta Nerve To Say You Are My Friend
When I Was Down You Just Stood There Grinnin'
You've Gotta Lotta Nerve To Say You Have A Helping Hand To Lend
You Just Want To Be On The Side That's Winnin'
You See Me On The Street, You Always Act Surprised
Ya Say "how Are You?", "good Luck", But Ya Dont Mean It
When You Know As Well As Me You'd Rather See Me Paralized
Why Dont You Just Come Out Once And Scream It...
...I Wish That For Just One Time You Could Stand Inside My Shoes
And Just For That One Moment I Could Be You
Yes, I Wish That For Just One Time You Could Stand Inside My Shoes
You'd Know What A Drag It Is To See You!
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Location: North Carolina | "I gave her the ring
She gave me the finger"
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Location: CA | If the phone doesn't ring, it's me
(Jimmy Buffett)
Remember when we were young, you shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond,
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky...
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| from "The Lamb Lies Down"
And I'm Hovering like a fly.........
Waiting for the windshield on the freeway |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | "You can be scared when it gets too real
But you should be digging it while it's happening
Because it just might be a one shot deal."
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Location: Atlanta GA | You say you haven't been the same since you had your little crash
But you might feel better if they gave you some cash
Victim of this, victim of that.. your mama's too skinny and your daddy's too fat
GET OVER IT! |
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so what if it's Skynrd... song meant a lot to me, and reminds me of gone and missing friends.
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Location: Utah | What is most meaningful depends on my mood at the time, as well as holding some universal truth. Right now its:
"Life being what it is, we all dream of revenge" (Kaki King) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Pressed, in love's hot fever'd iron
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Location: Glendale, AZ | Stuck in my head:
All we want to do is eat your brains
We’re not unreasonable, I mean, no one’s going to eat your eyes.
Jonathan Coulton RE: Your Brains
Stayed with me:
Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has sown.
Go on ahead and sow some seeds of your own.
And somewhere between the time you arrive,
and the time you go
may lie a reason you were alive,
but you’ll never know.
Prelude For a Dancer (After the Gold Rush album) |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | ddr, I thought that was from "For a Dancer" by Jackson Browne. It was on the "Late For the Sky" album. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | You're right Canterbury. But it may have been covered somewhere else, I'm not sure. I'm a big fan of Jackson Browne's lyrics. |
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Location: Glendale, AZ | CanterburyStrings: Jackson Browne may have written that. Prelude did several covers on that album. Neal Young's After the Gold Rush and I think the Beatles Here Comes the Sun. I had never looked at the liner notes to see who wrote that one. I just always thought it was one of their own songs. Now I will have to check out the Jackson Browne version on I-Tunes.
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | My misunderstanding. I thought you were saying the song was "Prelude For A Dancer", and that it was on Neil Young's album "After the Goldrush". But now that I know a group called Prelude did a cover of it, I'm going to Youtube to check it out. I love that song! Thanks. |
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Location: NJ | ". . I thought that was from "For a Dancer" by Jackson Browne. It was on the "Late For the Sky" album . ."
th'Lady is c'rect.
There was a local NY FMstation(WNEW) that commemorated that tune to Belushi the night he died. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Scuse my ignorance Cliff...what was the connection with Belushi and that song? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by ozwatto:
Scuse my ignorance Cliff...what was the connection with Belushi and that song? Give a listen... You\'ll see.
Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I don't remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must've thought you'd always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now you're nowhere to be found
I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
Crying as they ease you down
(Alt:crying is the easier down)
'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(Right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(There's nothing you can do about it anyway)
Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone
Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily, it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound
Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive but you'll never know
[That is copy/paste off of YouTube, so it mightn't be right]
BTW-- All my life I've thought that Jackson should have longer hair or a beard or something. He just looks like that 'slow' dude off of That 70's Show... Or the young dude on Northern Exposure... :confused: |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Okay... Excuse me. He has a beard Now... (Old Fart!)
(Jackson Browne. No really! It's Jackson Browne!) May 3, 2008
~That caption is from the article where I found this photo.~ |
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Location: NJ | He's got a new album coming out this month (28th,iThink), & that's how he looks on it . . |
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Location: NJ | ***************
Don't Forget Me
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The sun is going down across the great unknown
Lights come on inside the towers made of stone
A muffled drum plays out of sight and all alone
Summer Is Over
The city lies awake and breathes electric air
The sailor in the bar reams of a love affair
Young girls seem to shimmer in fluorescent glare
Summer is over
It's a never ending show
Faces come and go
Like a river
You're a rainbow wrapped in grey
Shake the dust away
Like a river
But don't forget me
Don't forget me now
Summer is Over.
Don't Forget Me
- Al Stewart
It was short, but it was a "Summer".
(cue th'Vivaldi . . ) |
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Location: CA | Don't you know there ain't no devil,
That's just God when he's drunk.
— Tom Waits, "Heartattack and Vine" |
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Location: Central NJ | The Florida Boys
"the choice was all his, but the truth was and is. The cross in the middle should have been mine." |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | ... just heard this one after a long time; "The Younger Years". Me like... |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I wouldn't know where to begin, there are so many great lyrics. "Don't You Forget About Me" by the Simple Minds sticks in my head a lot and stirrs something.
Performance-wise I always get choked up on the line from "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg "and Papa I don't think I said I love you near enough".
My father passed away the same year Fogelberg did. When I play that song live, I often dedicate it to them both, because Fogelberg wrote that for his father, who was a musician, and my father was also a musician. So in recent years, that song has had a grip on me lyric-wise.
Cats in the Cradle is one that seems to grip the audience lyrically. I've had many people tell me how much they love that I play it, and others ask me not to play it ever again because it depresses them so. It's just such a great reminder to value your time and relationships while you can...but if it's too late for that, I suppose the reminder can feel like salt on a wound. |
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Location: new jersey | one of these days, i'm going to cut you into little pieces.
there is no dark side of the moon really... matter of fact it's all dark.
how i wish you were were.
how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
wow! look at this room. are all these your guitars?
....and the topper.....
i have become comfortably numb. |
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Location: CA | If I don't die by Thursday
I'll be roaring Friday night.
— Jimmy Buffett
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice water mansions...
— Gordon Lightfoot |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | In truth I think these change with time.
At one point "Bridge over Troublrd Watrers" meant a lot to me. Now I can barely stand it.
The one Loriane and I always listened to "back then" was the Boz Sacggs tune "Look what you've done to me" probably not the right title but you know the song.
I find if the lyrics are that moving, very often the music isn't and for me if the music doesn't knock me down, the song doesn't either.
There are some instrumentals by a oneshot band the "Outside men" I think it was, a trio from the midwest. A couple of theirs do it for me. And some of Michelle Cuzon's tunes(from Canada) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Ditto. One would hope we'd change over time. Our neice got married recently and danced with her dad to "I Loved Her First." It's by some country band called Heartland or something like that. Anyway, with 2 single daughters in their 20s, that song really hit me. I wish I could see myself singing it to their grooms, but the lyrics don't fit the reality, at least with the current boyfriends. The second one isn't a drummer, though, so he still has some potential. |
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Location: CA | Meaningful lines and songs do change. No argument there. I used to sing 'Lovin her was easier' (Kristofferson) to girls all the time and they all loved it. Now I hear it and I think, geez, what a cornball thing that was. I'm not saying the lines have to mean anything NOW. Just lines that meant something once. Or that stuck in your head. Such as...
"My daddy said son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin
If you don't stop drivin that hot rod Lincoln."
Come on, admit it, you're all playing the lead part in your heads right now . . . |
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Location: eastern shore Virginia .Walesoriginally | Baby you can sleep while I drive.Melissa Etheridge |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Melissa had some great tunes. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Dawn - like an angel - lights on the steps
Muting the morning she heralds.
Dew on the grass - like the tears the night wept
Gone long before the day wears old.
Time stills the singing a child holds so dear...
and I'm just beginning to hear.
Gone are the pathways the child followed home...
Gone like the sand and the foam.
-Dan Fogelberg
When I used to listen to this song I would think of MY life. These days I consider my grown children who, too,have lost their innocence.
John <>{ |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Time waits for no one at all, No not even you.
- The Moody Blues |
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Location: closely held secret | Well good morning Judge, yes I'm back again
I'm in trouble, so it's back to the pen
I found a car but I couldn't pay
I fell in love and I drove it away |
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Location: CA | It's so nice to meet an old friend
and pass the time of day
And talk about the hometown
A million miles away
Is the ice still in the river
Are the old folks still the same
And by the way
Did she mention my name? . . .
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Location: NJ | just machines t'make big decisions
programmed by fellas w/compassion&vision
we'll be "clean" when their work is done
we'll be eternally "free", yes& eternally young |
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Location: closely held secret | I'll never be no caddy,
Wavin another man's flag.
I'll never be no caddy, (No, no)
Holdin' another man's bag.
Mr. Smith shot a birdie,
Mr. Green shot a par.
Mr. Jones shot a bogey,
He's down drinkin at the clubhouse bar
Watch out for that sand trap,
Wear your golfin shoes,
Watch out for that frog pond,
Watch out for them golfin blues. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Just heard it on the radio in the car and dunno if anyone else has mentioned it.....
Video killed the radio star |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by ozwatto:
Video killed the radio star That's one of those songs that gets stuck in your head and the more you hate it, the more you can't stop singing it. I wonder if anyone has ever committed suicide to get a song out of their head? |
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Location: florida | most meaningful line..hmm..... hard to say isnt it.
i got to say neil young's verse off of comes a time album of the title tracks song "comes a time"
You and I we were captured
We took our souls
and we flew away
We were right
we were giving
That's how we kept
what we gave away.
and also a snippet from his song "dont let it bring you down" the first half of the second verse always gives me goosebumps
Blind man running through the light of the night
With an answer in his hand,
Come on down to the river of sight
And you can really understand,....
neil,bob,and townes van zandt are true inspirations so it is really hard to pinpoint just one lyric that means the most to me...but those verses have always been with me. |
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Location: florida | pesonally, as a songwriter, the line i have written that means the most to me is probalythe song Neon Ghosts. my favorites are the 2nd 3rd and 5th lines. its about the selling out of small towns to "wall street" type big wigs who have no interests in the actual town itself and probaly have never even been there. there only interests lie in the god almighty dollar.personally i have seen the damage and recoil of corporations coming into my small town and risking the standard of living and way of life, economically, ecologically, and spiritually speaking.
here it goes
neon ghosts (2nd 3rd and 5th verse)
men wearing neon suits brought the strip to life
killing the stars at night
our eyes have adjusted to the years of abuse from the artificial light
men on the screen throw faces on the wall
telling us to fight
theyre ghosts in the shadows of the room
hungering for sight
the pale moon falls under the sunken hills
let the morning shine
the lonely call of the morning birds
when the widow starts to cry
later i will post the lyrics of a song i wrote about my girlfriends alcoholic father, i am not quite done with it but so far is is coming along good and means a whole lot to me. |
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Location: florida | white shadows are in our forests
taking all our men
i wonder where theyre going
or if theyll ever come back again
given to a greedy sleeve from a hindered hand
labeled as savages and indian.
(the thanksgiving story)
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