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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
And you shake it all about... |
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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"
no, you just can't "win". |
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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
- Joni Mitchell |
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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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| Just acoustic or in general? |
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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
---Lennon |
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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,
And only one side's in the light. |
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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.
You have the whole damn thing all wrong! |
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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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