This could get tricky

BTFLCHLD · #1 01-25-2006, 09:53 PM

On any particular day, night, week, month, year, decade, all-time (you get it) post a song with lyrics that is meaningful to you (e.g. not necessarily every song you hear.) Here is the tricky part, if the song has already been posted within this thread

come back another time with a different selection. Please provide a little or all lyrics included to capture the essence of the song...and maybe even a bit of you.

Let's build a massive collection

If you'd like to participate, please do.

On EDIT: Let's try not to insert comment posts...just the song. If you are intrigued by someone's post, send them a PM as I will bet they would like that. This may keep the thread clean during the tricky parts. If I were to insert a comment, on this edit, it would be 'Thanks Brandon for participating!'

Civil War
by Guns and Roses
"What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it! Well, he gets it!
N' I don't like it any more than you men."

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land

And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

"WE PRACTICE SELECTIVE ANNIHILATION OF
MAYORS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
FOR EXAMPLE TO CREATE A VACUUM
THEN WE FILL THAT VACUUM
AS POPULAR WAR ADVANCES
PEACE IS CLOSER"

I don't need one more war

Brwn_eyes0511 · #2 01-25-2006, 10:04 PM

Why It Matters
by Sara Groves

Sit with me and tell me once again
Of the story that's been told us
Of the power that will hold us
Of the beauty, of the beauty
Why it matters

Speak to me until I understand
Why our thinking and creating
Why our efforts of narrating
About the beauty, of the beauty
And why it matters

Like the statue in the park
Of this war torn town
And it's protest of the darkness
And the chaos all around
With its beauty, how it matters
How it matters

Show me the love that never fails
The compassion and attention
Midst confusion and dissention
Like small ramparts for the soul
How it matters

Like a single cup of water
How it matters

CelticGypsy · #3 01-26-2006, 04:22 AM

Children of the World
The Bee Gees

We are children of the world - watching every day go by
Changes my life, changes your life - keeps us all anticipating
We are searchers of the truth, every man's a boy deep down
Gotta say it how you mean it - there ain't no easy way

Like a bird in the wind, like a tree in the storm
Like the breath of a child from the moment he's born
To the very last day when the curtains are drawn
We are children of the world - asking every question why
From arrival to survival - just to make it worth the waiting
We are faces in the night - watching every day go by
Changes my life, changes your life - there ain't no easy way

In the back of your mind there is always a mark
There's a wandering solo alone in the dark
You can keep it forever or tear it apart

We are children of the world - watching every day go by
Changing my life, changing your life - keeps us all anticipating

We are children of the world - watching every day go by
Like a bird in the wind, like a tree in the storm
Like the breath of a child from the moment he's born
Till the very last day when the curtains are drawn
We are children of the world - watching every day go by
Changes my life, changes your life - keeps us all anticipating

We are children of the world - watching every day go by
Changes my life, changes your life - keeps us all anticipating

Rickypt · #4 01-26-2006, 10:48 AM

He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones

He said "I'll love you till I die",
she told him "You'll forget in time"
As the years went slowly by,
she still preyed upon his mind

He kept her picture on his wall,
went half-crazy now and then
He still loved her through it all,
hoping she'd come back again

Kept some letters by his bed
dated nineteen sixty-two
He had underlined in red
every single "I love you"

I went to see him just today,
oh but I didn't see no tears
All dressed up to go away, first time
I'd seen him smile in years

He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

(Spoken)
You know,
she came to see him one last time.
Aww, 'n' we all wondered if she would.
And it kept runnin' through my mind
"this time he's over her for good."

He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

JazmenFlowers · #5 01-26-2006, 11:00 AM

Lullaby For Myself
Barbra Streisand

Self-contained and self-content
No promises to keep
I've got things so together
That I just can't fall asleep
Walked the night and drank the moon
Got home at half past four
And I knew that no one marked my time
As I unlocked my door

It's really lovely to discover
That you like to be alone
Not to owe your man an answer
When he gets you on the phone
Not to share a pair of pork chops
When you crave champagne and cheese
And your aim becomes to please yourself
And not to aim to please

Oh they sold me when they told me
Two can live as cheap as one
But I'm learning twice your earning
Doesn't mean it's twice the fun
If you spend each dime and all your time
On someone else's schemes

I'm not needy but I'm greedy
And I live my deepest dreams
Take an hour in the shower
Use the water while it's hot in the tub
A hand to scrub my back
Is all I haven't got

Self-aware with self-esteem
Is selfishness a crime
I take the day for quite a ride
And I take my own sweet time
Time to spare and time to share
And grateful I would be
If just one damn man
Would share the need
To be alone with me

Enchanted_Stevi · #6 01-26-2006, 12:31 PM

"New Attitude"
Patti LaBelle

I'm feelin' good from my head to my shoes
Know where I'm goin' and I know what to do
I tidied up my point of view
I got a new attitude
Runnin' hot, runnin' cold
I was runnin' into overload
It was extreme, ex-ex-ex-ex-ex-extreme
It took it so high, so low
So low, there was nowhere to go
Like a dream
Somehow the wires uncrossed, the tables were turned
Never knew I had such a lesson to learn
I'm feelin' good from my head to my shoes
Know where I'm goin' and I know what to do
I tidied up my point of view
I got a new attitude
I'm in control, my worries are few
'Cause I've got love like I never knew
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
I'm wearing a new dress (New), new hair (New)
Brand new ideas, as a matter of fact I've changed for good
It must have been the cool night, new moon, new slight change
???More than to figure??? but I feel like I should, yes
Somehow the wires uncrossed, the tables were turned
Never knew I had such a lesson to learn
I'm feelin' good from my head to my shoes
Know where I'm goin' and I know what to do
I tidied up my point of view
I got a new attitude
I'm in control, my worries are few
'Cause I've got love like I never knew
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...ooh...
Somehow the wires uncrossed, the tables were turned
Never knew I had such a lesson to learn
I'm feelin' good from my head to my shoes
Know where I'm goin' and I know what to do
I tidied up my point of view
I got a new attitude
I'm in control, my worries are few
'Cause I've got love like I never knew
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Mmm)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Mmm, mmm)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (From my head to my shoes)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (I got a new)
I got a new attitude (I got a new)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (New attitude)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Everything about has changed)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Baby)
I got a new attitude (I got a new)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (I got a new)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Feelin', feelin')
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (I feel it, I got a new attitude)
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Oh...ooh...)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I got a new attitude (I got a new)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Attitude)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Said I got a new)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (New attitude)
I got a new attitude
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Richard B · #7 01-26-2006, 09:44 PM

How Does A Duck Know?
Crash Test Dummies

How does a duck know what direction south is?
And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?
You can cut a chicken's head off
and it will keep on running and twitching

When everything seems planned out
when everything seems nicely planned out
well the human race will come and smack your face

How come all my body parts so nicely fit together?
All my organs doing their jobs, no help from me!
A person pulls a spider's leg out
To watch it keep on moving and twitching.

When everything seems planned out
when everything seems nicely planned out
well the human race will come and smack your face

Satan lives here: on grain and earth, rain and air.

How come I just smoke and smoke and smoke and curse every butt I spit out?
All night long I grind my teeth and I wake up when I cough
You can put me in and iron lung
and I will keep on breathing and twitching.

When everything seems planned out
when everything seems nicely planned out
well the human race will come and smack your face
You might be dead, but you keep your head.

The Tower · #8 01-26-2006, 10:01 PM

"For The Roses" by Joni Mitchell

I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause...
Did you get a round resounding for you
Way up here
It seems like many dim years ago
Since I heard that face to face..
Or seen you face to face
Though tonight I can feel you here

I get these notes
On butterflies and lilac sprays
From girls who just have to tell me
They saw you somewhere...

In some office sits a poet
And he trembles as he sings
And he asks some guy
To circulate his soul around...
On your mark red ribbon runner
The caressing rev of motors
Finely tuned like fancy women-
In thirties evening gowns

Up the charts-
Off to the airport
Your name's in the news
Everything's first class
The lights go down
And it's just you up there...
Getting them to feel like that...

Remember the days when you used to sit
And make up your tunes for love
And pour your simple sorrow
To the soundhole and your knee...
And now you're seen
On giant screens
And at parties for the press
And for people who have slices of you
From the company

They toss around your latest golden egg
Speculation well who's to know
If the next one in the nest
Will glitter for them so...

I guess I seem ungrateful
With my teeth sunk in the hand
That brings me things
I really can't give up just yet
Now I sit up here the critic!
And they introduce some band
But they seem so much confetti
Looking at them on my TV set...

Oh the power and the glory-
Just when you're getting a taste for worship
They start bringing out the hammers....
And the boards.....
And the nails.....

I heard it in the wind last night
It sounded like applause
Chilly now- end of summer
No more shiny hot nights
It was just the arbutus rustling
And the bumping of the logs
And the moon swept down black water-

Like an empty spotlight

catinthedark · #9 01-26-2006, 10:33 PM

Goodbye - Patty Griffin

Occured to me the other day
You've been gone now a couple years
well, I guess it takes while
For someone to really disappear
And I remember where I was
When the word came about you
It was a day much like today
the sky was bright, and wide, and blue

And I wonder where you are
And if the pain ends when you die
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say goodbye

Today my heart is big and sore
it's tryin' to push right through my skin
I won't see you anymore
I guess that's finally sinkin' in
'Cause you can't make somebody see
By the simple words you say
All their beauty from within
Sometimes they just look away

But I wonder where you are
And if the pain ends when you die
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say goodbye
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Brad · #10 01-27-2006, 12:55 AM

The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Oh, of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

Oh ...
Oh ...

There’s a club, if you’d like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home, and you cry
And you want to die

When you say it’s gonna happen now
Well, when exactly do you mean?
See, I’ve already waited too long
And all my hope is gone

Oh ...
Oh ...

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

dissention · #11 01-27-2006, 01:11 AM

Magic (Asadoya Yunta) - Blondie

I'm hot as a fire, burning bright
I feel as empty as air
There is no sense of balance
In the howling wind that calls to me
I can feel it everywhere, but it's invisible to me

Distractions and spirit find me floating in a magnetic sea
The nights are phosphorescent
And the days are beautiful and bright
Until whispering mist - it comes falling down on me

Oh, there's fire burning
Looking for the magic
In the night time, all this
Brings the magic back to me

I'm looking for the magic in the places I remember it to be
It's in the night time alleys
Winding through my deepest memory

And just one simple thought brings the magic back to me
I'm looking for the magic in the places I remember it to be
And just one simple thought brings the magic back to me

face of glass · #12 01-27-2006, 01:16 AM

The Boy From... (Esteban Ria Nido/Mary Rodgers)

Quote:

Tall and tender, like an Apollo,
He goes walking by, and I have to follow him,
The boy from Tacarembo La Tumbe Del Fuego Santa Malipas Zatatecas La Junta Del

Sol Y Cruz.
When we meet, I feel I'm on fire
And I'm breathless every time I enquire,
"How are things in Tacarembo La Tumbe Del Fuego Santa Malipas Zatatecas La

Junta Del Sol Y Cruz?"

Why, when I speak, does he vanish?
Why is he acting so clannish?
I wish I understood Spanish.
When I tell him I think he's the end,
He giggles a lot with his friend.

Tall and slender, moves like a dancer,
But I never seem to get any answer,
From the boy from Tacarembo La Tumbe Del Fuego Santa Malipas Zatatecas La Junta

Del Sol Y Cruz.

Why are his trousers vermilion?
Why does he claim he's Castilian?
Why do his friends call him "Lillian?"
And I hear at the end of the week,
He's leaving to start a boutique.

Though I smile, I'm only pretending,
'Cause I know today's the last I'll be spending,
With the boy from Tacarembo La Tumbe Del Fuego Santa Malipas Zatatecas La Junta

Del Sol Y Cruz.
Tomorrow he sails.
He's moving to Wales.
To live in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobullllandysiliogogogoch.

Wild_Heart03 · #13 01-27-2006, 08:06 AM

Why - Annie Lennox

How many times, do I have to try
To tell you, that I'm sorry
For the the things I've done?

But when I start to try to tell you
That's when you have to tell me
Hey, this kind of trouble's
Only just begun

I tell myself too many times
Why don't you ever learn to
Keep your big mouth shut?
That's why it hurts so bad, to hear the words
That keep on falling from your mouth
Falling from your mouth.... falling from your mouth...

Tell me, why?
Why?

I may be mad, I may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking
And I've heard it said too many times
That you'd be better off
Besides, why can't you see
This boat is sinking, this boat is sinking

Let's go down to the water's edge
And we can cast away those doubts
Some things are better left unsaid
But they still turn me inside out
Turning inside out.... turning inside out....

Tell me, why?
Why?

This is the book I never read
These are the words I never said
This is the path I'll never tread
These are the dreams I'll dream instead
This is the joy that's seldom spread
These are the tears, the tears we shed
This is the fear, this is the dread
These are the contents of my head
And these are the years that we have spent
And this is what they represent
This is how I feel.... do you know I feel?
'Cause I don't think you know how I feel
I don't think you know how I feel...

jannieC · #14 01-27-2006, 08:07 AM

Tesla- Gettin Better

all that rain
outside my window
but I'll live on I know
its gettin' better every day
soon the sun will shine
through my window
when its gonna come
you know i really, couldnt say
but i know, its gettin better
every day

ahh its gettin better now
every day
yeah yeah yea yea
im a hard workin man doin all that i can
tryin to make ends meat
just a makin my way through this jungle today
its gettin the best of me
but i know its gettin better
and a change is gonna come my way
yes i know its gettin better
better every day
ah ha yea
been a changin the scene
if ya know what i mean
good things are comin my way
now im livin my life and im doin it right
sun shinin every day

i can feel it gettin better
and a change is gonna come my way
yes i feel it gettin better
better every day

now its only gettin better
and a change has finally come my way
yes its only so much better
aaaah gettin better every day
aaah yea yea yea gettin better
oaaah every day
i feel it
gettin better
its gettin better
im gettin better
im gettin better

bikerchic · #15 01-27-2006, 11:41 AM

Roll Me Away
Words and music by Bob Seger

Took a look down a westbound road,
Right away I made my choice
Headed out to my big two-wheeler,
I was tired of my own voice
Took a bead on the northern plains
And just rolled that power on

Twelve hours out of Mackinaw City
Stopped in a bar to have a brew
Met a girl and we had a few drinks
And I told her what I’d decided to do
She looked out the window a long long moment
Then she looked into my eyes
She didn’t have to say a thing,
I knew what she was thinkin’

Roll, roll me away,
Won’t you roll me away tonight
I too am lost, I feel double-crossed
And I’m sick of what’s wrong and what’s right
We never even said a word,
We just walked out and got on that bike
And we rolled
And we rolled clean out of sight

We rolled across the high plains
Deep into the mountains
Felt so good to me
Finally feelin’ free

Somewhere along a high road
The air began to turn cold
She said she missed her home
I headed on alone

Stood alone on a mountain top,
Starin’ out at the great divide
I could go east, I could go west,
It was all up to me to decide
Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’
And my soul began to rise
And pretty soon
My heart was singin’

Roll, roll me away,
I’m gonna roll me away tonight
Gotta keep rollin, gotta keep ridin’,
Keep searchin’ till I find what’s right
And as the sunset faded
I spoke to the faintest first starlight
And I said next time
Next time
We’ll get it right