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Villavic

02-05-2009, 10:30 PM

What song lyrics really meant a lot to you, touched you, or you felt identified with?

I enjoyed a lot Escape (Pina colada song) lyrics, It's about a man who, disenchanted with his current relationship, reads the personals and spots an ad that catches his attention: the ad of a woman who is seeking a man that, among other things, must like piña coladas, and he answers her So I wrote to the paper, Took out a personal ad, And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half bad, "Yes I like Pina Coladas... And getting caught in the rain..."

But 2 songs really touched me. One is Silver Springs, that you perfectly know, and the other is Elton's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. With both songs I felt kind of identified, in different times of my life of course..

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again
Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough

David

02-07-2009, 11:34 AM

"Yesterdays" by Kern & Harbach

Yesterdays
Yesterdays
Days I knew as happy sweet
Sequestered days
Olden days
Golden days
Days of mad romance and love

mylittledemon

02-07-2009, 12:12 PM

Everytime I hear WHY by Annie Lennox, I am deeply moved.

rubytuesday

02-07-2009, 12:35 PM

Mull of Kintyre
Rhythm of my Heart (by Rod Stewart) even though it has a different meaning. With the bagpipes underneath the lyrics mean something else to me and "never will I roam for I know my place is home" makes me so homesick.

Lisa1769

02-07-2009, 02:19 PM

Kid Rocks, "Only God Knows Why"

vivfox

02-07-2009, 02:33 PM

DigYourGrave

02-07-2009, 03:38 PM

Definitely Grace (the album) has a good few songs where the lyrics just spoke volumes to me... Especially 'Dream, Brother' and 'Lover, You Should Have Come Over.'

Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun
And much too blind to see the damage hes done
Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one..

..I feel too young to hold on,
I'm much too old to break free and run,
Too deaf, dumb and blind to see the damage I've done.

so beautiful...:)

GoS

02-07-2009, 06:00 PM

The first verse of Love Runs Deeper and all of Cast Away Dreams by L. Buckingham. Crystal as well.

animal

02-07-2009, 07:28 PM

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

Very haunting and emotional.

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day youll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And youll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
Ive watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

Theres so many different worlds
So many differents suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the suns gone to hell
And the moons riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But its written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
Were fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

rubytuesday

02-08-2009, 03:08 AM

It's a 5 o'clock world when the whistle blows
no one owns a piece of my time
there's a long haired girl who waits I know
to ease my troubled mind, yeah

What a lady....

also I like the line that says: "livin' on money that I ain't made yet."

also: "sounds of the city running through my brain
while another day goes down the drain, yeah, yeah..."

I love that song! for me that song goes hand in hand with Friday on my Mind by the Easybeats. do you know that song? It's a classic you should hear it.

LiamMcConville

02-08-2009, 04:09 AM

Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, dont patronize - dont patronize me

Chorus: cause I cant make you love me if you dont
You cant make your heart feel something it wont
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and Ill feel the power
But you wont, no you wont
cause I cant make you love me, if you dont

Ill close my eyes, then I wont see
The love you dont feel when youre holding me
Morning will come and Ill do whats right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
Chorus: cause I cant make you love me if you dont
You cant make your heart feel something it wont
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and Ill feel the power
But you wont, no you wont
cause I cant make you love me, if you dont

LukeA

02-08-2009, 04:12 AM

It's a 5 o'clock world when the whistle blows
no one owns a piece of my time
there's a long haired girl who waits I know
to ease my troubled mind, yeah

What a lady....

also I like the line that says: "livin' on money that I ain't made yet."

also: "sounds of the city running through my brain
while another day goes down the drain, yeah, yeah..."

The Vogues. Great song. "You're The One" is another favorite.

Zombie

02-08-2009, 04:25 AM

Nick Cave, "The Ship Song"

<i>Come sail your ships around me
and burn your bridges down.
We make a little history, baby,
every time you come around.

Come loose your dogs upon me
And let your hair hang down.
You are a little mystery to me
every time you come around.

We talk about it all night long.
We define our moral ground.
But when I crawl into your arms
everything comes tumbling down.

Chorus: Come sail your ships around me
and burn your bridges down.
We make a little history, baby,
every time you come around me.

Your face has fallen sad now
For you know the time is nigh
when I must remove your wings
and you...you must try to fly...</i>

Here's a clip of Nick doing this song live on the Songwriters Circle he did with John Cale and Chrissie Hynde:

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DavidMn

02-08-2009, 04:37 AM

There is a song by the Sundays, one of my favorite bands, called Life Goes On. I can totally relate to its lyrics on many levels. Life goes on was a b-side from the Static and Silence sessions, goes like this:

Build me up, don't get me down

weather the storm

well, life goes on

feelings ebb and flow by hour

you're up in the clouds

then you sink like a stone

so do you feed yourself with pills

oh to deaden your ills

or are you only one love short of happiness

and in a picture on the wall

no glimmer of yourself at all

you've left yourself far away

build me up, don't mop my brow

weather the storm? no

because life goes on

it's my only hope right now

to soar like a bird

and not to sink like a stone

so do you feed yourself with pills

oh to deaden your ills

or are you only one love short of happiness

and in a picture on the wall

no glimmer of yourself at all

you've left yourself far away

oh do you feed yourself with pills

to cure you of your ills

or are you only one love short of the happy days to come

and in a picture on the wall

you can' see the face at all

so untie yourself

because that's all you've got to do

and I can grow a pair of wings

and I can take up flying

ther'll be no crying

up in the air looking back down

and let me tell you

if I talk about gloom

i don't get out of feeling down

it strips you of yourself

and splits you from the self that you know

fleetwood_az

02-08-2009, 07:32 AM

There's so many from Fleetwood Mac, but one that springs to mind is from Destiny Rules.

'It's not being together, it's just following the rules'

Pure brilliance that one

rubytuesday

02-08-2009, 10:48 AM

jr2280

02-08-2009, 02:18 PM

Yeah! Come on, come on, come on, come on
Now touch me, baby
Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won't you tell me what she said?
What was that promise that you made?

Now, I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you
Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I

Come on, come on, come on, come on
Now touch me, baby
Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won't you tell me what she said?
What was that promise that you made?

I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you
Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I
I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you
Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I

Stronger than dirt

Zombie

02-08-2009, 03:56 PM

I love this song and most of Nick Cave's music. It reminded me of another song that gets me every time.

Come on up to the house - Tom Waits. Here's a clip someone made of it.

I especially love the lyrics "come down off the cross we can use the wood" and "the world is not my home I'm just passin' through"

Oh, I love Tom Waits, too! Excellent choice.

I can listen to Cave forever and not run across anything I don't like (unless it's his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song," because that was just WRONG).

vivfox

02-08-2009, 04:01 PM

I love that song! for me that song(5 O'clock Hour) goes hand in hand with Friday on my Mind by the Easybeats. do you know that song? It's a classic you should hear it.
I just watched it on youtube. I agree with you about the connection. I've always loved that song too but I never knew who sang it or it's title. Now thanks to you, I do!

vivfox

02-08-2009, 04:06 PM

The Vogues. 5 O'clock Hour is a Great song. "You're The One" is another favorite.
I like that one too. But not as much as the five o'clock hour. Which of the two is your favorite?

Villavic

02-09-2009, 12:31 PM

Everytime I hear WHY by Annie Lennox, I am deeply moved.

WHY was a song that followed me all my Europe backpacker trip, in may 1992 when I was 25. I traveled alone, I enjoyed it, but being alone abroad one month is hard. At cities where I stayed in a room with TV (not several) or watching at the lobby, at the end of the day, MTV Europe that month played WHY lot of times, and it became my favorite.

GoS

02-09-2009, 02:22 PM

Sorry for bringing them up again, but the Connells, '74-'75:

Got no reason for coming to me and the rain running down.
There's no reason.
And the same voice coming to me like it's all slowin down.
And believe me -

I was the one who let you know
I was your sorry-ever-after. '74-'75.

It's not easy, nothing to say 'cause it's already said.
It's never easy.
When I look on in your eyes then I find that I'll do fine.
When I look on in your eyes then I'll do better.

I was the one who let you know
I was your sorry-ever-after. '74-'75.
Giving me more and I'll defy
'Cause you're really only after '74-'75.

Got no reason for coming to me and the rain running down.
There's no reason.
When I look on in your eyes then I find that I'll do fine.
When I look on in your eyes then I'll do better.

I was the one who let you know
I was your sorry-ever-after. '74-'75.
Giving me more and I'll defy
'Cause you're really only after '74-'75.

I was the one who let you know
I was your sorry-ever-after. '74-'75.
Giving me more and I'll defy
'Cause you're really only after '74-'75.

mylittledemon

02-09-2009, 03:01 PM

WHY was a song that followed me all my Europe backpacker trip, in may 1992 when I was 25. I traveled alone, I enjoyed it, but being alone abroad one month is hard. At cities where I stayed in a room with TV (not several) or watching at the lobby, at the end of the day, MTV Europe that month played WHY lot of times, and it became my favorite.

It's such a beautiful song. Most of the time though, when I hear it come on iTunes, i have to skip over it. It punches me in the stomach every time I hear it.

goldustsongbird

02-09-2009, 09:05 PM