Another Top Ten
 

This time rank your top ten Stevie songs by lyrics only. (In other words, based on lyrics alone from start to finish, what are Stevie's ten best songs?)

My picks:

1) The Highwayman
2) Edge Of Seventeen
3) Lady From The Mountain
4) Garbo
5) The Dealer
6) Wild Heart
7) Straight Back
8) She Still loves Him
9) Sara
10) Rhiannon

Okay, this was pretty hard, because I mainly pay attention to the music part anyway. I'm not sure I could really be completely objective.

1.Dreams
2.Storms
3.Inspiration
4. I Sing For the Things (back off, haters, or I'll take down my hair on your a**! And don't make me take my cape off for you!)
5.FFG
6.BC
7.SB (a strange choice probably, but those lyrics just make a lot of sense to me. It's a very effective use of words, IMO.)
8. Rhiannon
9.Edge
10. Kind of Woman - simple, but clear and effective.

Yeah, I'm guessing you've been told to stand back many a time. :laugh: ;)

- Jake

That was so obvious. -10!

What would you prefer, cheap?

- Jake

I see you picked up the latest issue of Der.

Alrighty then. Stop starting interesting threads when I'm trying to go to sleep! Here goes..

1) Storms (always)
2) Sisters of the Moon
3) Twisted (some of the best lyrics ever written)
4) Beauty & The Beast
5) Sara
6) The Nightmare (f*cking love this song and how she incorporates Storms, SOTM, Sara and even Thrown Down - a little prophetic? - into it. This was a tough time for Stevie, but I so feel her and feel the meaning of this song).
7) Juliet
8) The Highwayman
9) Fall From Grace (gawd, can I relate to this one!)
10) Landslide

Honorable mentions to the ones that make me tingle, but aren't necessarily the best lyrically: Sweet Girl (I don't know if it's so much the lyrics, but this is one that makes my heart melt over and over again when I listen to it. I just love the sentiment), Silver Springs, Goodbye Baby, Love Is Like A River, Love Is and Beautiful Child (except for the part about falling in love at age 10 :laugh: )

Interesting thread! :thumbsup:
There's a whole period in the 1980s and 1990s -- say 1985-1993 -- when I like hardly any of her lyrics. But I think a lot of her recent lyrics, especially from SYW, are amazing. :nod:

1. China Doll
2. Storms
3. Silver Springs
(The "I'll follow you down" line alone is enough to cinch it)
4. Sara
5. Everybody Finds Out
("When love starts out in the darkness/It doesn't do well in the light" is genius, as is the rest of the song, though the music is kinda shallow)
6. Space Needle
(it has a Sara-like abstractness that I love)
7. Landslide
8. Fall from Grace
9. Destiny Rules
10. Beautiful Child

1. Twisted
2. Beautiful Child
3. Thrown Down
4. Planets Of The Universe
5. Outside The Rain
6. Doing The Best I Can
7. China Doll
8. Mistaken Love
9. Dreams
10. Sara

Maker Of The Birds
Lady From The Mountain
Sleeping Angel
Gate & Garden
Somebody Stand By Me
Sara
SOTM
Rose Garden
Garbo
Smile At You

gosh there r so many more, but it's what came off the top of my head~

Goodbye Baby/Tower....the vocal she managed on the album version breaks my heart but the lyrics always reduce me to tears.
Twisted... my favorite song with incredibly meaningful lyrics
Fall From Grace....including verses she dropped on the album
Storms
Wild Heart...so heartwrenching
Beauty and the Beast
China Doll
Trouble in ShangriLa...some of her best writing ever
Silver Springs
Gypsy

I have ten but I must mention Stand Back and Edge. They both rock so hard that it tends to disguise the intensity and sadness in the lyrics. Stand Back is heartbreaking actually and her words touch me immensely. I am not sure if I think this is something that Stevie did intentionally..like LB does with particularly vulnerable lyrics...he covers them up with screaming or mumbling vocals and loud, aggressive and manic guitar work. Stand Back and Edge are very intense and heartwrenching songs that reflect a sad, lonely time for Stevie but she made them into rockers....

In no particular order...

-Fall From Grace
-Edge of Seventeen
-Wild Heart
-Storms
-Trouble In Shangri La
-Goodbye Baby
-Twisted
-Silver Springs
-Stand Back
-Beauty and the Beast

TISL
Edge of 17
Storms
Landslide
Dreams
The Nightmare
Thrown Down
Angel
POTU
Silver Springs

-Rhiannon
-Edge of Seventeen
-Wild Heart
-Storms
-Trouble In Shangri La
-Goodbye Baby (more so the demo)
-Twisted
-Silver Springs
-Gold Dust Woman
-Beauty and the Beast

close contender:

Bella Donna
Dreams
Jane (I love this song)
Say You Will (I just want to jump for joy when reading it)

Disqualified since it contains the word "chimpanzee." :)