Great and true lyrics
 

This lyrics from Battle of Dragons is sooooo true!!!!! I think that it's what all we Stevie fans think every day, at least I do, here it comes:

"The reason that I paint you in my paintings and the reason I record the sound of your voices"

And:

"I can live here without you, at least I'm learning, but I cannot live without your songs"

It's almost right, but I guess I cannot live here without Stevie...:)

What do you think about this lyrics? And do you know any other songs that you have felt like "Oh, this is exactly what I think about Stevie or this is very true" when you heard it?

Have a great time!
/Belladonna93.

I always loved this song and always the dragon was a metaphor for drugs. The way she sings "I wish this battle was over" towards the end gives me this impression. A dragon has been used as a term for drug use in other situations. There's a funny scene in Meet The Parents about Puff The Magic Dragon. Stevie has also used the dragon symbol on the backdrop for the SA Tour and TISL artwork. But the thing I like most about the song is the use of the many layers of vocal harmonies that she sings as the song is fading. This techique was used a lot on the earlier songs especially Silver Springs. In my opinion some of her best harmonies are built up in the climax of the song.

I've always loved this song.....one of the best to me.....whatever its about.....I kinda always thought it might have something to do with Fmac and all the fighting in the band.....either way I love it....great song.............:thumbsup::]

The first lyrics that popped in my head were from Wild Heart

" Something in my heart died last night, just one more chip off an already broken heart. I think my heart broke long ago." I'm totally going through this right now and I feel better after I hear the lyrics. and these lyrics just cut so deep and are so true to how I feel.

When I stood with you against the storm
I tried once again
I said, "I'd like to leave you with something warm"
How many times?
Drowning in the sea of love

That was when the dream took her prisoner
And she knew the dream was over
But the nightmare was not over

[shivers]

Well David, I'd agree with a RAL track any day for a dose of emotion, but my pic would be this lyric of lyrics:

"Children of the world...
the forgotten chimpanzee
In the eyes of the world...
you have done so much for me"

It's got everything. The word 'world' twice, and she even made something rhyme with 'chimpanzee'. It's almost (but not quite) as good as her tripping out of the stratosphere on 'jetplanes' and 'starstreams' like in 'Sister Honey'.

But seriously, I think that I've gone on record here that my most shiver-inducing lyric is the 'Are you happy..?' sequence at the end of 'Love Is' (from TISL). It seems to be a very true lyric, and one of her most real. That not-so-hopeful note was the perfect way to end what will probably prove to be the last full solo album release from Stevie.

Love Changes is not my favorite Stevie song. It would not even make my Top 25, but certainly an exemplar of lyrical truth about how the bottom can drop out, when someone just stops being in love. For the other person, I think the sudden wrench and emptiness is as startling as it is painful.

I think these words are plain and penetrating, made even more relatable on a basic human level because, for Stevie, they are so unadorned.

When love changes in the flash of an eye
It leaves people burnin' by the side of the road
You stand there you got nothing to hold
For the first time you are alone

* * *

That don't mend the sorrow
Or reinvent the pleasure

And this is the reason why there IS so much good stuff on TISL. The words she penned there were some of her most honest, sometimes brutally so. It was a journey through the mind of a woman getting older, and a woman who maybe is finally getting to the point where she is pondering the choices she made.

Love Changes was. But many of the other TISL songs were a journey through the mind of someone still in their twenties!

But yeah, take Love Is, stark and much more sensual than Stevie usually is, I think. She used to write with imagery that was and is beautiful, but it kind of distanced her from the emotion in the songs. You know, it took her into the sky, the planets, the rain, the thunder, a spirit in flight.

In the more recent songs, she's often more tethered to earth, feet on the ground, writing with an unvarnished simplicity that makes the words all the more vulnerable and direct. Love Is, I Miss You, even Say You Will . . . It's really just lover to lover and much more intimate. Michele

Michele

These lines from "Beautiful Child" relate to my life at the moment (I've always adored this song):

Beautiful Child
Beautiful Child
You are a beautiful child
And I am a fool once more

. . . I bite my lip, can
you send me away
You touch
I have no choice
I have to stay
I had to stay

Sleepless child
There is so little time
Your eyes say yes
But you don't say yes
I wish that you were mine

You say it will be harder in the
morning
I wait for you to say, just go
Your hands, held
mine so few hours
And I'm not a child anymore

. . . I'm old enough
To love you from afar
Too trusting. . .yes?
But then women usually are

. . . I will do
As I'm told
Even if I never hold you again
I never hold you again