Aw, Stevie...you could do better! (The Lame Lyric Thread)

[Carlene]

Have we done this one before??

We all have our favorite Stevie lyrics, but which ones just "don't do it" for you? Perhaps it's the words themselves...perhaps it's the way they are sung...but which of Stevie's solo lyrics makes your eyes roll?

Then...you must redeem yourself -- cleanse your thoughts! -- and post a favorite Stevie lyric!


Lame lyric: "Street angels live on the street..."
My thought every time I hear this line is: "No sh**."

A favorite lyric: "Unbraid with all of the love that you have / Like a soft silver chain." (beautiful!)


~Carlene~

[dissention]

Lame: "Children of the world...the forgotten chimpanzee..." Sooo awful...makes me cringe!

Awesome: "Some people walk down the darkest streets with the faith of a child...and so go the faithless..." LOVE the lyrics to No Spoken Word!

[strandinthewind]

Favorite:

"So with the slow (sad) graceful flow - of age - I went forth with an age old . . . desire to please on the Edge of seventeen" this is probably my favorite part of EO17, all of which is brilliant (lyrics, music, vocal delivery (esp. the a capella version floating out there).

Not my favorite

"one tear slid across her lip to the corner of her mouth and dropped to the floor." I get the meaning and like it enough to listen to the song, I just find it's delivery too sappy and trite.

[Sorcerer386]

Lame: "And on you run, you search for love, you hate searching, you wait for love, you hate waiting, you say I hate this."

Awesome (by the comparison it makes): "And if the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun, why does the greatest love become the greatest pain...Thousand Days!"

[The Tower]

Lame #1:

"I only say what you want to hear
When there is a conflict I stay clear
When he was loving I was in tears
He knows my fears"

BORING!!!

Lame #2:

"And as all this comes to an end, so go the lilies of the valley
From this hour on brilliant is your danger
Darker than the image on the wall is the fear of it all
But he never said no to you baby
Mirror, Mirror"

This one never made any sense to me whatsoever, ramble on, baby!

Lame #3:

The entire lyrics to "The Nightmare". Just plain awful and self-derivative to the point of meaning zippo.


Great #1:

"In my distress...well I wanted someone to blame me
In my devastation...I wanted so to change
In my way...disaster was the only thing that I could depend on..."

So, so true!!

Great #2:

"Let the crisis become a bridge...and cross that bridge tomorrow
Well let the time that goes between, baby...
Well let it let go of the sorrow"

KILLER!!

Great #3:

"You will remember, but I will die a slow death..."

And all of "Planets of the Universe"


Of course, this is but a sampling....

[Johnny Stew]

Originally posted by Carlene
Lame lyric: "Street angels live on the street..."
My thought every time I hear this line is: "No sh**."

*lol* When I sing along with that one, I actually change the line to, "some angels live on the street, and they always will."

[gldstwmn]

Like: (they change)-"I guess we don't believe that things could go that far. We all believe in people that we think believe in God. Somewhere in the night, someone feels the pain. The ones who walk away try to love again." Flawless Stevie!

Dislike: " Oh living in a hole, was it your world or just my darkness?" Why do I think this song is about Mick effing Fleetwood?

[darklinensuit]

Once again The Tower posted my thoughts (though I do like Mirror Mirror).

Great :

"Just like the sea, still rock a little/Some say it was just like me"

"Venus doesn't glitter when she stands next to you"

"Fire on fire, rain on my face/Fever goes higher, what can you do?/Wild in the darkest places in your mind"

"Then you could use a dreamer, I think, somewhere on your side...The candle burns bright, then the candle dies"

"Living in a sanctuary, mine alone/With my story, my stronghold"

ALL of The Highwayman

Less then great:

"In her always hanging mirror"

"The earth and the sea and the sky IS at rest with the ocean"
(This is plural, and aren't bodies of water part of the earth?)

"Well I wonder which set of rooms ARE mine"
(though I do like the time taking its toll line)

"This is me talking to YA"

"I'll take off my cape for you/I'll take down my hair for you/I'll cluck like a chicken for you/Anything you want me to do, my love/Just don't Gong me"

- Jake

[The Tower]

Originally posted by darklinensuit


"Venus doesn't glitter when she stands next to you"

"Living in a sanctuary, mine alone/With my story, my stronghold"

ALL of The Highwayman

- Jake

"Garbo" is one of the great-great-greats.... - especially the "Venus doesn't glitter...." line. I forgot to include that one. Just the other day I was playing "Garbo" on the piano and remembered the other "GREAT" line....

"When you're waltzing through stardom....
You miss what you..............
Knew..."

Just goes to show ya how underconfidant Stevie was in her "old" days. She always sez, "My voice wasn't good enough for Lindsey" - or, "I just tried to help him."

BULL****!!!!!

Stevie was (and is still) it, man..... I'm still floored that they did the demo of "That's Alright" ("Designs of Love") and didn't release it until at LEAST ten years after the song had been written and presented.

"ALL" of "The Highwayman" is dead-on right. Too many lines to mention....

"And she in all her magic, with hands as quick as light
Took him to be a challenge.... and went into the night....."

Absolute greatness....... (and graciousness.... {she's always a woman to me})

[The Tower]

Originally posted by Rhiannon5354
What about this one...

Favourite:
"Maybe I am calmer now
maybe things are fine..
maybe I made the WHOLE thing up..
maybe it isn't a lie.."


Sara

There is a song that my {former} band used to do, where -as a vamp- I would incorporate this line.... except you forgot

[SIZE=4]"Maybe the reason I say these things is to being you back alive...
Well, maybe I fought this long and this hard- just to
Make sure-
You surviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiivvvvvvvvvvvvveeeee, yeeeaaahhhh!!!!!"

Bitchin' damn lyrics!!!!

[The Tower]

Originally posted by darklinensuit
"I'll take off my cape for you/I'll take down my hair for you/I'll cluck like a chicken for you/Anything you want me to do, my love/Just don't Gong me"

As a parting glance, I will say that....

Rock A Little is not a great album. However, there are a few songs (and visuals) that redeem it.

1) "Talk to Me" Stevie's vocals have never been better.

2) The "I Can't Wait" video. At least she {tried} for the time that was.

3) AND my point.... In my opinion, the one great album track ("Has Anyone Ever.... is NOT an album track, it is an anthem), is "I Sing For the Things"....

"Did the fear inside you- make you turn and run- make you turn and run- make you turn and run away from me...... Don't be scared, baby....."

[EricBliss12345]

"I'll take off my cape for you/I'll take down my hair for you/I'll cluck like a chicken for you/Anything you want me to do, my love/Just don't Gong me"

What the hell song is that from? I GOTTA hear that one.

Street angels live on the street...Street Angel's aren't like anyone you know they do what they want and they go where they go

That one sounds like another winner. Street Angels live on the street. Good one. I think that reads more funny to somebody who doesn't know her material than you think.

I can't quote any solo Stevie, but I can quote some Mac Stevie

"The dream has just begun!"

That's the single most breathtaking thing I've ever heard the woman sing. I don't think any other line I've heard from her comes close or is even half as effective.

"I have always been a storm" is another line that I really like.

As far as bad stuff from her, I haven't noticed anything that I've found unpleasant or trite, except for the whole of "When I See You Again" which is just one massive turkey.

Once again, sorry I can't quote any solo Stevie stuff. I just wanted to fit in somehow, FOR ONCE.

[Sorceress]

Lamest: "And she stares at the stairs...Ooh there are many things to stare at these days" OMG, it's awful.


I'm loving these lyrics right now:
"For no special reason
I am leaving you for awhile tonight
I'm flying far above you
Still I love you
You make things right"

[DeeGeMe]

Thinking about this, I never realized just how much I love Stevie's Tusk songs until now:

The Good: Sisters of the Moon:
Intense Silence/As She Walks in the Room/Her Black Robes Trailing/Sister of the Moon

Better: Beautiful Child:
I'm not a child anymore/I'm old enough to love you from afar/Too trusting yes, but then women usually are

Best: Angel
I still look up/when you walk in the room/I've the same wide eyes/they tell the story/. . . . And we both pretend/there was an end/but there was no ending. . . like a ghost through a fog/like a charmed hour/like a haunted song/and the angel of my dreams

The Bad: When I See You Again
Too bad for me to even quote

The Ugly: Gate and Garden:
There is a gate/It can be guarded/Well it is not heaven/and it has a garden

WTF????????? Please tell me she was high when she wrote this
Yet, in the very same song, the lines that totally redeem the whole song for me:

You don't give in to yourself/you give in to your friends

I intensely dislike Running Through the Garden too. And I'm not fond of God's Garden either. My verdict? Stevie needs to stay the hell out of the garden!!!!!!

[cliffdweller]

Lame:
"creature of the night it's been almost a week"-- what is a "creature of the night" anyway? It sounds ghastly.

Great:
"And the days go by like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own, I begin again..."

I don't care how many times you hear it, this line just captures any mood, it can apply to so many situations in one's ever-changing life. It's about life and renewal, I love it.