Sheer Lyrical Brilliance

[Artemis]

More I've thought of:

"You won't forget me even though you think you want to
You'll run away, but in your mind, I'll still be there"

"Was it a thorn in your side
Something that you hide
Something you don't touch
Because it hurts too much"

"And the whispered secrets go on and on
No one says anything to anyone
You watch after her and your word is law
She thought she was out there, but nobody saw
I didn't win or lose...I just threw the cards
But I paid a price for it..."

"Have you been writing? Well, you say it's harder now
Well, I got the message: stay among the living

From what I can tell, I need to be here
You say someone's looking for you, ooh, nothing is wrong
Well, I can and I will go on

No one walks away from this battle
From the power, it's so strong
Like a fury
Keep the fury deep inside
And wish it to end
And when your friends start asking you why
Ooh, you just pretend, don't say nothing"

"Take me if you need me
But never hold me down
You're asking me to trust you
Well, there's little of that around

I'm trying to believe you
And I'm learning all the time
Two-part personality
The flower and the vine"

"Now I decided yesterday that I would leave you
I'm alright..."

"Go on, save yourself
Leave the key here
You love someone else
I shouldn't be here"

"What you did not need
Was a woman who was stronger
You needed someone to depend on you
I could not be her
I did not want to
My first mistake was to smile at you"

Pretty much most of the angry demo from Smile At You, actually..

[Lilyfan]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Great topic!

Some of my favorite lyrics:

"Too trusting, yes. But, then women usually are."

"And if you don't love me now you will never love me again. I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain."

"Do you always trust your first initial feeling?"

"In the drama of the moment well, there is no easy way."

"You say not even you can tear us apart."

"I'll be the dancer, you'll be the player. I'll just almost hold you, if you'd just almost stay here. I'll be the passion and you be the play. I'll just almost hold you, you'll just almost stay."

"Someday when we're older and my hair is silver gray, unbraid with all of the love that you have - like a soft, silver chain."

"You are song for me, melody ingrained in my soul."

I love all the choices I've seen and would just like to throw in:

"If you don't love me now, you will never love me again" (you can just about hear the - By God- attitude in it.)

[FierySequences]

All of these are brilliant, some often forgotten lyrics:

"You've left me now
And it's seasoned my soul
And with every step you take
I watch another part of you go"

"You think you hear demons
I think we are the demons
In this place where the images are born
You remember your childhood
Oh, in fiery sequences
The sun goes down"

"I play the part but then all of us do
And I do it so well as I do it to you
In this town full of strangers
In this town full of fools....

Lose yourself in a silvery dress
For you think you must do what you feel you do best
And you musn't give it up for you're still but a guest"


Stevie in her finery: All of:
Bella Donna (song)
Outside The Rain
How Still My Love
Sleeping Angel
For What's it Worth
You May Be The One
Fall From Grace
Storms
Beautiful Child
Crystal
...the list is endless

[editme2]

There's an endless supply of brilliance, but here are some of my favorites:

All of Silver Springs
All of The Highwayman
All of Bella Donna
All of Gypsy

"Is love so fragile
And the heart so hollow
It shatters with words
Impossible to follow"

"When it rains, it pours
When there's no one at the door
Yes, he did send me flowers
But that was a long time ago
It sounded good on a
Delicate white-ribbon card
'One more big time rock 'n' roll star'
Just what I need"

"Something in my heart died last night
One more chip off an already broken heart
I think of heart broke long ago
That's when I needed you
When I needed you most"

[redbird]

Mirror in the sky, what is love? Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? (Landslide)

Rock on, gold dust woman. Take your silver spoon, dig your grave. (Gold Dust Woman -- the whole song; I just think it's a brilliant opening line)

Don't say that she’s pretty. And did you say that she loves you? Baby I don’t want to know. (Silver Springs)

So I begin not to love you, turn around and see me runnin'.
I'll say I loved you years ago, tell myself you never loved me, no. (Silver Springs)

You could be my silver spring, blue green colors flashing. (Silver Springs -- when delivered at the very end of the The Dance version, I just die)

It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams and, have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness like a heartbeat, drives you mad in the stillness of remembering
What you had, and what you lost, and what you had, oh and what you lost. (Dreams -- hard to single out one part of the song)

Your eyes say yes, but you don’t say yes. I wish that you were mine. (Beautiful Child)

Too trusting? Yes, but then women usually are. (Beautiful Child)

Every hour of fear I spend, my body tries to cry. (Storms)

But never have I been a blue calm sea, I have always been a storm. (Storms)

We were frail ... I should have known from the start, I’d be the brokenhearted.
But I loved you from the start. And not all the prayers in the world could save us. (Storms)

So I close my eyes softly and I become that part of the wind that we all long for sometimes, yeah.
And to those that I love like a ghost in the fog, like a charmed hour and a haunted song and the angel of my dreams ...(Angel)

Wait a minute baby, stay with me a while.
Said you'd give me light but you never told me 'bout the fire. (Sara)

Drowning in a sea of love where everyone would love to drown. (Sara)

And he was just like a great dark wing within the wings of a storm.
I think I had met my match. He was singing, and undoing the laces ... (Sara)

Sara, you’re the poet in my heart. Never change, and never stop. (Sara)

I would love to believe, I believe what you say.
In the drama of the moment, oh no there is no easy way.
No one ever leaves, everyone stays close 'till the fire fades. (Fireflies)

They like to wrap her in velvet. Does anyone know her name? (Sisters of the Moon)

And it all comes down to you, well you know that it does yeah.
Lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice. (Gypsy)

And the dream says I want you, and the dream is gone.
So she stays up nights on end, well at least there is a dream left. (When I See You Again)

I stepped into the canyons of my loneliness and I went about as far as I could go. (The Chain demo)

The clouds never expect it when it rains, but the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.
So with the slow graceful flow of age, I went forth with an age-old desire to please, on the edge of seventeen. (EO17, despite the two "age"s)

And she out in the distance sees him against the sky,
A pale and violent rider, a dream begun in wine. (The Highwayman)

Where is the reason? Don’t blame it on me, blame it on my wild heart. (Wild Heart)

I'm tired, I'm thirsty, I'm wild-eyed in my misery. (Sorcerer)

[Jondalar]

these were soo long ago....

[Aussie W/Heart]

Originally Posted by Artemis

More I've thought of:

"You won't forget me even though you think you want to
You'll run away, but in your mind, I'll still be there"

"Was it a thorn in your side
Something that you hide
Something you don't touch
Because it hurts too much"

"And the whispered secrets go on and on
No one says anything to anyone
You watch after her and your word is law
She thought she was out there, but nobody saw
I didn't win or lose...I just threw the cards
But I paid a price for it..."

"Have you been writing? Well, you say it's harder now
Well, I got the message: stay among the living

From what I can tell, I need to be here
You say someone's looking for you, ooh, nothing is wrong
Well, I can and I will go on

No one walks away from this battle
From the power, it's so strong
Like a fury
Keep the fury deep inside
And wish it to end
And when your friends start asking you why
Ooh, you just pretend, don't say nothing"

"Take me if you need me
But never hold me down
You're asking me to trust you
Well, there's little of that around

I'm trying to believe you
And I'm learning all the time
Two-part personality
The flower and the vine"

"Now I decided yesterday that I would leave you
I'm alright..."

"Go on, save yourself
Leave the key here
You love someone else
I shouldn't be here"

"What you did not need
Was a woman who was stronger
You needed someone to depend on you
I could not be her
I did not want to
My first mistake was to smile at you"

Pretty much most of the angry demo from Smile At You, actually..

Absolutely LOVE all of the above

[ejof17]

When I run through your door I am freed from my slavery/and the fire will be burnin long before you return to me. (Julia)

[ejof17]

I still look up when you walk in the room/I've the same wide eyes/they tell a story (Angel)

If I had my life to love over I would never dream, no, I'd still wish you gone and I will live alone. Yes, I will live alone. (Planets)

I'm just at the other end of your night, I'm always in and out of your life. Right down the middle of all of your dreams. (In Your Dreams)

[cliffdweller]

"Now there you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down?
It's only right that you should
Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat.. drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost..."

Not only are these lyrics beautifully written and beautifully inspired, they also have a great rhythm and flow when sung. They just roll off the tongue. I also really like the heartbeat metaphor. Brilliant.