Lyrics that go "clunk" - Page 2

HejiraNYC · #16 02-22-2013, 11:08 PM

Would you change your mind
At the very last moment
Would you say "stop" for a second
I think you better think for a minute

vivfox · #17 02-22-2013, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mitzo

Sisters of the Moon - many black widow spiders make more sound than she

The correct lyrics: And a black widow spider makes more sound than she

Does the right words change the meaning for you?

vivfox · #18 02-22-2013, 11:59 PM

Long nets of white cloud my memory.

She dreamed of her wanton luxury.

michelej1 · #19 02-23-2013, 01:27 AM

I actually like NMB "hurts my everything." I think the language matches the message and captures that feeling you get when someone can hurt you in ways you thought you'd outgrown. All the childish pain resurfaces. Old buttons get pushed that you no longer thought even worked any more. I'm mature. I'm successful. How is it you have the power to make me feel like I'm 12 and insecure again. Given the import of the song, it's fitting that it uses childish language to describe it.

I hate the famous ones: Silver Girl and Jane. Almost too common to mention.

Although I like Love Changes, in a way I think these lyrics are too literal. The car crash simile is too graphic, so I'm thinking more about seeing an actual car accident on the road than I am about the emotion of walking away from a relationship. I'm kind of torn. In a way, I do think the words work, but in a way I don't:

When love changes in the flash of an eye,
it leaves people burning by the side of the road.
You stand there you got nothing to hold

Michele

TheWILDheart · #20 02-23-2013, 05:36 AM

"What's deeper than a deep well? The love into which I fell"......URGH.

RavenOfRhiannon · #21 02-23-2013, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Listen to the Rain - You're a frontliner. Phantom of the Opera. Basically, the whole song.

I used to refer to this song as the 'How Many Broadway Musicals Can Stevie Fit Into A Song?' Song because of that line and the 'There's no Beauty and the Beast here,' line.
A shame, really, because with more work it could have been a good song. I do have to admit that the 1991 version is a tad better.

BrownEyedGirl26 · #22 02-23-2013, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

"What's deeper than a deep well? The love into which I fell"......URGH.

At least this makes sense and is very dramatic and romantic.

TheWILDheart · #23 02-23-2013, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by BrownEyedGirl26

At least this makes sense and is very dramatic and romantic.

what's romantic about a well? Except maybe pushing the ex down one....

Also, this line isn't poorly written, but it's so annoying...

"what I seem to touch these days has turned to gold. What I seem to want, well you know I find a way..."

On Ice · #24 02-23-2013, 10:07 AM

Her most unbelievable lyric she ever wrote: "I sing for the things money can't buy"...uhm, not quite Stevie.

Worst references in songs for me are those pesky doors and stares/stairs, (although I forgive her for sitting in her chair for months just staring), the many doors in hallways, staring at stairs, having someone drag her up the stairs, sets of doors being the colour of honey, downstairs where the big old house is hers. Yuck.

TheWILDheart · #25 02-23-2013, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by On Ice

Worst references in songs for me are those pesky doors and stares/stairs, (although I forgive her for sitting in her chair for months just staring), the many doors in hallways, staring at stairs, having someone drag her up the stairs, sets of doors being the colour of honey, downstairs where the big old house is hers. Yuck.

Stairs and doors and floors and halls and walls and castles and corridors and towers and houses with long nets (curtains) of white

mitzo · #26 02-23-2013, 10:22 AM

Nightbird: I wear boots all summer long

Bella Donna: the whole thing's phoney

all of Rooms on Fire

Street Angel: I fell down the stairs, a broken rag doll

Storms: my body tries to cry

New Orleans: I wanna brush by Ann Rice/I wanna wear beads

Love Is: she fell to the floor

Wide Sargassso Sea: you fell to the floor when you saw this

GypsySorcerer · #27 02-23-2013, 11:07 AM

Thousand Days - Such words to her over the phone.

Whole Lotta Trouble -
'Til the dream followed through
'Til the end of the dream
And the dream came true

Do we dare post lyrics from demos?

TheWILDheart · #28 02-23-2013, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

'Til the dream followed through

Oh yeh, I forgot about this one. It always reminded me of "following through"

. Thanks for that, Stevie...

Artemis · #29 02-23-2013, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ejof17

And she stares at the stairs. There are so many things to stare at these days.

See, I thought that for ages, until I read someone on here suggest it could be "she stares at the stares" linking it to her being in rehab. Totally flipped the whole song for me

ejof17 · #30 02-23-2013, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Artemis

See, I thought that for ages, until I read someone on here suggest it could be "she stares at the stares" linking it to her being in rehab. Totally flipped the whole song for me

I had never considered that....would make it forgivable then LOL! But "she stares at their glares" would be better then.