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I love how words are woven into beautiful lyrics. This one isn't the finest, but it's on my iPod right now, and I'm so impressed with the lyrics for a song that didn't make it terribly big. What are some of your faves??

"Year Of The Cat" Al Stewart

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came

In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, "I feel my life
Just like a river running through"

The year of the cat

Why she looks at you so coolly?
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside

The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on

But the drumbeat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay

In the year of the cat
Year of the cat


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  • Hockey_Winger
    Hockey_Winger Posts: 1,164 Member
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    Blue October – A Quiet Mind

    A slow strangle with my feet on the floor.
    I've got 14 angels and I'm sleeping alone,
    In the back of the cave, where the rest of us go to feel normal.

    I call baby up, leave me alone.
    I'm in pain but I won't let you band-aid my wound.
    I'm not at a stage where I can't even handle my own.

    [Chorus]
    Give me a quiet mind and I...
    I love you.
    You give me a quiet mind and I...
    I'll love you...
    Until the end

    Give me the strength to be kind, to combine,
    All the good things in life that are so hard to find.
    But I have and I won't let them go like I do with my friends.

    Still hearing voices, from front, from behind
    They're the reason I choose...When to live...How to die
    When to cast...When to reel
    When to buy...When to steal
    When to fiend for the friends that taught you being inappropriate will

    [Chorus]
    Give me a quiet mind and I...
    I love you.
    You give me a quiet mind and I...
    I'll love you...
    Until the end
  • sunglasses_and_ocean_waves
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    Oh these are beautiful :heart: !! Thank you ....
  • dpwellman
    dpwellman Posts: 3,271 Member
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    "One tear in the driving rain,
    One voice in a sea of pain
    Could the maker of the stars
    Hear the sound of my breaking heart?
    One light, that's all I am
    Right now I can barely stand
    If You're everything You say You are
    Won't You come close and hold my heart"
  • lsgibbs83
    lsgibbs83 Posts: 254 Member
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    "I Will Catch You" ~ Royal Bliss

    Waiting out the storm
    Believing all the words they say.
    To fill your mind.

    Even though you were scared
    To leave all the ones you love
    So far behind.

    And they build you up
    Just to drag you down
    The longest road
    But I'm still here
    And I'm not giving up.

    I'll be there through it all
    I'll be there when you fall
    And I will catch you
    Yeah I will...
    Even if I'm not around
    I won't let you hit the ground
    And I will catch you

    You know it always seems
    These pages ripped out of books
    They wash you clean
    And you know that I'll be damned
    If I can't find the one it takes
    To set you free.


    You're not alone. I'll take you home
    To say goodbye and we'll be gone

    Well I'd do anything
    I'll take it all
    I'll place the fall
    Please just try and tell me where you are
    Oh I'd do anything
    I'd do anything

    I'll be there through it all
    I'll be there when you fall
    And I will catch you
    Yeah I will...
    Even if I'm not around
    I won't let you hit the ground
    And I will catch you
  • Joannah700
    Joannah700 Posts: 2,665 Member
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    Not full lyrics but a few lines strike out to me...

    From Everlong, "breathe out so I can breathe you in".

    I have to pause everytime I hear that line.

    And the begining of this song.

    You go to my head
    And you linger like a haunting refrain
    And I find you spinning round in my brain
    Like the bubbles in a glass of champagne
  • TanLinesNTailgates2
    TanLinesNTailgates2 Posts: 1,528 Member
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    Iris by Goo Goo Dolls

    And I'd give up forever to touch you
    'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
    You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
    And I don't want to go home right now

    And all I can taste is this moment
    And all I can breathe is your life
    'Cause sooner or later it's over
    I just don't want to miss you tonight

    And I don't want the world to see me
    'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
    When everything's made to be broken
    I just want you to know who I am

    And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
    Or the moment of truth in your lies
    When everything feels like the movies
    Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive

    And I don't want the world to see me
    'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
    When everything's made to be broken
    I just want you to know who I am

    And I don't want the world to see me
    'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
    When everything's made to be broken
    I just want you to know who I am

    And I don't want the world to see me
    'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
    When everything's made to be broken
    I just want you to know who I am
    I just want you to know who I am
    I just want you to know who I am
    I just want you to know who I am



  • lsgibbs83
    lsgibbs83 Posts: 254 Member
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    I love Iris and Everlong too...There are so many really good lyrics. It's like choosing a favorite child.
  • TanLinesNTailgates2
    TanLinesNTailgates2 Posts: 1,528 Member
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    lsgibbs83 wrote: »
    I love Iris and Everlong too...There are so many really good lyrics. It's like choosing a favorite child.

    yes I know :)

  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,833 Member
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    This one is short and simple, but quite BEAUTIFUL!

    Joe Cocker – You Are So Beautiful

    You are so beautiful
    To me
    You are so beautiful
    To me
    Can't you see

    You're everything I hope for
    You're everything I need
    You are so beautiful to me
    You are so beautiful to me

    You are so beautiful
    To me
    Can't you see
    You're everything I hope for
    You're every, everything I need
    You are so beautiful to me
  • jayce54321
    jayce54321 Posts: 110 Member
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    Patty Larkin OPEN ARMS

    Lover holds you when others go
    Covers you with another soul
    Stands behind you when you stand alone
    And you don't explain

    And when the rain comes down
    You feel like a waste of time
    Fall into those open arms
    Don't explain

    Read more at http://www.songlyrics.com/patty-larkin/open-arms-lyrics/#gTUAqXkssH7HfExX.99
  • TanLinesNTailgates2
    TanLinesNTailgates2 Posts: 1,528 Member
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    Nice one Fab :))
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,592 Member
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    Demon tied to a chair in my brain
    Blackbird a tappin' on the window pane
    Sick man smilin' at a stray dog in the rain
    Demon tied to a chair in my brain
    Demon tied to a chair in my brain
    Lovers burnin' ghostly draggin' their chains
    Met eyes from the window
    Of that midnight train
    Demon tied to a chair in my brain
    Demon tied to a chair in my brain
    Demon tied to a chair in my brain
    Mad shriekin' woman weepin' my name
    My skeleton is meltin'
    My soul is in flames
    Demon tied to a chair in my brain
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
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    You ruin me- The Veronicas

    Job well done
    Standing ovation
    Yeah you got what you wanted
    I guess you won
    And I don't want to hear, they don't know you like I do
    Even I could've told you
    But now we're done

    'Cause you play me like a symphony
    Play me till your fingers bleed
    I'm your greatest masterpiece
    You ruin me
    Later when the curtains drawn
    And no one's there for you back home
    Don't cry to me, you played me wrong
    You ruin me

    I know you thought
    That I wouldn't notice
    You were acting so strange
    I'm not that dumb
    And in the end I hope she was worth it
    I don't care if you loved me, you make me numb

    'Cause you play me like a symphony
    Play me till your fingers bleed
    I'm your greatest masterpiece
    You ruin me
    Later when the curtains drawn
    And no one's there for you back home
    Don't cry to me, you played me wrong
    You ruin me

    We're that song you wouldn't sing
    Just a broken melody
    You're killing me

    You play me like a symphony
    Play me till your fingers bleed
    I'm your greatest masterpiece
    You ruin me
    Later when the curtains drawn
    And no one's there for you back home
    Don't cry to me you played me wrong
    You ruin me
  • Joannah700
    Joannah700 Posts: 2,665 Member
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    Lovesong

    Whenever I'm alone with you
    You make me feel like I am home again
    Whenever I'm alone with you
    You make me feel like I am whole again

    Whenever I'm alone with you
    You make me feel like I am young again
    Whenever I'm alone with you
    You make me feel like I am fun again

    However far away
    I will always love you
    However long I stay
    I will always love you
    Whatever words I say
    I will always love you
    I will always love you

    Whenever I'm alone with you
    You make me feel like I am free again
    Whenever I'm alone with you
    You make me feel like I am clean again

    However far away
    I will always love you
    However long I stay
    I will always love you
    Whatever words I say
    I will always love you
    I will always love you
  • BV1980
    BV1980 Posts: 272 Member
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    At life's four-way stop
    The tinges in your shadow drop
    Fate pulls you down for the count
    With broken promises to amount

    Time seals our ways
    To the heart of our hiding place
    When all our lifelines have been crossed
    Some scars can never heal from what we lost

    To fail the test and depart the strong
    Is to light the way where you have gone
    For only our funerals to come
    A requiem in death, a song

    And it seems to be
    That consistency is not what lingers ahead
    Burt a virtue of the dead
    One of these days
    Hours pass yet the night stays
    When your spirit won't turn anew
    The world shuts down with no goodbye to undo you

    Breathing lifeless
    We are not afraid to die
    Breathe in life's less
    You're afraid not to live

    Katatonia - Undo You
  • BV1980
    BV1980 Posts: 272 Member
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    Ever felt away with me
    Just once that all I need
    Entwined in finding you one day

    Ever felt away without me
    My love, it lies so deep
    Ever dream of me

    Would you do it with me
    Heal the scars and change the stars
    Would you do it for me
    Turn loose the heaven within

    I'd take you away
    Castaway on a lonely day
    Bosom for a teary cheek
    My song can but borrow your grace

    Come out, come out wherever you are
    So lost in your sea
    Give in, give in for my touch
    For my taste for my lust

    Your beauty cascaded on me
    In the white night fantasy

    "All I ever craved were the two dreams I shared with you. One I now have, will the other one ever dream remain. For yours I truly wish to be."

    Nightwish - Ever Dream
  • MrsBooBear
    MrsBooBear Posts: 12,619 Member
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    "By Your Side" Sade

    You think I'd leave your side baby
    You know me better than that
    You think I'd leave you down when you're down on your knees
    I wouldn't do that
    I'll tell you you're right when you want
    Ha ah ah ah ah ah
    And if only you could see into me

    Oh, when you're cold
    I'll be there
    Hold you tight to me

    When you're on the outside baby and you can`t get in
    I will show you you're so much better than you know
    When you're lost and you're alone and you can't get back again
    I will find you darling and I will bring you home

    And if you want to cry
    I am here to dry your eyes
    And in no time
    You'll be fine

    You think I'd leave your side baby
    You know me better than that
    You think I'd leave you down when you're down on your knees
    I wouldn't do that
    I'll tell you you're right when you want
    Ha ah ah ah ah ah
    And if only you could see into me

    Oh when you're cold
    I'll be there
    Hold you tight to me
    Oh when you're low
    I'll be there
    By your side baby

    Oh when you're cold
    I'll be there
    Hold you tight to me
    Oh when you're low
    I'll be there
    By your side baby
  • Go_Mizzou99
    Go_Mizzou99 Posts: 2,628 Member
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    Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden

    I'll be your dream I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy
    I'll be your hope I'll be your love be everything that you need
    I'll love you more with every breath truly, madly, deeply do
    I will be strong I will be faithful 'cause I'm counting on
    A new beginning
    A reason for living
    A deeper meaning, yeah

    [chorus:]
    I want to stand with you on a mountain
    I want to bathe with you in the sea
    I want to lay like this forever
    Until the sky falls down on me

    And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky,
    I'll make a wish send it to heaven then make you want to cry
    The tears of joy for all the pleasure and the certainty
    That we're surrounded by the comfort and protection of
    The highest powers
    In lonely hours
    The tears devour you

    [chorus]

    Oh can you see it baby?
    You don't have to close your eyes
    'Cause it's standing right before you
    All that you need will surely come

    I'll be your dream I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy
    I'll be your hope I'll be your love be everything that you need
    I'll love you more with every breath truly, madly, deeply do

    [chorus]

    I want to stand with you on a mountain
    I want to bathe with you in the sea
    I want to live like this forever
    Until the sky falls down on me
  • MrsBooBear
    MrsBooBear Posts: 12,619 Member
    edited November 2014
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    Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden

    I'll be your dream I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy
    I'll be your hope I'll be your love be everything that you need
    I'll love you more with every breath truly, madly, deeply do
    I will be strong I will be faithful 'cause I'm counting on
    A new beginning
    A reason for living
    A deeper meaning, yeah

    [chorus:]
    I want to stand with you on a mountain
    I want to bathe with you in the sea
    I want to lay like this forever
    Until the sky falls down on me

    And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky,
    I'll make a wish send it to heaven then make you want to cry
    The tears of joy for all the pleasure and the certainty
    That we're surrounded by the comfort and protection of
    The highest powers
    In lonely hours
    The tears devour you

    [chorus]

    Oh can you see it baby?
    You don't have to close your eyes
    'Cause it's standing right before you
    All that you need will surely come

    I'll be your dream I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy
    I'll be your hope I'll be your love be everything that you need
    I'll love you more with every breath truly, madly, deeply do

    [chorus]

    I want to stand with you on a mountain
    I want to bathe with you in the sea
    I want to live like this forever
    Until the sky falls down on me

    One of my favourites. :)
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,833 Member
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    Roberta Flack
    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

    The first time ever I saw your face
    I thought the sun rose in your eyes
    And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
    To the dark and the endless skies, my love
    To the dark and the endless skies

    And the first time ever I kissed your mouth
    I felt the earth move in my hand
    Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
    That was there at my command, my love
    That was there at my command, my love

    And the first time ever I lay with you
    I felt your heart so close to mine
    And I knew our joy would fill the earth
    And last 'til the end of time, my love
    And it would last 'til the end of time, my love

    The first time ever I saw your face
    Your face
    Your face
    Your face