Favourite Song Lyrics

LouLouStBijou

So, I was out walking and listening to music today and I realised how many songs have lyrics that actually speak to me in some way....today's was Murdered in the City by the Avett Brothers and the line is:

"always remember there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name"

That line always makes me bawl....

What lyrics do you guys love?

Noelv1976

Fallen by Volbeat. Always reminds me of my father who passed away ten years ago:
Feel the sadness burning in my heart.
You left to early father love.
So many things I should have said.
But in your mind you knew it well.
Holding on to what I got and love.
But things still seem so dark and cold.
The fire is burning down my happiness.
But I will rise.

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_incogNEATo_

"He want that cake, cake,
Cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
Cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
Cake, cake, cake" -Rihanna

brokenhalo99

"Nothing you could do or say could ever penetrate these walls that I create" Honorary Title

brokenhalo99

"Please take this and run far away, far as you can see, I am tainted and happiness and peace of mind were never meant for me. All these pieces, and promises, and left behinds if only i could see. In my nothing you meant everything, everything to me." NIN

LouLouStBijou

ThomasW13 wrote: »

Tom Waits- Martha

"And those were the days of roses, poetry and prose
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was me"

all about lost love and the passage of time

Oh God, yes!! One of my favourites - all time

LouLouStBijou

Pretty much anything Tom Waits ever wrote is so stunningly beautiful as to be heart stopping!!! San Diego Serenade pretty much nails me to the floor.

brokenhalo99

I've never heard anything by Tom Waits. I'll YouTube him.

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brokenhalo99

He's pretty good! Really mellow and relaxing.

LouLouStBijou

The Gaslight Anthem - I know, I post their *kitten* all the time - love the last verse to Here Comes My Man

Maybe time will tell you Why I got so much hell to sell you
Please, please understand me Oh you can't just dance around me
Maybe your work will love you When I'm just not there to hold you
Maybe your pride can be your companion
Oh but I just won't be there to stand for it Not one more minute will I stand for it

RNGRZulu

Rush - Mission

Spirits fly on dangerous missions
Imaginations on fire
Focused high on a soaring ambition
Consumed in a single desire

In the grip of a nameless possession
Slave to the drive of obsession
A spirit with a vision is a dream
With a mission

FreshStartForMyself

Queen - Innuendo

While the song hangs in the sky and the dessert has sand,
while the waves crash in the sea and meet the land.
While there's a wind and the stars and the rainbow,
'til the mountains crumble into the plain.
Yes, we'll keep on trying tread that fine line.
We'll keep on trying, just passing our time.

While we live according to race, colour or creed,
while we rule by blind madness and pure greed,
our lives dictated by tradition, superstition, false religion,
through the eons, and on and on.
Yes, we'll keep on trying, we'll tread that fine line
We'll keep on trying, 'til the end of time.

Gives me the chills every time

Santanico75

FreshStartForMyself wrote: »

Queen - Innuendo

While the song hangs in the sky and the dessert has sand,
while the waves crash in the sea and meet the land.
While there's a wind and the stars and the rainbow,
'til the mountains crumble into the plain.
Yes, we'll keep on trying tread that fine line.
We'll keep on trying, just passing our time.

While we live according to race, colour or creed,
while we rule by blind madness and pure greed,
our lives dictated by tradition, superstition, false religion,
through the eons, and on and on.
Yes, we'll keep on trying, we'll tread that fine line
We'll keep on trying, 'til the end of time.

Gives me the chills every time

Brilliant!

"It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" - Power and Passion by Midnight Oil

mymadfatdiary94

I love that part from Black by Pearl Jam

"...I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky,
But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?"

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brokenhalo99

sunn_lighter wrote: »

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah:
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

I love that song! I like Jeff Buckleys version better. So pretty!

CarrC83

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you, it's strange what desirewI'll make foolish people do. No I don't want to fall in love, no I don't want to fall in love with you

L0veM3

'Cause I don't have time to waste on the boys
That are playing the games
And leaving the girls crying out in the rain
So tell me, baby,
Are you just crazy, or crazy over me?

If you're gonna hold me, hold me like I'm leaving
If you're gonna kiss me, kiss me like you need it
Baby, if you're not, you best get to leaving
If you're gonna love me, love me like you mean it

If you're gonna talk the talk, you better walk it
If you wanna keep me, keep me like you lost it
If you're gonna say it, make me believe it
If you're gonna love me, boy, love me like you mean it

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michaelafoor916

Fallen by Seether... perfectly sums up how our society is

They got injections for those facial lines
Break out the scalpel keep the nose defined
A crucifixion of the love we've known for ages
You're much too pretty you don't need your mind
Just bat them eyelids get your heart's desires
A resurrection of the shallow and the vapid

TheSunshineQueen

Passage - Vienna Teng

I died in a car crash two days ago
Was unrecognizable
When they pulled me from the gears
No one's fault, no one's bottle
No one's teenage pride or throttle
Our innocence is all the worse for fears
The other walked away alive
Arms wrapped now around his wife

My lover sits, the silent eye
In a hurricane of warmth and word
My mother trembles with the sobs
Whose absence seems absurd
My sister shouts to let her see
Through the cloud of crowd surrounding me
My colleagues call for silence in my name

I died in a car crash three months ago
They burned me 'til I glowed
And crumbled to a fine gray sand
Now I am nothing, everywhere,
Several breaths of stranger's air
And all thoughts ever written in my hand
They plant my tree out in the yard
It grows but takes the winter hard

My lover puts a knife to wrist
Says tomorrow comes, hold on a while
My mother tosses in the sheets
And dreams me holding my own child
My sister plays our homemade tapes
Laughs as tears stream down her face
My office door now bears a different name

I died in a car crash four years ago
My tree drinks melted snow
Just eight feet tall, a pale and fragile thing
Bee stings beaches, bright vacations
Sunburnt high-school graduations
A sparrow healing from a broken wing
This year a glimpse of second chances
Tiny apples on my tree's branches

My lover hears the open wind
And crawls blinking into the sun
My mother leafs through photographs
And thinks, "Yes, she was a lovely one,"
My sister can't decide her truth
Asks aloud what I might do
In a conference hall my brief efforts engraved

I died in a car crash, a lifetime ago it seems
Been a decade or two or three
They've just released a new design
Bars and bags front and behind
My fate now an impossibility
Safely packaged hurtling down
The highway hardly make a sound
My lover very much alive
Arms wrapped now around his wife

BW__NOT

No Doubt....Underneath it all

You’ve used up all your coupons and all you’ve got left is me.

RNGRZulu

Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne

"Is there gas in the car?
Yes there's gas in the car."

ScottyNoHotty

Crash into me - Dave Matthews Band

Hike up your skirt a little more
and show the world to me
Hike up your skirt a little more
and show your world to me...

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mymadfatdiary94 wrote: »

I love that part from Black by Pearl Jam

"...I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky,
But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?"

Great line. Devastating the way he delivers it. Whole song, really.

sunn_lighter wrote: »

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah:
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Could do this whole thread with just Leonard Cohen lyrics, so far as I'm concerned...

So here are some of my favorites of his, from his first hit, Suzanne:

And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.


Oh, and nothing like an MFP thread to randomly remind me just how much I HATE Rhianna (her music, that is. I'm sure she's a wonderful human being otherwise)...
Apologies to all Rhianna fans...

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L0veM3

When tomorrow comes
I'll be on my own
Feeling frightened of
The things that I don't know
When tomorrow comes
Tomorrow comes
Tomorrow comes

And though the road is long
I look up to the sky
And In the dark I found, I stop and I won’t fly
And I sing along, I sing along, then I sing along

I got all I need when I got you and I
I look around me, and see sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're gettin’ me, gettin’ me through the night
Can’t stop my heart when you shinin’ in my eyes
I can’t lie, it’s a sweet life
I'm stuck in the dark but you're my flashlight
You're gettin’ me, gettin’ me through the night
Cause you're my flash light
You're my flash light, you're my flash light

I see the shadows long beneath the mountain top
I'm not the afraid when the rain won't stop
Cause you light the way
You light the way, you light the way

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