Powerful song lyrics

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  • cbusnightowl
    cbusnightowl Posts: 132 Member
    I love Florence + the Machine and I could listen to All This and Heaven Too on repeat for hours. The voice, the lyrics, the passion! To see it live is a joy I would love to repeat

    And the heart is hard to translate
    It has a language of it's own
    It talks in tongues and quiet sighs
    And prayers and proclamations in the grand days
    Of great men and the smallest of gestures
    In short shallow gasps

    But with all my education
    I can't seem to commend it
    And the words are all escaping me
    And coming back all damaged
    And I would put them back in poetry
    If I only knew how, I can't seem to understand it

    And I would give all this and heaven too
    I would give it all if only for a moment
    That I could just understand
    The meaning of the word you see
    'Cause I've been scrawling it forever
    But it never makes sense to me at all

    And it talks to me in tiptoes
    And sings to me inside
    It cries out in the darkest night
    And breaks in the morning light

    But with all my education
    I can't seem to commend it
    And the words are all escaping
    And coming back all damaged
    And I would put them back in poetry
    If I only knew how I can't seem to understand it

    And I would give all this and heaven too
    I would give it all if only for a moment
    That I could just understand
    The meaning of the word you see
    'Cause I've been scrawling it forever
    But it never makes sense to me at all

    And I would give all this and heaven too
    I would give it all if only for a moment
    That I could just understand
    The meaning of the word you see
    'Cause I've been scrawling it forever
    But it never makes sense to me at all

    No, words are a language
    It doesn't deserve such treatment
    And all my stumbling phrases
    Never amounted to anything worth this feeling
    All this heaven never could describe
    Such a feeling as I'm healing, words were never so useful
    So I was screaming out a language
    That I never knew existed before
  • kxbrown27
    kxbrown27 Posts: 769 Member
    Tremors by Whitechapel:

    Speak my name
    and feel
    the earth shake.
  • MoonKat7
    MoonKat7 Posts: 358 Member
    edited September 2016
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qESLq_tEg1U

    You put a wall in my way and I'll break it
    You got something to say
    I can take it
    Did you think that a few little words would
    Take (me)
    Break (me)
    I don't care

    (Oh) I still believe
    There is something here for me
    (Oh) As long as I breathe

    [Chorus:]
    No, I will never surrender
    No, I will fight forever
    No, there is no turning back from here
    I will never surrender
  • daleisfortynine
    daleisfortynine Posts: 7 Member
    edited September 2016
    I got a dirty picture of what could have been my future
    In a Prophet pushin' day dreams on a corner for a fee
    And the wino lookin' lonely at a bottle gettin' empty
    And a hungry lookin' junkie huntin' tea and sympathy
    And I bet that junkie's laughin' at the life he threw away
    Slowly smokin' himself broke on eighty cigarettes a day
    Pleadin' down the Prophet to a price that he can pay
    And writin' words that no one's gonna see but the juicehead who said
    Every empty bottle is my private crystal ball
    And I stare into the future findin' nothin' there at all

    The Junkie and the Juicehead (Minus Me)
    -Kris Kristofferson
  • Karb_Kween
    Karb_Kween Posts: 2,681 Member
    A candle casting a faint glow
    You and I see eye to eye
    Can you hear the thunder?
    Can you hear the thunder that's breaking?

    Now there is nothing between us
    From now our merge is eternal
    Can't you see that you're lost?
    Can't you see that you're lost without me?

    I can feel the thunder that's breaking in your heart
    I can see through the scars inside you
    I can feel the thunder that's breaking in your heart
    I can see through the scars inside you
  • Wetcoaster
    Wetcoaster Posts: 1,788 Member
    edited September 2016
    And a serious one

    We've been over and all through it
    Now we're finaly going to do it
    And it's tougher then I thought it ever be
    I wish that I could hate her
    If only I could break her
    To see the world the way I want it seen
    And its likely she would say the same of me

    When my load gets a whole lot lighter
    And my head gets screwed on tighter
    And the time they say is required passes by
    When I won't belong to her no more
    And I can tear my eyes from the closing door
    It's then I'll know for sure that I'll survive
    We had monentary glances, second and third chances
    And in between they always dissappear
    Now I find myself accepting that we've gone in two directions
    And I question where the hell I go from here
    When the sky above me is going to clear

    When my load gets a whole lot lighter
    And my head gets screwed on tighter
    And the time they say is required passes by
    When I won't belong to her no more
    And I can tear my eyes from the closing door
    It's then I'll know for sure that I'll survive

    The hardest part of letting go
    Is that it ain't so cut and dry
    You do the thing thats hard to do
    And you tell yourself its right
    And then you second guess yourself
    And as you lie alone at night
    And wonder how you ever said goodbye

    When my load gets a whole lot lighter
    And my head gets screwed on tighter
    And the time they say is required passes by
    When I won't belong to her no more
    And I can tear my eyes from the closing door
    It's then I'll know for sure that I'll survive

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGjJu95GX2w
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  • KiwiLifter
    KiwiLifter Posts: 115 Member
    "This life is more than just a read-through" - RHCP
  • kkramey1970
    kkramey1970 Posts: 82 Member
    I'm in deep with this girl but she's out of her mind
    She said, "Babe, I'm sorry but I'm crazy tonight"
    She got a black shirt, black skirt
    And Bauhaus stuck in her head
    I'm in deep with this girl but she's out of her mind
  • amcalmond768
    amcalmond768 Posts: 289 Member
    I think it’s time for a change
    Cause things feel out of touch
    And I watch you walk away, again

    Well this feels like too much
    (Can you take it away?)
    And things won’t go my way
    Now I’ll have to fade away, my friend

    So pass slowly
    And carry me down
    And render me lonely
    When you’re not around

    I need to shake off this pain
    But courage takes too much
    So I have to walk away, again

    Oh God I miss your touch
    (Can you take it away?)
    The way that you keep me safe
    I won’t let you fade away, my friend

    So pass slowly
    And carry me down
    Remember me only
    When you’re not around

    Oh yea, can’t you stay awhile longer?
    Oh yea, won’t you stay?
    God please stay
    And pass slowly
    (It’s time for a change)
    And whittle me down
    (Cause things feel out of touch)
    And render me lonely
    (I’ll watch you walk away, again)
    When you’re not around

    So pass slowly
    (This feels like too much)
    And let me down easy
    (And things won’t go my way)
    Render me lonely
    (I’ll have to fade away, my friend)
    When you’re not around
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  • Caporegiem
    Caporegiem Posts: 4,297 Member
    Villae81 wrote: »
    P-P-A-P

    I have a pen, I have a Apple
    Uh! Apple-pen!

    I have a pen, I have Pineapple
    Uh! Pineapple-pen!

    Apple-pen, Pineapple-pen. Uh!
    Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen!
    Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen!

    Do you hum that on your head now? Lol

    I haven't stopped signing it

    Do you do the dance as well? Those moves are hypnotizing
  • jnichel
    jnichel Posts: 4,553 Member
    ...
    You can choose a ready guide
    In some celestial voice
    If you choose not to decide
    You still have made a choice
    You can choose from phantom fears
    And kindness that can kill
    I will choose a path that's clear
    I will choose free will
    ...
  • Badger_Girl99
    Badger_Girl99 Posts: 2,220 Member
    edited September 2016
    I never meant to get us in this deep
    I never meant for this to mean a thing
    Oh, I wish you were the one
    Wish you were the one that got away

    I got caught up by the chase
    And you got high on every little bit
    I wish you were the one
    Wish you were the one that got away

    Oh, if I could go back in time
    When you only held me in my mind
    Just a longing, gone without a trace
    Oh, I wish I never ever seen your face
    I wish you were the one
    Wish you were the one that got away

    I miss the way you wanted me
    When I was staying just out of your reach
    Begging for the slightest touch
    Ooh, you couldn't get enough, mmm

    Oh, if I could go back in time
    When you only held me in my mind
    Just a longing, gone without a trace
    Oh, I wish I never ever seen your face
    I wish you were the one
    Wish you were the one that got away

    Got away from me
    Got away from me
    For anybody has to breathe

    Oh, if I could go back in time
    When you only held me in my mind
    Just a longing, gone without a trace
    Oh, I wish I never ever seen your face
    I wish you were the one
    I wish you were the one
    Oh, I wish you were the one
    I wish you were the one that got away

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  • mattfieller
    mattfieller Posts: 22 Member
    AUGUST BURNS RED-"MEDDLER "
    We'll feed our flame before wasting time on everyone else's. The gallows were not supposed to look like this. Oh God, we live in misery, lying here in desperation. We need You here more than anything right now...right now!
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  • Forty6and2
    Forty6and2 Posts: 2,492 Member
    "Happy Returns" by Steven Wilson. I listened to it for the first time and it gave me pause because I am one of the people the song is describing. And his voice alone makes me feel like crying.

    Hey brother, happy returns, it's been a while now
    I bet you thought that I was dead
    But I'm still here, nothing has changed

    Hey brother, I'd love to tell you I've been busy
    But that would be a lie
    Cos the truth is the years just pass like trains
    I wave but they don't slow down

    Hey brother, I see the freaks and dispossessed
    On day release
    Avoiding the police
    I feel I'm falling once again
    But now there's no one left to catch me

    Hey brother, I feel I'm living in parentheses
    And I got trouble with the bills
    Do the kids remember me?
    Well I got gifts for them,
    and for you more sorrow
    But I'm feeling kind of drowsy now
    So I'll finish this tomorrow
  • sssynnamon
    sssynnamon Posts: 14 Member
    This piece of Garth Brooks' "The River"

    So don't you sit there on the shoreline
    and say you're satisfied
    Choose to chance the rapids
    Dare to dance the tide
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  • Michael230382
    Michael230382 Posts: 139 Member
    Would you take the wheel, if I loose control? If I'm lying here, will take me home?
  • kkramey1970
    kkramey1970 Posts: 82 Member
    "When It's Time"

    Words get trapped in my mind
    Sorry I don't take the time to feel the way I do
    'Cause the first day you came into my life
    My time ticks around you

    But then I need your voice
    As the key to unlock
    All the love that's trapped in me
    So tell me when it's time
    To say I love you

    All I want is you to understand
    That when I take your hand
    It's 'cause I want to
    We are all born in a world of doubt
    But there's no doubt
    I figured out
    I love you

    All I want is you to understand
    That when I take your hand
    It's 'cause I want to
    We are all born in a world of doubt
    And there's no doubt
    I figured out
    I love you

    And I feel lonely for
    All the losers that will never take the time to say
    What was really on their mind instead
    They just hide away
    Yet they'll never have
    Someone like you to guide them
    And help along the way
    Or tell them when it's time to say, "I love you"
    So tell me when it's time to say "I love you"
  • Dar_Line86
    Dar_Line86 Posts: 245 Member
    //tomorrow's another day
    //and I'm thirsty any way
    //so bring on the rain
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Times - Tenth Avenue North

    I know I need You
    I need to love You
    I love to see You, but it's been so long
    I long to feel You
    I feel this need for You
    And I need to hear You, is that so wrong?

    Now You pull me near You
    When we're close, I fear You
    Still I'm afraid to tell You, all that I've done
    Are You done forgiving?
    Oh can You look past my pretending?
    Lord, I'm so tired of defending, what I've become
    What have I become?

    I hear You say,
    "My love is over. It's underneath.
    It's inside. It's in between.
    The times you doubt Me, when you can't feel.
    The times that you question, 'Is this for real? '
    The times you're broken.
    The times that you mend.
    The times that you hate Me, and the times that you bend.
    Well, My love is over, it's underneath.
    It's inside, it's in between.
    These times you're healing, and when your heart breaks.
    The times that you feel like you're falling from grace.
    The times you're hurting.
    The times that you heal.
    The times you go hungry, and are tempted to steal.
    The times of confusion, in chaos and pain.
    I'm there in your sorrow, under the weight of your shame.
    I'm there through your heartache.
    I'm there in the storm.
    My love I will keep you, by My power alone.
    I don't care where you fall, where you have been.
    I'll never forsake you, My love never ends.
    It never ends."


    https://youtu.be/XAVHeVDML5k
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Don't Give Up - Calling Glory

    This time your heart said its had enough
    Sick and tired of everything that's so messed up
    You don't wanna move on just playing games
    Praying hard somehow your life will change
    When you feel like you don't know what to do
    Stuck inside this maze you can't go through

    Don't give up
    And help is surely on its way
    And don't give up
    And the dark is breaking in today
    And just keep on moving through these storms
    And soon enough you'll find the door
    Just don't give up
    Oh and don't give up
    These walls around you are caving in
    And your life seems like it is wearing thin
    Your hope is drowning in despair
    It looks like you're not going anywhere
    Step inside this Heart and then you'll see
    Such a love that is so amazing

    https://youtu.be/wtSKzHxVqxQ
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Heart & Hand - Jay William Henderson

    Here I lay my body down
    Upon a sheet on the cold cold ground
    Tell my mother I'm afraid
    With holes in soles and laces frayed
    Singing la de da de da
    Singing la de da de da de da

    Let the grass grow over me
    Until in darkness I can see
    The shame I hold in heart and hand
    Let it be baptized by the land
    Singing la de da de da
    Singing la de da de da de da

    Go my son
    Learn how to stand
    Plow that field
    Get some dirt on your hands
    And sing them sweet
    Softly completeq
    Singing la de da de da de da


    https://youtu.be/ht2U-E8ywZQ
  • dmh0tcc
    dmh0tcc Posts: 4 Member
    You wear white and I'll wear out the words I love you and you're Beautiful. Train
  • vikinglander
    vikinglander Posts: 1,547 Member
    Makes ya think...

    Inca Roads, from Frank Zappa's album 'One Size Fits All'.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYxaoRVofE8

    Did a vehicle
    Come from somewhere out there
    Just to land in the Andes?
    Was it round
    And did it have
    A motor
    Or was it
    Something
    Different

    Sure was different!
    I ain’t never seen nothing like that in my entire life!
    Whose python boot is that?
    Hey What?
    Why don't you sharpen it then?
    Was a round ball
    I could . . . couldn't
    That’s why it can’t do nothin’
    You…whose? Hush! Wait a minute!
    Mother Mary and Joseph!

    Did a vehicle
    Did a vehicle
    Did a vehicle
    Fly along the mountains
    And find a place to park itself
    Park it
    Se-e-e-elf
    (PARK IT . . . PARK IT)

    Or did someone
    Build a place
    To leave a space
    For such a thing to land

    Did a vehicle
    Come from somewhere out there
    Did a vehicle come
    From somewhere out there
    Did the Indians, first on the bill
    Carve up the hill

    Did a booger-bear
    Come from somewhere out there
    Just to land in the Andes?
    Was she round
    And did she have a motor
    Or was she something different

    Guacamole Queen
    Guacamole Queen
    Guacamole Queen

    At the Armadillo in Austin Texas, her aura,
    Or did someone build a place
    Or leave a space for Chester's Thing to land
    (Chester's Thing . . . on Ruth)
    Did a booger-bear
    Come from somewhere out there
    Did a booger-bear
    Come from somewhere out there
    Did the Indians, first on the bill
    Carve up her hill
    On Ruth
    On Ruth
    That's Ruth