i dunno, thought it'd make a good companion to the book thread.
"They're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon and the Canterbury Tales will shoot up to the top of the bestseller list and stay there for 27 weeks" - Cubs in Five by the Mountain Goats
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
"Mama stood crying at the dockside, saying 'Please son, don't take this trip.' I said, 'Mama, sweet mama, don't you worry none. Even God couldn't sink this ship.'" Harry Chapin, "Danceband on the Titanic."
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Another one i like:
"Now and again it seems worse than it is, but mostly the view is accurate." - Something Vague by Bright Eyes
Posted by Jalapenoman (Member # 6575) on :
I have to list my favorite three:
"There are places I remember All my life, though some have changed....." THe Beatles, In My Life
"There's got to be a morning after If we can hold on through the night We have a chance to find the sunshine Let's keep on looking for the light." Maureen McGovern, The Morning After (a.k.a. the theme song to The Poseidon Adventure)
"Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for the train Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans...." Me and Bobbie McGee (written by Kris Kristopherson, but sung by everybody!)
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
"What's with these homies dissin' my girl, why do they gotta front?" Buddy Holly by Weezer
I just like it 'cause the language is so out of context with the rest of the song.
And, I know it's cliche, but "Jeremiah was a bullfrog."
Posted by BlueJacsFan (Member # 6590) on :
"Show me the way to go home...."
Shwo Me the Way to Go Home, Irving King.
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
"As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain, I take a look at my wife, and realize she's very plain." Omish Paradise by Weird Al
"And I wonder, day to day, I don't like you, anyway." Stay Away- Godsmack
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
"I Accidentally touched my head and noticed that i had been bleeding, but for how long i didn't know. What was this, i thought that struck me?? What kind of weapons have they got??" -The Spark that Bled by The Flaming Lips
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Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :
Hold on Hold on to yourself for this is gonna hurt like hell. Hold On- by Sarah McLachlan
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Well, here's my favourite opening verse:
I met a boy wearing Vans, 501s, and a dope beastie-t, nipple rings and new tattoos that claimed that he was OGT, back from '92, from the first EP, and in between sips of Coke he told me that he thought we were selling out, laying down, sucking up to the man.
Tool, Hooker with a Penis Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
And love Is not the easy thing The only baggage That you can bring Not the easy thing The only baggage you can bring Is all that you can't leave behind
U2 - Walk on
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
When you were sixteen Your power was plain To me. The depth of your devotion Your goodness I admired you And loved you And wanted to tell you That your kind of light Is a blessing to the world.
Crow Greenspun, "Blood and Decision"
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Crooked fence Chicken yard Life can be simple And still be hard.
Donna the Buffalo,"No Place Like the Right Time"
Posted by Jalapenoman (Member # 6575) on :
Okay, this may make me look really old, but....I have not heard of most of this stuff!!!!
(Thank you, however, to those of you who are also over the age of 21 and listed things my poor 43 year old ears have actually heard before.)
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
Singin' along to Joni Mitchell as his face went through the windshield of his '67 chevrolet - Joni Mitchell Tapes by SNFU
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I am under 21 and the only ones I have heard are "In My Life" by the Beatles, and "Joy To The World" (Jeremiah was a bullfrog) by Three Dog Night
Posted by Professor Funk (Member # 5608) on :
"I don't want to spend the rest of my life Looking at the barrel of an Armalite" -Invisible Sun, the Police
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
In a little while from now, If I'm not feeling any less sour, I promise myself to treat myself, And visit a nearby tower and, climbing to the top, throw myself off Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Okay, so it's not the opening line...
She was one in a million... So there's 5 more just in New South Wales!
Up Against the Wall, The Whitlams Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
How about a T.V. theme song? Malcolm in the Middle's opening line:
Yes, no, I don't know. Can you repeat the question?
Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Overplayed, I know, but you have to love it.
and in the same vein....
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Okay, I just like lists of things sung really fast. Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Out here when you light a smoke on the porch, you can hear the paper burning the moon is the only light; in the silence you can hear it turning
Out Here by Peter Mulvey
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Current favorites include:
"I - read you - and God I'm good at it - I'm so spot on..." -Frou Frou, Breathe In
"I join the queue on your answerphone And all I am - is holding breath Just pick up i know you're there Can't you hear - i'm not myself" - Frou Frou, Hear Me Out
Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
Oh wow, Frou Frou is the greatest!! Is she on the iTMS yet....? *runs to check*
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I don't know, but I had a fit when I heard their cover of "I need a Hero" for the Shrek 2 soundtrack on the credits for the movie.
Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
Uh, a bad fit, right? Cause I'm listening to the clip of it on iTMS, and it's crap on a stick.
Details, though, is just amazing. Instantly one of my favorite albums ev-ah. Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
quote: Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources, Chased amid fusions of wonder, in moments hardly seen forgotten, Coloured in pastures of chance dancing leaves cast spells of challenge, Amused but real in thought, we fled from the sea whole.
-Jon Anderson (Yes) The Revealing Science of God Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
"how can you not find everything you need in all of this? potatoes, rice, and bread, we'll burn it as we take it in. sing your heart out, sing it like you mean it, you're gonna sing everything you're thinking, and you're gonna sing it until they're listening." - rice and bread by AGAINST ME!
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Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
It's not a terrible cover, and it gives Frou Frou the mad publimacizing. Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
I suppose I just cringe at seeing her associated with Shrek. And with such a Garageband-style "mix".
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM dudduluh-duh dudduluh-duh BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM *high pitched noise or siren or something* BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM *quote from some sci-fi movie* BOOM BOOM BOOM..... Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
hey, there's several really good songs on that there soundtrack. shrek2, that is. i even bought it. Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
Here's another of my favorite opening lines:
Sundown in the Paris of the prairies, Wheat Kings have all their treasures buried
From Wheat Kings by The Tragically Hip
Posted by Wussy Actor (Member # 5937) on :
Not an opening line, but maybe my favorite ever:
Next door, there's an old man Who lived to his nineties and one day Passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days And passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way To tell you that I know we belong. That I know that I am the luckiest.
The Luckiest - By Ben Folds Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
quote: Hold the milk, put back the sugar They are powerless to console We’ve gathered here to sprinkle ashes From our late friend’s cereal bowl.
from Newsboys "Breakfast in Hell" song
[ June 10, 2004, 04:39 PM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
Everything had to be exactly as you had planned it Everything had to be exactly as you designed The sadness inside you was lost on exactly no one And there's nothing heroic or stoic in being a mime ~Jude, "Battered, Broken"
Lay off the coffee and the Kafka and the coughing ~Eve 6, "Still Here Waiting"
Good morning; don't cop out ~Matthew Good Band, "Strange Days"
I watched you fall I think I pushed ~REM, "Diminished"
First thing we climb a tree and maybe then we talk or sit silently and listen to our thoughts Illusions of someday cast in a golden light No dress rehearsal This is our life ~The Tragically Hip, "Ahead by a Century"
Sometimes I get the feeling that I won't be on this planet for very long I really like it here; I'm quite attatched to it; I hope I'm wrong ~Ben Folds Five, "Don't Change Your Plans"
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
my girlfriend just quoted ben folds five and tragically hip in same post. she makes me happy.
"i never thought this could be me! well, i guess you never do until its happening to you! - boysetsfire
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:"Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for the train Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans...." Me and Bobbie McGee (written by Kris Kristopherson, but sung by everybody!)
Might be sung by everybody, but it was only SUNG by Janis Joplin.
My contribution:
Like a bird on a wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.
--Leonard Cohen (also sung well by Willy Nelson)
Kris Kristopherson told Cohen that he was going to use that verse on his tombstone.
Dagonee
Posted by Misha McBride (Member # 6578) on :
Not all of these are beginning lyrics to songs.
And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder: One of the four beasts saying: "Come and see." And I saw. And behold, a white horse. Johnny Cash, "The Man Comes Around"
They say theres a place, where dreams have all gone They never said where, but I think I know Its miles through the night just over the dawn On the road that will take me home Gods and Generals Soundtrack (Mary Fahl) "Going Home"
Get the kids and bring a sweater Dry is good and wind is better Count the years, you always knew it Strike a match, go on and do it "Sunny Came Home"
And I find I kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had Donnie Darko Soundtrack (Gary Jules) "Mad World"
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Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
One of my favorites is in Spanish, so I'll translate after I write it.
Pongan atencion, Senores A lo que me ha pasado a mi. Me he tragado una bolita Creyendo que era un mani. Desde entonces, Companero, Siento gran preocupacion. . .
Pay attention, Gentlemen, To what has happened to me. I have swallowed a little ball Believing that it was a peanut. Ever since then, my companion/friend, I feel great preoccupation/worry. . .
Por un Mani -- Yossie Esteban (the greatest merengue bandleader of all time)
Posted by Jalapenoman (Member # 6575) on :
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for the train Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans...." Me and Bobbie McGee (written by Kris Kristopherson, but sung by everybody!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Might be sung by everybody, but it was only SUNG by Janis Joplin.
Yes, Joplin did it best, but there have been some other really good versions. Willie Nelson calls it the best song ever written and does it justice. Tina Turner slaughtered it (worst than any American Idol performer could have possibly done).
Remakes are generally pretty poor (with few notable exceptions). The only great remakes that actually improved the song that I can think of off the top of my head are "Twist and Shout" by The Beatles, "Killing Me Softly" by Roberta Flack (yes, her signature song was originally recorded by someone else), "We've Only Just Begun" by the Carpenters (originally a TV commercial jingle written by Paul Williams), and "R E S P E C T" by Aretha.
Note: I'm really surprised that no one has listed "Hotel California" or "The House of the Rising Sun." These both have great openings. SO does Billy Joel's "Piano Man."
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Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
quote: And with such a Garageband-style "mix".
Hey now, some of us like to use GarageBand.
Well, here's another favourite opener:
He reads women's magazines, swears the truth doesn't faze him and he knows the hottest bras for fall, and how to make her fall in love in four or five days or less, guess it depends on the stars and how well he has memorized his dating do's and don'ts
- Eve 6, Sunset Strip Bitch Posted by gwan (Member # 6194) on :
"You and I we're like four year olds, we want to why and how come about everything we want to reveal ourselves at will and speak our minds and never talk small orbe intuitive." Alanis Morrisette
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
Adjectives on the typewriter He moves his words like a prize fighter The frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell
Shadow Stabbing by Cake
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Ayelar: Yeah, it was weird. At first I couldn't even tell it was her. But then I was all like... Wait... A minute... FROU FROU!!
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says 15 miles to the... LOOOOOVE SHACK!! Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Frisco, you are officially my hero.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:Might be sung by everybody, but it was only SUNG by Janis Joplin.
Yes, Joplin did it best, but there have been some other really good versions.
There are a few versions of a few songs that are so transcendant as to render all other versions moot, no matter how good they are. It's definitely a matter of personal taste, but for me, Bobby McGee will always be sung by Janis Joplin, Twist and Shout will always be sung by the Beatles, and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds will always be sung by William Shatner.
Dagonee
Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
Lucy...... in the... Sky! With.... Diamonds!!
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain..we can be like they are Come on baby...don't fear the reaper Baby take my hand...don't fear the reaper We'll be able to fly...don't fear the reaper Baby i'm your man... The Reaper Blue Oyster Cult
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Time Pink Floyd
A lovestruck romeo sings the streets a serenade Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made Finds a streetlight steps out of the shade Says something like you and me babe how about it? Romeo and Juliet Dire Straits
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
Slow to marry, swift to die we leave disasters where they lie I know these lines look crooked on paper but I swear I got it straight in my head ~Harvey Danger, "Loyalty Bldg."
(when you base your whole identity on reaction against somebody it's the same as being in--) I tend to forget when I drink I'm doing it again I think A hand to hold, an ego to flatter cause you were the wineskin, I was the bladder ~Harvey Danger, "The Same as Being in Love"
All I ever wanted to be was a woolly muffler round your naked neck Double-wrap me when it's cold But you pulled a little tight just now And I'm afraid I feel a chokehold coming on ~Harvey Danger, "Woolly Muffler"
Here's something beautiful now smash it to bits Save your little wheelchair empowerment films Save your swoons I'm spoken for It isn't funny to think so but I can't feign interest now ~Harvey Danger, "(Down at the) Terminal Annex"
Guess who I've been talking about/listening to this afternoon . . .
And this reminds me that I miss HD fanboy ApostleRadio.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Dag, a Cohenesque Name That Tune:
quote:It's true that all the men you knew were dealers Who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter
quote:It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
quote:She stands before you naked You can see it, you can taste it, And she comes to you light as the breeze.
quote:Ah we're drinking and we're dancing And the band is really happening And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high
quote: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?
quote:I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm
quote:Many men have loved the bells You fastened to the rein, And everyone who wanted you They found what they will always want again.
quote:They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from within
quote:If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you
quote:Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
Done so many things wrong I don't know if I can do right
At this point in my life - Tracy Chapman
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
I like Alanis. Can you tell?
Do I stress you out My sweater is on backwards and inside out And you say how appropriate --All I Really Want, Jagged Little Pill
Dear momma's boy I know you've had your butt licked by your mother I know you've enjoyed all that attention from her And every woman graced with your presence after Dear narcissus boy I know you've never really apologized for anything I know you've never really taken responsibility I know you've never really listened to a woman --Narcissus, Under Rug Swept
What's it been over a decade? It still smarts like it was four minutes ago We only influenced each other totally We only bruised each other even more so --Flinch, Under Rug Swept
I'm not threatened by every pair of legs you watch go by I don't cringe when you stare at women it's just a thing called guy I don't notice your sideways glances or where your loyalty lies I'm secure and out of me it's hard to get a rise --Doth I Protest Too Much, So-Called Chaos
I can be an a$$hole of the grandest kind --Everything, So-Called Chaos
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Lindsay, "Jack the Lion" made me cry yesterday. THat song hits WAY to close to home.
Tonight I feel ambitious and so does my foot as it sinks on the pedal I press it to the floor I don't need a girl don't need a friend my friend lonesome's unconditional We're flying forever bored And for a moment I love everything I see and think and feel I love my broken side view mirror Cause it's so perfect I'm so perfect you're so perfect you're not here I hear the change in gears My pile shakes as I hit eighty on the open road This is an open road song Eve 6, Open Road Song
As we walk together through theautumn nearing winter through the dying leaves and trees we call our home and native land, you say you don't belive a thing i say i say you don't belive a thing yousay you can't belive how i don't understand. Barenakedladies, You will be waiting
Well she's lying in our bed sweating staring at the ceiling I know her worried head is aching, I know the cause is me I could leave the bathroom light on for better dreams tonight My stability, my luxury, my life And I won't go, neither will you turn off the phone, let's sleep 'til two Eve 6, Nocturnal
90 miles outside Chicago Can't stop driving I don't know why So many questions I need an answer Two years later, you're still on my mind Whatever happened to Emilia Earhart Who holds the stars up in the sky Is true love once in a lifetime Did the captain of the Titanic cry New radicals, SOmeday we'll know
Frozen fingers on my skin Guilty hands clutching gin Your tin, thin eyes can't see within Soul to soul and skin to skin we burn And the silence won't subside As I crawl to your scaly side Your eyes could never hide My eyes and all their pride Stroke 9, Down
Once inside the door I check my face in the mirror, As I look past this lonely minute Was this the ride worth waiting for I'm scared to death that now I've missed it But she was not the only stone Skipped across this gravel road leading down the path of loneliness So I'll fly from this hate, pray my soul the lord will take me To a place through time and indifference SR-71, Go Away
Grace She takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name
Grace It's a name for a girl It's also a thought that Changed the world U2, Grace
I've been to london I've sailed a ship around the world I've counted angels I've seen a tangerine girl Splender, London.
Are you feelin that your on the brink Of spilling some rand in the sink It wasn’t the easiest year No I don’t want you to go Eve6, Friend of Mine
forgive me for the long post, guys, but i have to post most of this one.
rake up all the leaves in pleasant valley it's the last day of my visit upstate new york to pay respects to the old man he's still got his sense of humor but his body fails him he's surrounded by loved ones but that only goes so far and does he know where he is? i doubt it. jack the lion roaring his last like a vision sent from the past bedside, crying, holding his hands strong hands finally get a moment alone with the old man he's having trouble breathing and he's not the only one Harvey Danger, Jack the Lion
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again, Because a vision softly creeping, Left its seeds while i was sleeping, And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence
The Sound of Silence Simon and Garfunkel
I'm sittin' in the railway station Got a ticket for my destination On a tour of one night stands My suitcase and guitar in hand And every stop is neatly planned For a poet and a one man band
Homeward Bound Simon and Garfunkel
I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told I've squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest, hmmmm
The Boxer Simon and Garfunkel
Obviously I'm a big Simon and Garfunkel fan. There were lots of other lyrics I would like to have posted but they weren't opening stanzas.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's true that all the men you knew were dealers Who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Famous Blue Raincoat
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- She stands before you naked You can see it, you can taste it, And she comes to you light as the breeze. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Something Like This
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ah we're drinking and we're dancing And the band is really happening And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Halleluia
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many men have loved the bells You fastened to the rein, And everyone who wanted you They found what they will always want again. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from within -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First We Take Manhatten
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m Your Man
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tower of Song
All from memory - no googling or looking at lyrics.
Dagonee
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
If you could only see the way she loves me, maybe you would understand why I feel this way about our love, and what I must do -Tonic "If you could only see" from Lemon Parade Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
Ah, Tonic. A band that I haven't heard nearly enough of. Good stuff.
CT and Dag, who sang Something Like This? That's poetry there.
One of my favorites:
quote: Nibblin on spongecake Watching the sun bake All of those tourists covered in oil. Strumming my six string On my front porch swing Smell those shrimp they're beginning to boil.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Leonard Cohen wrote "Something like this" (which is actually called "LIght as the Breeze" apparantly).
Billy Joel did a very good cover of it, as well. But Cohen's voice on these lyrics is just unbeleivable.
quote:She stands before you naked you can see it, you can taste it, and she comes to you light as the breeze. Now you can drink it or you can nurse it, it don't matter how you worship as long as you're down on your knees.
So I knelt there at the delta, at the alpha and the omega, at the cradle of the river and the seas. And like a blessing come from heaven for something like a second I was healed and my heart was at ease.
O baby I waited so long for your kiss for something to happen, oh something like this.
And you're weak and you're harmless and you're sleeping in your harness and the wind going wild in the trees, and it ain't exactly prison but you'll never be forgiven for whatever you've done with the keys.
O baby I waited ...
It's dark now and it's snowing O my love I must be going, The river has started to freeze. And I'm sick of pretending I'm broken from bending I've lived too long on my knees.
Then she dances so graceful and your heart's hard and hateful and she's naked but that's just a tease. And you turn in disgust from your hatred and from your love and comes to you light as the breeze.
O baby I waited ...
There's blood on every bracelet you can see it, you can taste it, and it's Please baby please baby please. And she says, Drink deeply, pilgrim but don't forget there's still a woman beneath this resplendent chemise.
So I knelt there at the delta, at the alpha and the omega, I knelt there like one who believes. And the blessings come from heaven and for something like a second I'm cured and my heart is at ease
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
Anyone got a good lyrics site they can recommend? Oh there's plenty out there that claim to find the song even if you don't know the artist or title. But I still can't find who this is:
Rain falls angry on the tin roof As we lie awake in my bed. You're my survival You're my living proof Something, something I'll be the greatest man of your life.
I put in the bit with the rain on the tin roof and I kept getting Barbara Streisand. I know that's not who I'm thinking of.
edit for missing letters
[ June 12, 2004, 07:19 PM: Message edited by: AvidReader ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
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Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
More cool points for Dag. Thanks!
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Posted by fil (Member # 5079) on :
quote: Honey, put down that flyswatter and get me some ice water.
Love it, live it.
fil
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
AvidReader, he's a poet and a novelist, as well as a singer/songwriter.
Well done, Dag! The others:
quote: It's true that all the men you knew were dealers Who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter The Stranger Song
quote:Ah we're drinking and we're dancing And the band is really happening And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high Closing Time
quote:I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
quote:Many men have loved the bells You fastened to the rein, And everyone who wanted you They found what they will always want again.
I'm trying to remember this last one without googling, but I'm blanking. He wrote it about a woman he had a thing for (big surprise there), a fellow singer with stark blonde hair who turned out to be deaf, which is why he found their conversations so intriguing. (She'd say things completely unrelated to what he was saying.) Nico? She's not mentioned in the song.
Now you've got Light as the Breeze running through my head, and I can't pull this one up.
Edit: Take this Longing. I bow to the Google.
quote: Your beauty lost to you yourself just as it was lost to them. Oh take this longing from my tongue, whatever useless things these hands have done. Let me see your beauty broken down like you would do for one you love.
Your body like a searchlight my poverty revealed, I would like to try your charity until you cry, "Now you must try my greed."
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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I keep meaning to get more of his albums. I've got the Best of and I'm Your Man, which is why I know the songs I do. I'm not sure why I couldn't pick out "Hey, That's no way..." I've heard lots of his other stuff, but until I own a CD and play it obsessively I don't really connect lyrics with titles.
So what album should I add to the collection next?
Dagonee
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Dag, you gotta do The Essential Leonard Cohen. Although it is missing some favorites like Light as the Breeze, the progression through two discs from tenor-lilting storytellor (the first Songs of Leonard Cohen) through to the familiar gravelly bass is magnificent. When you get to Hallelujah, his voice suddenly drops like an elevator.
He chose the songs and the order himself. The selection represents all of the albums except for Death of a Ladies' Man (the Phil Spectre disaster he later disowned).
If you haven't the resources to snag it (~$20?), I'll lend you mine.
[ June 13, 2004, 09:18 AM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
CT, Did you ever get the Jennifer Warnes singing Leonard Cohen album?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
OK, it's on the top of my album list. All my Leonard Cohen is down in Charlottesville, so this will be good to have here anyway.
Thanks!
Dagonee
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Famous Blue Raincoat -- I've listened to excerpts, but I never bought a copy. Still, she does some lovely interpretations.
Did you like it?
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Dagonee, great. Let me know what you think.
Posted by kidyanna (Member # 6148) on :
Halleluja by Rufus Wainwright
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
Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you She tied you to a kitchen chair She broke your throne, she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Maybe I've been here before I know this room, I've walked this floor I used to live alone before I knew you I've seen your flag on the marble arch Love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah
There was a time you let me know What's real and going on below But now you never show it to me, do you? And remember when I moved in you? The holy dark was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Maybe there's a God above And all I ever learned from love Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you It's not a cry you can hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light Its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah
I love the way he sings it, he has such an amazing voice.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
There are, indeed, some awesome covers of Leonard Cohen songs. Still, I have pledged myself to his own version of this one.
It was recently chosen as the best song to come out of Canada, bar none. He was also just made a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest honour, in 2003 -- in part for this song.
One smooth dude. *grin
[ June 13, 2004, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I'm an originalist with this song, too. And Leonard Cohen defines smooth. He was once described as someone who spends his mornings doing TM in an Armani suit.
Dagonee
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Yes, there is no one who can do Leornard Cohen like Leonard Cohen.
CT, I liked the jennifer Warnes album very much. I think we have it on a cassette, someone made it for us, so now that I know the name of the album, I can buy the cd.
(sorry to turn this into a "cover" thread.
[ June 13, 2004, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Snowball by Devo from Freedom Of Choice
my baby took our love and then she rolled it up rolled it up a hill like a ball of snow like a snowball grows until it gets too big until she lost control and it rolled back down and it rolled back down and it rolled back down and it rolled back down
she took a tiny bit and rolled it up again slower than before she went a step too far she had to let it go i saw it go straight down my baby turned around started up again started up again started up again started up again
eyes were made for looking' hands were made for holdin' hearts were made for lovin' lips were made for kissin' legs were made for walkin' tracks were made to follow that's what i'm gonna do two tracks in the snow two tracks up that hill my heart broke when my baby left two tracks behind
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
breaking my own rule, but this is an End of a song.
i've built this wall around my heart to shut you out i've, played my part in this game that i thought was real in this pain that i now feel and if i ever fall again will i just turn in the wind or let it fly away with pain or let it fester into the same a small dark place inside my mind will keep my safe and far behind so you can never hurt me again you can never hurt me again nothing can ever hurt me again the way you did and nothing, nothing can ever erase. i pull this glass out of my skin the 'wish i hads' replace my sins i release the lies but the disdain and nothing can ever wash this away. a small quiet place where i can hide. where you can never hurt me again. where no one can never hurt me again." - RESECTION by boy sets fire
[ June 16, 2004, 09:58 PM: Message edited by: Ben ]
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
One of my new favorite openings: I broke into your house last night and left a note at your bedside. Snow Patrol - "Spitting Games"
Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
"My life's an open book, You read it on the radio" --Neil Young
"Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on their leaves, blood on their root" --can't remember who wrote it, but Billie Holliday sang it
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
"Doctors played your dosage like a card trick, and Scrabbled down the hallway yelling 'Yahtzee!'" - the Weakerthans.
[ June 17, 2004, 09:15 PM: Message edited by: Ben ]
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