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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 ParadePosts: 1870 | Registered: Mar 2003
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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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?
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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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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One of my new favorite openings: I broke into your house last night and left a note at your bedside. Snow Patrol - "Spitting Games"
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"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
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