The best lyrics EVER

[Amidala]

In your opinion remember to post the name of the song and the artist!
(basically so when I want some new downloads really )

[Gnome]

ONE MORE ARROW

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album Too Low For Zero



He said I want to grow up
And look like Robert Mitchum
And I hope that when I'm gone
There'll be some say that I miss him
He must have been romantic
He must have sensed adventure
And I feel the steel of his strong will
In the frame around his picture

And he's one more arrow flying through the air
One more arrow landing in a shady spot somewhere
Where the days and nights blend into one
And he can always feel the sun
Through the soft brown earth that holds him
Forever always young

He could have been a boxer
But the fight game seemed so dirty
We argued once he knocked me down
And he cried when he thought he'd hurt me
Strictly from the old school
He was quiet about his pain
And if one in ten could be that brave
I would never hate again

One more arrow
One more arrow
One more arrow
Forever always young

[Foxbat]

Hurricane by Bob Dylan. The best protest song EVER!

[X Q mano]

Well...

I don't know about the "EVER" part, but I CAN give you the names of some lyrics I really like, and have thought: "Wish I wrote that".

Sixpence none the richer: Melodies of you
Project 86: Your heroes are dead
Stavesacre: Sand dollar

Hmmm... That'll do for now. I'll write again if I come up with some others...

[I, Brian]

I don't actually listen to the lyrics much in songs - when I hear singing I hear melody and tune, rather than grammar and semantics.

However, there are some songs where the words - or, at least the delivery of those words - really grips me.

One is Talk Talk's "I believe in you" - something about the delivery of the first verse is emotionally haunting:

Hear it in my spirit
I've seen heroin for myself
On the street so young laying wasted
Enough ain't it enough
Crippled world
I just can't bring myself to see it starting


Another song I just love the lyrics to is Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne". It's simply a beautiful and evocative song.

[mac1]

Try the following songs by Anathema, and remember to tell me what you think.

Anyone, Anywhere
Forgotten Hopes
Lost Control

And my favorite Anathema lyrics

From Shroud of Frost

Undying odyssey..... a myriad of times
The soul has seen
Through eyes of heaven
The imperium of earth
Nothing left to perceive
Help me to escape from this existence
I yearn for an answer... can you help me ?
I¹m drowning in a sea of abused visions and shattered dreams
In somnolent illusion... I¹m paralysed
Infinity distraction......
A pious human disorder
Blind to passage of souls
Conclusion from one remembrance
Help me to escape.....
Transfixed... I gaze through my window at a world lying under a shroud of frost. In a
forlorn stupor I feel the burning of staring eyes, yet no-one is here. Detached from reality,
in the knowing of dreams, we know the entity of ensuing agony waits to clasp us in its cold
breast, in an empty room. We awake and it¹s true. I dreamt of the sun¹s demise, awoke
to a bleak morning. In the emptiness I beheld face for the dead light is a foretelling of
what will be..... I saw a soul drift from life, through death, and arrive at Elysian fields in
welcoming song. Yet I stand in a dusk-filled room despondently watching the passing of a
kindred spirit... and there is no song... just a delusion of silence.

[X Q mano]

Just a question regarding these things...

When you're touched by lyrics, is it usually the whole song/poem or one or two lines/senteneces at a time?

I had a small discussion about this with my girlfriend the other day...

[I, Brian]

Sometimes it's a part of a song that can reach out - or else the "feel" of the song itself in entirety.

Btw -who won the argument? Oh, wait - girlfriends always do.

[littlemissattitude]

Of course girlfriends always win the arguments...if boyfriends are smart.

[X Q mano]

Of course, but it wasn't that kind of argument... We were just discussing the thing...

For me, very rarely a whole piece of lyrics really touch me. So few writers have the ability to write such a grand piece of lyrics. But lines in-between can really reach out and stir me up... I love it when they do...

[gillman]

The BEST lyrics of "ALL-TIME" are by John Denver

RHYMES & REASONS

So you speak to me of sadness and the coming of the winter
the fear that is within you now, it seems to never end
and the dreams that have escaped you, and the hope that you've forgotten you tell me that you need me now, you want to be my friend

and you wonder where we're going
where's the RHYME and where's the REASON
and it's you who cannot accept
it is "HERE" we must begin,,,,,,,,,,
TO SEEK the WISDOM of the CHILDREN
and the GRACEFUL Way of FLOWERS in the WIND
for the children and the flowers
are my sisters and my brothers
their laughter and their loveliness
could clear a cloudy day
like the music of the mountains
and the colors of the rainbow
they're a promise of the future
and a blessing for today

Though the cities start to crumble and the towers fall around us
the sun is slowly fading and it's colder than the sea
IT IS WRITTEN from the desert to the mountains they shall lead us
by the hand and by the heart, they will comfort you and me
in their innocence and trusting they will teach us to be free

For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers
their laughter and their loveliness could clear a cloudy day
and the song that I am singing is a prayer to nonbelievers
come and stand beside us, we can find a better way,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[knivesout]

I don't know if these are the best lyirics of all time, or even the best lyrics I've ever heard, but for some years now I've been going back to this song and finding so much in it I can relate to.


Underground - The Tea Party



I don't need your redemption
I don't want you to deceive me
And I don't need your forgiveness
I only want you to believe me

Do you see me here
I'm standing naked
Do you see me here on my knees

Now all my life I've been wandering
Looking for teachers with the keys
Nothing found still searching for sound
Underground...

Now let me tell you about a story
It's about a man consumed with vice
He's theosophical in nature
And hedonistic in disguise And all my life I've been wandering
Searching for teachers with the keys
Nothing found still searching for sound
Underground...

[gillman]

Hey "knivesout" pretty good lyrics also

I think they would speak to many millions of people wandering "NAKED" in an UNTAMED Wilderness WORLD searching for the "GOLD NUGGETS of LOVE" & the Teachers that LIVE it ,as well as PREACH it!

But "LOVE" (like GOLD) is snatched away by GREEDY Men intoxicated with power & bent on "CONTROL"!

VIOLENCE is better to keep the masses confused & fearful .
John Denver was looked at "musically" as INSIGNIFICANT & "Square" & generally disrespected by even his own Music Label. And by his own ADMISSION his personal life had several shadows .

But he always tried to "CARE" about the "average joe" ,3rd world countries, a better world , doing all that he could (for one person) to recognize (ala; STAR TREK),the "NEEDS of the MANY, OUTWEIGH the NEEDS of the FEW." It's taken me a half Century to understand ,all that I do know. Experience & a willingness to be OBJECTIVE & see the "OTHER POINT of VIEW" has "OPENED my EYES" and you get to a point where it's awful hard to have the WOOL PULLED OVER THEM. Then slowly your "NAKEDNESS" is covered by the RECOGNITION that (metaphorically speaking) the WORLD is "clothed in a certain conforming style". Some folks think that the only other CHOICE is nakedness. When their has always been a 3rd choice. DRESS the way that describes who you are & all that you're searching for
(albeit not to harm or disrespect your brother).
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edited by Ami
(sorry hun it just wasn't readable try and use one comma not 4 each time)

[Amidala]

Dark Waltz - hayley westenra

We are the lucky ones
We shine like a thousand suns
When all of the colour runs together

I'll keep you company
In one glorious harmony
Waltzing with destiny forever

Dance me into the night
Underneath the moon shining so bright
Turning me into the light

Time dances whirling past
I gaze through the looking glass
And feel just beyond my grasp is heaven

Sacred geometry
Where movement is poetry
Visions of you and me forever

Dance me into the night
Underneath the moon shining so bright
Turning me into the light

Dance me into the night
Underneath the moon shining so bright
Let the dark waltz begin
Oh let me wheel - let me spin
Let it take me again
Turning me into the light

[gillman]

Beautiful poetry on this poem Amidala. And Oh by the way this;>>>(,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,) is a typographical "PAUSE" in my writing,,,,,,,,,,sometimes I may overuse or misapply it.