Best song lyrics

[Daveho]

My current personal favourite:
“Andy walking, Andy tired
Andy take a little snooze
Tie him up when he's fast asleep
Send him on a pleasant cruise”

David Bowie on Andy Warhol

[ferider]

Love Bowie, Dave, could quote a bunch of great lyrics of his.

Here is mine for this thread:

": : :
Enjoy your body
use it every way you can…
don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it
it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own
: : :
Don't expect anyone else to support you
Maybe you have a trust fund
maybe you have a wealthy spouse
but you never know when either one might run out
: : :
Be careful whose advice you buy, but
be patient with those who supply it
Advice is a form of nostalgia
dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off
painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth
: : :"

from "Everybody's Free, Baz Luhrmann", Lyrics by Mary Schmich, 1997.

Roland.

[MichaelScott]

The Bird Is The Word

[Extra330SC]

Bob Dylan's "DREAM"

While riding on a train goin' west
I fell asleep for to take my rest
I dreamed a dream that made me sad
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had

With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I'd spent many an afternoon
Where we together weathered many a storm
Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn

By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
Our words were told, our songs were sung
Where we longed for nothin' and were satisfied
Jokin' and talkin' about the world outside

With hungry hearts through the heat and cold
We never much thought we could get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one

As easy it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
And our choices they was few so the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split

How many a year has passed and gone?
Many a gamble has been lost and won
And many a road taken by many a first friend
And each one I've never seen again

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that

Songwriters: Bob Dylan

[Bloke]

The Bird Is The Word

Ah, hahaha, ah, hahaha, ah, hahaha! :cool:

[MichaelScott]

Hey, everybody’s heard about the bird.

[Extra330SC]

Hey, everybody’s heard about the bird.

C'mon. ..people want to know!
https://youtu.be/6GizTr6QLfc

[MichaelScott]

So now you know
About the bird.

[ChrisinHove]

:)

[Stuart Ackerman]

Albatross by Judy Collins from the album Wildflowers

The lady comes to the gate dressed in lavender and leather
Looking North to the sea she finds the weather fine
She hears the steeple bells ringing through the orchard
All the way from town
She watches seagulls fly
Silver on the ocean stitching through the waves
The edges of the sky

Many people wander up the hills
From all around you
Making up your memories and thinking they have found you
They cover you with veils of wonder as if you were a bride
Young men holding violets are curious to know if you have cried
And tell you why
And ask you why
Any way you answer

Lace around the collars of the blouses of the ladies
Flowers from a Spanish friend of the family
The embroid'ry of your life holds you in
And keeps you out but you survive
Imprisoned in your bones
Behind the isinglass windows of your eyes

And in the night the iron wheels rolling through the rain
Down the hills through the long grass to the sea
And in the dark the hard bells ringing with pain
Come away alone

Even now by the gate with you long hair blowing
And the colors of the day that lie along your arms
You must barter your life to make sure you are living
And the crowd that has come
You give them the colors
And the bells and wind and the dream

Will there never be a prince who rides along the sea and the mountains
Scattering the sand and foam into amethyst fountains
Riding up the hills from the beach in the long summer grass
Holding the sun in his hands and shattering the isinglass?

Day and night and day again and people come and go away forever
While the shining summer sea dances in the glass of your mirror
While you search the waves for love and your visions for a sign
The knot of tears around your throat is crystallizing into your design

And in the night the iron wheels rolling through the rain
Down the hills through the long grass to the sea
And in the dark the hard bells ringing with pain
Come away alone
Come away alone...with me

[TkoK83Spy]

https://youtu.be/VSwretXmTxI


Darkest Hour - A Thousand Words To Say But One.

And to reflect is to regret
Throwing it all away
And apathy my one way street
It took so much from me
Separated by this divide I created through my fears
And in your tears you tried to show
Blind eyes and tell deaf ears

If we can make it through the landslide standing
We'll lift each other up to see the bliss on the horizon
Been looking in from the outside lately
I've seen who I used to be and it's not me

And we can keep healing
And we can keep holding on

I just want to take you where our time won't waste anymore
Through the mountains on the water we'll stay engulfed in one another
And when I can wake up to see the sunrise in your eyes
Then we'll finally be free and I know I've made it home

So lets go out West and bask in the overcast
And walking through the rain we'll see the beauty in life again

Life again

And to reflect is to regret
Throwing it all away
And apathy my one way street
It took so much from me
Separated by this divide I created through my fears
And in your tears you tried to show
Blind eyes and tell deaf ears

We can keep healing

We can keep holding on

[Naperville]

The Bird Theme is strong in here!

https://spinditty.com/playlists/Songs-W ... -the-Title

[VooDooChild]

Theres so many great songs with meaningful lyrics.

I guess because of my username Ill throw this one out there.

"Castles made of sand,
Fall in the sea,
Eventually"

[Doc Dan]

The Bird Is The Word

Hahaha! You beat me to it! :D :D

Louie Louie is another one. https://youtu.be/AQMIjFDNjs4

[James Y]

I’ve always considered the lyrics to this song to be transcendent:

Do it!
Do it!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!

https://youtu.be/qeUfDTn5huM


:p

Jim

[sok]

"Who'll Stop The Rain"

Long as I remember
The rain been comin' down
Clouds of mystery pourin'
Confusion on the ground
Good men through the ages
Tryin' to find the sun
And I wonder
Still, I wonder
Who'll stop the rain

I went down Virginia
Seekin' shelter from the storm
Caught up in the fable
I watched the tower grow
Five-year plans and new deals
Wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder
Still, I wonder
Who'll stop the rain

Heard the singers playin'
How we cheered for more
The crowd had rushed together
Tryin' to keep warm
Still, the rain kept pourin'
Fallin' on my ears
And I wonder
Still I wonder
Who'll stop the rain


"Shelter from the storm" was the lyric that inspired Bob Dylan to title his 1975 song, "Shelter From The Storm".

"Five years plans" is a reference to The Soviet Union planned economy that was based on targets set five years in advance starting from 1928, when Joseph Stalin ruled the country, and continued until the dissolution of the USSR.

This track was featured in a 1978 film starring Nick Nolte as a Vietnam veteran. The film had a working title "Dog Soldiers" but was changed to "Who'll Stop The Rain" when the producers got the rights to use this song.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened their concerts with "Who'll Stop the Rain" whenever it was raining during their tours.

When John Fogerty introduced the song in 2007 he said, "A lot of folks seem to think I sang this song at Woodstock way back then. No. I was at Woodstock 1969… I think. It was a nice event. I'm a California kid. I went up there and saw a whole bunch of really nice young people. Hairy. Colorful. It started to rain, and got really muddy, and then half a million people took their clothes off! Boomer generation making its presence known I guess. Anyway, then I went home and wrote this song."
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked this song number 188 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/creeden ... erain.html

[paladin]

Al Stewart, one of the most down-to-earth famous guys you could ever meet...I met him at the Ryman...I hear this song and I'm instantly in the 70's...the lyrics are pure magic, instrumentation pretty good too :

https://youtu.be/f2JnEgAggGg

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat

While she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice you've lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the newborn day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat

Year of the cat

[remnar]

"When the sleigh is heavy
And the timber wolves are getting bold
You look at your companions
And test the water of their friendship
With your toe
They significantly edge
Closer to the gold
Each man has his price Bob
And yours was pretty low"

-Roger Waters, Too Much Rope

[z4vdBt]

I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in

[RocketJ]

Check out the lyrics to the song “Sam Stone” by John Prine. Sad, but right on the mark.