What are your favorite song lyrics?

by berylblue 11 Replies latest social entertainment

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  berylblue

  Mine are a toss between:

  "And had I but known last summer, what I now understand

  I'd have never set my foot inside this bleak and bitter land". (very appropriaten for this forum)

  Al Stewart, "Coldest Winter in Memory" from the album "Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time"

  and

  "Sometimes it seems impossible that the game could get that rough

  But the stage is set, the exits barred and the makeup won't come off

  So you make your bow to the balcony, you light another cigarette

  And the lights grow dim as the music starts and it's easy to forget"

  Al Stewart, "Carol", from the album "Modern Tmes"
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  gitasatsangha

  I should pay more attention to Al Steward, I think.

  For some reason these lyrics by Stuard Adamson (RIP) keep coming to mind since the bombs started falling: (song is "Close Action" by Big Country)

  A score of years this line has run
  Above the crests that drown the sun
  A mile high the turbines turned
  The stokers sweat the monkeys burned

  I will carry you home
  With the gods in my eyes
  I will carry you home
  While the westerlies sigh

  The continents will fly apart
  The oceans scream and never part
  Divided souls can never rest
  Must join the nations break the test

  I will carry you home
  With the gods in my eyes
  I will carry you home
  While the westerlies sigh

  I will carry you home
  With the gods in my eyes
  I will carry you home
  While the westerlies sigh

  For endless hours the sirens wail
  Await the tide that brings the sail
  Cling the walls and close the shore
  The lovers wait who walk no more

  I will carry you home
  With the gods in my eyes
  I will carry you home
  While the westerlies sigh

  I will carry you home
  With the gods in my eyes
  I will carry you home
  While the westerlies sigh

  I will carry you home
  I will carry you home
  I will carry you home
  I will carry you home
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  berylblue

  Lovely. Thanks.

  Beryl
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  berylblue

  Lovely. Thanks.

  Beryl
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  nowisee

  amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. i once was lost but now im found, was blind but now i see.
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  Pleasuredome

  Erasure - The Circus
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  Pleasuredome

  THE BELOVED - SWEET HARMONY

  Is it right or wrong
  try to find a place
  we can all belong?
  Be as one
  try to get on by
  if we unify?
  We should really try
  All this time
  spinning round and round
  made the same mistakes
  that we've always found
  Surely now we could move along
  make a better world?
  No it can't be wrong
  
  Let's come together right now
  oh yeah in sweet harmony
  let's come together right now
  oh yeah in sweet harmony
  let's come together right now
  oh yeah in sweet harmony
  let's come together right now
  oh yeah in sweet harmony
  
  Oh yeah
  oh yeah
  oh yeah
  
  Let's come together ...
  
  Time is running out
  let there be no doubt
  we should sort things out
  If we care
  like we say we do
  not just empty words
  for a week or two
  Make the world your priority
  try to live your life ecologically
  Play a part in a greater scheme
  try to live the dream
  on a wider scene
  
  Let's come together ...
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  reporter

  I have lots of favorites...here's one...

  Invincible...the song can partially be heard here lyrics below

  Pat Benatar Discography
  Seven the Hard Way
  Date: 1985
  AMG ID: R000001676 (album inprint)

  Invincible
  This bloody road remains a mystery
  This sudden darkness fills the air
  What are we waiting for?
  Won't anybody help us?
  What are we waiting for?

  We can't afford to be innocent
  Stand up and face the enemy
  It's a do or die situation
  We will be Invincible

  This shattered dream you cannot justify
  We're gonna scream until we're satisified
  What are we running for?
  We've got the right to be angry
  What are we running for?
  When there's no where we can run to anymore

  We can't afford to be innocent
  Stand up and face the enemy
  It's a do or die situation
  We will be Invincible
  And with the power of conviction
  There is no sacrifice
  It's a do or die situation
  We will be Invincible

  Won't anybody help us?
  What are we running for?
  When there's no where, no where we can run to anymore

  We can't afford to be innocent
  Stand up and face the enemy
  It's a do or die situation
  We will be Invincible
  And with the power of conviction
  There is no sacrifice
  It's a do or die situation
  We will be Invincible

  Written by: Holly Knight & Simon Climie
  Time: 4:28
  @Copyright - 1985 by Makiki Pub. Co./Arista Music, Inc.
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  Pleasuredome

  THE STRANGLERS - ALWAYS THE SUN

  How many times have you woken up and prayed for the rain? How many times have you seen the papers apportion the blame? Who gets to say, who gets the work and gets to play? I was always told at school, everybody should get the same How many times have you been told, if you don't ask you don't get? How many liars have taken your money, your mother said you shouldn't bet? Who has the fun, is it always the man with the gun? Someone must have told him, if you work too hard you can sweat There's always the sun There's always the sun Always, always, always the sun How many times have the weathermen told you stories that made you laugh? Y'know it's not unlike the politician and the leaders when they do things by half Who gets the job, of pushing the knob That sort of responsibility you draw straws for, if you're mad enough There's always the sun There's always the sun Always, always, always the sun
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  COMF

  Am Mur Gorm by Capercaillie

  Mur b'e thusa bhiiodh an Cuilithionn
  'na mhur eagarra gorm
  ag crioslachadh le bhalla-criche
  na tha 'nam chridhe borb

  Mur b'e thusa bhiodh a' ghaineamh
  tha'n Talasgar dumhail geal
  'na clar biothbuan do mo dhuilean
  air nach tilleadh an run-ghath

  'S mur b'e thusa bhiodh na cuantan
  'nan luasgan is 'nan tamh
  a' togail cair mo bhuadhan
  'ga cur air suaimhneas ard

  'S bhiodh am monadh donn riabhach
  agus mo chiall co-shint'
  ach chuir thusa orra riaghladh
  os cionn mo phianaidh fhin

  Agus air creachainn chein fhasmhoir
  chinn blathmhor Craobh nan Teud
  'na meangach duillich t'aodann
  mo chiall is aogas reil