What Are Your Favorite Song Lyrics?

I have to agree with everything you guys are saying, but I still think the most beautiful lyrics I have ever heard are “The Approaching Curve” by Rise Against. It just brings tears to my eyes each time I listen to it.

[:Spoken:]
The music blared with a calming frequency.
The speakers gently seeped the sounds of ambient keyboards and light percussion,
creating a seductive soundtrack to our midnight drive through curtains of blackness.
The windows were cold to the touch, reflecting the icy conditions in our immediate extremity.
Salt stains and fingerprints littered the glass, and streets with melted snow cascaded down its length.
The music pulsed louder, yet gentle, like the far away squeal of a pot of boiling water.
The skyline was glowing faintly with vague hints of an impending dawn.
The car raced along a painfully straight stretch of road,
and she hadn’t so much as turned the steering wheel two degrees in the last twenty minutes,
nor had we spoken.

As we were, so perfect ,so happy.
They’ll remember, only our smiles ’cause that’s all they’ve seen.
Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were, so perfect, so happy.

[:Spoken:]
“Why are you doing this?” she spoke as if not expecting a response.
Her voice penetrated the still air of our speechless drive, so suddenly that my heart had jumped.
“I’m not doing anything,” I said, but I didn’t even believe that myself.
“This is what’s best, for me, for you, for us or maybe just for me,” I thought,
as a tear formed in the pit of her eye. The music poured through the speakers
and we were losing ourselves in the cadence. She looked down momentarily and closed her eyes
for a bit longer than a standard blink. Then she was crying. Then she was shouting.
Then I was shouting, now pouring confessions, having no answers, or solutions,
we barely even knew the questions.

As we were, so perfect ,so happy.
They’ll remember, only our smiles ’cause that’s all they’ve seen.
Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were, so perfect, so happy.

Don’t put me under ground, I was meant for a life somewhere else.
Please Love give me the wheel before both of our hearts you will steal tonight. (Will steal tonight.)

As we were, so perfect, so happy.
They’ll remember, only your smiles ’cause that’s all they’ve seen.
Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were, so perfect, so happy.

[:Spoken:]
Our cracking voices became part of the music.
The car pressed on faster through the night. As our voices lowered,
the cadence again overtook the air.
Up ahead there was a curve approaching.
She made no indications of slowing.

A classic by Roxy Music “Love is the drug”. “I say go,she say yes, dim the lights, you can guess the rest!” The man is a genius!

Where’s the Dave at?? A list of memorable lyrics and no Dave Matthews Band?!?

CLASSIC DAVE:
“I’m only this far
And only tomorrow leads my way”
– #41

“Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you should
It was good as good goes”
– Stay or Leave

“Some devil some angel
Has got me to the bones”
– Some Devil

“Where you end where I begin is like a river going through
Take my eyes take my heart I need them no more
If never again they fall upon the one I so adore”
and
“One drink to remember then another to forget
How could I ever dream to find sweet love like you again”
– Grace is Gone

“I find sometimes it’s easy to be myself
sometimes I find it’s better to be somebody else”
– So Much to Say

“I have no lid upon my head
But if I did
You could look inside and see
What’s on my mind”
– Let You Down

“Celebrate we will
Because life is short but sweet for
certain”
– Two Step

“Would you not like to be
Sitting on top of the world with your legs hanging free”
– Lie in our Graves

I love Dave, and could keep going…….

Springsteen really grasps what make life worth living.

When I tried to think of my favourite lyrics the first thing that popped into my head was Five For Fighting’s ‘Fifteen’. man I love that song.

Fifteen. There’s never a wish better than this
When you’ve only got 100 years to live.

That was beautifully written Jack. I am in total agreement with every word.

There are just too many lyrics that I love to even write down a few.

But one that immediately comes to mind is Maybe I’m Amazed. It’s not so beautiful, but it holds something very meaningful and personal for me right now.

Which btw, Jack – you are actually listing a Barry Manilow song. I never thought I would see the day (but definitely on my list.)

If You Are But A Dream

“If you are but a Dream,
I hope I never waken.
It’s more than I could bear,
to find that I’m forsaken.
If you are a Fantasy,
then I’m content to be
in Love with Lovely you,
and pray my Dream comes true.

I long to kiss you,
but I would not dare;
I’m so afraid
that you may vanish in the air.
So Darling,
if our romance should break up,
I hope I never wake up,
if you are but a dream.”

Can’t remember who wrote it, but a very young Frank Sinatra sang it.

Those are some good songs. I like them.

sometimes I feel like I’ve overdone it in my blog but now I feel so much better.

Not possible, unless you are talking about really bad music. 😉

Jack: Canadian singer-songwriter Amy Sky (married to Marc Jordan of the song “Livin’ in Marina del Rey”) wrote this beautiful homage to motherhood, in essence parenthood. I cry every time I hear it.

ORDINARY MIRACLES

AMY SKY- DAVID PICKELL

At six weeks you learned to smile
at three months you learned to laugh
at six months you cut a tooth
and at ten months you took a step

At two years you made a best friend
at three years you rode a bike
at four years you learned to skate
and at five years you learned to write

CHORUS
Just ordinary miracles
ordinary miracles
but all the same they’re miracles to me
the days that Ill remember well
have a simple kind of wonderful
of ordinary miracles

Your silky head beneath my chin
for bedtime books and lullabies
your angel kiss upon my cheek
your teddy bear clutched to your side

How soon the bike wheels turn to car wheels
the lullabies to rock and roll
the teddy bears to pretty girls
and instead of you these thoughts I’ll hold

CHORUS
Just ordinary miracles
ordinary miracles
but all the same they’re miracles to me
the days that Ill remember well
have a simple kind of wonderful
of ordinary miracles

BRIDGE
And I know the day will come
that you’ll spread your wings and fly
but I’ll treasure these moments all my life

A gentle kind of wonderful
the sweetest days are always full
of ordinary miracles
each time I hold you near
it’s an ordinary miracle

Latte Music (SOCAN)/ Warner Chappell Music Canada

Elie,
Wow, I didn’t know that was Dire Straits. That song was played on country radio. I would have said Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Probably my all time favorite (and I have blogged this)
But there ain’t no Coupe De Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.
– Meat Loaf, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad

She’s living in LA with my best old ex-friend Ray
– Jim Croce, Operator

Well the folk scene is dead
But he’s holding out in the village
He’s been writing songs speaking out
Against wealth and privilege
He says ‘I dont believe in money
But a man could make him a killin’
Cause some of that stuff dont sound
Much different than Dylan
– Alan Jackson, Gone Country

I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
– Beatles, While My guitar Gently Weeps

I told you not to wander round in the dark
I told you ’bout the swans, that they live in the park
Then I told you ’bout our kid: now he’s married to Mabel
– Cream, Badge

Somewhere, somehow somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped
Tied up, taken away and held for ransom
– Tom Petty, Refugee

If we could steal away
Like jugglers and thieves
But we could come and go
Oh, and talk of michaelangelo, oh
– Bangles, Dover Beach

I knew it’d turn out like this
I’m keeping one foot on the train
And I must be a masochist
To ever take up with you, james
– Bangles, James

Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine, watchin’ it from the bench
You know I took some lumps when the Mighty Case struck out
So Say Hey Willie, tell Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio
Don’t say it ain’t so, you know the time is now
– John Fogerty, Centerfield

I don’t need no money, fortune, or fame.
I’ve got all the riches baby one man can claim.
– The Temptations, My Girl

She may be an angel who spends all winter
Bringin’ the homeless blankets and dinner
A regular Nobel Peace Prize winner
But I really hate her
I’ll think of a reason later
– Lee Ann Womack, I’ll think of a reason later

Atta chai, noshem, na
Zo hi hatchalah
lyrics by Malki Roth, Shir Lismoach

Stacey, thanks for reminding me, S&G – “Old Friends”

I totally agree with everything you wrote in this post. Music evokes so many emotions for me, but it’s really the lyrics and melodies that does it for me, than the technical side of music.

For me, these are just a few artists/songs that definitely evoke such feelings.

Indigo Girls (almost all their songs but these are top faves)
Watershed
Galileo
Ghost
Power of Two
Left Me a Fool

Nora Jones
Come Away with Me

Garth Brooks
The Dance
If Tomorrow Never Comes

Barry Manilow
Wknd in New England

Paul McCartney/Wings
Across the Universe
Maybe I’m Amazed

Eminem
When I’m Gone

Kelly Clarkson
Because of You

Israeli
Hatikva
Jerusalem of Gold (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav)

Love the Springsteen and Dylan quotes, I used to have a lot of there song lyrics saved on my computer but I have since lost them. I also had a lot of Grateful Dead and some Bob Marley. Here is my favorite Dead lyric.

“Sometimes we live no
particular way but our own
Sometimes we visit your country
and live in your home
Sometimes we ride on your horses
Sometimes we walk alone
Sometimes the songs that we hear
are just songs of our own”
– Eyes of The World.