The best lyrics EVER

10-28-2003, 01:33 PM

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

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10-28-2003, 06:13 PM

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

10-28-2003, 06:39 PM

Hurricane by Bob Dylan. The best protest song EVER!

10-28-2003, 09:41 PM

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 · 10-28-2003, 10:27 PM

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.

11-01-2003, 12:22 AM

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

Quote:

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.

11-01-2003, 12:55 AM

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 · 11-04-2003, 08:03 PM

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 · 11-04-2003, 08:35 PM

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

11-05-2003, 12:57 PM

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...