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...following on from the thread about favourite movie quotes, I thought I would start one to share cool/funny/favourite lines from songs...

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off you go...
 
Hey Han,
Cool idea for a thread.
Corny I know but my fave is from Baz Luhrmanns Sunscreen...

"Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday"
 
If I had my way I'd have all of you shot - Pink Floyd (In The Flesh)

I wish that you knew when I said two sugars, actually I meant three - Kate Nash (Nicest thing)

I may be mad
I may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking - Annie Lennox (Why)

I've noticed the things that you wanted me to be.
They outweigh the ones that make me happy. - Blue October (Italian Radio)
 
Last Kiss by J Frank Wilson a good tune but haunting when I found out it was a true story.

Oh where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

We were out on a date in my daddy's car
We hadn't driven very far
There in the road straight up ahead
A car was stalled the engine was dead
I couldn't stop so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget the sound that night
The screaming tires the busting glass
The painful scream that I heard last

Oh where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

When I woke up the rain was pouring down
There were people standing all around
Somethign warm flowing through my eyes
But somehow I found my baby that night
I lifted her head she looked at me and said
Hold me darling just a little while
I held her close I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love that I knew i have missed
Well now she's gone even though I hold her tight
I lost my love my life that night
 
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ohhh there are so many..some Pink Floyd first

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking, racing around to come up behind you again

We're just 2 lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year

There is no pain, you are receding, no distant ship smoke on the horizon, you are only coming through in waves, your lips move, but I cant here what youre saying, When I was child I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye, I turned to look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now, the child is grown, the dream has gone...

and from others...

Lilly Allen
Lifes about film stars and less about mothers
Its all about fast cars and passing each other
But it doesnt matter cause Im packing plastic
and thats what makes my life so f***ing fantastic

And I am a weapon of massive consumption
and its not my fault its how Im program to function

and

Squeeze
Alone here in the kitchen
I feel theres something missing
Id beg for some forgiveness
But beggings not my business
And she wont write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so its my assumption
Im really up the junction

the eagles
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it's too late
 
At this very moment, having just perused Warehouse Express ... this one comes to mind...


"If I hadnt seen such riches, I could live with being poor"
Sit Down, by James. :'(
 
InaGlo said:
At this very moment, having just perused Warehouse Express ... this one comes to mind...


"If I hadnt seen such riches, I could live with being poor"
Sit Down, by James. :'(
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how very philosophical! :D
 
Well I'm a HUUUUGE Morrissey fan, so there's plenty of amusing lines from his music!

A recent song of his called All You Need Is Me:

You hiss and groan and you constantly moan
But you don't ever go away
That's because
All you need is me

Oh my, what an amzing man :love:
 
andy_fozzy said:
Well I'm a HUUUUGE Morrissey fan, so there's plenty of amusing lines from his music!

A recent song of his called All You Need Is Me:

You hiss and groan and you constantly moan
But you don't ever go away
That's because
All you need is me

Oh my, what an amzing man :love:
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Morrissey is still a great, love everything he writes. Panic is the best though and still relavent all these years on.

No-one writes like Zappa though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFIMWRXWY90
 
Mancunian Lee said:
Morrissey is still a great, love everything he writes. Panic is the best though and still relavent all these years on.

No-one writes like Zappa though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFIMWRXWY90
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:woot::woot::woot:

Panic is amazing. I know the story why he wrote it. (According to Morrissey And Marr, The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan).
Morrissey had just heard on Radio 1 news about the Chernobyl disaster.
After the DJ had announced the disaster, he put on WHAM! Wake Me Up Before You Go Go :D (Hence, hang the DJ :lol: )

Dunno how true that is, but I am however VERY VERY reliably informed that book is pretty damn accurate.
 
andy_fozzy said:
:woot::woot::woot:

Panic is amazing. I know the story why he wrote it. (According to Morrissey And Marr, The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan).
Morrissey had just heard on Radio 1 news about the Chernobyl disaster.
After the DJ had announced the disaster, he put on WHAM! Wake Me Up Before You Go Go :D (Hence, hang the DJ :lol: )

Dunno how true that is, but I am however VERY VERY reliably informed that book is pretty damn accurate.
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Yup thats the story I know and they are still doing it to this day :shrug: No-one can play Jonny Marr accept Jonny Marr.:love::love:
 
Oh so many I will fore go the deep and meaningful Pink Floyd lyrics so just one from floyd.
This amuses the hell out of me each time I hear it I don't know why it just does

She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow

And a few others by a very famous singer song writer duo that I have admired
since child hood

.............Through the corridors of sleep
Past the shadows dark and deep
My mind dances and leaps in confusion.
I don't know what is real,
I can't touch what I feel
And I hide behind the shield of my illusion...............


...........And when you ran to me, your
Cheeks fleshed with the night
We walked on frosted fields
Of juniper and lamplight
I held your hand .................

.................I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.............

..........It's the same old story
Everywhere I go,
I get slandered,
Libeled,
I hear words I never heard
In the Bible...............

..........From the moment of my birth
To the instant of my death,
There are patterns I must follow
Just as I must breathe each breath.
Like a rat in a maze
The path before me lies,
And the pattern never alters
Until the rat dies.............

..............I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I love,
As she lies here beside me asleep with the night.
Her hair in a fine mist floats on my pillow,
Reflecting the glow of the winter moonlight..................

There are loads more (these are probably some of the least known ones)
but that'll do :D
 
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Another Pink Floyd one I'm afraid:

A place to stay, enough to eat
Somewhere old heroes shuffle, safely, down the street
Where you can speak out loud, about your doubts and fears
And what's more,
No-one ever disappears
You never hear the standard issue
Kicking the door
You can relax, on both sides of the tracks and maniacs
Don't blow holes...in bandsmen, by remote control

From The Gunner's dream.

Family away, lights out and topped up with wine.
This one goes on at full volume.
 
And of course there are those from my rugby days long since past :D
'twas on the good ship venus
by God you should have seen us..................Hmm perhaps not :D
 
Awesome thread! :thumbs:
I need to put down 2!

The first is the most powerful lyrics i've ever heard & it's Labi Siffre's -Something Inside So Strong:

The more you refuse to hear my voice
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jericho
Your lies will come tumbling
Deny my place in time
You squander wealth that's mine
My light will shine so brightly
It will blind you
Cos there's......

[Chorus]
Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone
Oh no, something inside so strong
Oh oh oh oh oh something inside so strong

The second is the most beautiful lyrics i've ever heard & that would be REM's - At My Most Most Beautiful

At my most beautiful
I count your eyelashes, secretly
With every one, whisper I love you
I let you sleep
I know you're closed eye watching me,
Listening
I thought I saw a smile

My fav 2 but some awesome suggestions by others... Suprised there isn't any early Bowie in yet but the thread is young!
 
Mancunian Lee said:
Yup thats the story I know and they are still doing it to this day :shrug: No-one can play Jonny Marr accept Jonny Marr.:love::love:
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Absolutely mate, Marr is in a different class.
He has a very unique style, and The Smiths wouldn't have existed if it weren't for him......
 
Cobra said:
And of course there are those from my rugby days long since past :D
'twas on the good ship venus
by God you should have seen us..................Hmm perhaps not :D
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:lol::lol::lol::lol:

I remember that one. My brother was a big Pistols fan, and I used to listed to his records when I was a kid :eek:
 
"I still feel the wonder as the sky turns to fire ... standing between the worlds in the changing of the light" - Changing Of The Light - Justin Sullivan
 
The first two that occured to me, for no real reason are

"If I had a minute for every hour I'd wasted, I'd be rich in time." jack Johnson

"I've seen a million believers cry out in disbelief." brand new heavies
 
I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
 
I reached for the arm, which was less than one micron long, but weighed more than Saturn, and time stood still.

I knew I had to escape, but everytime I tried to flee, the record was infront of me.




The Human League - The Black Hit of Space.
 
The whole song 'Misunderstood' by Dream Theater is awesome
Waiting
In the calm of desolation
Wanting to break
From this circle of confusion

Sleeping
In the depths of isolation
Trying to wake
From this daydream of illusion

How can I feel abandoned even when the world surrounds me
How can I bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me
How can I know so many
Never really knowing anyone

If I seem superhuman
I have been
Misunderstood

It challenges the essence of my soul
And leaves me in a state of disconnection
As I navigate the maze of self control

Playing a lion being led to a cage
I turn from a thief to a beggar
From a god to God save me

How can I feel abandoned even when the world surrounds me
How can I bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me
How can I know so many
Never really knowing anyone

If I seem superhuman
I have been
Misunderstood

Playing a lion being led to a cage
I turn from surreal to seclusion
From love to disdain
From belief to delusion
From a thief to a beggar
From a god to God save me

How can I feel abandoned even when the world surrounds me
How can I bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me
How can I know so many
Never really knowing anyone

If I seem superhuman
I have been
Misunderstood
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But in terms of bringing out emotion, no song will ever compare to purely instrumental works IMO, without the lyrics a piece of music can properly portray emotion, without the need for words to openly explain it.
 
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ChrisMClark said:
The whole song 'Misunderstood' by Dream Theater is awesome


But in terms of bringing out emotion, no song will ever compare to purely instrumental works IMO, without the lyrics a piece of music can properly portray emotion, without the need for words to openly explain it.
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See - I don't get that. I've never understood how in hell you can understand what a guitarist/flautist/bongo drummer really meant when they played that note, that sequence, that riff, chord etc - only that it's major or minor and goes with the tune. I've never understood how one can say "Such an emotional rendition!" when for all you know they may well have been considering what they were going to have for their tea during the whole piece.
 
Myky D said:
See - I don't get that. I've never understood how in hell you can understand what a guitarist/flautist/bongo drummer really meant when they played that note, that sequence, that riff, chord etc - only that it's major or minor and goes with the tune. I've never understood how one can say "Such an emotional rendition!" when for all you know they may well have been considering what they were going to have for their tea during the whole piece.
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Are you a musician Myky?
 
ChrisMClark said:
Are you a musician Myky?
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How can one claim that the way they played C# in that piece was just so full of emotion, when the simple fact is they may well have done it as a joke?

Have you heard the death march played in a jazz style? It's great. Have you played "Happy Birthday" backwards? It sounds dark. "All Apologies" by Kurt Cobain was written as a joke. "Shiny Happy People" by REM is a dark satirical criticism of the discourse of advertising (those last two are from the authors).

Carmina Burana is a jumped-up drinking song.

But do go on.
 
It's nothing to do with the way one note is played, now a lot of the time how an entire piece is played. Music starts with composition, and that alone can be enough to inspire emotion and feelings. But to be honest, any point you put forward I'm going to struggle to take seriously after hearing you refer to Orff's most iconic work as a 'jumped up drinking song'.
 
ChrisMClark said:
It's nothing to do with the way one note is played, now a lot of the time how an entire piece is played. Music starts with composition, and that alone can be enough to inspire emotion and feelings. But to be honest, any point you put forward I'm going to struggle to take seriously after hearing you refer to Orff's most iconic work as a 'jumped up drinking song'.
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You might want to have a look at its folk background, then.

I'm still waiting on an explanation, other than snobbery.

I mean - music's music - if it moves you, it moves you. Isn't that the point?
 
Yes that is the point, but it wasn't the one you made until just now. That was my point, that a composition can move you. It's my opinion however that an instrumental arrangement can have more of an impact than a piece with lyrics, older choral works excepted. As I said that's my opinion, and if you want to put me down as a 'snob' because of that then that's your problem, not mine, because I'm making a ****ing good living, and have been for the last 7 years, out of being a 'musical snob'.
 
Show me the way to go home!:D
 
ChrisMClark said:
Yes that is the point, but it wasn't the one you made until just now. That was my point, that a composition can move you. It's my opinion however that an instrumental arrangement can have more of an impact than a piece with lyrics, older choral works excepted. As I said that's my opinion, and if you want to put me down as a 'snob' because of that then that's your problem, not mine, because I'm making a ****ing good living, and have been for the last 7 years, out of being a 'musical snob'.
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I'm not putting anyone down. I just don't understand how one can reasonably interpret the way someone played a piece of music with any claim to accuracy.

Sure - it moves you, but that relies on your willingness, and in major part to your interpretation of their music, which results in the conclusion that it is not their playing, but rather your personal interpretation of their playing that moves you.
 
Myky D said:
I'm not putting anyone down. I just don't understand how one can reasonably interpret the way someone played a piece of music with any claim to accuracy.

Sure - it moves you, but that relies on your willingness, and in major part to your interpretation of their music, which in turn is not their playing, but rather your personal interpretation of their playing.
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Jeez, I think we've been on the same page, but just haven't realised it. That's been my point all along. For me, I find lyrics distracting, it can remove a lot from a piece for me. I find it easier to fully understand and feel the emotion of a piece if it's purely instrumental. I'm not saying that music with lyrics can't convery emotion, or indeed inspire emotion in listeners, rather that instrumental works chave more of an affect on me.
 
ChrisMClark said:
Jeez, I think we've been on the same page, but just haven't realised it. That's been my point all along. For me, I find lyrics distracting, it can remove a lot from a piece for me. I find it easier to fully understand and feel the emotion of a piece if it's purely instrumental. I'm not saying that music with lyrics can't convery emotion, or indeed inspire emotion in listeners, rather that instrumental works chave more of an affect on me.
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So - given the right stimuli or conviction - any sound could be deemed "moving", I suppose. "This glorious piece, which documents the author's tragic battle with his embittered love, is beautifully depicted through the medium of cash machine samples and the washing machine ... "

Interesting.

See, if someone says "I'm jolly cross about the situation I find myself in, vis-a-vis my girlfriend's apparently stronger emotional attachment to our dog than to me" you know where you are. I don't quite get how one could necessarily glean that from a 17-minute violin solo.
 
Myky D said:
So - given the right stimuli or conviction - any sound could be deemed "moving", I suppose. "This glorious piece, which documents the author's tragic battle with his embittered love, is beautifully depicted through the medium of cash machine samples and the washing machine ... "

Interesting.

See, if someone says "I'm jolly cross about the situation I find myself in, vis-a-vis my girlfriend's apparently stronger emotional attachment to our dog than to me" you know where you are. I don't quite get how one could necessarily glean that from a 17-minute violin solo.
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I don't think it's necessarily an actual situation you can get from a piece, but I'd say it can certainly go as far as to give you an accurate idea of how it would feel.

Some pieces are better than others. Mendelssohn's 'Fingal's Cave' is a superb descriptive piece, which I thoroughly love....even if it usually is ruined by colleagues singing 'my dog's got a hard on' throughout the main theme.
 
I think that, as a rule of thumb, any song referencing a dog's hard-on has to be voted as worth a listen.
 
Cold blue swastika tattooed on my skin
The ice in my veins the staples in my chin
I've got it carved in my forehead "Slave To My Sin"
Too violent for the brotherhood to ever take me in

Gonna write down my law in blood upon the street
To the cadence of a goose-step heavy metal beat
Wanna purify my race gonna turn up the heat
Just wanna make 'em die and make the job complete

I am a vicious young man oh I am a wicked young man
It's not the games that I play the movies I see the music I dig
I'm just a wicked young man

I like to run my body on heavy heavy fuel
I can punch through a wall I can kick like a mule
I got a pocketful of bullets and a blueprint of the school
I'm the devil's little soldier I'm the devil's little tool

I am a vicious young man oh I am a wicked young man
It's not the games that I play the movies I see the music I dig
I'm just a wicked young man

I got every kind of chemical pumpin' through my head
I read Mein Kampf daily just to keep my hatred fed
I never ever sleep I just lay in my bed
Dreamin' of the day when everyone is dead
 
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