Memorable Lyrics

[jjpish68]

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar,
You're gonna go far,
You're gonna fly high,
You're never gonna die,
You're gonna make it if you try,
They're gonna love you.
I've always had a deep respect and I mean that most sincere;
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think,
Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it "Riding The Gravy Train".

We're just knocked out.
We heard about the sell out.
You're gonna get an album out,
You owe it to the people.
We're so happy we can hardly count.
Everybody else is just green,
Have you seen the chart?
It's a hell of a start,
It could be made into a monster,
If we all pull together as a team.

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it "Riding The Gravy Train".

 

[ScottR]

Let your soul shine
It's better than sunshine
It's better than moonshine
Damn sure better than rain
Yeah now people don't mind
We all get this way sometimes
Got to let your soul shine
Shine till the break of day

Ooooo! Good one dude!

 

[ScottR]

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
And how we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here

One of the best ever...

 

[Wakester]

I remember as a 14 or 15 yr old kid, staying up late at night to hear this on the King Biscuit Flour Hour, on a small transistor radio with a mono earplug.

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
you're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon.

 

[Deleted member 5962]

Four pages and no mention of my favorite song writer ever. Todd Rundgren has written MANY all time great songs. My favorite is the one that very closely describes my relationship with my wife. (Edit to say, describes it during our dating phase). “Til I saw, the light, in your eyes.” Gets me every time. A classic love song about finding what is really important in a life partner, and how it sometimes takes you a while to see those things. Don’t have time to quote all the lyrics but you all know them. That song is a gut punch for me.

 

[IKnowALittle]

All these lyrics are fabulous and meaningful and much deeper than I am, or will ever be.
But this little snippet pretty much defines us all ...

"Well, you ain't seen nothin',
Till you're down on a muffin."

Pretty much says it all.

 

[WeFixFlats]

"People try to put us d-down (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby..."

 

[Berten]

all day long i think of things

black sabbath - paranoid

 

[bodia]

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights…

 

[bodia]

They say there are strangers who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theaters and bookstore shelves
That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves

Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand...

 

[Lister]

I know I need a small vacation
But it don't look like rain️
And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain

Jimmy Webb - 1968

Just a great song that stays in my setlist, both electric and acoustic. REM did a killer live version that was a B-side of Bittersweet Me from 1996 and my version is closer to that than Campbell's.

 

[Lister]

Let your soul shine
It's better than sunshine
It's better than moonshine
Damn sure better than rain
Yeah now people don't mind
We all get this way sometimes
Got to let your soul shine
Shine till the break of day

When Warren plays this solo on acoustic, man, it's chills time. This song is an old friend that gets played pretty much anytime I pull out the acoustic.

 

[Lister]

I've always loved these lyrics:

We are secrets to each other
Each one's life a novel
No-one else has read
Even joined in bonds of love
We're linked to one another
By such slender threads

We are planets to each other
Drifting in our orbits
To a brief eclipse
Each of us a world apart
Alone and yet together
Like two passing ships

Just between us
I think it's time for us to recognize
The differences we sometimes feared to show
Just between us
I think it's time for us to realize
The spaces in between
Leave room
For you and I to grow

We are strangers to each other
Full of sliding panels
An illusion show
Acting well-rehearsed routines
Or playing from the heart?
It's hard for one to know

Just between us
I think it's time for us to recognize
The differences we sometimes feared to show
Just between us
I think it's time for us to realize
The spaces in between
Leave room
For you and I to grow

We are islands to each other
Building hopeful bridges
On a troubled sea
Some are burned or swept away
Some we would not choose
But we're not always free

Just between us
I think it's time for us to recognize
The differences we sometimes feared to show
Just between us
I think it's time for us to realize
The spaces in between
Leave room
For you and I to grow

Entre Nous, Rush

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Toot toot, hey, beep beep.

 

[Lister]

One more:

Crossroads, seem to come and go, yeah.
The gypsy flies from coast to coast

Knowing many, loving none,
Bearing sorrow havin' fun,
But back home he'll always run
To sweet Melissa... mmm...

Freight train, each car looks the same, all the same.
And no one knows the Gypsy's name

No one hears his lonely sighs,
There are no blankets where he lies.
In all his deepest dreams the Gypsy flies
with sweet Melissa... mmm...

Again the morning's come,
Again he's on the run,
Sunbeams shining through his hair,
Appearing not to have a care.
Well, pick up your gear and Gypsy roll on, roll on.

Crossroads, will you ever let him go? (Lord, Lord)
Will you hide the dead man's ghost,
Or will he lie, beneath the clay,
or will his spirit float away?

But I know that he won't stay without Melissa.

Yes I know that he won't stay without Melissa.


This one bit me the very first time I ever heard it, and it was one of the very first songs that I learned to play-though it was Bett's solo first, then the chords later. Fast forward some 35+ years, and I still play this song pretty much anytime I pick up a guitar.

 

[ElrytNamrogo]

"Why must I feel like that, why must I chase the cat? Ain't nothin' but the dog in me"

Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yay

 

[alantig]

Toot toot, hey, beep beep.

Isn't that from the song about the Nash Rambler? (ducking...)

 

[ElrytNamrogo]

So, old man river, don't cry for me;
A-have got a running stream of love you see.
So, no matter what stages - oh stages -
Stages - stages they put us through,
We'll never be blue
No matter what rages, oh rages,
Changes - rages they put us through,
We'll never be blue:
We'll be forever, yeah!

 

[sergiodeblanc]

So, old man river, don't cry for me;
A-have got a running stream of love you see.
So, no matter what stages - oh stages -
Stages - stages they put us through,
We'll never be blue
No matter what rages, oh rages,
Changes - rages they put us through,
We'll never be blue:
We'll be forever, yeah!

That’s my favorite BMW song. Maybe not the best lyrically but, instrumentally... perfect.

 

[ElrytNamrogo]

That’s my favorite BMW song. Maybe not the best lyrically but, instrumentally... perfect.

Yeah, it's one of mine, as well....I really like the entire Uprising album. That little whistle (might even be really high organ notes, not sure) in the background always gets me moving on this song.

Not sure if you've heard it or not, but It Hurts To Be Alone is one of my all time favorite Wailers songs. It's really not even all that reggae-ish or even ska, but there's something so emotionally strong about that one. Simple lyrics carried with incredibly impassioned vocals can really bring it home.