Lyrics you wish you wrote

Subject: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: oldhippie
Date: 08 May 07 - 05:40 PM

Everyone has favorite song lyrics. Is there a particular lyric you wish you had written?

such as:

"life is a rainstorm, but love is the ark" (David Mallett)

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Jim Lad
Date: 08 May 07 - 05:41 PM

Nope!

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 08 May 07 - 05:49 PM

Happy Birthday to you!

I'd retire rich.

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Peace
Date: 08 May 07 - 06:45 PM

"Thunder makes the noise, boy, but the lightning does the work."

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: GUEST
Date: 08 May 07 - 07:29 PM

"And I heard her say it was far and away
The most beautiful place she'd found
As the moon rose up and the sun went down
Over Huddersfield Town"
Roger Davies

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 May 07 - 07:39 PM

"We love the moon, cause it is close to us"...

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 May 07 - 07:44 PM

"And the moon came up, so quiet in the sky"

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Peace
Date: 08 May 07 - 08:01 PM

"Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: GUEST,Evergreen - PM
Date: 08 May 07 - 07:45 PM

Can the posts deleted from this thread be restored please?

And if not - can some indication be given where this deletion has
taken place?

Thank you."





Check will Roger Gall. He will give you the lowdown.

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 May 07 - 10:05 PM

What happened anyway ~ some offensive lyrics get posted? Rugby songs maybe?

It looks to me lkike only lyrics about the moon wsere deemed acceptable. Oh well, at least none of them rhyme with "June."

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: AWG
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:43 PM

"..two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun"...a classic. Or "..I'd like to buy the world a Coke..." Either one will do.

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Joe_F
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:54 PM

If I am forsaken, I'll not be forsworn,
And he's surely mistaken if he thinks that I'll mourn.
I'll get myself up in some right high degree
And pass as light by him as he can by me.

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 07 - 10:45 PM

"Since it is no better, I'm glad that it is no worse.
Brandy in my bottle, and money in my purse"

from I've Rambled This Country, Both Earlye & Late

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 09 May 07 - 11:10 PM

The entire lyric of the song OLD COYOTE by the late Al Grierson.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Mark H.
Date: 10 May 07 - 09:15 AM

"Der Geist der Liebe erfuellt den Kosmos, und der das All zusammenhaelt kennt jeden Laut. Der Geist steht auf und seine Feine zerstieben, und die ihn hassen fliehen vor seinem Angesicht. Sende aus Deinen Geist und Leben entsteht; und also komm, Geist, und erfuelle die herzen Deiner Menschen, und entzuende in jedem das Feuer Deines ewigen Lebens." (Tangerine Dream, "Alpha Centauri", ?author.)
They just don't write 'em like that any more.

Wish I'd written:
"I'm satisfied, satisfied, I got my boodle-am shaker sittin' by my side" (You May Leave, Memphis Jug Band, 1930)

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Muskratpete
Date: 10 May 07 - 09:26 AM

I ain't gonna repeat what I've said anymore,
    While I'm breathin' air that ain't been breathed before.
Johnny Cash/Understand Your Man


or

The barefoot boy came wandering
    slowly down the street
His pants were full of pockets
    and his shoes were full of feet.
author unknown

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 May 07 - 09:30 AM

Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe..and to love you!

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Tunesmith
Date: 10 May 07 - 11:11 AM

I've always admired Jackson Browne's "Before the Deluge". The song is about the difficulties of trying to opt out of main-stream society and live a "back to the garden" hippy, counter-culture life style. Many have tried but often their resolve weakens, and Jackson captures this with the lines, "In the ended they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings, exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge".

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: GUEST,edthefolkie
Date: 10 May 07 - 11:23 AM

"Says Red Molly to James, that's a fine motorbike"......etc.

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: frogprince
Date: 10 May 07 - 11:30 AM

I could come up with quite a list; but try these from
Guy Clark's "Dublin Blues":

I loved you from the git go
I'll love you till I die
I loved you on the Spanish steps
The day you said goodbye

I have seen the David; I've seen the Mona Lisa, too;
And I have heard Doc Watson play Columbus Stockade Blues.

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: fat B****rd
Date: 10 May 07 - 03:43 PM

"The pump don't work 'cos the vandals took the handles"

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Shaneo
Date: 10 May 07 - 04:57 PM

And hunger stole our honour like a thief   [Jim Larkin,,Pete StJohn]

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 10 May 07 - 05:40 PM

"The dust that Pancho bit down south,
Ended up in Lefty's mouth."
Townes Van Zandt

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Folkiedave
Date: 11 May 07 - 04:26 AM

Graham Miles,probably one of the finest songwriters ever - writing about "The Young Engineer" - who serves his apprenticeship working on the building of the Forth Road Bridge - surrounded by people from all over Great Britain.

"As the men from the South and the men from the North,
Will meet and complete the bridge over the Forth".

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: GUEST,old git
Date: 11 May 07 - 04:32 AM

"The priest was sprinkling prayers and holy water in the rain"
("The man in the cap".....Colum Sands)

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Cool Beans
Date: 11 May 07 - 03:49 PM

When you see a gent
Paying all kinds of rent
For a flat
That would flatten the Taj Mahal..
    Frank Loesser, "Guys and Dolls"

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 11 May 07 - 04:51 PM

like someone pointed out before..if it weren't for the alligators I'd sleep out in the woods..

rifle to rifle and horse against horse

entire song..town I loved so well.but modified a bit..

my heart's in the highlands my heart is not here....stalking the white dear and following the roe...?? Well, I have never been so dissapointed to finally hear the tune to a set of great lyrics..maybe there is a false tune out there I heard and the right is a beauty...

all the songs where he rolls her in his plaidy..

Fundy's long and Fundy's wide Fundy's rain and fog and tide..

don't put him on soft turnips put him out on your green lawn

Jolene Jolene etc.

mg

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Micca
Date: 11 May 07 - 05:08 PM

"On Raglan Road on an August day
I saw her first and knew
that her dark hair might weave a snare
that I might one day rue
I saw the danger yet I walked
along the enchanted way
and I said let grief be a fallen leaf
at the dawning of the day"
How much more evocative, sublime and expressive do you want?!

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 11 May 07 - 07:14 PM

If I had the wings of a dove, I would walk, 'cause you can't trust the fumes in the air - John Denny, "Me and my overcoat".

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: melodeonboy
Date: 11 May 07 - 07:38 PM

"White Horse in her hip pocket, and wolfhound at her feet" (Richard Thompson - Beeswing)

"Oh, you should have seen the punch up when I brought my bleedin' lunch up" (Brian Damage - Torresmolinos)

"Well, her jeans they get like a wet saddle blanket,
And her boots are like you'd figure, and her car is full of hay,
Horses, humans, if she had to rank it,
You'd bet on them that canter and them that need fly spray" (Jonathan Richman - Since She Started To Ride)

By the way, to make sense, the subject of this thread should be "Songs you wish you'd written". Watch those subjunctives!

Yours pedantically,

Melodeonboy

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Amos
Date: 11 May 07 - 08:06 PM

"You, who are on the road,
Must have a code, that you can live by...."

CSNY

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 11 May 07 - 10:44 PM

"Love is hot, truth is molten" Donovan.

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 12 May 07 - 04:18 AM

The streets of town were paved with stars
It was such a romantic affair
Angels were dining at the Ritz
And a nightingale sang in Berkely Square

Subject: Lyr Add: MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 May 07 - 04:51 AM

Yup Melodeon Boy, the title's been bugging me from the get go too!

Some of my favourite lyrics are contained in this song, I particularly like the image of the telegraph cables singing down the highway.

Pennies in a stream
Falling leaves, a sycamore
Moonlight in Vermont

Icy finger-waves
Ski trails on a mountainside
Snowlight in Vermont

Telegraph cables, they sing down the highway
And travel each bend in the road
People who meet in this romantic setting
Are so hypnotized by the lovely...

Ev'ning summer breeze
Warbling of a meadowlark
Moonlight in Vermont

Telegraph cables, how they sing down the highway
And they travel each bend in the road
People who meet in this romantic setting
Are so hypnotized by the lovely...

Ev'ning summer breeze
The warbling of a meadowlark
Moonlight in Vermont

Moonlight in Vermont
Moonlight in Vermont

Giok

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 May 07 - 10:15 AM

All of "These Foolish Things"

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 May 07 - 12:22 PM

She bid me adieu with her face full of scorn,
And parted through the fields, her hands trailing the corn.

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 May 07 - 12:25 PM

I Wish I Were In Love Again

Lyrics by: Lorenz Hart
Music by: Richard Rodgers
From the Show: Babes In Arms 1937 (S)

The sleepless nights - the daily fights
The quick toboggan - when you reach the heights
I miss the kisses - and I miss the bites
I wish I were in love again

The broken dates - the endless waits
The lovely loving - and the hateful hates
The conversation - with the flying plates
I wish I were in love again

No more pain - no more strain
Now I'm sane - but I would rather be punched - drunk

The pulled out fur - of cat and cur
The fine mismating - of a him and her
I've learned my lesson - but I wish I were
In love again

The furtive sigh - the blackened eye
The words: "I love you - 'til the day I day"
The self deception - that believes the lie
I wish I were in love again

When love congeals - it soon reveals
The faint aroma - of performing seals
The double-crossing - of a pair of heals
I wish I were in love again

No, no more care - no, no despair
Now I'm all there - but I'd rather be punch drunk

Believe me sir - I much prefer
The classic battle - of a him and her
I don't like quiet - and I wish I were
In love again - in love again - in love again

They don't write them like that anymore ¦¬]
G.

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: GUEST,cmt49
Date: 12 May 07 - 12:26 PM

And then leaning on your windowsill
one day he'll say you caused his will
to weaken with your love and warmth and shelter.
And then taking from his pocket an old schedule of trains
he'll say I told you when I came I was a stranger.

Leonard Cohen

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 May 07 - 12:32 PM

And he'll meet you at the bridge or someplace later.
And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind
You'll find he didn't leave you very much not even shelter

Subject: RE: Lyrics you wish you wrote
From: mrmoe
Date: 14 May 07 - 06:44 AM

good morning today
yes it's kind of you to climb in through my window
happy to say
I found the time to scratch a rhyme for you in my window....

Paul MacNeil