Gordon Lightfoot
John Hiatt
Levon Helm & The Band
And a weakness for Primus; "Over the Falls"
John Hiatt
Levon Helm & The Band
And a weakness for Primus; "Over the Falls"
Which band is your favorite for their lyrics?
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Every once in a while I will quote a line from a song, typically quite out of context.
Me: "A fool loses tomorrow, reaching back for yesterday."
Friends: "Whoa, heavy! Is that Nietzsche?"
Me: "Nah, whoever wrote lyrics for Dionne Warwick."
Me: "A fool loses tomorrow, reaching back for yesterday."
Friends: "Whoa, heavy! Is that Nietzsche?"
Me: "Nah, whoever wrote lyrics for Dionne Warwick."
If you take a step towards me
You will take my breath away
So I'll keep you close
And keep my secret safe
No one else has ever loved me
No one else has ever tried
I never understood
How much I could take
Then I saw the worst was over
When I laid my eyes on you
It was all that I could do to know my place
Out of all the past illusions
Out of all the dreams come true
I was gone until
I finally saw your face
Chorus
Let me take a step towards you
Let me feel you in my hands
Let me cross this line
And show you where it leads
There's a darkness down inside me
That I know we'll both enjoy
And it's screaming from within
To set it free
I have left this bloody nightmare
In my wake, but out of sight
And I won this deviation by design
Out of all the past confusion
Out of all the common spite
Just tell me I am yours
'Cause you are mine
Chorus
It doesn't really matter what you do or say
I'm never going anywhere anyway
'Cause when I'm dying for you
I've never felt so alive
If you cried out for more
If you reached out for me
I would run into the storm
Just to keep you here with me
I have gone beyond my years
I've wasted half my life
But I found it all in you
Did I save you?
'Cause I know you saved me too
I know you saved me too
You will take my breath away
So I'll keep you close
And keep my secret safe
No one else has ever loved me
No one else has ever tried
I never understood
How much I could take
Then I saw the worst was over
When I laid my eyes on you
It was all that I could do to know my place
Out of all the past illusions
Out of all the dreams come true
I was gone until
I finally saw your face
Chorus
Let me take a step towards you
Let me feel you in my hands
Let me cross this line
And show you where it leads
There's a darkness down inside me
That I know we'll both enjoy
And it's screaming from within
To set it free
I have left this bloody nightmare
In my wake, but out of sight
And I won this deviation by design
Out of all the past confusion
Out of all the common spite
Just tell me I am yours
'Cause you are mine
Chorus
It doesn't really matter what you do or say
I'm never going anywhere anyway
'Cause when I'm dying for you
I've never felt so alive
If you cried out for more
If you reached out for me
I would run into the storm
Just to keep you here with me
I have gone beyond my years
I've wasted half my life
But I found it all in you
Did I save you?
'Cause I know you saved me too
I know you saved me too
I don't wanna die alone
I don't wanna live forsaken
I refuse to let this go
Because my soul is breaking
I don't wanna let you know
That my heart is just so jaded
I refuse to let it show
I refuse to let it go
Chorus
I've always walked alone
I chose the path less taken
I refuse to let you in
Life's a b____ and I've been shaken
It's not a joke at all
Inside my spirit's fading
I refuse to take the fall
'Cause no one cares at all
Chorus
'Cause at the end of the day I'm not you
I refuse
Chorus
Wake me up (wake me up) when this is over
I'm tired of living life like it's a dream (like it's a dream)
Please wake me up (please wake me up) when it's all over
I'm tired of living right here in between (here in between)
I refuse
I don't wanna live forsaken
I refuse to let this go
Because my soul is breaking
I don't wanna let you know
That my heart is just so jaded
I refuse to let it show
I refuse to let it go
Chorus
I've always walked alone
I chose the path less taken
I refuse to let you in
Life's a b____ and I've been shaken
It's not a joke at all
Inside my spirit's fading
I refuse to take the fall
'Cause no one cares at all
Chorus
'Cause at the end of the day I'm not you
I refuse
Chorus
Wake me up (wake me up) when this is over
I'm tired of living life like it's a dream (like it's a dream)
Please wake me up (please wake me up) when it's all over
I'm tired of living right here in between (here in between)
I refuse
Before Rehab...was this song
Another sun sets down behind me
Another day comes crashing in
There's a whispering wind that's blowing
There's a storm that's closing in
I can hear the trains, they're rolling
To a place I've never been
And I can feel her breath beside me
With an empty glass of gin
As the darkness settles in
I can hear her voice again
I can hear your voice again
[Chorus]
Waiting for someone to save me
But everyone just runs away (Runs away)
Waiting for someone to change me
But no one ever comes
I'm breaking down the walls that cage me
But nothing ever falls in place (Falls in place)
Waiting for the end to take me
Blinded by the sun
[Verse 2]
All the ghosts that live inside me
Always waiting in the wind (Wind)
I can see through my reflection
What I've become and what I've been (Been)
You see, your Heaven doesn't want me
And your Hell won't let me in (In)
It's like I'm holding all the aces
But that I know I'll never win (Win)
After Rehab...was this song
I'm drowning in the bottom of a bottle
Running from a man I swore I'd never be
No one ever has to face tomorrow
But I'm the one that has to face me
[Pre-Chorus 1]
It's the demons I've created for myself
The tragic truth
It's hard for me to understand myself
So, it has to be hard as hell for you (For you! You!)
[Chorus]
Are we born to be broken, sinners, and thieves?
Someone tell the heavens I'm ready to escape (You!)
This is not what I wanted, not what I need
Take it all, tear it all, rip it all away
[Verse 2]
I can't say the devil made me do it
I chose to be the one I am, the way I am today
I wish there was, but there's no way around it
In the end, I made the choice and will not die ashamed
[Pre-Chorus 2]
It's the voices screaming in my head
The tragic truth
It's hard for me to understand myself
So, it has to be hard as hell for you (You! You!)
https://stubhub.prf.hn/click/camref.../destination:https://www.stubhub.com/_C-15950
[Chorus]
Are we born to be broken, sinners, and thieves?
Someone tell the heavens I'm ready to escape (You!)
This is not what I wanted, not what I need
Take it all, tear it all, rip it all away
Take it all, tear it all, take it all, tear it all away
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Are we born to be broken, sinners, and thieves?
Someone tell the heavens I'm ready to escape (You!)
This is not what I wanted, not what I need
Take it all, tear it all, rip it all away (Away!)
[Chorus]
Are we born to be broken, sinners, and thieves?
Someone tell the heavens I'm ready to escape (You!)
This is not what I wanted not what I need
Take it all, tear it all, rip it all away
Take it all, tear it all, rip it all, tear it all (It all away)
Someone tell the heavens to take it all, tear it all away
Another sun sets down behind me
Another day comes crashing in
There's a whispering wind that's blowing
There's a storm that's closing in
I can hear the trains, they're rolling
To a place I've never been
And I can feel her breath beside me
With an empty glass of gin
As the darkness settles in
I can hear her voice again
I can hear your voice again
[Chorus]
Waiting for someone to save me
But everyone just runs away (Runs away)
Waiting for someone to change me
But no one ever comes
I'm breaking down the walls that cage me
But nothing ever falls in place (Falls in place)
Waiting for the end to take me
Blinded by the sun
[Verse 2]
All the ghosts that live inside me
Always waiting in the wind (Wind)
I can see through my reflection
What I've become and what I've been (Been)
You see, your Heaven doesn't want me
And your Hell won't let me in (In)
It's like I'm holding all the aces
But that I know I'll never win (Win)
After Rehab...was this song
I'm drowning in the bottom of a bottle
Running from a man I swore I'd never be
No one ever has to face tomorrow
But I'm the one that has to face me
[Pre-Chorus 1]
It's the demons I've created for myself
The tragic truth
It's hard for me to understand myself
So, it has to be hard as hell for you (For you! You!)
[Chorus]
Are we born to be broken, sinners, and thieves?
Someone tell the heavens I'm ready to escape (You!)
This is not what I wanted, not what I need
Take it all, tear it all, rip it all away
[Verse 2]
I can't say the devil made me do it
I chose to be the one I am, the way I am today
I wish there was, but there's no way around it
In the end, I made the choice and will not die ashamed
[Pre-Chorus 2]
It's the voices screaming in my head
The tragic truth
It's hard for me to understand myself
So, it has to be hard as hell for you (You! You!)
https://stubhub.prf.hn/click/camref.../destination:https://www.stubhub.com/_C-15950
[Chorus]
Are we born to be broken, sinners, and thieves?
Someone tell the heavens I'm ready to escape (You!)
This is not what I wanted, not what I need
Take it all, tear it all, rip it all away
Take it all, tear it all, take it all, tear it all away
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Are we born to be broken, sinners, and thieves?
Someone tell the heavens I'm ready to escape (You!)
This is not what I wanted, not what I need
Take it all, tear it all, rip it all away (Away!)
[Chorus]
Are we born to be broken, sinners, and thieves?
Someone tell the heavens I'm ready to escape (You!)
This is not what I wanted not what I need
Take it all, tear it all, rip it all away
Take it all, tear it all, rip it all, tear it all (It all away)
Someone tell the heavens to take it all, tear it all away
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Green Grass & HIgh Tides By The Florida Guitar Army-The Outlaws:
In a place you only dream of
Where your soul is always free
Silver stages, golden curtains
Filled my head, plain as can be
As a rainbow grew around the sun
All the stars above who died came from
Somewhere beyond the scene you see
These lovely people played just for me
Now if I let you see this place
Where stories all ring true
Will you let me past your face
To see what's really you
It's not for me I ask this question
As though I were a king
For you have to love, believe, and feel
Before the burst of tambourines take you there
Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone, souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you
Those who don't believe me
Find your souls and set them free
Those who do, believe and know
This time will be your key
Time and time again I've thanked them
For a peace of mind
That helped me find myself
Amongst the music and the rhyme
That enchants you there
Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone, souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you
Yeah, they play just for you
In a place you only dream of
Where your soul is always free
Silver stages, golden curtains
Filled my head, plain as can be
As a rainbow grew around the sun
All the stars above who died came from
Somewhere beyond the scene you see
These lovely people played just for me
Now if I let you see this place
Where stories all ring true
Will you let me past your face
To see what's really you
It's not for me I ask this question
As though I were a king
For you have to love, believe, and feel
Before the burst of tambourines take you there
Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone, souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you
Those who don't believe me
Find your souls and set them free
Those who do, believe and know
This time will be your key
Time and time again I've thanked them
For a peace of mind
That helped me find myself
Amongst the music and the rhyme
That enchants you there
Green grass and high tides forever
Castles of stone, souls and glory
Lost faces say we adore you
As kings and queens bow and play for you
Yeah, they play just for you
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Really nice. Who is this from?
Both are by Five Finger Death Punch.
The first song is "The Darkness Settles In"
The second song is "The Tragic Truth"
I highly suggest you watch the official videos...especially "The Tragic Truth" - in that video you can clearly see Ivan's message. In "The Darkness Settles In" - the video story gets in the way of the lyrics (or I just don't get it), but you can see the pain and feeling on his face.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Thanks, Will do. I listen to a wide range of music even though my favorites are what we experienced in the late 60s thru 70s.
I still enjoy a lot of newer music I find out about like here. Big fan of Blackberry Smoke. Going for nastalgia in a few days with the wife (to make her happy) to see 38 Special band at a Mississippi Gulf coast casino. I am done with going to shows LIVE but we got seats and its the wife's 67th birthday so.... I am sure it will be nice. Show, a bit of casino, beach and nice hotel room...........
Alice Cooper " Escape "
Paint on my cruel or happy face
I hide me behind it
It takes me inside another place
Where no one can find it
Escape, I get out when I can
I escape anytime I can
It's all escape, I'm crying in my beer
Come on, let's escape, just get me out of here
Don't get me wrong, don't get me right
I'm not like you are
When I get home from work at night
I'm blacker and bluer
So I escape, I get out when I can
I escape anytime I can
It's all escape, I'm crying in my beer
Escape, just get me out of here
But where am I running to?
There's no place to go
Just put on my make-up
And get me to the show, yeah, escape
Yeah, what are you waiting for?
My doctor said, "Just come around
And you'll be taken care of"
And while he ran my problems down
I stole his mascara
That's how I escape, I get out when I can
I escape anyway I can
I escape, I'm crying in my beer
Let's escape, just get me out of here
Escape, let's get out while we can
It's escape, anyway we can
Come on, let's escape
Nobody wants us around here anyway
Escape, what are we waiting for
Escape, escape, escape, come on now let's escape
Escape, escape, escape now
Escape, escape, escape, escape
Alice Cooper / Kim Fowley / Mark Anthony
Dan Fogelberg " Stolen Moments "
Every time we speak, our words betray intentions
Insincere inventions that never quite reach the heart
So we turn the other cheek and gather our defenses
Again rebuild the fences that just been keeping us apart
Waiting out the worst, we keep the best inside us
In hopes our hearts can hide us, in hopes our tears don't show
And you know we're not the first to try and breach the distance
And though we meet resistance the love between us grows
And in the time it takes us to look beyond the lies
We could be sailing through each other's eyes
And in those stolen moments when love is caught off guard
We see it never had to be this hard
Every time we speak, our words betray intentions
Insincere inventions that never quite reach the heart
So we turn the other cheek and gather our defenses
Again rebuild the fences that just been keeping us apart
And in the time it takes us to look beyond the lies
We could be sailing through each other's eyes
And in those stolen moments when love is caught off guard
We see it never had to be this hard
Dan Fogelberg
Paint on my cruel or happy face
I hide me behind it
It takes me inside another place
Where no one can find it
Escape, I get out when I can
I escape anytime I can
It's all escape, I'm crying in my beer
Come on, let's escape, just get me out of here
Don't get me wrong, don't get me right
I'm not like you are
When I get home from work at night
I'm blacker and bluer
So I escape, I get out when I can
I escape anytime I can
It's all escape, I'm crying in my beer
Escape, just get me out of here
But where am I running to?
There's no place to go
Just put on my make-up
And get me to the show, yeah, escape
Yeah, what are you waiting for?
My doctor said, "Just come around
And you'll be taken care of"
And while he ran my problems down
I stole his mascara
That's how I escape, I get out when I can
I escape anyway I can
I escape, I'm crying in my beer
Let's escape, just get me out of here
Escape, let's get out while we can
It's escape, anyway we can
Come on, let's escape
Nobody wants us around here anyway
Escape, what are we waiting for
Escape, escape, escape, come on now let's escape
Escape, escape, escape now
Escape, escape, escape, escape
Alice Cooper / Kim Fowley / Mark Anthony
Dan Fogelberg " Stolen Moments "
Every time we speak, our words betray intentions
Insincere inventions that never quite reach the heart
So we turn the other cheek and gather our defenses
Again rebuild the fences that just been keeping us apart
Waiting out the worst, we keep the best inside us
In hopes our hearts can hide us, in hopes our tears don't show
And you know we're not the first to try and breach the distance
And though we meet resistance the love between us grows
And in the time it takes us to look beyond the lies
We could be sailing through each other's eyes
And in those stolen moments when love is caught off guard
We see it never had to be this hard
Every time we speak, our words betray intentions
Insincere inventions that never quite reach the heart
So we turn the other cheek and gather our defenses
Again rebuild the fences that just been keeping us apart
And in the time it takes us to look beyond the lies
We could be sailing through each other's eyes
And in those stolen moments when love is caught off guard
We see it never had to be this hard
Dan Fogelberg
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Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. Amazing songs of all varieties. Best love songs people don't know of.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Speaking of dont know.... bet You know the part time, then spin off from Jeff Airplane - HOT TUNA!
My car is a PIECE OF ****
I wanna drive you off a cliff
Watch you crash into a ravine
For the things you did to me, you
STUPID CAR
I wanna make myself a pipe bomb
Blow your **** engine back to hell
Where I know you're from
PIECE OF CRAP
You aren't even worth the tow
To a junkyard or a place
Where you'd sit and lay to waste, I
WISH YOU'D DIE!
Oh nevermind, you always do
Could you tell me how much longer it will be
Until I'm rid of you
I wish that you'd just get hit by lightning (or something)
My confidence in you is sold with every part I buy
I guess I'm just a sucker with a lemon
So pucker up and kiss another paycheck goodbye
You leak more than a newborn baby
I change your oil all the time but STILL you need some more
Your fluid puddles come in assorted colors
Such wonderful variety of problems galore
Will there be a time
Where I know I can drive
Without my car breaking down
And will I ever see
It start consistently
Without the pain and the suffering
Stupid ****ing car, stupid ****ing car (DIE!)
Stupid ****ing car, stupid ****ing car (DIE!)
Stupid ****ing car, stupid ****ing car (DIE!)
My car is a PIECE OF ****
I ought to give you a swift kick
In the muffler, in the tire
Or where ever I desire you
STUPID CAR
You never get me very far when
You decide driving to the store is a mortal sin
PIECE OF CRAP
I guess you want a piece of me
Since you're leaving all your pieces
In the middle of the street
You heap of JUNK
I don't know what I'm gonna do
I just hope that I don't have to take another day of driving you
I swear you must be older than my grandma (and she's dead)
The fact you run at all is quite a mystery to me
Your miles are approaching seven digits
May God have mercy on the soul that's holding the key
I'm guess I'm just a little angry
But for some reason, getting stranded kinda chaps my hide
You probably think I'm slightly overreacting
Has your car ever made you think about suicide
Will there be a time
Where i know i can drive
Without my car breaking down
And will i ever see
It start consistently
Without the pain and the torment
Will there be a time
Where i know i can drive
Without my car breaking down
And will I ever see
It start consist...(what the?)
(Car starting) Come on
(Car starting) Gimme a break
(Car starting until it breaks) All right! Piece of ****
(Smashing noises) DIE
(Smashing noises) DIE
Stupid car
