Best Song Lyrics Ever

[Tommy Gun]

To start at the top of the food chain hands down is….


Triumphs “Fight The Good Fight”

Been one of my all time favorites since I was a teenager. Just seems to resonate through my life.


Under that what do you have? Favorite lines in a song?


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[Tommy Gun]

My second that always comes to mind is The Cars, All I Can Do


One too many times
I twisted the gate
When I was crazy
I thought you were great

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[twobjshelbys]

I usually associate this kind of question with my "Sad Songs" list (although not all of them are sad) which I think had a topic in one of the predecessors of this forum. There are so many songs that I didn't really care for with the music and then I actually listened to the lyrics.

I'm sure if I went through the list I'd pick out a few lines that matter but for now just the whole song's "poem".

The first time it happened was when I was on my first road trip, driving across Texas on the way back from Phoenix to Iowa. Elton John's Daniel was at the top of the charts and it seemed no matter what station I was listening to it would be on the air at least once an hour... Somewhere I wasn't paying any attention to anything except the lyrics and Bernie Taupin's poem smacked me up the side of the head...

Hurt (Johnny Cash version)


What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end



Hotel California (just a great song on the happy side :) )

Comfortably Numb

Almost anything by Jim Steinman (Meat Loaf, Pat Benetar)

When Doves Cry (Prince)

Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (she's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other?
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

Edge of Seventeen

You and Me (Alice Cooper)

But you and me ain't no movie stars
What we are is what we are

Ballad of Ira Hayes


Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinking Indian
Or the marine that went to war
It irked me that Clint Eastwood's movie Flags of our Fathers didn't use this song at the final credits.



Key Largo


We had it all
Just like Bogie and Bacall

The Three Bells



These are the ones I can think of right now. I'm sure more will blink into consciousness tonight while I'm staring at the ceiling at 3AM.

[Tommy Gun]

Lol


A couple of those I will have to look up.

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[Tommy Gun]

Since this was about lyrics, not songs, were there specific lyrics that stand out?


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[twobjshelbys]

Since this was about lyrics, not songs, were there specific lyrics that stand out?


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As I said, these are on my list because of the lyrics. Not just a few lines (although some are known for only that) but the whole "poem". Subtract the music, just read the words.

[tekheavy]

Eagles, "Already Gone"

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key



This always hit home with me.

[Tommy Gun]

As I said, these are on my list because of the lyrics. Not just a few lines (although some are known for only that) but the whole "poem". Subtract the music, just read the words.



Oops, okay :wtg:

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[Tommy Gun]

Eagles, "Already Gone"

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key



This always hit home with me.


:wtg:

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[twobjshelbys]

Oops, okay :wtg:

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Watching an old Monk with laptop on lap so I'll go back to the song lyrics of a few and edit in a few sound bites... This will require you to read back and the edits will not be all at once.

[Tommy Gun]

:faint:


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[Alloy Dave]

Alice Cooper...No More Mister Nice Guy...

"I got no friends 'cause they read the papers, they can't be seen...with me"


Lita Ford - Kiss me Deadly...

"I feel your lips as you swallow me whole"

[twobjshelbys]

The sun in your eyes
made some of the lies worth believing


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I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind


- Alan Parsons Project, Eye In The Sky
One of the best "break up" songs... This song has been stuck in my head for the past few days.

[Tommy Gun]

Lots of great Alan Parsons songs out there.

[twobjshelbys]

One of the best "break up" songs...

This reminded me of the theme in general. You can google "best breakup songs" and there is some overlap among the lists, but nearly all of them omit who I think had the list of the most emotional breakup songs:


ABBA


Here I have to go with the entire song as a poem for the lyrics because while there are some memorable lines in all of them, you have to take in the whole song to really get the impact.


1. Winner Takes It All
2. Knowing Me, Knowing You
3. One of Us
4. When All Is Said And Done
5. Fernando

And others that weave the theme.

ABBA sure spent a lot of time and energy breaking up. There were two couples so split in half.

[Alloy Dave]

Alice Cooper - "I got no friends cause they read the papers"

Lita Ford - "I feel your lips as you swallow me whole"

[twobjshelbys]

I had recorded the Billy Joel 100th Madison Square Garden, and didn't know if our Pacific time zone version got clipped so I recorded it again last Friday. But instead of fast forwarding through commercials I watched it commercial free on Paramount streaming.

He has lots of good songs with meaningful lyrics, but because of the controversy on Piano Man I actually listened and read the lyrics. Pretty much a downer song :)

[Highwayman]

I had recorded the Billy Joel 100th Madison Square Garden, and didn't know if our Pacific time zone version got clipped so I recorded it again last Friday. But instead of fast forwarding through commercials I watched it commercial free on Paramount streaming.

He has lots of good songs with meaningful lyrics, but because of the controversy on Piano Man I actually listened and read the lyrics. Pretty much a downer song :)

I am looking forward to watching it too. Just haven't had the time yet too.

[twobjshelbys]

My wife reminded me we saw him probably in Denver had to be 15 years ago. Songs are memorable but the show wasn't really special.

He'll be in Vegas at the football stadium with sting Nov 9. Tickets aren't atrocious but I'm skeptical about the sound in the end zone

[twobjshelbys]

They just played gordon Lightfoot Edmund Fitzgerald on the oldies channel. Read the lyrics.

Now is Carly Simon you're so vain. She's 81.

[Highwayman]

They just played gordon Lightfoot Edmund Fitzgerald on the oldies channel. Read the lyrics.

Now is Carly Simon you're so vain. She's 81.

So many times when thinking about how old some artist are these days it is very difficult to even begin to acknowledge that they are possibly in their 80's, but being so many of them were well into their 20's when they became popular in the late 60's and early 70's it truly is where they are these days. What makes it so hard is remembering listening to them on the radio or the record player back then so for them to be that old means I too am older than I want to acknowledge myself.

[onecrazydog]

Now is Carly Simon you're so vain. She's 81.

I like that song, it's about me!!

[Tommy Gun]

:wow2:

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[twobjshelbys]

Listening to 60s on siriusxm on dish.

Just played arlo Guthrie city on New Orleans.

[twobjshelbys]

As we get older...

Heaven https://g.co/kgs/dP73YiT

[twobjshelbys]

Played a horse with no name so my daughter coukd remember who America was. It sequed to Harry Chapins Taxi ans sequel. My eyes got wet.

Those remind me of fogelbergs auld lang zone which is semi autobiographical

[Tommy Gun]

Great songs of the past.

Harry Chapin had a big hand in starting our area food bank back in the 70’s.

Here’s one in Florida that still bears his name. Great legacy.

https://harrychapinfoodbank.org/venue/1925-virginia-ave/


I wonder if he donated 20,000 lbs of bananas :look:
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[tekheavy]

Great songs of the past.

Harry Chapin had a big hand in starting our area food bank back in the 70’s.

Here’s one in Florida that still bears his name. Great legacy.

https://harrychapinfoodbank.org/venue/1925-virginia-ave/


I wonder if he donated 20,000 lbs of bananas :look:
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He died on the Long Island Expressway. :sad:

[Tommy Gun]

:(


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[twobjshelbys]

He died on the Long Island Expressway. :sad:

A guy that lived in lyons and owned the company that serviced PBS commerce (think click and click shameless commerce) said that chapin was his roommate at cornell

[twobjshelbys]

Great songs of the past.

Harry Chapin had a big hand in starting our area food bank back in the 70’s.

Here’s one in Florida that still bears his name. Great legacy.

https://harrychapinfoodbank.org/venue/1925-virginia-ave/


I wonder if he donated 20,000 lbs of bananas :look:
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The Sunday Morning show today (6/15) has a segment on his food banks

[Tommy Gun]

Wow, pretty cool. :wtg:


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[twobjshelbys]

Papa Was A Rolling Stone by the Temptations. The long version

Wherever he laid his hat was his home
And when he died, all he left us was alone

[twobjshelbys]

Traces... wait for the sax solo

https://youtu.be/gyxpQO0YYQo?si=SuC6NmsarVYuFqQv

[twobjshelbys]

At twin peaks for Wednesday dirty blondes and the bar wench is named Brandy. Two young dudes a table away never heard the song. She had, of course.

Listen to the lyrics, its a sad song


https://youtu.be/ciW_0h34cxE?si=wCy8ndGAaX_Qooso

[twobjshelbys]

I was listening to the radio while changing out some electrical fixtures in the new house and this oldie came on. What's Up by 4 Non Blondes. I loved the music and the "catch" of "what's going on". I took a break and pulled up the Vevo music video.


Once again, you've got to disengage the music and listen carefully to the lyrics.


It is so applicable to "what's going on" right now in the world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc&list=RD6NXnxTNIWkc&start_radio=1

I have to say after listening twice I "feel a little peculiar".

BTW, they're not bad looking for not being blondes.

[Highwayman]

Always been one of my favorite songs.

[onecrazydog]

Yup, I have that song on my playlist too!!

[twobjshelbys]

This one got stuck in my head at 1230am

More Than Words


https://share.google/CWes3mwjPXbUjTR1I

[twobjshelbys]

This one got stuck in my head at 1230am


https://youtu.be/UrIiLvg58SY?si=hrfIDeHzzGjT_cUk

And that led to this one


https://youtu.be/zDOILKOOUCo?si=t-GptdmmFr4k5VL3

[twobjshelbys]

This one got stuck in my head at 1230am. It was on the radio in the car this afternoon


https://youtu.be/UrIiLvg58SY?si=hrfIDeHzzGjT_cUk

Once again, read the lyrics.