Inspirational lyrics
Konnrad / T Taylor
Here are my two cents - no, sorry - pence. (Hurrah for the delightfully contrary ways
of the UK).
Eagle-Eye Cherry - Promises Made
"We will find good days for us,
The sun will shine brightly,
Live our life, if only for
Just a moment.
The good-bye's are gone,
but the echoes remain
To remind you.
Oh, we could belong to the lucky ones,
If we could just try to".
And, of course, The Divine Comedy's brilliant "Tonight We Fly" -
"And when we die -
Oh, will we be that disappointed or sad?
If heaven doesn't exist,
What will we have missed?
This life is the best we've ever had!"
(I must admit this clip is very Pantheist - sorry!)
And some Lenny Cohen, which is new to my collection (The Future) -
"The blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT
I wonder what they meant"
TOM
P.S. I'd include a Tori Amos lyric but they make very little sense. But she's still
great - partly because of the little sense, I think. Because it makes you think, and then
it starts to make a little sense.
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Promises Made is a beautiful song...one of those from the heart things!
Write On!
Sharon
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Tori Amos doesn't make sense at first but like you said it makes you think and
then it starts to make sense. She is one of the most talented and gifted
songwriters to ever come along in this world. Ani DiFranco is another amazing
one who just says what she thinks.
song...@my-deja.com
> Tori Amos doesn't make sense at first but like you said it makes you
think and
> then it starts to make sense. She is one of the most talented and
gifted
> songwriters to ever come along in this world. Ani DiFranco is
another amazing
> one who just says what she thinks.
>
That's nice. Now, if she'd just start thinking in verse instead of
prose...
Actually, I don't know of any song either of these ladies has produced
that has struck me, partly because of their performance style (quirky
doesn't begin to describe it), and partly because, though they're
called "songwriters," few other performers seem to have covered much of
their material.
The performer who writes his/her own material is not the same as a
writer seeking to interest other performers in that material. In the
latter case, the material has to be better than in the former case. If
I write for me, I can live with less-than-perfect, and let performance
tricks "pull it off"; if I write for you, I can't, 'cause you'll go
shopping elsewhere.
My tuppence-worth.
Songuitar
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Konnrad / T Taylor
TOM
Konnrad / T Taylor
> writer seeking to interest other performers in that material. In the
> latter case, the material has to be better than in the former case. If
> I write for me, I can live with less-than-perfect, and let performance
> tricks "pull it off"; if I write for you, I can't, 'cause you'll go
> shopping elsewhere.
Except! The writer writing their own stuff would want it to be better, you'd think,
because it represents them.
Tori Amos didn't find her small success by saying, "Aw Heck, I can't be bothered to
write good songs for me. I shall write terrible dance songs (she did try, but she hated
them) for pop groups. Or Engelbert Humperdinck."
Many of my journalist friends write terrible rubbish if it's going under another name -
if the "another name" isn't writing it themselves they must be bad themselves, yes?
And it gets paid word-for-word just like always, and it's not tenth of their writing
prowess.
And if all songwriters wrote better for other people, I'd be listening to boy/girl
groups and useless singers from soap-operas (is this only a UK phenomenon?). Because they
get their stuff off of others.
I think the point here is - I'd write better for me than for you, because I care more
about my performances.
TOM
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Better Days - Ray Davies
Here's wishing you the bluest sky,
And hoping something better comes tomorrow.
Hoping all the verses rhyme,
And the very best of choruses to
Follow all the doubt and sadness.
I know that better things are on the way.
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> Joni Mitchell - "All I want"
>
> "All I really really want our love to do
> Is to bring out the best in me and in you too
> All I really really want our love to do
> Is to bring out the best in me and in you
> I want to talk to you
> I want to shampoo you
> I want to renew you again and again
> Applause, applause
> Life is our cause
> When I think of your kisses
> my mind see-saws"
>
>
> /Carita
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Tom Jerico
<t...@stutaylor.SPAMISBAD.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> The performer who writes his/her own material is not the same as a
> writer seeking to interest other performers in that material. In the
> latter case, the material has to be better than in the former case. If
> I write for me, I can live with less-than-perfect, and let performance
> tricks "pull it off"; if I write for you, I can't, 'cause you'll go
> shopping elsewhere.
The differences between the work of the professional songwritter and
the writerr/artist are boldness and originality. If you are the
artist, you can afford to, in fact NEED to, have an original style.
Not so if you're going to pitch your songs to various artists.
That's why, historically, it's the writer/artists who have written the
most memorable songs -- definitely not the professional songwriters!
I just checked this against a list of my favorite all time songs, and
out of 116, I doubt as many as 10 were written by professional
songwriters. Some, such as "Everybody's Talkin' At Me" and "City of
New Orleans" were COVERS, but those songs were written by Fred Neil
and Steve Goodman -- artists, not a professional songwriters.
It just goes to show that love is a higher motivation than money.
Many non-performing professional songwriters seem to be in it more for
the money than for love of music (original motivation
notwithstanding).
Konnrad / T Taylor
BUT I WANT MORE!
We all have a lyric we love... and if you all post yours I can cut-n-paste 'em together
and make the best song ever.
TOM
PaulB
for their imagery.
PaulB
Husbands and Wives(written/originallhy recorded by Roger
Miller)
Two broken hearts
lonely looking like houses
where nobody lives
Two people each
having so much pride inside
neither side forgives
The angry words spoken in haste
such a waste of true lives
It's my belief
Pride is the chief cause in the decline
In the number of Husbands and Wives
16TH AVENUE
AH, BUT THEN ONE NIGHT IN SOME EMPTY ROOM
WHERE NO CURTAINS EVER HUNG
LIKE A MIRACLE SOME GOLDEN WORDS
ROLL OFF OF SOMEONE'S TONGUE
AND AFTER YEARS OF BEING NOTHING
THEY'RE ALL LOOKIN' RIGHT AT YOU
AND THEN FOR AWHILE
THEY'LL GO IN STYLE
ON SIXTEENTH AVENUE_ _
Jumper-(Third Eye Blind)
I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend
You could cut ties with all the lies that you致e been living in
I'll Think Of A Reason Later(Lee Ann Womack)
It may be my family's redneck nature
Rubbin' off, bringin' out unlady-like behavior
It sure ain't Christian to judge a stranger
But I don't like her
She may be an angel who spends all winter
Bringin' the homeless blankets and dinner
A regular Nobel Peace Prize winner
But I really hate her - I'll think of a reason later
YOU OUGHTA KNOW (Alannis Morissette(sp?)
Is she perverted like me?
Would she go down on you in a theater?
BIG YELLOW TAXI(Joni Mitchell)
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
The Little Man(Alan Jackson)
I go back now the stores are empty
except and old coke sign dated 1950
Boarded up like they never existed
or renovated and called historic districts
There goes the little man there goes the little man
He hung on there for a few more years
but he couldn't sell slurpies and he wouldn't sell beer
Now the bank rents the station to a man down the road
and they sell velvet Elvis and 2nd hand clothes
there goes the little man there goes another little man
MARGARITAVILLE (Jimmy Buffett)
Nibbling on sponge cake, watching the sun bake,
All of those tourists covered with oil,
Strumming my six string, on my front porch swing,
Smell those shrimp, they're beginning to boil.
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Madison5th
I LOVE THIS!!! Thanks for sharing it!
Madison
"My best thoughts always come a little too late." ~Hawthorne
Toby Dawn
Morning has broken
like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken
like the first bird
Praise for the singing
Praise for the morning
Praise for them spring-ing
Fresh from the world
Very positive. Hopeful and inspirational.
Toby Dawn
http://www.atlanticmusician.com/TobyDawn/
PaulB <abottoms...@nationwide.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend
> You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in
>
TRUSSELL
are my favorite lyrics from an Alanis song:
All I Really Want
Alanis Morrisette
What I wouldn't give to find a soulmate
Someone else to catch this drift
And what I wouldn't give to meet a kindred
Enough about me, let's talk about you for a minute
Enough about you, let's talk about life for a while
The conflicts, the craziness and the sound of pretenses
Falling all around... all around
Why are you so petrified of silence
Here can you handle this?
Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines
Or when you think you're gonna die
Or did you long for the next distraction
And all I need now is intellectual intercourse
A soul to dig the hole much deeper
And I have no concept of time other than it is flying
If only I could kill the killer
:-) Cyndy
TRUSSELL
Konnrad / T Taylor
> >You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in
>
Then share part of yourself, also, Madison, and let us feast on each other!
Well, on each others ideas', natch.
(I've seen Ravenous, cannibalism isn't my idea of a good meal, thanks).
To provide yet more lyrical fuel that drives the engine deep in the heart of RMMS...
Tori Amos is on, Little Earthquakes (her 2nd album, her 1st official album).
The lyrics that scream out at me...
"Let's hear what you think of me now,
But baby don't look up,
The sky is falling."
"Years go by will I still be waiting,
For someone else to understand?
Years go by, If I'm stripped of my beauty,
And the orange clouds raining in my head.
Years go by, will I choke on my tears,
Till finally there is nothing left?"
TOM
Madison5th
> The lyrics that scream out at me...
>
Ahhhhh, contrare -- Little Earthquakes is her 3rd album! Her first album
"Crucify", was recorded in '92 I think.....then came "In The Pink", in
'94.......and, then of course, came "Little Earthquakes".
Little known......"Crucify" was an export album, not sure it was released in
the US, it has only 5 tracks.....w/2 originals...covers are "Thank You"
(Plant/Cage), "Angie" (Jagger/Richards), "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain).
It is BY FAR.....her very best album in my opinion......the covers are
incredibly good -- her piano prowess is the feature on this album, no other
instruments on the covers.
She performs Cobain's song as a slow ballad.....WOW!
That song was particularly chilling to me because she led me into feeling
things I didn't expect, suddenly a poingant truth in the lyrics spoke to me
regarding Cobain's suicide -- me with a sense of sadness and compassion. I
should say, I'd never listened to Cobain or Nirvana, though I was
familiar....so, the first time I heard the song was after I *stole* the CD from
my brother! :)
I wont even tell you how well she performs Thank You..... :) Sometimes I
wonder if anyone else literally physically feels music as intensely as I
do..........
If you want to hear any of these, let me know, I'll upload to a wav and send it
to you. :)
Konnrad / T Taylor
> "Crucify", was recorded in '92 I think.....then came "In The Pink", in
> '94.......and, then of course, came "Little Earthquakes".
Little Earthquakes was before In The Pink.
It says so on her official discography (www.toriamos.com) and on the copyrights fo the
albums and everything.
And in the interviews I have.
Of course, they could all be wrong, it has happened before!
OR MAYBE IT'S A CONSPIRACY. (A pretty big maybe though.)
> If you want to hear any of these, let me know, I'll upload to a wav and send it
> to you. :)
I've been told a special Tori compilation is coming out (rumour, though) with her covers
on, so it's OK, I've got some pennies saved up to buy it!
And wav's are way too big to download for me, 1p a minute on the 'net!
Stupid UK phone bills.
TOM
Madison5th
didn't check my facts on that, I made the presumption -- because I was too lazy
to go sift through CD's. :) Thought of something.....if you want to listen to
clips, you can always check www.CDNOW.com.....they have an extensive retail
library, most of which have the audio samples on usually at least half of the
songs on a CD.....has saved me tons. Now I audition CD's firt. :) BTW, still
workin' on putting piano keys to what I heard in my head. :)
Karl Stanley
>You might be right about little Earthquakes.....well, I'm sure you must be. I
>didn't check my facts on that, I made the presumption -- because I was too lazy
>to go sift through CD's. :)
I believe the order goes
- Y Kant Tori Read (a godawful faux-rock album with
embarrassing leather'n'lace cover shot). The record
company buried this one when Tori came back with
- Little Earthquakes
- Under the Pink
and then the later ones with the nonsense lyrics that I don't
have. Got to love Little Earthquakes though...incidentally,
for multimedia tie-in, check out the Sandman comics by Neil
Gaiman (as in "me and Neil'll be hanging out with the Dream
King", from Tear in your Hand on that album), they're excellent.
Tori makes an appearance in some of the later issues as
a deeply troubled demigod called Delerium.
And for Tom, who lives in England: Tori appeared on
"later with Jools Holland" a few years back and 1)
played a piano duet with Jools and 2) sang a blood-freezing
version of "me and a gun" (a song that men find it hard
to listen to). If you can find a taped version of it anywhere,
or if the BBC flog tapes of their old shows, it's well
worth checking out. Some people just have Stage Presence.
Good luck
Karl
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how
enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. -Soren Kierkegaard
Konnrad / T Taylor
> - Y Kant Tori Read (a godawful faux-rock album with
> embarrassing leather'n'lace cover shot). The record
> company buried this one when Tori came back with
> - Little Earthquakes
> - Under the Pink
Muchly appreciated!
Are you a lurker who I have FORCED to post with my continuing Tori discussion? OR a
newcomer who happened to be drawn in - like a moth to a lightbulb?
> and then the later ones with the nonsense lyrics that I don't
> have.
Nah, they're good too. The lyrics make less sense, but the music is better, I think.
Certainly "Boys for Pele" and "Choirgirl" are brilliant, with some great music (sans
purposeful lyrics) and some great music (with purposeful lyrics).
And "Playboy Mommy" from Choirgirl is too good to miss, I think!
> And for Tom, who lives in England: Tori appeared on
> "later with Jools Holland" a few years back and 1)
> played a piano duet with Jools and 2) sang a blood-freezing
> version of "me and a gun" (a song that men find it hard
> to listen to). If you can find a taped version of it anywhere,
> or if the BBC flog tapes of their old shows, it's well
> worth checking out. Some people just have Stage Presence.
Check I shall!
And yes, some people DO have Stage Presence... Tori is just scary, eh?
> Good luck
> Karl
Kryptic Komment there, Karl...
(No, really, thanks - I'll need that luck for my exams. Has anyone else got anymore?)
> There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how
> enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. -Soren Kierkegaard
Too true... but that's what reading Ouspensky and Fromm does to you, I'm afraid, to show
you how far you can progress you have to be shown how far away the pinnacle is.
And that's scary, to realise that you haven't been making your way towards it till this
moment.
A. Prins
BROTHERS IN ARMS - (M.Knopfler) Dire Straits
These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arm
Through these fields of destruction
Baptism of fire
I've watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones
Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
Madison5th
Enjoy :)
Pacing The Cage (Performed by Jimmy Buffet, Lyrics by Bruce Cockburn)
Sunset is an angel weeping
Holding out a bloody sword
No matter how I squint, I cannot
Make out what it's pointing toward
Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long
The days drip slowly on the page
And you catch yourself
Pacing the cage.
I've proved who I am so many times
The magnetic strip's worn thin
And each time I was someone else
And everyone was taken in
Powers chatter in high places
Stirrin' up Hades in the dust of rage
Sets me to pacing the cage
I never knew what you all wanted
So I gave you everything
All that I could pillage
All the spells that I could sing
It's as if this thing were written
In the constitution of the age
Sooner or later
You wind up pacing the cage
Sometimes the best map will not guide you
You can't see what's around the bend
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend
Today these eyes can bleach out light
For the coming of the outbound stage
Pacing the cage
Pacing the cage
Erik Meltzer
Konnrad / T Taylor wrote:
> We all have a lyric we love... and if you all
> post yours I can cut-n-paste 'em together
> and make the best song ever.
:-)
THE DANGLING CONVERSATION
Words & music by Paul Simon 1966
It's a still life water color
Of a now late afternoon
As the sun shines through the curtained lace
And shadows wash the room
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
The borders of our lives
And you read your Emily Dickinson
And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm
Couplets out of rhyme
In syncopated time
And the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
Are the borders of our lives
Yes, we speak of things that matter
With words that must be said
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
"Is the theater really dead?"
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow
I cannot feel your hand
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
In the borders of our lives
Yours,
Erik.
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Konnrad / T Taylor
> Words & music by Paul Simon 1966
Hurrah for Paul Simon! He's great. I've never heard or seen this lyric before, so
thanks.
TOM
Konnrad / T Taylor
> Enjoy :)
I bow to your obvious taste.
Nice lyrics, thanks!
I was jut about to listen to some CD's, and put down some more of my own lyrical
favourites down, but a huge rap party is gonig on next door. Really bad gangsta rap, and
my head hurts.
TOM
Jeremy Warmsley
The thing that cracks me up about that song is that it was written about a
year after Knopfler chucked his brother out of the band...
(At least, I've been told that's the case - read it in a magazine about
elder-younger brother relationships, no less, but it could be lies...)
--
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