well maybe not the ride



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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

The funny thing is that I read all of the lyrics everyone posted
but somehow I missed amplified0907's comment

'so drunk in the August sun,
and you're the kind of girl I like
cos you're empty, and I'm empty'

Gold Soundz by Pavement

Why? I always seem to find myself in situations with girls where this line is so applicable.....

and it is one of Pavement's best songs!

IstenSzek said:

IstenSzek said:

LMAO

Sometimes everything is wrong - REM

and

Nobody loves no-one - Chris Isaak

hurts and hopes

"I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thoughts." - Quicksand, David Bowie


One of my absolute favorit lines because with all the shit that is going on in the world, your own personal demons, the struggle wether to believe or not... trying to somehow understand all this, find some sense in it, you cannot succeed. So trying too hard to find a truth behind it all will leave you lost, sunken in the quicksand of your thought.

Born with the moon in cancer
Choose her a name she will answer to
Call her green and the winters cannot fade her
Call her green for the children who’ve made her
Little green, be a gypsy dancer

From Joni Mitchell's Little Green.

Blue was the first Joni album I got as a gift from my first boyfriend Richard, who was totally wild about this particular album. Richard was a poetic wild-child and he loved hipping me to beat-poets and singer-songwriters like Joni.

Blue was certainly his fave and therefor also mine, as it made me fall in love with Joni's voice. Blue was the album that made me realise that the poetry I had written up til that point were really songs.

This particular line from the first verse of Little Green has that deep MOTHER feeling I always look for in everything. I always have been a moody person and I am drawn to anything that has a sense of longing and regret; it speaks out to me, calls to me.

In that sense, Blue is a deeply intuitive album, filled with opposite emotions. In many songs you hear the longing and regret I just spoke of, other songs breathe deviance, an open 'no regrets'-statement.

It is strange that in my first album review, I also refered to that 'mother'-feeling I got when listening to Little Green in particular, as later I found out this song tells of Joni's daughter, that she had given up for adoption.


Two other songs from this album have special meaning to me. First of those two is My Old Man. It's the song Richard loved most. Blue was our sunday morning (or often sunday afternoon) record. He would get up, get us some breakfast, while he played the record while he was making the toast. This song he would sing along to.

He’s my sunshine in the morning
He’s my fireworks at the end of the day
He’s the warmest chord I ever heard
Play that warm chord, play and stay baby
We don’t need no piece of paper
From the city hall
Keeping us tied and true
My old man
Keeping away my blues

To me, this song connects me to the days when love was care-free. The line from verse two I so dearly love signifies how I look upon 'marriage'. Union between two humans should be like this, not reinforced by religion or rules.
I picked verse two because of the 'warm chord'-reference. Doesn't it remind you of a certain Prince song, left off Sign "O" The Times?


Last line is from Blue itself;

Everybody’s saying that hell’s the hippest way to go
Well I don’t think so
But I’m gonna take a look around it though which is beauty in it's entirety.

It's how I look at life.

"Surprisingly", she said, "there's no bitter bashing of things, no screaming in red-eyed pain...
only long, agonizing hours, days, years and the lesson that reality is a stubborn bitch that just won't change."




Actually, that's from me. Of course I wouldn't compare me with any real songwriters, but I just think that line explains the feeling that you sometimes get, that there is no hope, no dreams, no way out, no way back to your love, no way to have a deceased person back (which is what happened in the actual song).

It might not really be good but it means quite a lot to me.

Joni Mitchell, from For The Roses, it's pretty self explanatory...

"Oh the power and the glory
Just when you're getting a taste for worship
They start bringing out the hammers
And the boards
And the nails"

Sananda/TTD from "Holding On to You":

In an emotional mist she breathes in fog
And breathes it out as garden flowers
Why me of all the tough talking boys?
I guess she heard my heartbeat through the noise.

Those lines are just sooo beautiful

Words are very
Unnecessary
They can only do harm

You'll see your problems multiply
When you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth.

Depeche Mode

Why? Because it's true.
[Edited 1/25/05 14:47pm]

tackam said:

I thought I was the only one in the world who liked that line.

"Drowning in a sea of love, where everyone would love to drown"

-"Sara", Fleetwood Mac

Cloudbuster said:

For me it's the whole section:

But every time it rains,
You're here in my head,
Like the sun coming out
Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen.
And I don't know when,
But just saying it could even make it happen.

Dolly Parton sings:

"Here you come again, lookin better than a body has a right to"

and I just smile every damn time. It's my fave line from my fave Dolly track. So simple but expresses so much.

Learned to survive in your fictitious world,
Does what they think of you determine your worth?
If special's what you feel when you're with them,
Taken away you feel less-than again...Janet, "You"

When I lick my lips I can taste your smileJanet, "Empty"

If you're all alone and a friend you need,
Like a river flows, you hurt and I'll bleed.Janet, "Lonely"

Freeze this moment please, don't wanna get it outta my head.Janet, "SloLove"

When I feel that I don't belong, draw my strength from the words
when you said "Hey, it's about ya, baby. Look deeper inside ya, babyJanet, "Together Again"

Everywhere I go, every smile I see I know you are there smiling back at me.
Dancing in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shining down on me.Janet, "Together Again"

I know I'm the lucky one, I know I'm a special one.
I know that God does not have a stepchild.Janet, "God's Stepchild"

Those are a couple off of the very top of my head! I gotta go now, but I'll have a lot more later!

theVelvetRoper said:

[Edited 1/25/05 17:04pm]

amplified0907 said:

Serious said:

and the way they are delivered makes you goosebump all over.
incredible lines from an incredibly emotional song.

I also like the line:


the soil is fertile where our footsteps trod
she's my new religion, she's all I got

calldapplwondery83 said:

I like it a lot. Don't be so shy about it, it's really good!

HamsterHuey said:

now that's what I call an in depth explanation of why you love the lyrics!
you made me pull out "Blue" once again. I'm listening to it right now

If the wind blew every petal from your precious red rose
Would U be afraid of what U'd find inside?

Prince

Because it makes me look inside and wonder about it



[Edited 1/25/05 23:42pm]

IstenSzek said:

Exactly . I was thinking about posting that very line as well, it is also so beautiful as is the whole song . Sananda sings it with so much emotion, like you said.....goosebumps

VoicesCarry said:

IstenSzek said:

Thanks!
BTW, I hope this keeps going on, very interesting! Your threads are always worth checking out.

"All I hear in my head echoing like a volcano, baby, the screams of passion"





Reminds me of some real intense love making.

Tom said:

Wow wow wow!

I've got a few, I have many many more but here are a few for now:


I told you
That we could fly
'Cause we all have wings
But some of us don't know why


INXS - Never Tear Us Apart" (used to have this in my sig)



I'll tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn

THE DOORS



And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

THE BEATLES - A Day In The Life



And when the night is cloudy
There is still a light that shines on me
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be


THE BEATLES _Let it Be


You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world

The Beatles - Revolution


Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans

JOHN LENNON

Her face is sans feature, but she wears a Dali brooch

DAVID BOWIE -Diamond Dogs


Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain

OASIS


I guess every form of refuge has its price.

THE EAGLES


There's a warm wind blowing the stars around.

ENGLAND DAN


If love were liquid it would drown me
in a placeless place refine me,
in a heart shape come around me
and then melt me slowly down
if love were human it would know me
in a lost space come and show me


KYLIE - Chocolate.

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[Edited 1/30/05 4:05am]