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What are your favourite lyrics or songlines?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqgiYSltGJk&mode=related&search= Luciano Pavarotti - Vesti la giubba (also on #176)

and again :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13OB9Xaotl8&mode=related&search= I Pagliacci - Recitar!... Vesti la giubba - Mario del Monaco
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVZiWTmKNc0&mode=related&search= Mark Schultz-Walking Her Home

I first heard this today on the radio - it's a great song about a lifetime love affair - you have to get to the end to get the picture. Gee but I instantly loved this song . Forget the Elvis Presley stuff, this is great!

"But when they checked her room that night, He was laying by her side
Oh he was walking her home , And holding her hand..."
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MX60CAaDbQ&mode=related&search= EDDI READER - "Auld Lang Syne" (at Scottish Parliament)
at opening ceremony of the new Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, Oct. 2004

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z64teeHODjM A Man's a Man for a' That (also sung at opening at Scottish Parliament)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n9hbYwZZqk&mode=related&search= bagpipes
 
Bob Marley/Haile Selassie - War

Deeply profound:

Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war

That until there are no longer first class
And second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war

That until the basic human rights are equally
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
Dis a war

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion
To be persued, but never attained
Now everywhere is war, war

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique,
South Africa sub-human bondage
Have been toppled, utterly destroyed
Well, everywhere is war, me say war

War in the east, war in the west
War up north, war down south
War, war, rumours of war

And until that day, the African continent
Will not know peace, we Africans will fight
We find it necessary and we know we shall win
As we are confident in the victory

Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owa_CFBAWpw&mode=related&search= Sinead O'Connor - War As I posted elsewhere, she finishes with a strangely aggressive gesture
Ahh - at last an explanation You have to understand she was victim of child abuse - and heard about a case where the Vatican covered up for Irish priests ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8bUujGvLg&mode=related&search= Sinead O'Connor on pope incident, bob dylan concert and ****
This youtube explains her motives

"At the end, she rips up a picture of the last Pope..."
"To this day, NBC will not repeat this ...."
She even changes the word "(war) against racism" to "(war) against child abuse"
"the anger was palpable 2 weeks later - greeted by a thundering mixture of cheers and jeers "

"when interviewed on it she explains
I made myself a promise when I was a child that, if God got me out of the hell I was living in, then I would work for him "

... A seriously brave and provocative statement she made
 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIovQYV694k sinead - you do something to me..
Sinead O'Connor recorded this song for the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA_lmSTqet0&mode=related&search=
Peter Gabriel & Sinead O'Connor - Blood Of Eden
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hUhtLYhlhE burt bacharach "alfie".

Burt says this is Hal David's best ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht25gK5TcUI&mode=related&search= Dionne & Burt - Three-Hit Medley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZT2JwyjgjA&mode=related&search= That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick & Friends
Bacharach's "that's what friends are for"
 
.. while driving in the n.w.q outback as kids... When plAyin an electric guitar pumped up the adrenalin.
ww, speaking of guitar (as in electric)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftjH72Kt00&mode=related&search= smoke on the water , deep purple

and one for the guitarists :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFsOhHOCH6Y&mode=related&search= POWER CHORDS GUITAR LESSON Smoke On The Water Deep Purple Power Chords

Here's one for the cosmopolites - this one is also about chords - beautiful chords
- they're called "vocal chords" - (power chords if you like) - and plenty of em
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM&mode=related&search= we are the world
 
ww - since you introduce the topic of western qld http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SlR3I1grmg Drovers Dream

 
I think this is some excellent early rap by the grand master flash - white lines


Ticket to ride
White Line Highway
Tell all your friends they can go my way
Pay your toll
Sell your soul
Pound for pound cost more than gold
The longer you stay,
The more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either through your nose or in your vain
With nothing to gain except killin' your brain.

A very appropriate song at the height of the cocaine era in the USA.

This song is a classic now in the halls of pioneering rap artists and defining songs.
 
My brother is gonna kill me for this, he hates my favourite band

Cry Freedom- Dave Matthews Band (not the official filmclip, but a fan montage using the album music- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cYa8u25Ax8 )

How can I turn away
Brother/Sister go dancing
through my head
Human as to human
The future is no place
To place your better days
Cry freedom, cry
From a crowd 10,000 wide
Hope laid upon hope
That this crowd will not subside
Let this flag burn to dust
And a new a fair design be raised
While we wait head in hands,
hands in prayer
And fall into a dreamless sleep again
And we wave our hands

Hands and feet are all alike
But gold between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
But fear between divide us
All slip away

There was a window and by it stood
A mirror in which
he could see himself
He thought of something
Something he had never had but
hoped would come along
Cry freedom, cry
From deep inside
Where we are all confined
While we wave hands in fire
Wave our hands

Hands and feet are all alike
But gold between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
But fear between divide us,
Slip away
In this room stood a little child
And in this room this little child
she would remain
Until someone might decide
To dance this little child
across this hall
Into a cold, dark, space
Where she might never trace her
way across this crooked mile
Across this crooked page
Cry freedom, cry
From deep inside where
we are all confined
Till we wave our hands

How can I turn away
Brother/Sister go dancing
through my head
Human as to human
The future is no place
To place your better days

Hands and feet are all alike
But gold between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
But fear between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
Hear what I say
Hear what I say
Oh, so be it

How can I turn away Brother/Sister go dancing through my head Human as to human The future is no place To place your better days


That song is about a South African freedom fighter, who's name escapes me at the moment. Dave Matthews grew up in South Africa, so this stuff is close to his heart.

Seek Up- Dave Matthews Band (Live version in 2 parts- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F55-bFepmvY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJjGhbpz4uY&mode=related&search=)

Sometimes I feel like I'm falling
Fall back again, fall back again,
Fall back again, fall back again
Oh, life it seems a struggle between
What we think what we see
I'm not going to change my ways
Just to please you or appease you
Inside a crowd, five billion proud
Willing to punch it out
Right, wrong, weak, strong
Ashes to ashes all fall down
Look around about this round
About this merry-go-round around
If at all God's gaze upon us fall
His mischievous grin, look at him

Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Our emotions can be swept away
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away

Sit awhile with TV's hungry child
Big belly swelled
Oh, for a price of a coke or a smoke
Keep alive those hungy eyes
Take a look at me, what you see in me,
Mirror look at me
Face it all, face it all again

Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that your emotions can be
Wept away, kept at bay
Forget about being guilty, i am innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away

You seek up an emotion
And our cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you, the devil's not
Going--ha, ha

Say, say

Look at me in my fancy car
And my bank account
Oh, how I wish I could take it all down
Into my grave, I'd save
Take a look again, take a look again,
Take a look again
Everyday things change,...stay the same

Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Your emotions can be swept away
Intentions are not wicked,
Don't be tricked into thinking so
Soon we will all find our lives swept away

You seek up an emotion
And our cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil's not going--ha, ha
Fall back again, fall back again, fall back again...
 
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