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Hi,

This is an annoying thread.

The question, What are your favourite lyrics.....

answer You tube, you tube, you tube.

have people forgotten how to quote???


People, lyrics are words.

brty
 
brty said:
Hi,

This is an annoying thread.

The question, What are your favourite lyrics.....

answer You tube, you tube, you tube.

have people forgotten how to quote???


People, lyrics are words.

brty
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Goes to show even the written word is open to interpretation.
 
"I wonder why we all feel the presence of everything growing old?, I wonder why we don't spend the time to see the butterfly unfold?"

Quintessential Australian Soul Grunge circa 1991

I assume it wasn't a cover. If anyone knows the band then they'll probably know if it's a cover.
 
i am very romantic at heart and my favourite song and lyrics have been
'I love you' by Saigon Kick
here are the lines:
I may not be the man I wanted to
I may not be the king of wit
I may not know the things you need to know
I might not measure up quite yet
I may not have the grace of Fred Astaire
I may not have the mind of Jung
I cannot buy the things you need to have
But there is something you can't forget
I love you
I love you
Through the fires
in all of hell
something I can't stop
I love you
It may not seem that I care enough
I may not take the time to say
You can't leave me standing here alone
Until you hear what I have to say
I love you
I love you
Through the fires
In all of hell
It's something I can't stop
I love you
 
brty said:
This is an annoying thread.
The question, What are your favourite lyrics.....

answer You tube, you tube, you tube.
have people forgotten how to quote???
People, lyrics are words.
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Wysiwyg said:
Goes to show even the written word is open to interpretation.
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lol
hey brty - I agree with you that lyrics are words ....
But I agree with wys that the definition is open to interpretation
i.e. surely they can be either written or heard?
gee whiz you are easily annoyed ;) :2twocents

Best of all surely is to hear them in the original context of their accompaniment. - Maybe at a particular concert ...

How about when they ad lib (where you won't find the words anywhere else?) ? - Here's an example ...

ALTERNATIVE A.
I could say

"check it out guitar george
now he knows all them fancy chords
his rhythm gonna make it cry make it sing now
and an old guitar is all he can afford
when he gets up under them coloured lights to play that thing"
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or
ALTERNATIVE B.
I could post this youtube - including the mood and the casual talent oozing out of the man. - "Check it out" at the 1m25s mark ;)

PS Also at the 1m55s mark:-
he's got a daytime job , he's doing quite all right thank you very much .." ;)
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Sultans of Swing - Live Aid - Mark Knopfler
You decide.. :cool:
 
brty said:
Hi,
This is an annoying thread.
etc
People, lyrics are words.
brty
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brty
I note that is your only post on this thread

so .... In conclusion
IMO You can maybe criticise when you take the trouble to post either

a) some written lyrics, or
b) a youtube

but until then, maybe you shouldn't play critic - unless of course you are pushing for a job on the judge's panel of Australian Idol :rolleyes:
 
Currently "The Australian" is undertaking an online survey to find the most popular Australian song for the period 1988 to 2008.

One vote only. I'd be interested to hear which songs people voted for. I'd be tempted to vote for Dear John Letter or Teacups and Kettles by Peregrine. The latter contains wonderfully quirky songwriting about a couple's dreams for the future and how they are probably never going to reach them.

"We'll find a golden radio station,
And you'll tease me to Elvis,
And strip to Tom Jones,
And we'll kiss to the Beatles
And $%#$ to the Stones"

Dear John Letter is a great song about the frustration of wanting to write a "tell-all" letter to the boyfriend of the girl you are having an affair with. But you can't do it because you love the girl too much and made a promise never to tell.

2020 - if you like songwriting have a listen.

Also anything by Perry Keyes is fantastic.

Duckman
 
Hi duck
I guess you're referring to this :-
http://www.ausmediaserver.com/song/vote.php

I'd be going for Missy Higgins Scar or Special Two - I notice she features in the artwork in the letterhead there (Also I only know a couple of the offered songs, lol ) :2twocents

Missy Higgins - Scar (Music Video)

SCAR
He left a card, a bar of soap and a scrubbing brush next to a note,
That said "use these down to your bones".
And before I knew I had shiny skin and it felt easy being clean like him,
I thought "this one knows better than I do"

A triangle trying to squeeze through a circle
He tried to cut me so I'd fit

And doesn't that sound familiar? Doesn't that hit too close to home?
Doesn't that make you shiver; the way things could've gone?
And doesn't it feel peculiar that everyone wants a little more. So that I do remember to never go that far,
Could you leave me with a scar?

So the next one came with a bag of treats,
She smelled like sugar and spoke like the sea
She told me don't, trust them trust me.
Then she pulled at my stitches one by one,
Looked at my insides clicking her tongue,

And said "This will all have to come undone".

A triangle trying to squeeze through a circle,
She tried to blunt me so I'd fit.

And doesn't that sound familiar? Doesn't that hit too close to home?
Doesn't that make you shiver; the way things could have gone?
And doesn't it feel peculiar, that everyone wants a little more?
So that I do remember to never go that far,
Could you leave me with a scar?

I think I realised just in time, about my old self was hard to find.
You can bathe me in your finest wine but I'll never give you mine.
'Cos I'm a little bit tired of fearing that I'll be the bad fruit nobody
buys,
Tell me, did you think we'd all dream the same?

And doesn't that sound familiar? Doesn't that hit too close to home?
Doesn't that make you shiver; the way things could have gone?
And doesn't it feel peculiar that everyone wants a little more?
so that I do remember to never go that far,
Could you leave me with a scar?
could you leave me with a scar? ah-ah-ah.
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Saw a good doco on Missy Higgins on a recent qantas flight :)
also my daughter has a car where the radio doesn't work - but the CD player does - and she only carries one CD in the car - so you get a lift across town, you hear this for flaming hours ;)
Missy Higgins - The Special Two

THE SPECIAL TWO

I've hardly been outside my room in days,
'Cause I don't feel that I deserve the sunshine's rays.
The darkness helped until the whiskey wore away,
And it was then I realised the conscience never fades.
When you're young you have this image of your life,
That you'll be scrupulous and one day even make a wife.
And you make boundaries you'd never dream to cross,
And if you happen to, you wake completely not.

But I will fight for you,
Be sure that I will fight,
Until we're the special two once again.

And we will only need each other, we'll see together,
Our hands will not be faught to hold another's,
'Cause we're the special two!
And we could only see each our father, we'll breathe forever
These arms will not be taught to need other's,
'Cause we are the special two living our life

I remember someone old once said to me,
That "lies will lock you up with truth the only key."
But I was comfortable and warm inside my shell,
And couldn't see this place could soon become my hell.
So is it better to tell and hurt or lie to save their face?
Well I guess the answer is, don't do it in the first place.
I know I'm not deserving of your trust from you right now,
But if by chance you change your mind, you know I will not let you down,
'Cause we were the special two, and we'll be again.

And we will only need each other, we'll bleed together,
Our hands will not be taught to hold another's,
'Cause we're the special two.
And we could only see each other, we'll breathe together
These arms will not be taught to need another's,
'Cause we're the special two.

I step outside my mind's eyes for a minute.
And I look over me like a doctor looking for disease,
Or something that could ease the pain.
But nothing cures the hurt you, you bring on by yourself,
Just remembering, just remembering how we were...

When we would only need each other, we'd bleed together,
These hands would not be taught to hold another's,
We were the special two.
And we could only see each other we'd breathe together,
These arms would not be taught to need another's,
'Cause we're the special two.
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An interesting and colourful song which originated in the late 1920s and still bobs up from time to time is The Big Rock Candy Mountain. It featured in the Coen Bros. movie O Brother, Where art Thou? Wikipedia gives a good account of its origins. The lyrics may be found on;

http://ingeb.org/songs/onasumme.html
 
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