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What are your favourite lyrics or songlines?

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
 
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

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
 
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.

Goes to show even the written word is open to interpretation.
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

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"

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 .."

Sultans of Swing - Live Aid - Mark Knopfler
You decide..
 
Hi,
This is an annoying thread.
etc
People, lyrics are words.
brty
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
 
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 )

Missy Higgins - Scar (Music Video)

 
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

 
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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