Favorite Song Lyrics (Snippets)

[ThinkingPlus]

2 hours ago, Argonne69 said:

Tis the season. Lol. 

 

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch,
You really are a heel,
You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch, 

You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel!

 

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch, 
Your heart's an empty hole,
Your brain is full of spiders, you have garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch, 

I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole! 

 

You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch,
You have termites in your smile,
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch,

Given a choice between the two of you I'd take the seasick crocodile! 

 

You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch, 
You're a nasty wasty skunk,
Your heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch,

The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote, 
"Stink, stank, stunk"! 

 

- Albert Hague

 

And it must be sung by Thurl Ravenscroft.

[touch]

17 hours ago, JungleJimbo said:

@touch
hopefully no offence taken…

but your lyrics made me think of Michael Bolton’s version with same song title. 
 

 

 

No worries @JungleJimbo. I'm glad I could provide a flashback for ya. 

 

I'm not 100% sure but I thought I saw somewhere in this thread that posting a Michael Bolton video was -5 Points. 😅

[JungleJimbo]

38 minutes ago, touch said:

 

No worries @JungleJimbo. I'm glad I could provide a flashback for ya. 

 

I'm not 100% sure but I thought I saw somewhere in this thread that posting a Michael Bolton video was -5 Points. 😅

 

thanks @touch for your good grace/ gentle 'nudge'

(it stopped me from unleashing a plethora of Michael Bolton GIFs... today i learnt that Bolton was in Pirates of the Caribbean).

[touch]

3 hours ago, JungleJimbo said:

 

thanks @touch for your good grace/ gentle 'nudge'

(it stopped me from unleashing a plethora of Michael Bolton GIFs... today i learnt that Bolton was in Pirates of the Caribbean).

 

 

Just like it was for David Lee Roth, once the full mane of hair left, the zippy performances just weren't there any longer. 

Edited December 6, 2024 by touch

[Argonne69]

I want to run, I want to hide
I wanna tear down the walls that hold me inside
I wanna reach out and touch the flame
Where the streets have no name, ha, ha, ha

 

I wanna feel sunlight on my face
I see that dust cloud disappear without a trace
I wanna take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name, oh, oh

 

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name

We're still building then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there, I go there with you
It's all I can do

 

- U2 

 

[touch]

By order of the Prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the Sharif had cleared the square
They began to wail

 

The Sharif don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah
The Sharif don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah

 

 

The Clash 1982

Songwriters: Topper Headon / Mick Jones / Joe Strummer

[Argonne69]

I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away

It's more than a feeling
(More than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play
(More than a feeling)
I begin dreaming
(More than a feeling)
'Til I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away

So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go by
Yet I still recall as I wander on
As clear as the sun in the summer sky

It's more than a feeling
(More than a feeling)
When I hear that old song they used to play
(More than a feeling)
I begin dreaming
(More than a feeling)
'Til I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away

When I'm tired and thinking cold
I hide in my music, forget the day
And dream of a girl I used to know
I closed my eyes and she slipped away
She slipped away

 

- Boston 

 

[touch]

'Tis the Season. 

 

It's the most wonderful time of the year
With the kids jingle belling
And everyone telling you, "Be of good cheer!"
It's the most wonderful time of the year

 

It's the hap-happiest season of all
With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings
When friends come to call
It's the hap-happiest season of all

 

There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago

 

It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much mistletoeing
And hearts will be glowing when loved ones are near
It's the most wonderful time of the year

 

Andy Williams  1963

Songwriters: George Wyle / Eddie Pola

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Rockin' around the Christmas tree
At the Christmas party hop
Mistletoe hung where you can see
Every couple tries to stop
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Let the Christmas spirit ring
Later we'll have some pumpkin pie
And we'll do some caroling

 

You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
Voices singing, let's be jolly
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Rockin' around the Christmas tree
Have a happy holiday
Everyone dancin' merrily
In the new old-fashioned way

 

Brenda Lee 1958

Songwriters: Johnny Marks

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
Take a look at the five and ten, it's glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes that glow

 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in every store
But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front door

 

A pair of Hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben
Dolls that'll talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen
And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again

 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
There's a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well
It's the sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow

 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start
And the thing that'll make 'em ring is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart

 

Various Artists

Songwriter: Meredith Willson 1951 

[touch]

Have a holly jolly Christmas
It's the best time of the year
Now I don't know if there'll be snow
But have a cup of cheer

 

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And when you walk down the street
Say hello to friends you know
And everyone you meetOh-ho, the mistletoe

Is hung where you can see
Somebody waits for you
Kiss her once for me

 

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And in case you didn't hear
Oh, by golly
Have a holly jolly Christmas this year

 

Burl Ives 1965

Songwriter: Johnny Marks

[touch]

It's Christmas time, and there's no need to be afraid
At Christmas time, we let in light and banish shade
And in our world of plenty
We can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world
At Christmas time

 

But say a prayer and pray for the other ones
At Christmas time, it's hard but while you're having fun
There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear
Where a kiss of love can kill you
And there's death in every tear
And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom
Well tonight we're reaching out and touching you

 

Bring peace and joy this Christmas to West Africa
A song of hope they'll have is being alive
Why is comfort deadly fear
Why is to touch to be scared
How can they know it's Christmas time at all
Here's to you
Raise a glass to everyone
Here's to them
And all their years to come
Can they know it's Christmas time at all

 

Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Heal the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Heal the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Heal the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Heal the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Heal the world

 

Band Aid 1984

Songwriters: Midge Ure / Bob Geldof

[Chanceman]

I once had a girl or should I say she once had me

[Chanceman]

It was so very quiet and peaceful, not a soul around

[Chanceman]

Go up to the mountain

Go up to the glen

Where silence will touch you

And heartbreak will end.

[Triple Lindy]

Haven’t been to this thread in a minute. Heard this during a workout and it reminded me to come here.

 

You were listening to The Dark Side of the Moon. 
 

 - The Lumineers

Edited December 15, 2024 by Triple Lindy

[aloha b.]

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

 

Irving Berlin, sung by Bing Crosby

[touch]

Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?

If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know

 

The Clash 1982

songwriter Mick Jones 

 

 

[touch]

 

Somebody's out to get your lady
A few of your buddies, they sure look shady
The blades are long, clenched tight in their fists
Aimin' straight at your back
And I don't think they'll miss

 

What they doing? They smile in your face

All the time, they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)

 

 

The O' Jays 1972 

Songwriters: Gene McFadden / John Whitehead / Leon Huff

Edited December 23, 2024 by touch

[Argonne69]

Just remember that you're standing
On a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second
So it's reckoned
The sun that is the source of all our power

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at four hundred thousand miles an hour
In the galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, six thousand light years thick
But out by us, it's just a thousand light years wide

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, of the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth

 

- John Du Prez and Eric Idle, The Galaxy Song 

 

[touch]

Six o'clock, T.V. hour, don't get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh oh
This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline

 

It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
I feel fine (I feel fine)

 

R.E.M.  1987

Songwriters: John Michael Stipe / Michael E. Mills / Peter Lawrence Buck / William Thomas Berry

 

 

Happy New Year ! 

 

 

Edited January 1 by touch

[touch]

If you took all the girls that I knew when I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
And everything looks worse in black and white

 

Kodachrome
Give us the night's bright colors
Give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take photographs
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

 

 

Paul Simon 1973 

 

 

 

 

[TiScape]

-Ben Gibbard

Edited January 10 by TiScape

[Triple Lindy]

I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free

 

- Elton John

[touch]

Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies

 

And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
You know I'm tryin' to please to the calling
Of your heartstrings that play soft and low

 

You know the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
You know the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush

 

Can I just have one more moondance with you, my love?
Can I just make some more romance with a-you, my love?

 

Songwriter: Van Morrison  1970 

[farmer]

"Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space"  Steppenwolf

"Barefoot girls, dancin' in the moonlight"  CCR

[iBanesto]

I swore, I swore I would be true
And honey so did you
So why were you holding her hand?
Is that the way we stand?
Were you lying all the time?
Was it just a game to you?

 

But I'm in so deep
You know I'm such a fool for you
You got me wrapped around your finger
Do you have to let it linger?
Do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it linger?

 

--- The Cranberries

[Triple Lindy]

Your mother's words, they're, they're ringing still
But your mother don't pay our bills, yeah

- The Black Keys

[Triple Lindy]

The fact that me, an overfed long haired leaping gnome
Should be the star behind a Hollywood movie, hmm
 

 - Eric Burdon & War

[Argonne69]

There's battle lines being drawn
And nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speakin' their minds
A-gettin' so much resistance from behind

 

I think it's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

 

What a field day for the heat (ooh-ooh-ooh)
A thousand people in the street (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Singin' songs and a-carryin' signs (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Mostly say, "Hooray for our side" (ooh-ooh-ooh)

 

It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

 

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life, it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line
The man come and take you away

 

- Stephen Stills