Favorite Song Lyrics (Snippets)

[touch]

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

 

Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing, but I was so blind
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

 

In between
What I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine
Love is so confusing there's no peace of mind
If I fear I'm losing you. it's just no good
You teasing like you do

 

Blondie 1979

Songwriters: Chris Stein / Deborah Harry

[Argonne69]

Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time
There's something wrong here, there can be no denying
One of us is changing, or maybe we just stopped trying

And it's too late, baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died
And I can't hide and I just can't fake it
Oh, no, no, no, no (No, no, no, no)

 

- Carole King 

 

[touch]

Yeah, they were dancin' and singin' and movin' to the groovin'
And just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted

Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right
Play that funky music white boy
Lay down that boogie and play that funky music till you die…
(hey,hey) till you die…yeah, yeah

 

Songwriter: Rob Parissi

Wild Cherry   1976  

[touch]

Standing in line, marking time
Waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor old lady's eyes
Just for fun he says, "Get a job"

 

That's just the way it is
Some things will never change
That's just the way it is
Ah, but don't you believe them

 

 

 

Bruce Hornsby    1986

Songwriter: Bruce Hornsby

[Argonne69]

Someone told me long ago
There's a calm before the storm
I know, it's been comin' for some time

 

When it's over, so they say
It'll rain on a sunny day
I know, shining down like water

 

I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain?
I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain
Comin' down on a sunny day?

 

- Creedence Clearwater Revival

 

[Argonne69]

It's Saturday night (it's Saturday night)

I'm feeling on song (I'm feeling on song)
I think I'm alright (I think I'm alright)
I know I'm all wrong (I know I'm all wrong)

The drink that I had (the drink that I had)
Three hours ago (three hours ago)
Has been joined by 14 others in a steady flow

So let me walk straight (so let me walk straight)
Don't let me feel pain (don't let me feel pain)
I'm gonna scratch cars (I'm gonna scratch cars)
With my key again (with my key again)

'Cause when I go home ('cause when I go home)
And fall on my bed (and fall on my bed)
If it doesn't leave my stomach, it'll split my head

 

- The Proclaimers 

 

[gs1184]

If you could read my mind love, 

What a tale my thoughts could tell. 

Just like an old time movie 

About a ghost from a wishing well.

In a castle dark or a fortress strong 

With chains upon my feet.

You know that ghost is me 

And I will never be set free 

As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.

 

If I could read your mind love, 

What a tale your thoughts could tell.

Just like a paperback novel, 

The kind the drugstore sells.

When you reach the part where the heartaches 

Come the hero would be me. 

Heroes often fail.

And you won't read that book again 

Because the endings just to hard to take.

 

I walk away like a movie star 

Who gets burned in a three way script.

Enter number two, a movie queen 

To play the scene of bringing all the good things out in me, 

But for now love lets be real.

 

I never thought I could act this way 

And I've got to say that I just don't get it.

I don't know where we went wrong 

But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back.

 

If you could read my mind love, 

What a tale my thoughts could tell.

Just like an old time movie about a ghost from a wishing well.

In a castle dark or a fortress strong 

With chains upon my feet the story always ends.

And if you read between the lines 

You'll know that I'm just trying to understand

The feeling that you left.

 

I never thought I could feel this way 

And I got to say that I just don't get it.

I don't know where we went wrong 

But the feelings gone 

And I just can't get it back.

[touch]

Armed and ready, you fought love battles in the night

But too many opponents made you weary of the fight

Blinded by passion, you foolishly let someone in

All the warnings went off in your head

Still you had to give in

 

Just when you think you got it down

Resistance nowhere to be found

They whisper, Promises In The Dark

 

Songwriters: Nick Giraldo and Pat Benatar 

Pat Benatar 1981 

 

[touch]

I have a picture
Pinned to my wall
An image of you and of me and we're laughing
We're loving it all

 

But look at our life now
We're tattered and torn
We're fussing and fighting, delighting with tears
That we cry until dawn

 

(Oh oh) Hold me now
(Whoa) Warm my heart
Stay with me
Let loving start
Let loving start

 

 

Songwriters: Tom Bailey  Alannah Currie Joe Leeway

Thompson Twins  1983 

 

 

[gs1184]

I can see her lying back in her satin dress
In a room where you do what you don't confess

Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs

She's been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream
And she don't always say what she really means

Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain

I can picture every move that a man could make
Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake

Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again

I can see her looking fast in her faded jeans
She's a hard loving woman, got me feeling mean

Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
Sundown, you better take care
If I find you been creeping 'round my back stairs
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again
 

Gordon Lightfoot

[Argonne69]

I met a devil woman
She took my heart away
She said I had it coming to me
But I wanted it that way

 

I think that any loving's good loving
So I took what I could get, mmm, ooh-ooh
She looked at me with big brown eyes
And said

 

"You ain't seen nothing yet
B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-n-nothing yet
Here's somethin' that you're never gonna forget
B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-n-nothing yet
Nothing yet, you ain't been around" (that's what she told me)

 

- Bachman–Turner Overdrive
 

[touch]

Callin' out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancing in the street

 

They're dancing in Chicago (dancing in the street)
Down in New Orleans (dancing in the street)
In New York City (dancing in the street)
All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere

 

There'll be swingin' and swayin' and records playing
Dancing in the street

 

Oh it doesn't matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
So come on every guy grab a girl
Everywhere around the world

 

There'll be dancing (dancing in the street)
They're dancing in the street
Dancing in the street

 

 

 

Martha and the Vandellas 1965

Songwriters: Ivy Hunter / Marvin Gaye / William Stevenson

[touch]

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

 

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius
Aquarius

 

Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation, Aquarius
Aquarius

 

Let the sunshine, let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sunshine, let the sun shine in

The sun shine in

The 5th Dimension 1969

Writers: Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado

[Argonne69]

I've just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the Dream Weaver train
Driver, take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind

Ooh, Dream Weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, Dream Weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light

 

Fly me high through the starry skies
Or maybe to an astral plane
Cross the highways of fantasy
Help me to forget today's pain

Ooh, Dream Weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, Dream Weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light

 

- Gary Wright 

 

[gmyers22]

Well, she was bruised and broke from head to toe
With a tear in her blood stained shirt
She didn't tell the whole truth but she didn't have to
I knew what had happened to her
I didn't load her down with questions
That girl had been through enough
I just threw it in drive, looked in those eyes
And I asked her where he was

I don't know if he's an angel
'Cause angels don't do what he did
He was hellbent to find the man behind
All the whiskey scars I hid
I never thought my day of justice
Would come from a judge under a seat
But I knew right then I'd never get hit again
When he said to me

"Wait in the truck"
"Just wait in the truck"

Well, I knocked and knocked and no one came
So I kicked in his double wide door
I let the hammer drop before he got
To that 12 he was reaching for
I didn't try to hide my pistol
I didn't even try to run
I just sat on the porch, smoking one of his cigarettes
And waited for the cops to come

[TiScape]

If we added ‘1990 or later’ to the thread title 95% of the posts in here would be gone! 😂 

Is everyone in hear only listening to oldies or are no good song lyrics being written anymore… 🤔 

[Argonne69]

On 8/9/2024 at 5:41 PM, TiScape said:

If we added ‘1990 or later’ to the thread title 95% of the posts in here would be gone! 😂 

Is everyone in hear only listening to oldies or are no good song lyrics being written anymore… 🤔 

 

Lol. Shake it off. 

 

[TiScape]

4 hours ago, Argonne69 said:

 

Lol. Shake it off. 

 

I’m not a Swifty. But 3 words of lyrics written in the last decade… I’ll take it!!! 😊

 

🤣

[TiScape]

[Argonne69]

When you're weary
Feeling small
When tears are in your eyes
I will dry them all

I'm on your side
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you

I'll take your part
When darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

 

- Paul Simon 

 

[grm24]

Went and looked at the lyrics of this song tonight after hearing it over a grocery store pa system for the first time in ages. Many know who took her stage name in part from this song however it's an overlooked "hit" from Queen. 

 

Radio GaGa. 

 

My only friend through teenage nights. And everything I had to know I heard it on my radio. You gave them all those old-time stars. Through wars of worlds, invaded by Mars. You made 'em laugh, you made 'em cry. You made us feel like we could fly (radio). So don't become some background noise.

.

We watch the shows, we watch the stars. On videos for hours and hours. We hardly need to use our ears. How music changes through the years. Let's hope you never leave, old friend. Like all good things, on you, we depend. So stick around 'cause we might miss you. When we grow tired of all this visual.

 

Edited August 18, 2024 by grm24

[Argonne69]

You talk about things that nobody cares
Wearing out things that nobody wears
You're calling my name but I gotta make clear

I can't say, baby, where I'll be in a year

Some sweat hog mama with a face like a gent
Said my get up and go, must've got up and went
Well I got good news, she's a real good liar
'Cause the backstage boogie sets your pants on fire

Sweet emotion
Sweet emotion

 

I pulled into town in a police car
Your daddy said I took it just a little too far
You're telling her things but your girlfriend lied
You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died

 

Sweet emotion 

Sweet emotion 

 

- Aerosmith 

 

[aenemated]

Our faith it is bending
It is bending from our burdens weight
So our faith we will strengthen
We will strengthen make a iron brace
This brace is from our mule shoe
From our mule shoe measured out his gait
Our faith is good in iron
Good in iron it's our burdens weight

We wear braces on our arms
We wear braces on our legs
We wear braces on our teeth
We are making ourselves straight

We wear braces on our arms
We wear braces on our legs
We wear braces on our teeth
We are making ourselves straight

[slocalifglfr]

I'm going where the sun keeps shinin'
Through the pourin' rain
Going where the weather suits my clothes
Bankin' off of the northeast winds
Sailin' on a summer breeze
And skippin' over the ocean like a stone

 

I really like the last three lines. Great imagery. 

A Fred Neil tune.

[Argonne69]

'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life
Tryna make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah

No change, I can change
I can change, I can change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
But I'm a million different people
From one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
(Have you ever been down?)

 

- The Verve 

 

[Argonne69]

God, it's so painful when something that is so close
Is still so far out of reach

 

- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, American Girl 

 

[Argonne69]

When I was struggling to learn to play a 12 string acoustic guitar, this one always sounded the best with my crummy playing. Very touching tune. 

 

Childhood living
Is easy to do
The things you wanted
I bought them for you

Graceless lady
You know who I am
You know I can't let you
Slide through my hands

Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away

I watched you suffer
A dull aching pain
Now you've decided
To show me the same

No sweeping exit
Or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter
Or treat you unkind

Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away

 

- Rolling Stones 

 

[touch]

Good morning, yesterday
You wake up and time has slipped away
And suddenly it's hard to find
The memories you left behind
Remember, do you remember?

 

The laughter and the tears
The shadows of misty yesteryears
The good times and the bad you've seen
And all the others in between
Remember, do you remember
The times of your life? (Do you remember?)

 

Songwriters: Bill Lane / Roger Nichols

Paul Anka 1975 

[Hankshank]

Great refrain to an otherwise bland Killers song:
 

Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis

But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside

 

 

Edited September 4, 2024 by Hankshank

[touch]

She was black as the night
Louie was whiter than white
Danger, danger when you taste brown suga'

Louie fell in love overnight
Nothing bad, it was good
Louie had the best girl he could
When he took 'er home
To meet his mama and papa

Louie knew just where he stood

 

 

Louie Louie Louie Louie, Louie Louie Lou I
Louie Louie Louie Louie, Louie Louie you're gonna cry

 

 

Songwriters: Michael Brewer / Tom Shipley

Stories 1973