Lyrics that hit the spot...

[monstro]

Time After Time

Time after time
I tell myself that I'm
So lucky to be loving you

So lucky to be
The one you run to see
In the evening, when the day is through

I only know what I know
The passing years will show
You've kept my love so young, so new

And time after time
You'll hear me say that I'm
So lucky to be loving you

I only know what I know
The passing years will show
You've kept my love so young, so new

And time after time
You'll hear me say that I'm
So lucky to be loving you

Chet Baker version here

 

[submit452]

The Safety Dance
We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine
Say, we can go where we want to, a place that they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance
We can go when we want to, the night is young and so am I
And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
And surprise them with the victory cry
Say, we can act if we want to, if we don't nobody will
And you can act real rude or totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile
Say we can dance, we can dance
Everything's out of control
We can dance, we can dance
They're doing it from pole to pole
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody taken the chance
The safety dance
The safety dance
The safety dance
We can dance if we want to, we've got all your life and mine
As long as we abuse it we are never going to lose it
And everything will work out right
Say, we can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
well they're no friend of mine Chorus

YouTube - Safety Dance- Men Without Hats=

ME TOO!!! I played the MTV video of this song on an mono SONY tv at top volume in 1984!

 

[invisibleman]

ME TOO!!! I played the MTV video of this song on an mono SONY tv at top volume in 1984!

I had the 45 RPM vinyl of this tune (Safety Dance). I played that fucker (A LOT!!!) on my little Radio Shack Clavinette record player. (Before CDs, there were vinyl records. I still have a record player.:smile: )

Man, my high school friend, Irene. She was this black girl that loved UK pop music. She turned me on the Scritti and Spandau. She really got me on Boy George and Culture Club. I always loved Olivia Newton-John. I had a shitload of records when I was a kid. I was a muggafuggin' disco kid. (Literally.)

 

[invisibleman]

Love is in Control (finger on the trigger) by Donna Summer
YouTube - Sheena Easton - Love Is In Control
(Sorry this is Sheena Easton not Donna Summer as this is the only version on YouTube)
(i've) hung around with big shots
Never knew love was in the sights
I guess i missed the target
Caught up in a different line of fire

But i know since i've been aiming
For the sweetness in your soul
Your name is on the bullet
And it's gettin' ready to explode
There's been a change inside my life
And i just wanna let you know

I've got my finger on the trigger
Love is in control
I've got my finger on the trigger
I ain't lettin' go

Bass line:
Baby, let's have some fun
A won't cha be my, my
Number one

Mama used to tell me
Girl, you better load your gun up right
She said ya, ya gotta come out smokin'

Hit it with your best shot every time
Well i didn't understand her
'til you walked right into range
I saw your love at twenty paces
And i new i'd won the game
You better raise your heart up high
Or love will blow you right away

I've got my finger on the trigger
Love is in control
I've got my finger on the trigger
I ain't lettin' go
I've got my finger on the trigger
Love is in control
I've got my finger on the trigger
I ain't lettin' go

Leave off that safety catch
There ain't no risk
We're gonna have some fun
I've got cha, love's begun
So stay with me
Until the mornin' sun

You're superbullet number one

Bass line:
Baby, let's have some fun
A won't cha be my, my
Number one

There's been a change inside
My life
And i just wanna let you know

I've got my finger on the trigger
Love is in control
I've got my finger on the trigger
I ain't lettin' go
I've got my finger on the trigger
Love is in control
I've got my finger on the trigger
I ain't lettin' go...

 

[invisibleman]

Pass The Dutchie by Musical Youth
YouTube - Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie
This generation
Rules the nation
With version

Music happen to be the food of love
Sounds to really make you rub and scrub

Chorus:
I say
Pass the Dutchie on the left hand side
Pass the Dutchie on the left hand side
It a gonna burn, give me music make me jump and prance
It a go done, give me the music make me rock in the dance

Verse 1:
It was a cool and lovely breezy afternoon
(How does it feel when you've got no food ?)
You could feel it 'cause it was the month of June
(How does it feel when you've got no food ?)
So I left my gate and went out for a walk
(How does it feel when you've got no food ?)
As I pass the dreadlocks' camp I heard them say
(How does it feel when you've got no food ?)

Chorus

Verse 2:
So I stopped to find out what was going on.
(How does it feel when you've got no food ?)
'Cause the spirit of Jah, you know he leads you on
(How does it feel when you've got no food ?)
There was a ring of dreads and a session was there in swing
(How does it feel when you've got no food ?)
You could feel the chill as I seen and heard them say
(How does it feel when you've got no food ?)

 

[monstro]

One more from this old hippie and then I'm going to bed :smile:

Slow Train by Bob Dylan

[FONT=Courier, Courier New] Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can't help but wonder what's happenin' to my companions,
Are they lost or are they found, have they counted the cost it'll take to bring
down
All their earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.

I had a woman down in Alabama,
She was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic,
She said, "Boy, without a doubt, have to quit your mess and straighten out,
You could die down here, be just another accident statistic."
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil,
Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed.
Sheiks walkin' around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings,
Deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.

Man's ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don't apply no more,
You can't rely no more to be standin' around waitin'
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin' over in his grave,
Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.

Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters,
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency,
All non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.

People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it.
They say lose your inhibitions, follow your own ambitions,
They talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to
live it. There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.

Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin' boy she could destroy
A real suicide case, but there was nothin' I could do to stop it,
I don't care about economy, I don't care about astronomy
But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets,
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.

killer live version on you tube
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[circumstances]

for anyone that's ever had their heart torn out and stomped on:

tori amos - tear in your hand

All the world just stopped now
So you say you don't wanna stay together anymore
Let me take a deep breath babe
If you need me
Me and Neil'll be hangin' out with the dream king
Neil says hi
By the way I don't believe you're leaving
Cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream
I think it's that girl
And I think there're pieces of me you've never seen
Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen well

All the world is all I am
The black of the blackest ocean
And the tear in your hand
All the world is dangin'...
Dangling'...Danglin' for me darlin'
You don't know the power that you have
With that tear in your hand
Tear in you hand

Maybe I ain't used to maybes
Smashing in a cold room
Cutting my hands up every time I touch you
Maybe maybe it's time to wave goodbye now
Time to wave goodbye now
Caught a ride with the moon
I know I know you well
Better than I
Used to haze all clouded up
My mind in the daze of why it could've never been So you say and I say
You know you're full of wish
And your "baby baby baby babies"
I tell you there're pieces of me you've never seen
Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen

All the world is all I am
The black of the blackest ocean
And the tear in your hand
All the world is dangin'...
Dangling'...Danglin' for me darlin'
You don't know the power that you have
With that tear in your hand
Tear in you hand
With that tear in you hand

 

[dannymawg]

Sometimes it's not so much that you know the lyrics to a song... it's that everyone around you knows the lyrics: Love To Love - UFO, Chicago Metro, 1995

I was there. Fuckin gong. Keyboards. Schenker. All that was missing was the fog machine and lasers and platform heels. And glitter.


Oh it's been too many times and I can't go back
Night bars, guitars, rundown motels like shacks
What it mounts up to I don't want it at all
Lost you and I need you to stay

Misty green and blue
Love to love to love you
Misty green and blue
Love to love to love you

To be something, to be near you
I don't know where I'm goin to
Love to love to love you


Half the time it could seem funny
The other half is just too sad
This west bound moon's only rise and fall
Lost you and I need you to stay

To be something, to be near you
I don't know where I'm goin' to
I've lost you and I need you to stay





Fuck I gotta stop living in the past... fuckin power ballads...

 

[Ethyl]

I heard this on the radio today for the first time in ages...

The Trees (Rush)

There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.

The trouble with the maples,
(And they're quite convinced the're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"These oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.

 

[naughty]

I loved the immortal Shirley Horn's Impecable phrasing on piano as well as voice. THe woman was drop dead sexy to the end...

YouTube - Sanna van Vliet's Tribute to Shirley Horn. "Here's To Life"=

Here’s To Life
Lyrics - Phyllis Molinary, Music - Artie Butler

No complaints and no regrets
I still believe in chasing dreams and placing bets
And I have learned that all you give is all you get
So give it all you've got

I had my share, I drank my fill
And even though I'm satisfied, I'm hungry still
To see what's down another road, beyond a hill
And do it all again

So here's to life
And every joy it brings
Here's to life
To dreamers and their dreams

Funny how the time just flies
How love can go from warm hellos to sad goodbyes
And leave you with the memories you've memorized
To keep your winters warm

But there's no yes in yesterday
And who knows what tomorrow brings, or takes away
As long as I'm still in the game, I want to play
For laughs, for life, for love

So here's to life
And every joy it brings
Here's to life
To dreamers and their dreams
May all your storms be weathered
And all that's good get better

Here's to life
Here's to love
And here's to you

 

[IntoxicatingToxin]

"When The President Talks To God" - Bright Eyes
(Any GWB lovers out there may not like this song.)

When the president talks to God
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our women’s' rights
And send poor farm kids off to die?
Does God suggest an oil hike
When the president talks to God?

When the president talks to God
Are the consonants all hard or soft?
Is he resolute all down the line?
Is every issue black or white?
Does what God say ever change his mind
When the president talks to God?

When the president talks to God
Does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
Agree which convicts should be killed?
Where prisons should be built and filled?
Which voter fraud must be concealed
When the president talks to God?

When the president talks to God
I wonder which one plays the better cop
We should find some jobs. the ghetto's broke
No, they're lazy, George, I say we don't
Just give 'em more liquor stores and dirty coke
That's what God recommends

When the president talks to God
Do they drink near beer and go play golf
While they pick which countries to invade
Which Muslim souls still can be saved?
I guess God just calls a spade a spade
When the president talks to God

When the president talks to God
Does he ever think that maybe he's not?
That that voice is just inside his head
When he kneels next to the presidential bed
Does he ever smell his own bullshit
When the president talks to God?

I doubt it

I doubt it

YouTube - When The President Talks To God

 

[naughty]

This song by Johnny Mandel and Alan and Marilyn Berg is just the ultimate bittersweet jewel. I want you to listen to it on Youtube.

YouTube - Brian Orser Where Do You Start 2004

Where do you start?
How do you separate the present, from the past?
How do you deal with all the things you thought would last?
That didnt last?
WIth bits of memory scattered here and there
I look around, and dont know where to start.

Which books are yours?
Which tapes and dreams belong to you?
and which are mine?
Our lives are tangled like the branches of a vine
That intertwine
So many habits that we'll have to break
and yesterdays we'll have to take apart

One day there'll be a song or something in the air again
to catch me by surprise, and you'll be there again
A moment in... what might have been

Where do you start?
Do you allow yourself a little time to cry?
Or, do you close your eyes and kiss it all goodbye?
I guess you try
and though I dont know where, and dont know when
Ill find myself in love again
I promise there will always be a little place no one will see
a tiny part, deep in my heart, that stays in love with you.

 

[naughty]

THis is another that I really love
YouTube - Kathy Wade, Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most=


"Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most"

Once I was a sentimental thing;
threw my heart away each spring.
Now a spring romance
hasn't got a chance.
Promised my first dance to winter.
All I've got to show's a splinter
for my little fling.

Spring this year has got me feeling
like a horse that never left the post.
I lie in my room
staring up at the ceiling.
Spring can really hang you up the most.

Morning's kiss wakes trees and flowers,
and to them I'd like to drink a toast.
But I walk in the park
just to kill the lonely hours.
Spring can really hang you up the most.

All afternoon the birds twitter-twitt.
I know the tune. This is love, this is it.
Heard it before
and don't I know the score.
And I've decided that spring is a bore.

Love seems sure around the new year.
Now it's April. Love is just a ghost.
Spring arrived on time,
only what became of you, dear?
Spring can really hang you up the most.
Spring can really hang you up the most.

Love came my way. I thought it would last.
We had our day, now it's all in the past.
Spring came along, a season of song,
full of sweet promise
but something went wrong.

Doctors once prescribed a tonic.
Sulfur and molasses was the dose.
Didn't help one bit.
My condition must be chronic.
Spring can really hang you up the most.

All alone, the party is over.
Old man winter was a gracious host.
But when you keep praying
for snow to hide the clover,
spring can really hang you up the most.

 

[D_Herin_Ghan]

"And I dreamt of you" by UnderOath

I see thy love in the distance.

Breathless,
Gasping for air, for in thy dreams where you were,
Awakening to the blackness in my room.

As my eyes begin to blur, reality sets and starts the fear.
For do dreams come true, or do I die alone?
Waiting, like the petals of a wilting flower fall off;
Until there is none and the once beautiful flowers dies naked
With no one to clothe it.
Will I hold you in the grave, or will the grave hold me?

The numbing dreams never end,
The swallows wings still amongst the idle wind.
My colored world turns to grayscale,
Recollecting the memories;
Eyes covered hazel, eyes covered hazel.

Contradiction of my thoughts; standing calm, love not lost
Searching 'til I find my princess, whose passionate eyes cut right through me

For what is life if love only exists in thy thoughts?
What is romance if it is all fiction?
Nothing but a portrait left empty, a passing cloud of hurt
But to meet my love in the flesh is to find my whole heart, my whole heart.

Your heart breaks though me, your love is the key.
Longing for my heart's door.
To what day? 'Til I see sunrays shine upon your face
I dream of you the way you look,
The beating of the love in your heart.
Your words are like the flowing of a spring, knowing thy love
Waits for me, until eternity's end.

Is this poetry or is this love's sickness
Engulfing my every being?

Take the heart from you, and the blood ceases from me.
I see what you hear.
Breathing, take the closest thing to me and my savior.
Falling in love to a person I have never met;
But knowing she has salvation's fragrance.

By God's grace this love will be free,
And able to fly away above the earth.
To a point, point of exhaustion,
But your breath will keep me alive-

Words are pointless, for this love is speechless.
Preparing for the curtain's closure...
Laying there, clutching hands so tight; I can feel your heart
Telling me it will be alright.
Ascension to heaven where this love can not only walk,
But it runs through the endless fields of joy.
Where love neither ends nor begins but flows everlasting
This was thy dream this daybreak and will by thy prayer
That I will rest sleepless 'til the sun rises on that day
And butterflies sing with us, as we write love symphonies.
The pages of life fill the story of our love in a time long ago;
Where fairy tales come true.
And you and I, my love, will live happily ever after.
I love you

 

[naughty]

YouTube - Funny Face - How Long Has This Been Going On?

How long has this been going on? - George Gerswin

As a tot, when I trotted in little velvet panties,
I was kissed by my sisters, my cousins, and my anties.
Sad to tell, it was hell, an inferno worse than Dante's.
So my dear I swore,
"Never, never more !"
On my list, I insisted that kissing must be crossed out.
Now, I find I was blind, and oh my ! , how I lost out !

I could cry salty tears ;
Where have I been all these years ?
Little wow, tell me now :
How long has this been going on ?

There were chills up my spine,
And some thrills I can't define.
Listen, sweet, I repeat :
how long has this been going on ?

Oh, I feel that I could melt ;
Into Heaven I'm hurled !
I know how Columbus felt,
Finding another world.

Kiss me once, then once more.
What a dunce I was before.
What a break ! For Heaven's sake !
How long has this been going on ?

Dear, when in your arms I creep,
That divine rendez-vous,
Don't wake me, if I'm asleep,
Let me dream that it's true !

Kiss me twice, then once more.
That makes thrice, let's make it four !
What a break ! For Heaven's sake !
How long has this been going on ?
--How long has this... been going ... on ?... .

 

[geek0]

Beverley Knight: Who's Gonna Save Your Soul

I have a photograph
Sometimes it makes me laugh
Till I cry
You with your auburn curls
Me with my smile
Right by your side
That was so long ago
You were just five years old
I recall
Feels like it's yesterday
Where does it go
When time slips away
What happened to
The boy I loved
The man I knew
When you hide in the dark
I can't find you

Who's gonna save your soul
Tonight
Who's gonna show you things
Will be alright
Who will love the ones
You left behind
Don't leave me behind

Last time I saw your face
You were too far away
To see me
Those pretty eyes I've known
All of my life
Somehow had changed
Sometimes the winds do blow
It's cruel that we have to reap
What we sow
Wherever it takes you to
Know in you heart
I'm thinking of you
Don't ever fear
Trust in me
I'll be here
If that bound ever breaks
Let me catch you

Who's gonna save your soul
Tonight
Who's gonna show you things
Will be alright
Who will love the ones
You left behind
Don't leave me behind

 

[vince]

There are so many.

This song is one that summed up a lot of what I had learned it the time, about symbolism in the relations between women and men.

Eclipse by Pink Floyd-

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

 

[geek0]

HOOBASTANK
"The Reason"

I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found out a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
Thats why i need you to hear

I've found out a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is You

and the reason is You [x3]

I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found out a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you​

youtube- the reason

 

[crescendo69]

This song by Johnny Mandel and Alan and Marilyn Berg is just the ultimate bittersweet jewel. I want you to listen to it on Youtube.

YouTube - Brian Orser Where Do You Start 2004

Where do you start?
How do you separate the present, from the past?
How do you deal with all the things you thought would last?
That didnt last?
WIth bits of memory scattered here and there
I look around, and dont know where to start.

Which books are yours?
Which tapes and dreams belong to you?
and which are mine?
Our lives are tangled like the branches of a vine
That intertwine
So many habits that we'll have to break
and yesterdays we'll have to take apart

One day there'll be a song or something in the air again
to catch me by surprise, and you'll be there again
A moment in... what might have been

Where do you start?
Do you allow yourself a little time to cry?
Or, do you close your eyes and kiss it all goodbye?
I guess you try
and though I dont know where, and dont know when
Ill find myself in love again
I promise there will always be a little place no one will see
a tiny part, deep in my heart, that stays in love with you.

Beautiful song; I teared up a little.

 

[naughty]

Beautiful song; I teared up a little.

A man of taste , experience, and discernment.