Not a whole song just certain powerful lyrics that you like or mean something to you.
Sometimes the song my just ok but certain lyrics say something to you.
This lyric for me shows what the love of a family can do.
"Always remember there was nothing worth sharing
Like the love that let us share our name "
What are some of your favorite lyrics?
I realize that godeway wrote that we shouldn't post the lyrics to an entire song, but I am unable to choose just one portion of this
Tom Waits song. So here, for your listening and reading pleasure, is ...
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to New York, the jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break
And the telephone's out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking ...
And the menus are all freezing, and the light man's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler cream-puff casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the I.Q. of a fence post
'Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking ...
And you can't find your waitress with a Geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends and you just can't get served without her
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ashtrays have retired
'Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3llvPIj_29g
No real rules here.
Love Tom Waits.
My favorite might be - Hope I don't fall in love with you
Speaking of love and Waits, dewey, I really love the end of Kentucky Avenue ...
I'll take the spokes from your wheelchair, and a magpie's wings
And I'll tie 'em to your shoulders, and your feet
I'll steal a hacksaw from my dad, cut the braces off your legs
And we'll bury them tonight, out in the cornfield
Just put a church key in your pocket
We'll hop that freight train in the hall
We'll slide all the way down the drain
To New Orleans in the fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DXXHT8v52I
Those lyrics combined with the way the music builds with the addition of the strings -- man, it gets me every time.
This song is just poetry.
You can close your eyes and visualize this place and all these people.
Like Tom Traubert's Blues he just bares his soul in his lyrics.
One of the best songwriters ever.
After all the loves in my life, I'll be thinking of you and wondering why.
shareWe were young and didn't have a care, where did it go?
Everything was ours, how happy we were then, but somehow once upon a time never comes again.
Freedom for the Stallion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtLZHDcbXOo&t=0s&list=FLyw1xz8lved-gUKv25DSi3g&index=4
This song sounds familiar.
shareThe Boxer
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Shine
Give me a word
Give me a sign
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find
Lay me on the ground
Fly me in the sky
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find
Oh, heaven let your light shine down
I'm gonna let it shine
I'm gonna let it shine
Heaven send a light, let it shine on me
Hey yeah
Hey yeah
Heaven send a light, let it shine on me
It's gonna shine on
Shine on me
Its gonna shine on
Well come on and shine
Are we listening
Hymns of offering?
Have we eyes to see
That love is gathering?
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding
Into one, into one
So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down
'Cause it's the world I know
Oh it's the world I know
Rise by Eddie Vedder
Such is the way of the world
You can never know
Just where to put all your faith
And how will it grow
Gonna rise up
Bringing black holes and dark memories
Gonna rise up
Turning mistakes into gold
Such is the passage of time
Too fast to fold
And suddenly swallowed by signs
lo and behold
Gonna rise up
Find my direction magnetically
Gonna rise up
Throw down my ace in the hole
another gem from Gordon
Rainy day people always seem to know when it's time to call
Rainy day people don't talk
They just listen till they've heard it all
Rainy day lovers don't lie when they tell you
They've been down like you
Rainy day people don't mind if you're cryin' a tear or two
If you get lonely, all you really need is that rainy day love
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow
They can't rise above
Rainy day lovers don't love any others
That would not be kind
Rainy day people all know how it hangs
On their peace of mind