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Best/Inspirational/Meaningful Song Lyrics







jakarta

Well-known member
May 25, 2007
15,633
Sullington
Agreed. I posted that in all seriousness. It's one of the greatest opening lines to a song ever. I lived in a squat in Whalley Range for a few months after finishing my degree in the very early 90s and got to see that attitude you mentioned first-hand too.

Oh Jolly Whalley Range, a good mate of mine lived there and I used to spend nights drinking and taking other stimulants in Manchester then crash at his place late 1980's - it was one of the few places that you knew wouldn't be broken into as he had a pet Python which he used to release when he wasn't in the Flat and posted the fact on the front door.

I used to go to sleep utterly pissed or stoned with this 3 foot snake (perhaps predictably called Monty) curled around my forearm as it liked a bit of warmth.

My life has obviously calmed down a bit since then. BTW he was a Medical Student and has since become a Surgeon! :mad:
 




Carrot Cruncher

NHS Slave
Helpful Moderator
Jul 30, 2003
5,052
Southampton, United Kingdom
One of my favourite Talking Heads songs.

Everyone is trying to get to the bar.
The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven.
The band in Heaven plays my favorite song.
They play it once again, they play it all night long.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

There is a party, everyone is there.
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.
Its hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, and so much fun.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

When this kiss is over it will start again.
It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same.
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, could be so much fun.

Heaven is a place where nothing every happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing every happens.
 


JamesAndTheGiantHead

Well-known member
Sep 2, 2011
6,273
Worthing
Everyone is trying to get to the bar.
The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven.
The band in Heaven plays my favorite song.
They play it once again, they play it all night long.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

There is a party, everyone is there.
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.
Its hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, and so much fun.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

When this kiss is over it will start again.
It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same.
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, could be so much fun.

Heaven is a place where nothing every happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing every happens.

Possibly Byrnes finest hour. I have a sweet spot for Cross-eyed and Painless though.
 






tinycowboy

Well-known member
Aug 9, 2008
4,002
Canterbury
Bon Iver "Re:stacks". Pure poetry. For me, the lyrics are about the acceptance of someone ceasing to love you, but making the decision to carry on loving them regardless:

This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realisation
It's the sound of the unlocking and the lift away
Your love will be
Safe with me
 






Grombleton

Surrounded by <div>s
Dec 31, 2011
7,356
Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
She appears composed, so she is, I suppose
Who can really tell?
She shows no emotion at all
Stares into space like a dead china doll

Elbow - Scattered Black & Whites
Been climbing trees I've skinned my knees
My hands are black the sun is going down
She scruffs my hair in the kitchen steam
She's listening to the dream I weaved today
Crosswords through the bathroom door
While someone sings the theme-tune to the news
And my sister buzzes through the room leaving perfume in the air
And that's what triggered this.

I come back here from time to time
I shelter here some days.

A high-back chair. He sits and stares
A thousand yards and whistles
Marching-band (Boom-ching)
Kneeling by and speaking up
He reaches out and I take a
Massive hand.

Disjointed tales
That flit between short trousers
And a full dress uniform
And he talks of people ten years
Gone like I've known them all my life
Like scattered black 'n' whites

Every time i go back to see my parents and the rest of my family, i can't help but think of this song.
 


wallyback

Well-known member
Jun 22, 2011
1,406
Brighton
Never wait or hesitate
Get in kid before its too late
You may never get another chance
Youths a mask
But it don't last
Live it long and live it fast
Georgie was a friend of mine
 


withdeanwombat

Well-known member
Feb 17, 2005
8,699
Somersetshire
"Before they ask us to pay the bill, and while we still have the chance,

Let's face the music and dance."


Also,

"Dance with me,I want my arms about you ,
The charms about you will carry me through ,
To heaven........"

And

"We're the team from Brighton,
Hove - by Jove ! That's us.
We're always fair,we never swear but now it's hit or bust"
 






footychick

Nicola
Dec 8, 2005
4,406
Soham, United Kingdom
I used to listen to this when I lived in a refuge after leaving my violent boyfriend.


Jamelia - "Thank You"

The fights, those nights
I tried to pretend it don't hurt
The way, I prayed
Someday that you would love me
Really, completely
Just how I wanted it to be
But no, so wrong
Can't believe I stayed with you so long


You hit, you spit, you split, ever-y bit of me, yeah
You stole, you broke, you're cold
You're such a joke to me, yeah


For every last bruise you gave me
For every time I sat in tears
For the million ways you hurt me
I just wanna tell you this
You broke my world, made me strong
Thank you
Messed up my dreams, made me strong
Thank you


My head, near dead
Just the way you wanted it
My soul, stone cold
Cos I was under you're control
So young, so dumb
Knew just how to make me succumb
But I understand
To make yourself feel like a man


You hit, you spit, you split, ever-y bit of me, yeah
You stole, you broke, you're cold
You're such a joke to me, yeah


For every last bruise you gave me
For every time I sat in tears
For the million ways you hurt me
I just wanna tell you this
You broke my world, made me strong
Thank you
Messed up my dreams, made me strong
Thank you


You coulda had it all babe
It coulda been so right
I woulda given you everything
Morning through night
Yeah, you taught me some lessons
Those are my blessings
That won't happen again
Thank you

[Chorus till end]
 


Razzoo

Well-known member
Sep 11, 2011
5,300
N. Yorkshire
"Vegetable Man"

In yellow shoes I get the blues
Though I walk the streets with my plastic feet
With my blue velvet trousers, make me feel pink
There's a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
In my paisley shirt I look a jerk
And my turquoise waistcoat is quite out of sight
But oh oh my haircut looks so bad
Vegetable man how are you?

So I've changed my dear, and I find my knees,
And I covered them up with the latest cut,
And my pants and socks all point in a box,
They don't make long of my nylon socks,
The watch, black watch
My watch with a black face
And a big pin, a little hole,
And all the lot is what I got,
It's what I wear, it's what you see,
It must be me, it's what I am,
Vegetable man.

I've been looking all over the place for a place for me,
But it ain't anywhere, it just ain't anywhere.
Vegetable man, vegetable man,
He's the kind of person, you just gonna see him if you can,
Vegetable man.
 




red star portslade

New member
Jul 8, 2012
1,882
Hove innit
Son, I'm 30
I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty
And I don't have a decent bone in me
What you get is just what you see yeah
 


maltaseagull

Well-known member
Feb 25, 2009
13,052
Zabbar- Malta
For a dancer- Jackson Browne:

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know
 


The Legend that IS Lawro

It's 'canard' Del
May 8, 2013
895
Burgess Hill
Either Duran Duran : 'Don't say you're easy on me you're about as easy as a nuclear war'

or Aqua : 'Come on Barbie, let's go party!
(Ah-ah-ah-yeah)
Come on Barbie, let's go party! (uu-oooh-u) [2x]
 


Seagull kimchi

New member
Oct 8, 2010
4,007
Korea and India
Sugar man - won't you hurry - coz I'm tired of these scenes.
For a blue coin - won't you bring back all those colours to my dreams.

Silver magic ships you carry -
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane.

Sugar man you're the answer that makes my questions disappear.

Rodrieguez.






My Estonian Archangel came and got me wasted.
 




DavidinSouthampton

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jan 3, 2012
16,603
Peter Gabriel - with help from kate Bush - Don't Give up.
I was unemployed about 20 years ago, doing job applications on our kitchen table on black Tuesday, the day when Norman Lamont announced increases in our interest rates about 5 times in the morning and then we eventually withdrew from the Exchange rate mechanism. I was sitting there thinking "when on earth will I ever get another job"

Then this came on the radio. Every time I have heard it since, which is quite often, it has brought a tear to my eye. The song is about someone who seems to be contemplating suicide, and I was never anywhere near that stage, but the sentiments expressed meant something to me before that day, and even more since:
Don't Give up, we're proud of who you are.
Don't give up, you still have us.


The full lyrics are~:
In this proud land we grew up strong
We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought I could fail

No fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
I've changed my face, I've changed my name
But no one wants you when you lose

Don't give up
'cos you have friends
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good

Though I saw it all around
Never thought I could be affected
Thought that we'd be the last to go
It is so strange the way things turn

Drove the night toward my home
The place that I was born, on the lakeside
As daylight broke, I saw the earth
The trees had burned down to the ground

Don't give up
You still have us
Don't give up
We don't need much of anything
Don't give up
'cause somewhere there's a place
Where we belong
 


Uncle Spielberg

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NSC Patron
Jul 6, 2003
42,829
Lancing


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