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man I missed that one too, how could I! a song I grew up with!
shout it out loud by kiss
my dad used to say he wouldn't go see them if they were playing across the street!
Loving you
Isn't the right thing to do
How can I
Ever change things that I feel
If I could
Maybe I'd give you my world
How can I
When you won't take it from me
"Go Your Own Way" - Fleetwood Mac
"Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on it's face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space"
stumped me there, but the internet is telling me its the windmills of your mind...by Barbara Streisand, or dusty springfield, or petula clark, or sting even and bunches of others! and its also in the thornbirds (did not see it) by Georgio Parreira...
Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight's hittin' something
That's been known to change the weather
We'll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around
You're gonna hear electric music
Solid walls of sound
Bennie and the Jets! - Elton John
Now all the trials and tribulations
Of the world don't mean a thing;
Above the clouds
I'll fly away--
Was it my imagination,
Did the stars come out to play?
bennie and the jets might be the all time best cruisin' tune!
Eric Woolfson's Immortal, had to look at that up...one place suggested it was a song that can describe Shakespeare's life even though apparently the song was written about edgar allen poe...?
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
Eric Woolfson and the Alan Parson's project were big fans of Poe and they did quite a few of their songs influenced by him, including the album Tales of Mystery and Imagination, there are adaptations of The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gold Bug and others...
I didn't get the reference to Shakespeare - what was it?
I sort of take this one to be a bit of an adaptation of Edgar Poe's famous "A Dream Within a Dream," sort of making it Eric's own..
I actually just discovered this song, so I haven't made up my mind about it. I love the lyrics, but I've only listened to it once. I'm really a fan of quite a few of Woolfson's works such as "Freudiana," "I Am a Mirror," "Little Hans," "It's Funny You Should Say That," and of course, his work with Alan Parson's Project.
I got the Shakespeare reference just from someone on yahoo questions who was talking about the song in general. the poster didn't illustrate specifically how they were connected.
I think that's pretty neat when literary culture influences musical culture...if I knew more of poe, id be all the more interested in listening to those groups' music. or alternatively, if I knew more of their music, I might want to read more poe. and now maybe I will...
I recently learned that one of my favorite songs by Florence the machine (what the water gave me) was inspired by the lead singer's knowledge of Virginia woolf's suicide and a visit to her gardens.
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
"My Immortal" - EVANESCENCE (One of the wife's favorite groups)
There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
oh boy I got one!
stairway to heaven by led zeppelin.
If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me
For I must be travelin' on now
There's too many places I got to see
Freebird! Lynyrd Skynyrd. A favorite of my own, there.
Every night seems, dinner and wine
Saturdays, girls
I was never in love, never had the time
In my hustle and hurried world
Laughing my self to sleep, waking up lonely
I needed someone to hold me, oh
Every Woman in the World- Air Supply
She struts into the room
Well I don't know her
But with a magnifying glance
I just sort of looked her over, hmm
We have a drink or two
Well, maybe three
And then suddenly she starts telling me
Her life story
well the internet tells me its be my lover by alice cooper and I used to have his greatest hits album when I was a kid and I wonder if that was on it? hmmm
She was sittin' all alone over on the tailgate
Tan legs swingin' by a Georgia plate
I was lookin' for her boyfriend
Thinkin', no way she ain't got one
Soon as I sat down I was fallin' in love
Tryin' to pour a little sugar in her Dixie cup
Talkin' over the speakers in the back of that truck
She jumped up and cut me off
Play It Again - Luke Bryan
"I don't like to hear you cry.
You just don't know
How deep that cuts me.
So I will cover up my eyes
And it will go away.
You've only lived a minute of your life
I must be dreaming,
Please stop screaming."
had to look that one up and the internet tells me its steven by alice cooper. one yahoo search result was titled "the most sinister and creepy lyrics to a song..." ---I think I never heard of that one so im obliged to give a challenging one in return!
Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Looking it up, Bing says it's O Fortuna by Carl Orff. Nor speaking the language, I have never heard it.
"Silent stars blinking in the blackness of an endless sky
Cold silver satellites, ghostly caravans passing by
Galaxies unfolding, new worlds being born
Pilgrims and prodigals creeping toward the dawn"
most people have probably heard o fortuna and just don't know that that's it.
well I had to give up and look,
the long road out of eden by the eagles. makes me wonder if its in reference to the garden of eden from genesis in particular, or a generic eden.
I love this song and there's been some really wonderful duet covers of it on the voice (the one with alessandra castranova and joe kirk is well worth looking up on youtube):
All along it was a fever
A cold sweat, hot headed believer
I threw my hands in the air I said show me something
He said, if you dare come a little closer
Round and around and around and around we go
Oh now tell me, now tell me, now tell me now you know
Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
Apparently this is "Stay" by Rihanna. Had to look it up.
"Well, I could see that he wasn't a large man
I could tell that he wasn't too tall
I judged him to be 'bout five foot three
And his voice was a soft Texas drawl"
Marty Robbins - Mr. Shorty
Evidently there is another song with "Soft Texas drawl" in it, that would be Texas women by Hank Williams, Jr. :-)
So these, I adjusted them from a live version that is my favourite.
And he's taken the halter from his hose,
And from his purpose he did not fail
He slipped it over the wanton's nose
He's tied it to the grey mare's tail
He's loosed them out the castle gates
And the mare didn't fail to find her way
She was at Lochmaben town,
Threen long hours before the day.
And the very next morning in broad daylight
When they had ended all their cheer
Behold the wanton brown was gone
Likewise the poor blind harper's mare
It's oh and alas, said the blind harper
It's ever and alas that I came here
In Scotland I've lost me a good grey foal
In England they've stolen me old grey mare.
And it's hold your talking, you blind harper
And again of your music let us hear
Well paid shall your colt foal be
You will have a far better mare
So the harper harped and then he sang
So sweet was the music he let them hear
He was paid for a foal that he never had lost
Three times over for the good grey mare.
the blind harper of lochmaben (yes I had to look that up!) by---I see its by a few people---so im going to go with.....kate rusby.
(this was a recent duet on the voice, and it just absolutely blew my doors in!)
I got ten fingers to the sky,
My back to the wall, my white flag high,
Her lips, just like a gun,
She's got silver bullets on her tongue,
He's deep under her spell,
I'm screaming out, but it just won't help
I think I'm cursed,
I had him first
Adeline have mercy,
You don't want to break my heart,
Take what's mine, don't hurt me,
Steal my money, steal my car,
Don't take my man, don't take my man,
I said, don't take my man 'cause you know you can...
a search says it's Put the Gun Down - ZZ Ward
" I think you're gonna like it,
I think you're gonna feel
Like you belong,
A nocturnal vacation,
Unnecessary sedation,
You want to feel at home
Cause you belong,"
Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper (I Love me some Alice)
I try to discover
A little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you gimme no reason
Why you make-a-me work so hard
I don't know it, but im going to guess somebody like Janis Joplin and then go look...
I found out it's a little respect by erasure, and as I was doing some reading they said, "we recognize Janis Joplin as our most significant musical influence" and that the lead singer has a poster of her on his wall. also "mum and dad used to put her records on and dance around the flat until the neighbors called the bobbies."
I remember it all very well lookin' back
It was the summer I turned eighteen
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
On the outskirts of New Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard pressed
Then Mama spent every last penny we had
To buy me a dancin' dress
Here's Your One Chance, Fancy, Don't Let Me Down - Reba MacIntyre Remember that one well
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing, I mean nothing honey if it ain't free, no no
Speaking of Janis Joplin...Me and Bobby McGee
I'll learn to work the saxophone
I'll play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whisky all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
have to look this up...sounds like joe walsh maybe...
ah, its steely dan's deacon blue. I was reading the liner notes on that song and how the band was heavily influence by the eagle's hotel California and that the title "deacon blue" came from a conversation with joe walsh in a Malibu bar where walsh was telling them about his prize blue tick hound named deacon.
laughs...
Dry lightning cracks across the skies
Those storm clouds gather in her eyes
Daddy was mean a old mister
Mama was an angel in the ground
The weather man called for a twister
She prayed blow it down
There's not enough rain in Oklahoma
To wash the sins out of that house
There's not enough wind in Oklahoma
To rip the nails out of the past
Blown Away - Carrie Underwood
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You’re dedicated to
How I’m killing you
had to look that up---master of puppets by metallica.
papayahed are you a metalhed? laughs...
"I don't want to lose you, this good thing
That I got 'cause if I do
I will surely,
Surely lose a lot.
'Cause your love is better
Than any love I know.
"It's like thunder and lightning,
The way you love me is frightening..."
(the name of the song's in the next line"
Ya gotta knock, knock, knock on wood!
Knock On Wood ~ David Bowie
"That isn't my name.
You were fast asleep.
Forget what he did.
Can I be the kid,
For your soul to keep?
welllllllllllllllllllllllll, starsailor's some of us---so a new group and song to look up for me...
pen--david bowie? that's pretty neat. its an old song by Wilson pickett, Otis redding, and a remake by amii stewart in the late 70s. ive not heard the bowie version, so that's another fun thing to look up.
"You can take all the tea in China
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around all the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
She's as sweet as..."
....Tupelo Honey
Great Song!
ermm..... little bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by bounty
You told me to leave you alone
My father said, "Come on home"
My doctor said, "Take it easy"
Oh but your lovin' is much too strong
I like most everything by van Morrison.
chain of fools by Aretha franklin...I had to cheat, and sadly, I actually have the song! ack!
okay here's an easy one (I think):
"All day long they work so hard
Till the sun is goin' down
Working on the highways and byways
And wearing, wearing a frown
You hear them moanin' their lives away
Then you hear somebody sa-ay
That's the sound of the men... "
Working on the chain--gang! Sam Cooke, Chain Gang These oldies were new when I was young
In the quiet hours before the dawn
Buttons up his uniform
Takes out his badge and pins it on
For thirty years he's enforced the law
And he drives out on the Rio Grande
Across the dry and sunburned land
And on this side he takes his stand again
Bordertown - Dan Seals
Since the Prehistoric ages and the days of ancient Greece
Right down through the Middle Ages
Planet earth kept going through changes
And then the Renaissance came and times continued to change
rage against the machine--renegades of funk. what the heck papayahed!? laughs...
one of my all time favorites:
"Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain't got time to take no fast train
Oh, the lonely days are gone
I'm coming home
Oh, my baby she wrote me..."
What?Quote:
Originally Posted by bounty
The Letter by the box tops
Well, the first time that I got it I was just ten years old
I got it from some kitty next door
An' I went to see the doctor and he gave me the cure
I think I got it some more
Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent
Turn and run!
Nothing can stop them,
Around every river and canal their power is growing.
Stamp them out!
We must destroy them,
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour.
didn't know that one--genesis' the return of the giant hogweed...
I wonder how we pick the song lyrics we do...
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.
The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The minnow would be lost, the minnow would be lost.
The ship set ground on the shore
Of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan,
The Skipper too.
The millionaire
And his wife,
The movie star,
The professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligan's Isle.
Theme from Gilligan's Island
I think you're gonna like it
I think you're gonna feel like you belong
A nocturnal vacation
Unnecessary sedation
You want to feel at home 'cause you belong
Theme from Gilligan's Island
Next upon the bill in our House of Vaudeville
We've a stripper in a till
What a thrill! What a thrill!
And not content with that, with our hands behind our backs,
We pull Jesus from a hat,
Get into that! Get into that!
"Karn Evil 9" ~ Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Well, he came from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while"
He shook his head and said with a smile
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please"