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Dans le 12 Sep 07 2013 at 6:02 PM	Hi, everyone! Lately I’ve been looking for web sites on song lyrics that were voted the most beautiful and/or the most meaningful, or most creative. Realizing that it’s a matter of personal taste, I still found that most of the song lyrics listed were pitiful. So, do you have any song lyrics that really move you, or lyrics whose message is pure truth to you? Here are some of mine: Cactus Tree by Joni Mitchell (you MUST check out Joni’s words to this song). Angry Young Man by Billy Joel And So It Goes by Billy Joel Salisbury Hill by Peter Gabriel Desparado by Glenn Frey and Don Henley Suzanne by Leonard Cohen Handbags and Gladrags by Mike D’Abo
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naut Oct 04 2013 at 5:34 PM	"Julia" by John & "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by George.
jnyutah Oct 01 2013 at 11:27 PM	STEVE WONDER SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE EVERY SONG ON THE ALBUM
bluepno Oct 01 2013 at 8:15 AM	If I ventured in the slipstream...Between the viaducts of your dream...Where immobile steel rims crack...And the ditch in the back roads stop...Could you find me?...Would you kiss-a my eyes?...To lay me down...In silence easy...To be born again...To be born again, Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
kerrmit Oct 01 2013 at 6:51 AM	Bruce Sprinsteen. From The River - Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true/ or is it something worse. And from Queen of the SuperMarket - As I lift my groceries into my car/ I turn back for a moment and catch a smile/That blows this whole fucking place apart.
jnyutah Sep 30 2013 at 11:51 PM	jimi hendrix axis bold as love, pat mas alla dream of the return
franksexton Sep 30 2013 at 2:03 PM	the fox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE --- JK
bluepno Sep 29 2013 at 8:57 PM	There’s an angel standing in the sun, and he’s crying with a loud voice...this is the Supper of the mighty one",...Lord of Lords,...King of Kings,...Has returned to lead his children home,...To take them to the new Jerusalem!
shockandwoe Sep 29 2013 at 12:26 PM	I agree this is a cool thread. Musical poetry is one of my favorite art form. Hope this thread does not fade away. Paul Simon, one of the best American songwriters, has a song, Train in the Distance, that I really love to sing-especially on a Sunday morning- as it is fairly easy to. It starts, "She was beautiful as Southern skies the night he met her, she was married to someone..." Wow!
stevee23 Sep 19 2013 at 3:08 PM	Cool thread. Love that somebody mentioned one of my all-time favs, Gino Vannelli. As good at the written word as Pat is, wonder what he could come up with putting lyrics to his own music?
shockandwoe Sep 12 2013 at 1:40 PM	"Save me from losing my soul to a heaven as cold as ice. I’d sooner be a free man in hell than a prisoner in paradise." - Jehovah and All That Jazz by Gino Vannelli from Yonder Tree (1995)
HAMBONE Sep 12 2013 at 12:12 PM	So many...Like A Rolling Stone, Dylan-Nowhere Man, Beatles-Sympathy for the Devil, Stones-Down to You, Joni-God Bless the Child,pick one BST is my fave version-Summertime,Lady Day-Any Major Dude,S Dan...more later
tiny_tim Sep 12 2013 at 10:12 AM	Song lyricist supreme...Todd Rundgren. All sorts, from one end "Bang on That Drum All Day" to the other end with "Bag Lady", and those mutiitudinous charts in between.
hman01 Sep 12 2013 at 7:55 AM	Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick Great poetry set to music with lyrics by the prodigy poet Milton Bostock :) Words just as potent today as they were back then!Milton was such a perceptive lad!
CATHY W Sep 11 2013 at 5:37 PM	Eddie Vedder singing "Just Breathe"...his voice and the lyrics....very powerful!!
Kooltrane Sep 11 2013 at 4:36 PM	JM: "No regrets, Coyote..." etc.
Dans le 12 Sep 11 2013 at 4:17 PM	Thanks, tiny_tim. I just listened to it and it’s a totally different style from Rod Stewart’s and the Stereophonics’ versions I’ve heard. Can’t say which of the 3 I like best. The horns immediately reminded me of the music of Al Kooper with Blood, Sweat & Tears on “Child is Father to the Man.” Are you familiar with the music of the late Tim Rose? In ’68 he did song called “Long-Haired Boy.” I think you might like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=GVNDfjhLVMc
Dans le 12 Sep 11 2013 at 3:57 PM	Hey, tiny_tim, I had forgotten about the group Yes and Jon Anderson. They have indeed done some very creative lyrics. Do you remember “Your Move” from 1971? I believe that was their first hit song (which should give you an idea of my age). I’m sure most of you here are familiar with the album, “Crime of the Century” by Supertramp. I love the lyrics to “Hide in Your Shell” and “Dreamer.” And unless any of you are French-speaking, you probably aren’t familiar with Jean- Jacques Goldman. In 1991 he wrote a song called “Né en ’18 à Leidenstadt,” whose French lyrics are so painfully poignant, that I always get teary-eyed when I listen to it.
Tom Rudd Sep 11 2013 at 11:57 AM	Ohh, Forgot one of my all time favorites Goucho- Steely Dan, High in the Custerdome!~
tiny_tim Sep 11 2013 at 11:10 AM	for Dans le 12...don’t know if you’ve heard this version of "Hand Bags and Glad Rags" by Chase....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ThzF3JtFiE. Wore this album out back in the time!
hman01 Sep 11 2013 at 8:43 AM	Marc Cohn-Walking in Memphis-"She asked me Are you a Christian? I said M’am I am tonight."
bluepno Sep 11 2013 at 7:33 AM	Stevie Wonder’s lyrics, Innervisions,Talking Book, Songs In The Key Of Life...
tiny_tim Sep 11 2013 at 5:17 AM	"that were voted the most beautiful and/or the most meaningful, or most ’creative’ ". Creative.....hmmm... how about Yes’ Jon Anderson!
naut Sep 10 2013 at 6:14 PM	Though this could undoubtedly go on forever, here are a few other of my faves: "Where or When" by Rodgers & Hart; "Since You’ve Asked" by Judy Collins; the "Suite" by Stills; "Rhythm of the Saints" & "Further to Fly" by Simon; and "Love Songs" by James Taylor, off Gorilla.
yossarian Sep 10 2013 at 4:42 PM	Deacon Blues by Steely Dan. Haunting, poetic, unsettling. ’They got a name for the winners in the world, I wanna name when I lose, they call Alabama the crimson tide, they call me Deacon Blues’ Any Joni, of course. Check out Tom Waits - his lyrics are humurous and dark.
Tom Rudd Sep 10 2013 at 12:44 PM	Great topic! In My Life, Blinded by the Light - Bruce, Always a Woman, Billy joel, Tangled up in Blue - Dylan. Along with abiout 100 other Dylan songs.
-m Sep 10 2013 at 12:20 PM	Peter Gabrial: Mercy Street; Joni Mitchell: Troubled Child; Arlen/Harburg: Somewhere Over The Rainbow; Rogers/Hammerstein: Oklahoma!oh and least I forget: Lennon/McCartney: Blackbird.
Gyuri Sep 09 2013 at 7:58 AM	Van Der Graaf Generator’s "Still Life" album (1975), in particular the lyrics of "Childlike Faith In Childhood’s End". All VDGG lyrics are great but that record, and that song especially, is exceptional.
thehague Sep 08 2013 at 3:52 PM	What Naut said + A case of you (Joni), Coney Island (Van M.), At seventeen (Janis Ian), She’s leaving home (Lennon/McCartney), The needle and the damage done (Neil Young), You’ve got a friend (James Taylor / Carole King) and no doubt a couple more. These came to mind right now.
blisterfree Sep 08 2013 at 12:28 PM	Billy Joel was always a perfectionist in this department. In fact I recall he once admitted that one of the reasons he quit the pop music scene in the 90’s was that writing high-quality lyrics had become, in essence, too much effort. Saying something meaningful and unique within the 4-minute pop format is, admittedly, a huge challenge. It isn’t just the words on paper but how effectively they function within the context of the sonic poem, so to speak.
naut Sep 08 2013 at 6:12 AM	Joni’s "Woman of Heart and Mind" and her take on Corinthians, "Love"; Jimmie Spheeris’ "Let It Flow" from Isle of View; Dan Fogelberg’s "Comes and Goes," (Captured Angel), to name a few. Oh, and Paul Simon’s "Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War" and the title track from the same album.
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