Musical Wisdom

[thaibebop]

Everyone has at some time or another found wisdom in song lyrics. We have quoted lines from our favorite songs because they fit the situation, or really do have a spot of wisdom to share, or just because the are that cool. I have come across many members here who love to use song lyrics in their posts or sometimes post whole songs. I like to share musical tastes with people because I believe music is important to us personally and shows some of our personality. So, how about a thread for our favorite song lyrics that we want to share but maybe have not found the right time and place to do so. Feel free to write as much of the song as you want, and of course no limits on any music, all kinds welcome. Also, post songs that aren't written in english, that's fine as well. If you can translate though that would be cool.

I will start it off with Guns N' Roses. It's from the song Don't ###### Me from Use Your Illusion I. I know many people may not think so, but Axel wrote some really good stuff.

I know you don't wanna hear cryin'

an I know you don't wanna hear me deny

that you satisfaction lies in your illusions

but your delusions are yours and not mine.

We take for granted we know the whole story

we judge a book by it's cover

and read what we want

between selected lines.

[chonabot]

Heres a line I stole and put into one of my songs a few years ago , it might comfort those who are out of love perhaps? See if you can guess from where the line was nicked ( without using google )

ps the 2nd verse is mine.

If love was a choice

Who would ever choose

Such Exquisite pain ?

So take these hands

And let us try

To make the best of what we almost had....

Edited January 4, 2006 by chonabot

[Axel]

>>>I know many people may not think so, but Axel wrote some really good stuff.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks. thaibebop, but not me...

He's W. Axl Rose

[Glauka]

Les Jours Tristes

It's hard,

hard, not to sit on your hands,

burrow your head in the sand,

hard, not to make other plans

and claim that you?ve done all you can,

all alone

and life

must go on.

Its hard,

hard, to stand up for what's right

and bring home the bacon each night,

hard, not to break down and cry,

when every ideal that you tried

has been wrong.

But you must

carry on.

It's hard,

but you know it's worth the fight,

cause you know you?ve got the truth on your side,

when the accusations fly.

Hold tight!

Don't be afraid of what they'll say.

Who cares what cowards think anyway,

They will understand some day,

some day.

It's hard,

hard, when you're here all alone

and everyone else's gone home.

Harder to know right from wrong

when all objectivity's gone

and it's gone.

But you still

carry on.

'cause you,

you are the only one left

and you've got to clean up this mess.

You know you'll end up like the rest

Bitter and twisted - unless

you stay strong

And you

carry on.

It's hard,

but you know it's worth the fight,

cause you know you've got the truth on your side,

when the accusations fly.

Hold tight!

Don't be afraid of what they'll say.

Who cares what cowards think anyway,

They will understand some day,

some day.

[DJ Pat]

" I love you, you pay my rent " Pet shop Boys "Rent"

pretty straight to the point.

[andyfletch]

Biology by Joe Jackson:

Hello - I'm back again

Haven't seen you since I don't know why

It's been so long - but you seem so cold

Is it something you've been told

She said

So this is what you think of me

Going with some whore somewhere out in Germany

I said baby

Baby can't you see

It's nothing to do with you and me

Nothing to do with my heart

Nothing to do with my head

Nothing to do with our home

Nothnig to do with our bed

It's just B-I-O-L-O-G-Y

Can't you see

It's just Biology

Biology - coming in between you and me

Your Biology lesson Starts here

And first of all I would make it clear

That the species known as males

have these little white things with little white tails

Which

Multiply and start to shout

It's getting crowded down here - let us out

Once relieved - they start again

It's not a process controlled by the brain

Nothing to do with their hearts

Nothing to do with their heads

Nothing to do with their homes

Nothing to do with their beds

It's just B-I-O-L-O-G-Y

Can't you see

It's just Biology

Biology - coming in between you and me

She said thanks - I'm so relieved

What your saying I can well believe

Now I know, I feel no shame

About Dave and Tony and Phil and James

I said

Baby baby this can't be true

She said well what's right for you

has to be

right for me

In any case I'm sure you'll see

It's nothing to do with our hearts

It's nothing to do with our heads

It's nothing to do with our homes

It's nothing to do with our beds

It's just B-I-O-L-O-G-Y

Can't you see

It's just Biology

Biology - coming in between you and me

[thaibebop]

>>>I know many people may not think so, but Axel wrote some really good stuff.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks. thaibebop, but not me...

He's W. Axl Rose

I tried to give credit where credit was due.

How this...

We stepped into the wind he had a gun I had a grin

you think this story is over but it's ready to begin.

Beastie Boys, Paul Revere

[redrus]

One for all of you who have tried to get the one you're with in a better mood.

Now then Mardy Bum

I see your frown

And it's like looking down the barrel of a gun

And it goes off

And out come all these words

Oh there's a very pleasant side to you

A side I much prefer

It's one that laughs and jokes around

Remember cuddles in the kitchen

Yeah, to get things off the ground

And it was up, up and away

Oh, but it's right hard to remember

That on a day like today when you're all argumentative

And you've got the face on

Well now then Mardy Bum

Oh I'm in trouble again, aren't I

I thought as much

Cause you turned over there

Pulling that silent disappointment face

The one that I can't bear

Can't we laugh and joke around

Remember cuddles in the kitchen

Yeah, to get things off the ground

And it was up, up and away

Oh, but it's right hard to remember

That on a day like today when you're all argumentative

And you've got the face on

Yeah I'm sorry I was late

Well I missed the train

And then the traffic was a state

And I can't be arsed to carry on in this debate

That reoccurs ,oh when you say I don't care

Well of course I do, yeah I clearly do!

So laugh and joke around

Remember cuddles in the kitchen

Yeah, to get things off the ground

And it was up, up and away

Still it's right hard to remember

That on a day like today when you're all argumentative

And you've got the face on

redrus

it just makes me smile.

Edited January 5, 2006 by redrus

[nomadspike]

Everyone has at some time or another found wisdom in song lyrics. We have quoted lines from our favorite songs because they fit the situation, or really do have a spot of wisdom to share, or just because the are that cool. I have come across many members here who love to use song lyrics in their posts or sometimes post whole songs. I like to share musical tastes with people because I believe music is important to us personally and shows some of our personality. So, how about a thread for our favorite song lyrics that we want to share but maybe have not found the right time and place to do so. Feel free to write as much of the song as you want, and of course no limits on any music, all kinds welcome. Also, post songs that aren't written in english, that's fine as well. If you can translate though that would be cool.

Death Or Glory

The Clash (strummer/jones)

Every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the

World

And ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl

Love ’n’ hate tattooed across the knuckles of his hands

The hands that slap his kids around ’cause they don’t understand

How death or glory becomes just another story

How death or glory becomes just another story

’n’ every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock ’n’ roll

Grabs the mike to tell us he’ll die before he’s sold

But I believe in this-and it’s been tested by research

That he who fukks nuns will later join the church

From every dingy basement on every dingy street

I hear every dragging handclap over every dragging beat

That’s just the beat of time-the beat that must go on

If you been trying for years-then we already heard your song

[the_heart_thief]

I should have been a cowboy.

I should have learned to rope and ride..................

Whiskey for my men and beer for my horses...........

Too many people running

running around the planet.

Why does it have to happen

that you find your way through mine.

Tell me what is this sweet sensation

it's a miracles it's happened.

Though I search for an explaination

only one thing that could be.

Coz I was born for you

it was written in the stars.

And in this random world

it was clearly meant to be.

Like as if the powers of the Univers

conspired to make you mine.

Until the day I die

I bless the day that I was born for you.

Too many foolish people

trying to come between us.

Non of this really matter

coz you found your way through mine.

Though I search for an explaination

I could never find the answers

.......................................

..............................................

That I was born for you

and that you were born for me.

And in this random world

it was clearly meant to be.

What the world could never understand

or ever take away.

Until the day I die

God bless the day that I was born for you.

Edited January 6, 2006 by the_heart_thief

[raro]

Everyone has at some time or another found wisdom in song lyrics. We have quoted lines from our favorite songs because they fit the situation, or really do have a spot of wisdom to share, or just because the are that cool. I have come across many members here who love to use song lyrics in their posts or sometimes post whole songs. I like to share musical tastes with people because I believe music is important to us personally and shows some of our personality. So, how about a thread for our favorite song lyrics that we want to share but maybe have not found the right time and place to do so. Feel free to write as much of the song as you want, and of course no limits on any music, all kinds welcome. Also, post songs that aren't written in english, that's fine as well. If you can translate though that would be cool.

As for lyrics, I think Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa did outstanding jobs. For a favourite one, depends on the situation. See also my signature...it is from Geldof's song Attitude Chicken. Thinking about it, Geldof also had plenty of jewels in his writing, check it out: http://bob-geldof.lyrics-songs.com/

I left the pub last night

And I was just in time

To see them break my windows

And slash my tyres

I'm a liberal I thought

As I felt my anger rise

I was desperately searching

For my feminine side

But my feminine side

Was on her morning coffee break

I beat the shit out of one

And boy, I felt great

Hey Bob, he said don't get annoyed

We all find different ways

To fill up the void

And I said yeah

[thaibebop]

Thanks for the response guys, I love it.

[Patsycat]

Well, I thought it was written by Van Morrison, but actually by Rod Stewart (cringe) but I still like and have good memories when I hear it sung by Van the Man... here goes ...

Have I told you lately that I love you?

Have I told you there's no one above you?

Fill my heart with gladness, take away my sadness,

that's what you do,

For the morning sun in all it's glory,

Meets the day with hope and comfort too,

You fill my life with laughter, somehow you make it better,

Ease my troubles, that's what you do

There's a love less defined,

And its yours and its mine

Like the sun.

And at the end of the day,

We should give thanks and pray,

To the one, to the one

And i didn't download all that i typed it out with my own fair hands!!!

xxx

[cdnvic]

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight

Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight

Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time

cv

[lovejoy]

Well, I thought it was written by Van Morrison, but actually by Rod Stewart (cringe) but I still like and have good memories when I hear it sung by Van the Man... here goes ...

Have I told you lately that I love you?

Have I told you there's no one above you?

Fill my heart with gladness, take away my sadness,

that's what you do,

For the morning sun in all it's glory,

Meets the day with hope and comfort too,

You fill my life with laughter, somehow you make it better,

Ease my troubles, that's what you do

There's a love less defined,

And its yours and its mine

Like the sun.

And at the end of the day,

We should give thanks and pray,

To the one, to the one

And i didn't download all that i typed it out with my own fair hands!!!

xxx

Have I Told You Lately

Originally written and performed in 1989 by Van Morrison, his version never cracked the Top 40 charts

Remade by Rod Stewart on MTV Unplugged and hit #5 on the Top 40 charts on 5/15/93

i was horrified when i read your post,so i had to investigate

[Glauka]

te voy a contar un cuento pa que te quedes dormia

(I am going to tell you a story so can fall sleep)

te voy a contar un cuento te voy a contar un cuento

I am going to tell you a story, i am going to tell you a story)

pa que te quedes dormia y en el mundo de los sueños

(so you can fall sleep and in the dreamworld

sueñes que solo eres mia

(you dream that you are my girl)

la luna son las estrellas el viento se vuelve carma florece la nueva era

(the moon is the starts, the wind stops and new life grows)

y se enciende el firmamento cuando te tengo a mi vera

(and the starts shine all at the same time when you are next to me)

y es que te quiero tanto y tanto

(I love you so much so much)

te quiero tanto niña

(i love so my girl)

tanto te quiero

(so much I love you)

que sin tu amor

(that without your love)

no sabría mi niña lo que es el cielo

(i will not know what heaven really means)

or something like that

this is an spanish old classic sevillana by Tijerita

this is only the first one there are 3 more...

so beautiful to dance...(sigh....)

[Patsycat]

Sorry Lovejoy, I was as horrified as you!! I JUST KNEW it must have been written by Van - but my hungover state made the stupid mistake of looking up the lyrics and not the writer on google!

Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry. I should be ashamed of myself really. Especially since I love his music and (i dig a deeper hole) I was born in Belfast... I say no more!!!

[raro]

Sorry Lovejoy, I was as horrified as you!! I JUST KNEW it must have been written by Van - but my hungover state made the stupid mistake of looking up the lyrics and not the writer on google!

Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry. I should be ashamed of myself really. Especially since I love his music and (i dig a deeper hole) I was born in Belfast... I say no more!!!

...it was also kind of an early morning shock for me....

then again....Rod Stewart was pretty good in the late 60s with the Jeff Beck Band...if he retired just after that, I would tip my hat for him still today...

[lovejoy]

In my memory I will always see

the town that I have loved so well

Where our school played ball by the gasyard wall

and we laughed through the smoke and the smell

Going home in the rain, running up the dark lane

past the jail and down behind the fountain

Those were happy days in so many, many ways

in the town I loved so well

In the early morning the shirt factory horn

called women from Creggan, the Moor and the Bog

While the men on the dole played a mother's role,

fed the children and then trained the dogs

And when times got tough there was just about enough

But they saw it through without complaining

For deep inside was a burning pride

in the town I loved so well

There was music there in the Derry air

like a language that we all could understand

I remember the day when I earned my first pay

And I played in a small pick-up band

There I spent my youth and to tell you the truth

I was sad to leave it all behind me

For I learned about life and I'd found a wife

in the town I loved so well

But when I returned how my eyes have burned

to see how a town could be brought to its knees

By the armoured cars and the bombed out bars

and the gas that hangs on to every tree

Now the army's installed by that old gasyard wall

and the damned barbed wire gets higher and higher

With their tanks and their guns, oh my God, what have they done

to the town I loved so well

Now the music's gone but they carry on

For their spirit's been bruised, never broken

They will not forget but their hearts are set

on tomorrow and peace once again

For what's done is done and what's won is won

and what's lost is lost and gone forever

I can only pray for a bright, brand new day

in the town I loved so well

Phil Coulter

Edited January 8, 2006 by lovejoy

[Glauka]

Vengo de tierras lejanas

( I come from farway lands)

donde habitaban los sueños

(where dreams live)

como dicen las gitanas

(as gipsies say)

a mi me trezan en el pelo

(someone is plating my hair)

ay yo me visto de lunares

(I have a dot-dress

y cuando salgo yo a bailar por cosita de mi pare...

(I dance when my father allows me to do so)

tus labios pa mi turu turai

(I want your lips)

tus labios pa mi turu turai

tus labios pa mi turu turai ai ai ai

será su pelo

(is maybe your hair)

será su boca

is maybe your mouth

será su forma de mirarme

maybe the way you look at me

y es por que te llevo dentro

but you are inside me

ay ay no puedo aguantarme

I can´t bear it any more

ay te quiero mucho lerelere

I love you a lot

te quiero mucho lerelere....

I love you a lot

to be continued...

I like this thread...but i even thoug i can post the lyrics i would like you to be able to listen the songs...

for instance the above song is one of my favourites...i would like you so much for you to listen to it!!!

Edited January 8, 2006 by Glauka

[Old Croc]

Vengo de tierras lejanas

( I come from farway lands)

donde habitaban los sueños

(where dreams live)

como dicen las gitanas

(as gipsies say)

a mi me trezan en el pelo

(someone is plating my hair)

ay yo me visto de lunares

(I have a dot-dress

y cuando salgo yo a bailar por cosita de mi pare...

(I dance when my father allows me to do so)

tus labios pa mi turu turai

(I want your lips)

tus labios pa mi turu turai

tus labios pa mi turu turai ai ai ai

será su pelo

(is maybe your hair)

será su boca

is maybe your mouth

será su forma de mirarme

maybe the way you look at me

y es por que te llevo dentro

but you are inside me

ay ay no puedo aguantarme

I can´t bear it any more

ay te quiero mucho lerelere

I love you a lot

te quiero mucho lerelere....

I love you a lot

to be continued...

I like this thread...but i even thoug i can post the lyrics i would like you to be able to listen the songs...

for instance the above song is one of my favourites...i would like you so much for you to listen to it!!!

Just reading the lyrics was almost too much to bear.

I don't know if I could handle the actual song.

[Glauka]

Vengo de tierras lejanas

( I come from farway lands)

donde habitaban los sueños

(where dreams live)

como dicen las gitanas

(as gipsies say)

a mi me trezan en el pelo

(someone is plating my hair)

ay yo me visto de lunares

(I have a dot-dress

y cuando salgo yo a bailar por cosita de mi pare...

(I dance when my father allows me to do so)

tus labios pa mi turu turai

(I want your lips)

tus labios pa mi turu turai

tus labios pa mi turu turai ai ai ai

será su pelo

(is maybe your hair)

será su boca

is maybe your mouth

será su forma de mirarme

maybe the way you look at me

y es por que te llevo dentro

but you are inside me

ay ay no puedo aguantarme

I can´t bear it any more

ay te quiero mucho lerelere

I love you a lot

te quiero mucho lerelere....

I love you a lot

to be continued...

I like this thread...but i even thoug i can post the lyrics i would like you to be able to listen the songs...

for instance the above song is one of my favourites...i would like you so much for you to listen to it!!!

Just reading the lyrics was almost too much to bear.

I don't know if I could handle the actual song.

yes I guess you need to uderstand a little bit about flamenco culture...

even though it sounds very cheesy...is not so when you listen to it...

you see the words are very important but the way it is sang the spanish guitar and the clappings add this kind of gypsi-arabic atmosphere...

that´s why i would like for you to listen...because sometime the lyrics on their own miss most of the song...

the compas in flamenco is very important...so when the above lirycs are sung within the compas followed by the guitar the clapping and some dancing...

well i think you could bear it...or maybe not...

[Old Croc]

Vengo de tierras lejanas

( I come from farway lands)

donde habitaban los sueños

(where dreams live)

como dicen las gitanas

(as gipsies say)

a mi me trezan en el pelo

(someone is plating my hair)

ay yo me visto de lunares

(I have a dot-dress

y cuando salgo yo a bailar por cosita de mi pare...

(I dance when my father allows me to do so)

tus labios pa mi turu turai

(I want your lips)

tus labios pa mi turu turai

tus labios pa mi turu turai ai ai ai

será su pelo

(is maybe your hair)

será su boca

is maybe your mouth

será su forma de mirarme

maybe the way you look at me

y es por que te llevo dentro

but you are inside me

ay ay no puedo aguantarme

I can´t bear it any more

ay te quiero mucho lerelere

I love you a lot

te quiero mucho lerelere....

I love you a lot

to be continued...

I like this thread...but i even thoug i can post the lyrics i would like you to be able to listen the songs...

for instance the above song is one of my favourites...i would like you so much for you to listen to it!!!

Just reading the lyrics was almost too much to bear.

I don't know if I could handle the actual song.

yes I guess you need to uderstand a little bit about flamenco culture...

even though it sounds very cheesy...is not so when you listen to it...

you see the words are very important but the way it is sang the spanish guitar and the clappings add this kind of gypsi-arabic atmosphere...

that´s why i would like for you to listen...because sometime the lyrics on their own miss most of the song...

the compas in flamenco is very important...so when the above lirycs are sung within the compas followed by the guitar the clapping and some dancing...

well i think you could bear it...or maybe not...

Can you attach the music somewhere and provide a link Glauka so we can all hear it?

[Glauka]

I am not very good with computers so i don´t know how to do it...

does anyone have a clue?

[Old Croc]

I am not very good with computers so i don´t know how to do it...

does anyone have a clue?

You can't be beautiful and know computers. No, I haven't a clue.

[Glauka]

I am not very good with computers so i don´t know how to do it...

does anyone have a clue?

You can't be beautiful and know computers. No, I haven't a clue.

i am not sure are you calling me beautiful or stupid?

or neither?

Edited January 8, 2006 by Glauka

[cdnvic]

I am not very good with computers so i don´t know how to do it...

does anyone have a clue?

You can't be beautiful and know computers. No, I haven't a clue.

i am not sure are you calling me beautiful or stupid?

or neither?

I think he was referring to himself. And nobody's calling you stupid.

cv

[Glauka]

I am not very good with computers so i don´t know how to do it...

does anyone have a clue?

You can't be beautiful and know computers. No, I haven't a clue.

i am not sure are you calling me beautiful or stupid?

or neither?

I think he was referring to himself. And nobody's calling you stupid.

cv

so neither then...

[Old Croc]

I am not very good with computers so i don´t know how to do it...

does anyone have a clue?

You can't be beautiful and know computers. No, I haven't a clue.

i am not sure are you calling me beautiful or stupid?

or neither?

I was calling us both beautiful

[Glauka]

old croc I was thinking if you have a program to download music(emule or limewire if you hace a mackintosh) you can may download that one

singer Remedios Amaya - album title"me voy contigo"-track title "turu turai"