Lyrically Speaking....

[Scrappy Amazon]

The Allman Brothers

Let Me Ride

Well now times got hard
And I didn’t draw the card I needed
So I proceeded to bang it on down the line
Hitchhike, turnpike
And if you got room won’t you let me ride?
Just as far as you’re going
And lord knowing I’ll be much obliged.

There was a light rain falling
I started recalling how lonesome a man can be
Feeling a chill when over the hill
Came a brand new baby blue cadillac
Stop on a dime
I threw my guitar in the back and I climbed inside
Big blue eyes said hey boy don’t you want a ride?

I said to birmingham, alabama,
Or to nashville tennessee will do just fine with me.
Don’t you know what I mean?
I’m coming from new orleans.
Now hey, [na na.]
Mama won’t you let me ride?

Well now black fur coat, diamond ring
Shining like something I ain’t ever seen.
My old guitar and a roadside bar.
Walked in the door looking like a movie queen
There was a honky tonk jukebox, hardwood floor
She said I ain’t ever seen nothing like this before.
I said, that’s all right, mama won’t you let me ride?

On down to birmingham, alabama,
Or to nashville tennessee wiil do fine with me.
Don’t you know what I mean?
I’m coming from new orleans.
Now hey, [na na.]
Mama won’t you let me ride?


roadside


I know I'm breaking the rules a bit by not using a word from the same line..but I assumed you wouldn't want to attempt hardwood or honkey tonk.....sorry folks.

[Phalon]

And roadside is better? Besides, I think it's been a while since we've followed the "same line" rule.

Friends by Led Zeppelin

"Met a man on the roadside crying,
Without a friend, there's no denying,
You're incomplete, there'll be no finding
Looking for what you knew."

incomplete

[Siren]

I'm a country fan, Scrappy. "hardwood" and "honkytonk" would be easy. "Incomplete"? I'm stumped. *listening for a trumpet* I need the cavalry to come to the rescue!

[Scrappy Amazon]

How about this...

Reaching for The Moon - Irving Berlin


The moon and you appear to be
So near and yet so far from me
And here am I on a night in june
Reaching for the moon and you,

I wonder if we’ll ever meet
My song of love is incomplete
I’m just the words, looking for the tune
Reaching for the moon and you.

<instrumental interlude>

I’m just the words, looking for the tune
Reaching for the moon and you.

Reaching

[mabd]

Lend a Hand
Chimaira

You are God's most beautiful creation
From the moment I set my eyes upon you
I knew I wanted to be near
To feel your arms wrap around me
And to share myself with you
Would be nothing but ecstasy
Knowing you will make me whole again
Then you said "No"
I cried out to help you
My friend who does nothing
I watched you high I watched you low
Never falling too far
I am glad to have been here
To help you get through here
I know I didn't fulfill,
but I helped somehow
I'll take your pain
Create with me
A way for you to breathe
I hope it was enough
To help you through this war called love
Take my hand
Before you leave
One more time, reaching our dreams
We feel incomplete
I know one day
You'll solve that mystery
And make them feel
The way you did me
Lend a hand,
To you my friend

OK. We got "reaching" and "incomplete."

next word is creation

Maeve

[Siren]

I'm on the top of the world
Looking down on CREATION
And the only DESTINATION I can find
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
Your love put me at the top of the world

"Top Of The World" - The Carpenters

destination

[lolapunk]

LOL I LOVE the Carpenters!

'Destination Unknown' by Missing Persons

Life is so strange
Destination unknown
When you don't know
Your destination
Something could change
It's unknown
And then you won't know
Destination unknown

unknown

[fallenangel]

Bonnie Raitt - Fearless Love

Come my love
Come bravely to me
Let your heart be still
For our time
Has come my tender one
To be free of will
And fly
Blind on fearless love
Let them wild winds blow
We'll shine
On all we're fearful of
Then we'll let it go
Let it go
Skippin' stones
Across the great unknown
Safe at water's edge
Don't look down, baby
We're gonna leave this losin' town
(and) leap out from the ledge

next word:TOWN

[Phalon]

"...Johnny come lately, the new kid in town
Will she still love you when you're not around?
There's so many things you should have told her,
but night after night you're willing to hold her,
Just hold her, tears on your shoulder..."

New Kid in Town ~ the Eagles

Johnny

[Siren]

JOHNNY's daddy was taking him FISHING
When he was 8 years old
A little girl came to the front gate
Holding a fishing pole
His dad looked down and smiled,
Said we can't leave her behind
Son, I know you don't want her to go
But some day you'll change your mind
And Johnny said

Take Jimmy Johnson, take Tommy Thompson
Take my best friend Bo
Take anybody that you want, as long as she don't go
Take any boy in the world
But please don't take the girl

"Don't Take The Girl" by Tim McGraw

fishing

[mabd]

Fishing in the Dark
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Lazy yellow moon comin up tonite,
Shinin thru the trees,
Crickets are singin and lightning bugs
Are floatin on the breeze
Baby get ready.....

Across the field where the creek turns back by the ole stump road
I'm gonna take you to a special place that nobody knows
Baby get ready.....ooooooooooo

You and me going fishing in the dark,
Lying on our backs and counting the stars
Where the cool grass grows.
Down by the river in the full moon light,
Well be fallin in love in the middle of the night
Just movin slow...

Stayin the whole night thru, feels so good to be with you...

Spring is almost over and the summers come
And the days are gettin long
Waited all winter for the time to be right, just to take you along
Baby get ready.....

And it dont matter if we sit forever and the fish dont bite
Jump in the river and cool ourselves from the heat of the night
Baby get ready.....ooooooooooo

next word: stump

Maeve

[fallenangel]

The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down To Georgia

The devil went down to Georgia
He was lookin' for a soul to steal
He was in a bind
'Cause he was way behind
And he was willin' to make a deal

When he came upon this young man
Sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot
And the devil jumped
Up on a hickory stump
And said boy let me tell you what

I guess you didn't know it
but I'm a fiddle player too
And if you'd care to take a dare I'll make a bet with you

Now you play a pretty good fiddle, boy
But give the devil his due
I'll bet a fiddle of gold
Against your soul
'Cause I think I'm better than you

next word : FIDDLE(pick another word if you want)

[mabd]

Uncle Pen
Bill Monroe

Oh the people would come from far away
They'd dance all night till the break of day
When the caller hollered "do-se-do"
You knew Uncle Pen was ready to go

Late in the evening about sundown
High on the hill and above the town
Uncle Pen played the fiddle lord how it would ring
You could hear it talk, you could hear it sing

He played an old piece he called "Soldier's Joy"
And the one called "The Boston Boy"
The greatest of all was "Jenny Lynn"
To me that's where the fiddle begins

I'll never forget that mournful day
When Uncle Pen was called away
They hung up his fiddle, they hung up his bow
They knew it was time for him to go.

Pendleton "Pen" Vandiver was Bill Monroe's uncle and an itinerant fiddler. Bill Monroe learned old-time music from his Uncle Pen.

next word: hung

Maeve

[Phalon]

Gotta go back to Ziggy Stardust on this; it's the first thing that popped into my head.

"...Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo.
Like some cat from Japan, he could lick 'em by smiling.
He could leave 'em to hang.
Came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan.

So where were the spiders while the fly tried to break our balls?
Just the beer light to guide us,
So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands?..."

David Bowie

Next word is loaded. Extra points for snow white.

[Siren]

My goodness, Gams, what a spicy, richly descriptive song. And I thought Bowie only had eyes for Mick!

Well, since I couldn't think of a tune in which Snow White
was loaded, I'll go with this:

On the wings of a SNOW WHITE dove
He sends his pure, sweet love
A SIGN from above
On the wings of a dove

"On The Wings Of A Dove" - by Ferlin Husky and many more

next: sign

[lolapunk]

'Signs' Five Man Electrical Band

And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and I yelled at the house Hey! What gives you the right?
To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in
If God was here he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner

trespassing

[Scrappy Amazon]

Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan

Well, there was this movie I seen one time,
About a man riding ’cross the desert and it starred gregory peck.
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself.
The townspeople wanted to crush that kid down and string him up by the neck.

Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp
As the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath.
Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square,
I want him to feel what it’s like to every moment face his death.

Well, I keep seeing this stuff and it just comes a-rolling in
And you know it blows right through me like a ball and chain.
You know I can’t believe we’ve lived so long and are still so far apart.
The memory of you keeps callin’ after me like a rollin’ train.

I can still see the day that you came to me on the painted desert
In your busted down ford and your platform heels
I could never figure out why you chose that particular place to meet
Ah, but you were right. it was perfect as I got in behind the wheel.

Well, we drove that car all night into san anton’
And we slept near the alamo, your skin was so tender and soft.
Way down in mexico you went out to find a doctor and you never came back.
I would have gone on after you but I didn’t feel like letting my head get blown off.

Well, we’re drivin’ this car and the sun is comin’ up over the rockies,
Now I know she ain’t you but she’s here and she’s got that dark rhythm in her soul.
But I’m too over the edge and I ain’t in the mood anymore to remember the times when I was your only man
And she don’t want to remind me. she knows this car would go out of control.

Brownsville girl with your brownsville curls, teeth like pearls shining like the moon above
Brownsville girl, show me all around the world, brownsville girl, you’re my honey love.

Well, we crossed the panhandle and then we headed towards amarillo
We pulled up where henry porter used to live. he owned a wreckin’ lot outside of town about a mile.
Ruby was in the backyard hanging clothes, she had her red hair tied back. she saw us come rolling up in a trail of dust.
She said, henry ain’t here but you can come on in, he’ll be back in a little while.

Then she told us how times were tough and about how she was thinkin’ of bummin’ a ride back to where she started.
But ya know, she changed the subject every time money came up.
She said, welcome to the land of the living dead. you could tell she was so broken-hearted.
She said, even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt.

How far are y’all going? ruby asked us with a sigh.
We’re going all the way ’til the wheels fall off and burn,
’til the sun peels the paint and the seat covers fade and the water moccasin dies.
Ruby just smiled and said, ah, you know some babies never learn.

Something about that movie though, well I just can’t get it out of my head
But I can’t remember why I was in it or what part I was supposed to play.
All I remember about it was gregory peck and the way people moved
And a lot of them seemed to be lookin’ my way.

Brownsville girl with your brownsville curls, teeth like pearls shining like the moon above
Brownsville girl, show me all around the world, brownsville girl, you’re my honey love.

Well, they were looking for somebody with a pompadour.
I was crossin’ the street when shots rang out.
I didn’t know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.
We got him cornered in the churchyard, I heard somebody shout.

Well, you saw my picture in the corpus christi tribune. underneath it, it said, a man with no alibi.
You went out on a limb to testify for me, you said I was with you.
Then when I saw you break down in front of the judge and cry real tears,
It was the best acting I saw anybody do.

Now I’ve always been the kind of person that doesn’t like to trespass but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.
Oh if there’s an original thought out there, I could use it right now.
You know, I feel pretty good, but that ain’t sayin’ much. I could feel a whole lot better,
If you were just here by my side to show me how.

Well, I’m standin’ in line in the rain to see a movie starring gregory peck,
Yeah, but you know it’s not the one that I had in mind.
He’s got a new one out now, I don’t even know what it’s about
But I’ll see him in anything so I’ll stand in line.

Brownsville girl with your brownsville curls, teeth like pearls shining like the moon above
Brownsville girl, show me all around the world, brownsville girl, you’re my honey love.

You know, it’s funny how things never turn out the way you had ’em planned.
The only thing we knew for sure about henry porter is that his name wasn’t henry porter.
And you know there was somethin’ about you baby that I liked that was always too good for this world
Just like you always said there was something about me you liked that I left behind in the french quarter.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content.
I don’t have any regrets, they can talk about me plenty when I’m gone.
You always said people don’t do what they believe in, they just do what’s most convenient, then they repent.
And I always said, hang on to me, baby, and let’s hope that the roof stays on.

There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice.
I don’t remember who I was or where I was bound.
All I remember about it was it starred gregory peck, he wore a gun and he was shot in the back.
Seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down.

Brownsville girl with your brownsville curls, teeth like pearls shining like the moon above
Brownsville girl, show me all around the world, brownsville girl, you’re my honey love.

pompadour

Try that on for size OH WISE ONE!

[Siren]

Beats me.

In country, you might see a mullet, but not a pompadour. Thankfully, most country artists have been demulletized. The same cannot be said, sadly, for some country listeners. Or for these
poor, unfortunate souls:

www.mulletjunky.com/

Wait, wait, I got one!

"Combed my hair in a POMPADOUR
Like the rest of the Romeos wore
A permanent WAVE, yeah
We were keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith"

"Keeping The Faith" - Billy Joel

next: wave

[mabd]

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
David Grey

Standing at the door of the pink Flamingo
Crying in the rain
It was a kind of so so love,
and I'm gonna make sure it doesn't happen again.

You and I had to be the standing joke of the year.
You were a run around,
a lost and found.
and not for me I feel.

Take your hands off me, please
I don't belong to you, you see.

Take a look in my face, for the last time.
I never knew you., you never knew me.
Say hello, goodbye.

Say hello and wave goodbye.

We tried to make it work, you in a cocktail skirt.
And me in a suit, and it just wasn't me.
You're used to wearing less, and now your life's a mess.
So insecure you seem.

next word: insecure

Maeve

[Phalon]

"...There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming/confusing
This lack of self-control I fear is never ending
Controlling/I can't seem

To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real...."

Crawling ~ Linkin Park

Crawling is the next word.

[fallenangel]

Evanescence : Away From Me

I hold my breath as this life starts to take its toll
I hide behind a smile as this perfect plan unfolds
but oh, god, I feel I’ve been lied to
lost all faith in the things I have achieved
and I

I’ve woken now to find myself
in the shadows of all I have created
I’m longing to be lost in you
(away from this place I have made)
won't you take me away from me

crawling through this world as disease flows through my veins
I look into myself, but my own heart has been changed
I can't go on like this
I loathe all I’ve become

next word:WORLD

[mabd]

He's Got The Whole World
Traditional (my fav covers are Nina Simone's and Marian Anderson's)

He's got the whole world in his hands
He's got the whole world in his hands
He's got the whole world in his hands
He's got the whole world in his hands

He's got the fish of the sea in his hands
He's got the birds of the air in his hands
He's got the fish of the sea in his hands
He's got the whole world in his hands

He's got the gamblin' man in his hands
He's got the sinner man in his hands
He's got the gamblin' man in his hands
He's got the whole world in his hands

He's got the little bitsy baby in his hands
He's got the little bitsy baby in his hands
He's got the little bitsy baby in his hands
He's got the whole world in his hands

He's got everybody here in his hands
He's got you and me, brother, in his hands
He's got everybody here in his hands
He's got the whole world...
He's got the whole world in his hands

next word: sinner

Maeve

[mabd]

scrappyamazon said:

Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan

OOOO, nice choice of song!!!

Maeve

[Siren]

Come home, come home
Ye who are WEARY, come home
Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling
Calling, Oh SINNER, come home

"Sofly And Tenderly" - an old, old hymn, recently recorded by Alan Jackson

next: weary

[Phalon]

Oh, the memories from way back; high school days on the swim team and this was on a tape of a mix of stuff our coach used to pump through the underwater speakers during practice to get us moving. Great song to run to also - back when I still had knees that would allow me to run.

Carry on My Wayward Son ~ Kansas

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high

Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more
No!

Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you

Next word: wayward

[Scrappy Amazon]

mabd said:

scrappyamazon said:

Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan

OOOO, nice choice of song!!!

Maeve

Thank you...not many people know that one. I was truing to stump lolapunk...guess it worked...lol

Higher & Higher - Moody Blues


Blasting, billowing, bursting forth
With the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes
Man with his flaming pyre
Has conquered the wayward breezes
Climbing to tranquility
Far above the cloud
Conceiving the heavens
Clear of misty shroud

Higher and higher
Now we’ve learned to play with fire
Go higher and higher and higher

Vast vision must improve our sight
Perhaps at last we’ll see and end
To our homes endless blight
And the beginning of the free
Climb to tranquility
Finding it’s real worth
Conceiving the heavens
Florishing on earth

Higher and higher
Now we’ve learned to play with fire
Go higher and higher and higher

I smell moldy oldies with this one....

tranquility

[mabd]

The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
They Might Be Giants


In the spaceship, the silver space ship, the lion takes control
In the spaceship, the silver space ship, the lion takes control

Hey
Who's that playing
Hey
Who's got the guitar?

Hush my darling, be still my darling, the lion's on the phone
Hush my darling, be still my darling, the lion's on the phone

In the spaceship, the silver space ship, the lion waves good-bye
In the spaceship, the silver space ship, the lion waves good-bye

All the people on this earth are truly one
All the people on this earth are truly one

Peace and tranquility
Peace and tranquility
Tranquility base

All the people on this earth are truly one
All the people on this earth are truly one

Peace and tranquility
Peace and tranquility
Tranquility base
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

leap

Maeve

[Siren]

Take a LEAP of faith
CAST AWAY your doubt
Baby, come what may
We can work it out
The first step's always the hardest one to take
It's a leap of faith

Lionel Cartwright - "Leap Of Faith"

next: cast away

[mabd]

Cosmic castaway
Electrasy

Lose my head to the chemical freeway, comin' up on overload.
In a mystic new dimension, purify and sanctify me.
What? So I'm in no end game, move my piece right off the board.
Losing sure is easy, so I am no more.

But I'm not broken, in my dream I win.
In here I'm nothing, a cosmic castaway.

In my head I'm a chemical dreamer, speed up to burnout mode.
Comin' up in the fifth dimension, beautify don't crucify me.
Yeah, so I need no mind game, poisoning my living soul
Losing sure is easy, so I am no more.

But I'm not broken, in my dream I win.
And I'll take over 'cause I'm no loser
And I'm in and you're not, bad dreams don't stop.
'Cause I'm all screwed up, a cosmic castaway, yeah...

A cosmic castaway, yeah...
A cosmic castaway...

And I want but have not, bad dreams, lost thoughts.
In here with no pain, you hurt me again.
And I want but have none, I should beat the alien.
But hell, I am no one, a cosmic castaway, yeah...

A cosmic castaway, yeah...
A cosmic castaway, yeah...
A cosmic castaway...

Electrasy mentions Eva Cassidy as one of the musicians they admire most.

next word: mystic

Siren’s very own Maeve <grin --thank you>

[Scrappy Amazon]

Into The Mystic - Van Morrison


We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic

And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows I want to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when thst fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will float into the mystic
Come on girl...

Into The Mystic


We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic

And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows I want to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when thst fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will float into the mystic
Come on girl...


Into The Mystic


We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic

And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows I want to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when thst fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will float into the mystic
Come on girl...

gypsy

I gotta say I am loving the styles and tastes floating around in this thread. Nice to have a few people who know what I'm talking about when I say..."Have you heard...."