Lyrically Speaking....

[Siren]

Well, I don't have one for "seals", but I do for "curse", okay? Sorry I've been out of pocket.

We believed in fairy tales that day
I watched your father give you away
Your aim was true when the pink bouquet
Fell right into my hands

We danced for hours and we drank champagne
You screamed and laughed when I got up and sang
And then you rode away in a white Mustang
To your castle in the sand

Through the years and the kids and the jobs
And the dreams that lost their way
Do you ever stop and wonder
Do you ever just wanna say

Hey, Cinderella, what's the story all about
I got a funny feeling we missed a page or two somehow
Oh, Cinderella, maybe you could help us out
Does the shoe fit you now

We're older but no more the wise
We've learned the art of compromise
Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry
And sometimes we just break down

We're good now 'cause we have to be
Come to terms with our vanity
Sometimes we still CURSE GRAVITY
When no one is around

Yeah, our dolls gather dust in the corner of the attic
And bicycles rust in the rain
Still we walk in that fabled shadow
Sometimes we call her name

Hey, Cinderella, what's the story all about
I got a funny feeling we missed a page or two somehow
Oh, Cinderella, maybe you could help us out
Does the shoe fit you now

"Hey, Cinderella" by Suzy Bogguss

next: gravity

[Scrappy Amazon]

Falling is Like This - Ani DeFranco


You give me that look that’s like laughing
With liquid in your mouth
Like you’re choosing between choking
And spitting it all out
Like you’re trying to fight gravity
On a planet that insists
That love is like falling
And falling is like this

Feels like reckless driving when we’re talking
It’s fun while it lasts, and it’s faster than walking
But no one’s going to sympathize when we crash
They’ll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask
And we’ll say we didn’t know, we didn’t even try
One minute there was road beneath us, the next just sky

I’m sorry I can’t help you, I cannot keep you safe
I’m sorry I can’t help myself, so don’t look at me that way
We can’t fight gravity on a planet that insists
That love is like falling
And falling is like this.


planet

[mabd]

Space Oddity
David Bowie

Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you
(spoken)

Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do.

DARE

Maeve

[lolapunk]

Dare You to Move - Switchfoot

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next

I DARE you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistence
The tension is here
Between who you are and you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
SALVATION is here


salvation

[mabd]

Madam Punkchell, please tell me about Switchfoot if you're up for it -- I like the lyrics...


Satan's Jewel Crown
Emmylou Harris

Now if I were a queen and a ruler of nations,
With diamonds and jewels profound
Well, I'd rather know that I had salvation
Than to know my reward
Would be Satan's jewel crown

I've worn it so long but God for my
Soul has reached down
His love set me free
He made me His own, and helped me cast off
Satan's jewel crown

O, the life that I live so sinful and needless,
Drinkin' and runnin' around
All the things that I do for the love of the devil
I know my reward
Will be Satan's jewel crown

NEEDLESS

Maeve

[Siren]

Here's one from my youthful Church of Christ days:

What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in PRAYER
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what NEEDLESS pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer.

"What A Friend We Have In Jesus" - traditional hymn

next: prayer

[mabd]

Like A Prayer
Madonna

Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone
I hear you call my name
And it feels like home

Chorus:

When you call my name its like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you there
In the midnight hour I can feel your power
Just like a prayer you know I'll take you there

I hear your voice, it's like an angel sighing
I have no choice, I hear your voice
Feels like flying
I close my eyes, oh God I think I'm falling
Out of the sky, I close my eyes
Heaven help me

Maeve

[Scrappy Amazon]

Sky is Falling - Lifehouse


I watch as the daylight crawls
Past the shadows hanging on the walls
It’s been a long time since I felt the stains
Of yesterday getting in my way

I’m alive but tell me am I free
I’ve got eyes but tell me can I see
The sky is falling and no one knows
We shouldn’t be hard to believe
Shouldn’t be this difficult to breathe
The sky is falling and no one knows

You leave me hanging on
I need to catch my breath
I’ve got you and I’ve got nothing left
Don’t leave me all alone down here
With myself and all of my fear

I’m alive but tell me am I free
I’ve got eyes but tell me can I see
The sky is falling and no one knows
We shouldn’t be hard to believe
Shouldn’t be this difficult to breathe
The sky is falling and no one knows
No one knows
No one knows

I’m alive but tell me am I free
I’ve got eyes but tell me can I see
The sky is falling and no one knows
We shouldn’t be hard to believe
Shouldn’t be this difficult to breath
The sky is falling and no one knows
The sky is falling and no one knows
The sky is falling and no one knows

shadows

[fallenangel]

Beth Hart~ Hold Me Through The Night

If I whisper my thoughts
would you hear the chanting
of my heart
phrasing melodies unsung in the dark
saying hold me through the night
hear the music from my room
calling out to you- come home to me soon
shadows bellowing duets with the moon
singing hold me through the night
hold me through the night

next word: MOON

[lolapunk]

Maeve, I don't know much about Switchfoot except to say that they're a softer alternative band. The way Creed was a softer rock band. It's lyrics and rhythm I use to define that, but don't ever use my definitions as the definitive on anything. Not sure, but I think they have a Christian tinge or background; again, don't know much. About them.

Scrap, that's a cool feature you added to your lyrics, showing a pic of the band. I think you might be showing off.

Full Moon Full of Love - kd lang

COYOTE, oh coyote
can you tell me why
everytime the big MOON shines
you sit right down and cry
he says 'it's not because i'm sad
that i sing all night long,
i'm looking for someone to love
and this is my love song'
Oooooooooooooo,
oh i go crazy when that
moooooooooooon shines above
Oooooooooooooo
won't someone save me
from that full moon full of love


coyote

[Siren]

Here's a beautiful, poignant song written by Larry Boone, and made a #1 hit by Don Willliams. Larry Boone wrote another song about the old hometown, "Everything's Changed", that was a major hit for Lonestar. Aaaanyway, check out this lyric:

He's got a US flag on his front porch
To remind everyone where he lives
And up in the attic there are papers that prove
The old house is finally his

After thirty-five years the grass still don't grow
In that rock hard west Texas ground
Where my old dad still clings to that old coyote town.

Like horses the pick-ups are parked out in front
Of a cafe that don't need a name
Where the old men rock and the tumbleweeds roll
Past the boarded-up windows down Main

Waist-high WEEDS hide a for sale sign
At the drive-in where my innocence died
With a rusty advertisement, dangling by a nail
Says popcorn and Pepsi for a dime

And down at the depot where I left for good
There's a hobo with his three-legged hound
Waitin' for a train that no longer comes to that old COYOTE town

And the interstate rumbles like a river that runs
To a rythm that don't ever slow down
As cars and trucks and time pass by that old coyote town

Daddy falls asleep in the living room
On the sofa with the TV on
Sometimes he waits for a phone call from me
Sometimes he waits too long

But I still think of the people and the place that he loves
How much longer will they be around
Till it's ashes to ashes, dust to dust
For that old coyote town

"Old Coyote Town" by Don Williams

next: weeds

[lolapunk]

Really paints a picture, that one. Don Williams... haven't heard that name in ages. Grew up with the likes of him on the radio. Good call on that one.

Shame On You - Indigo Girls

My friends they wash the windows and they shine in the sun
They tell me wake up early in the morning sometime
See what a beautiful job we done
I say let's put on some tunes sing along dolittle all day
Go down to the riverside take off our shoes wash these sins away

The river said la la la shame on you

I go down to Chicano city park cause it makes me feel so fine
When the WEEDS go down you can see up close in the dead of winter time
But when the summer comes everything's in bloom and you wouldn't know it's there
The white folks like to pretend it's not but their music's in the air

You can hear them singing la la la shame on you
You can feel them dancing la la la shame on you

My friend Tanner she says you know me and Jesus we're of the same heart
The only thing that keeps us distant is that I keep f***** up
I said come on down to Chicano city park wash your blues away
The beautiful ladies walk on by You know I never know what to say

They'll be singing oo la la shame on you

Let's go road block trippin in the middle of the night up in Gainesville town
There'll be blue lights flashin down the long dirt road when they ask me to step out
They say we be looking for illegal immigrants can we check your car
I say you know it's funny I think we were on the same boat back in 1694

I said oo la la SHAME on you


shame

[mabd]

Shame On Me
Rachel Proctor

Shame on me for what I'm thinking;
Shame on you for making me think;
Shame on me for what I'm dreaming;
Shame on you for being in my dream;
Blame it on me, I can't quit smiling;
Blame it on you, and your smiling face;
Blame it on me, I can't stop looking;
Blame it on you, for looking that way!

Ain't no point in pointin' fingers
There's enough blame to go around
Tell me since when were there ever two dreamers
That ever had enough sense to slow it down
Shame on me for what I'm feeling;
Shame on you for feeling so good;
Shame on me, I wanna kiss ya;
Shame on you, I believe I could!


QUIT

Maeve, dipping more into Siren's expertise

[Phalon]

Family System ~ Chevelle

Im tired of your open mouth,
Crawling inside my skin,
And this play we never quit,
The fight within the cross begun,
Say that its too late,
When a man has gotta learn to hate.

Urrahh!!

Forget the time I said I would,
Replace me with,
But never will,
Beyond the facts that are in your face,
Ignore the facts beyond your nose,
Said its to late,
When a man has gotta learn to hate.

GROW UP!!!

Not without meaning,
No response,
Not a feeling.

JUST GROW UP!!!

Next word: cross

[mabd]

Marathon Kiss
Marianne Faithfull & Emmylou Harris

I cherished the night of your marathon kiss,
Chemicals flying, oh I love this.
What's it all for if you can't feel the ecstasy ?
What's it all for if you can't touch the power,
The will to live in the hour ?

Don't steal what I have got, baby,
'Cause it's hardly enough for myself.
Don't steal what I've got, baby,
'Cause the balance is thin like a shell.

I cherished the night of your marathon kiss,
Chemicals flying, oh I love this.
What's it all for if you can't feel the moment ?
What's it all for if you can't feel the moment,
The moment of kiss.

Fearless when I'm with you,
Fearless when I'm with you.

What am I gonna wear ? I don't care.
Nobody sees the inside.
Oh, the radio's gonna take us out
Take us out on a ride.
I put on perfume and I walk in the room
The world stands still with you in the room.
I cross the floor and I'm high and I'm rich
When I'm under your lips and your fingertips.

I cherished the night of your marathon kiss,
Chemicals flying into the mist.
What's it all for if you can't feel the moment ?
What's it all for if you can't feel the power ?
What's it all for if you can't, can't live right here
In the hour, in the hour, in the hour ?

Fearless when I'm with you,
Fearless when I'm with you.
Fearless when I'm with you,
Fearless through and through.


FEARLESS

Maeve

[Scrappy Amazon]

Showing off? Pfft.....check it out I can do it with one hand tied behind my back! I love this song.



Surrendering - Alanis Morissette

You were full and fully capable
You were self sufficient and needless
Your house was fully decorated in that sense

You were taken with me to a point
A case of careful what you wish for
But what you knew was enough to begin

And so you called and courted fiercely
So you reached out, entirely fearless
And yet you knew of reservation and how it serves

And I salute you for your courage
And I applaud your perseverance
And I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces
That I represent

So you were in but not entirely
You were up for this but not totally
You knew how arms length-ing can maintain doubt

And so you fell and you’re intact
So you dove in and you’re still breathing
So you jumped and you’re still flying if not shocked

And I support you in your trusting
And I commend you for your wisdom
And I’m amazed by your surrender in the face of threatening forces
That I represent

You found creative ways to distance
You hid away from much through humor
Your choice of armor was your intellect

And so you felt and you’re still here
And so you died and you’re still standing
And so you softened and you’re still safely in command

Self protection was in times of true danger
Your best defense to mistrust and be wary
Surrendering a feat of unequalled measure
And I’m thrilled to let you in
Overjoyed to be let in in kind


embrace

[fallenangel]

Sarah Mclachlan ~ Fear


morning smiles
like the face
of a newborn child
innocent unknowing.

winter's end
promises
of a long lost friend.
speaks to me of comfort

but i fear
i have nothing to give.
i have so much
to lose here in this lonely place.
tangled up in your embrace
there's there's nothing i'd like better than
to fall.

but i fear
i have nothing to give.

wind in time
rapes the flower
trembling on the vine
and nothing yields to shelter
from above.
they say temptation will destroy our love.
the never ending hunger

but i fear
i have nothing to give
i have so much
to lose here in this lonely place
tangled up in our embrace
there's nothing i'd like better than
to fall

but i fear
i have nothing to give.
i have so much to lose.
i have nothing to give.
we have so much to lose...


next word : HUNGER

[mabd]

Unchained Melody

Oh my love
My darling
I hunger for your touch
Alone, lonely time.
And time goes by, so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me
Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers sigh, wait for me, wait for me
I'll be coming home, wait for me
Oh my love, my darling
I hunger, for your touch
Alone, lonely time
And time goes by, so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
Oh, oh I need your love
God speed your love to me

SPEED

Maeve

[xenavirgin]

Can't You Hear Me Knockin The Rolling Stones

Yeah, you got satin shoes
Yeah, you got fancy boots
Y'all got cocaine eyes
Yeah, you got speed freak jive

Can't you hear me knockin' on your window
Can't you hear me knockin' on your door
Can't you hear me knockin' down the dirty street

Hey, help me baby,
I ain't no stranger
Help me baby,
I ain't no stranger
Help me baby,
I ain't no stranger

Can't you hear me knockin' when you're safe asleep
Can't you hear me knockin' down the gas light street
Can't you hear me knockin' throw me down the keys

Allright now

Hear me ringing big bells toll
Hear me singing soft and low
I've been begging on my knees
I've been kickin' Help me please
Hear me prowlin I'm gonna take you down
Hear me growlin', yeah I've got flatted feet
Now, now, now hear me howlin'
I'm all around your street now hear me knockin'
I'm around your town

O.k try out Knockin'

XV

[Scrappy Amazon]

Sideways - Santana

You know it isn’t easy
For these thoughts here to leave me
There are no words to describe it
In french or in english
Cause diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I’m telling you

Chorus
That these feelings won’t go away
They’ve been knockin me sideways
They’ve been knockin me out lately
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won’t go away
They’ve been knockin me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won’t go away

sideways

Oh and Ms. Punk?

[lolapunk]

L M A O Exactly what I was looking for to go with my kd lang lyric, thank you!

[Scrappy Amazon]

Ever at your service Ma'am.

[Phalon]

New Flesh ~ Nine Inch Nails

I can take it
sideways
sometimes
some things
feel like
I'm on the other side
waves
of every feeling ever felt
...screaming

hold it close
(so) I can taste it

I've watched this scene a thousand times
and in my head
this is how it all begins
yes, I am becoming
and this is how it all begins
what did you expect?
this is not an exit
this has begun

I can almost see
the blackest eyes
the new flesh
a new disguise
...welcoming...

please

Give it to me
I can take it
Give it to me

I can take it

Next word: Blackest

[mabd]

An old drover's song...

Andy's Gone With Cattle
Harry Lawson

Our Andy's gone with cattle now
Our hearts are out of order
With drought he's gone to battle now
Across the Queensland border
He's left us in dejection now
Our thoughts with him are roving
It's dull on this selection, now
Since Andy's went to droving
Who now shall wear the cheerful face
In times when things are blackest?
And who shall whistle round the place
When fortune frowns her blackest?
And who shall cheat the squatter now
When he comes round us snarling?

CHEERFUL

Maeve

[mabd]

I know, I know, bad form and all. But I heard this again today (hadn't heard in a very long time) and to post it. God help us, the utter ickiness (fill-in with your own words) of the stuff that passed for lyrics....

Cheerful Little Earful
Ella Fitzgerald

There's a cheerful little earful
Gosh I miss it something fearful
And this cheerful little earful
Is the well known I love you.

Stocks can go down, bus'ness slow down
But the milk and honey flow down
With a cheerful little earful
Of the well known I love you.

In ev'ry play it's a set phrase
What the public get phrase
But as a pet phrase it'll do do do
Poo-pa-roo-it
Soft and cu-it
Make me happy, you can do it.

With a cheerful little earful
Of the well known I love you.

HONEY

Maeve

[lolapunk]

Honey for the Bees - Alison Moyet

Honey for the bees
SUGAR never was so sweet
HONEY for the bees
Sugar never was so sweet
Yeah


sugar

[xenavirgin]

Lola well there can be only one reply to that (at least from me.)

Sugar Sugar The Archies

Sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.

I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you
(I just can't believe it's true)
I just can't believe the one to love this feeling to.
(I just can't believe it's true)

Ah sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Ah honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.

When I kissed you, girl, I knew how sweet a kiss could be
(I know how sweet a kiss can be)
Like the summer sunshine pour your sweetness over me
(Pour your sweetness over me)

Sugar, pour a little sugar on it honey,
Pour a little sugar on it baby
I'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah
Pour a little sugar on it oh yeah
Pour a little sugar on it honey,
Pour a little sugar on it baby
I'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah
Pour a little sugar on it honey,

Ah sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Oh honey, honey, sugar sugar ..........
You are my candy girl ........



Sweetness

Now I need to go over to the song in your head thread. hehe

XV

[lolapunk]

And of course there is one reply to that...

Superbowl Shuffle - Chicago Bears

We are the Bears Shufflin' Crew
Shufflin' on down, doin' it for you.
We're so bad we know we're good.
Blowin' your mind like we knew we would.
You know we're just struttin' for fun
Struttin' our stuff for everyone.
We're not here to start no trouble.
We're just here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle.

Walter Payton:
Well, they call me SWEETNESS,
And I like to dance.
Runnin' the ball is like makin' ROMANCE.
We've had the goal since training camp
To give Chicago a Super Bowl chance.
And we're not doin' this
Because we're greedy.
The Bears are doin' it to feed the needy.
We didn't come here to look for trouble,
We just came here to do
The Super Bowl Shuffle.

aaaaaaand it goes on and on.... I didn't like it then and to go over it now is painful. It's the thought that counts though, right??? GO BEARS


romance

[mabd]

lolapunk said:

And of course there is one reply to that...

Superbowl Shuffle - Chicago Bears

Doctor Punchell, you are absolutely wonderful!!!

Awesome, even...

Maeve

[mabd]

oops, forgot this part:

Rearview Mirror Romance
Cheap Trick

I’m movin’ I’m feeling like I’m rollin’ on my own (what could be better)
Then somewhere drivin’ my car the radio turn it on (what could be better)
I check around in traffic from my point of view (what could be better)
Then I saw her in the mirror
Maybe the same thing has happened to you
It was
Romance in a rearview mirror
Romance after just one look
Romance in a rearview mirror

REARVIEW

Maeve