Lyrically Speaking # 3

[Siren]

from "Maybe It Was Memphis" by Pam Tillis

Looking at you through a misty moonlight
Katydid singing like a symphony
Porch swing swaying like a Tennessee lullaby
Melody blowing through a WILLOW tree

What was I supposed to do?
Standing there looking at you
Lonely boy far from home

Maybe it was Memphis
Maybe it was SOUTHERN summer nights
Maybe it was you
Maybe it was me
But it sure felt right

next: southern

[Phalon]

Love this song: from "Interstate Love Song" by Stone Temple Pilots

Leavin' on a southern train
Only yesterday you lied,
Promises of what I seemed to be
Only watched the time go by,
All of these things you said to me

Breathing is the hardest thing to do
With all I've said and all that's dead for you,
You lied - good bye

next word: breathing (breathe)

[stepper]

Breathe - Faith Hill (Another song I like listening to.)

I can feel the magic floating in the air
Being with you gets me that way
I watch the sunlight dance across your face and I've
Never been this swept away

All my thoughts just seem to settle on the breeze
When I'm lying wrapped up in your arms
The whole world just fades away
The only thing I hear
Is the beating of your heart

'Cause I can feel you breathe
It's washing over me
Suddenly I'm melting into you
There's nothing left to prove
Baby all we need is just to be
Caught up in the touch
The slow and steady rush
Baby, isn't that the way that love's supposed to be
I can feel you breathe
Just breathe

Next: Prove

[Phalon]

from "Cryin' Like a B!tch" by Godsmack

Blinded by your sacred faded past times
Only time is your enemy
Granted a second, a second chance
To prove that your arrogance
Is stronger than you’ll ever be
Stronger than you can be

next word: grant(ed)

[Siren]

from "Tell Lorrie I Love Her" by Keith Whitley

If I were lost up in the mountains, out in the cold and the rain
Far from anyone who could help me, never to see you again,
If all of the creatures around me, could see how my love is so true
I’d hope they would GRANT all my wishes, and CARRY these words back to you.

Tell Lorrie I love her,
Tell Lorrie I need her
Tell her everything would be okay if I could just see her
Tell Lorrie I love her
Tell Lorrie I need her
And if I leave this ol’ world, tell her she’s the only one for me

next: carry

[stepper]

Sailing - Christopher Cross

Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free

Next: dream

[Phalon]

from "Fall Into Sleep" by Mudvayne

Fall into sleep
Fall into me
Hang on to a dream that nobody wants
Nobody cares anymore

next word: hang

[stepper]

Call Me Mellow - Tears for Fears

She'll dress down for us
She'll break new grounds for us
Watching me cracking up

She'll hang around fellows
With all the groundswellers
Driving me like a truck

Next: Break

[Siren]

from "Bend But Don't Break" by No Justice

BEND but don’t BREAK
Give before you take
Always look ‘em right in the eye
These are words to live by

next: bend

[Phalon]

from "Up Around the Bend" by Creedence Clearwater Revival

You can ponder perpetual motion, fix your mind on a crystal day,
Always time for a good conversation, there's an ear for what you say.

Yeah!
Come on the risin' wind, we're goin' up around the bend.

next word: motion

[stepper]

The Locomotion - Little Eva

Now that you can do it, let's make a chain, now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
A chug-a chug-a motion like a railroad train, now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)

Next: Train

[Phalon]

The first thing that popped into my head was "Interstate Love Song" by S.T.P., but drat, I just used those lyrics a couple of days ago. Second song was one from my high school days...

from "Train Train" by Blackfoot

Well, train, train, take me on out of this town
Train, train, Lord, take me on out of this town
Well, that woman I'm in love with, Lord, she's Memphis bound

next word: bound

[stepper]

Memphis bound pointed me right to

Homeward Bound - Simon And Garfunkel

I'm sittin' in the railway station
Got a ticket for my destination
On a tour of one night stands
My suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned
For a poet and a one man band

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home, where my thought's escaping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me

Next: Ticket

[Siren]

from "The Letter" by The Box Tops

Gimme a TICKET for an aeroplane
I ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
'Cause my baby just WROTE me a letter

next: wrote

[Phalon]

from "Your Song" by Elton John

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on

next word: roof

[stepper]

Up On The Roof - the Drifters

When this old world starts getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space
On the roof, it's peaceful as can be
And there the world below can't bother me
Let me tell you now

Next: Drift

[Siren]

from "Drift Off To Dream" by Travis Tritt

Let's hold hands on the porch swing, under the moon
While the wind through the willows plays us a tune
We can lie on a blanket, out back in the yard
And wish for our FUTURE on a faraway star
You'll feel the passion as time after time
I press your sweet lips to mine
Then we'll dance to the radio, right up 'til dawn
'Til you DRIFT off to dream in my arms

next: future

[Phalon]

from "Another Way to Die" by Disturbed

Greed and hunger led to our demise.
A path I can’t believe we followed.
Black agenda’s rooted in a lie.
Will we repent in time?
Species fall before our very eyes.
A world that they cannot survive in left them with another way to die.
Are we dead inside?

The Time bomb is ticking and no one is listening.
Our future is fading.
Is there any hope we'll survive?

next word: greed

[Siren]

from "Imagine" by John Lennon

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for GREED or hunger
The brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people SHARING all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one

next: SHARING

[Phalon]

from "On the Move" by Mudvayne

This circus cycle family
If faces aren't so strange
Faces becoming more familiar
Day by day
Sharing becomes closer
Day by day
The world becomes our home

next word: family

[stepper]

The Family of Man - Three Dog Night

Memories replacing the loves that are lost
Burning our bridges as soon as they're crossed
Factories built where the rivers ran -
Time's running out for the family of man

Next: Bridge(s)

[Siren]

from "Burning Bridges" by Ray Price

BURNING BRIDGES behind me
It's too late to turn back now
Burning bridges behind me
All I want is to forget you somehow

next: burning

[Phalon]

from "Sweat" by Tool

The sun is burning hot again
On the hunter
And the fisherman,
And he's trying to remember when,
But it makes him dizzy.

next word: dizzy

[stepper]

Dizzy - Tommy Roe

Dizzy, I’m so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool it never ends
And it’s You girl makin’ it spin
You're making me dizzy

First time that I saw You girl, I knew that I just had to make You mine
But it’s so hard to talk to You with fellows hangin’ round You all the time
I want You for my sweet pet, but You keep playing hard to get
I’m going round in circles all the time

Next: Circle(s)

[Siren]

from "Circle In The Sand" by Belinda Carlisle

CIRCLE in the SAND
'Round and 'round
Never ending love is what we've found
And you complete the heart of me
Our love is all we need
Circle in the sand

next: sand

[Phalon]

from "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock. I'm not a Kid Rock fan, but there are some of his songs I really like. This is one of them; probably because of its summer in Michigan references, and that the girl in the song (with a few minor changes....the year, for example, and I was a semi-good girl at seventeen) could have been me. Ah, those sweet teenage memories...it's a d@mn shame I can't remember his name.


Catching walleye from the dock
Watching the waves roll off the rocks
She'll forever hold a spot inside my soul
We'd blister in the sun
We couldn't wait for night to come
To hit that sand and play some rock and roll

next word: spot

[stepper]

Welcome Back - John Sebastion (Theme to Welcome Back Kotter)

Welcome back
Your dreams were your ticket out
Welcome back
To that same old place that you laughed about
Well the names have all changed since you hung around
But those dreams have remained and they've turned around
Who'd have thought they'd lead ya
(who'd have thought they'd lead ya)
Back here where we need ya
(back here where we need ya)
Yeah, we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot

Next: Around

[Phalon]

from "The Pot" by Tool

Rob the grave to snow the cradle
Then burn the evidence down
Soapbox house of cards and glass so
Don't go tossin' your stones around

next word: card(s)

[stepper]

and I was a semi-good

I'm sure you are at least semi-good even these days.

The Turn of a Friendly Card - The Alan Parsons Project

And they think it will make their lives easier
For God knows up till now it's been hard
But the game never ends when your whole world depends
On the turn of a friendly card
No the game never ends when your whole world depends
On the turn of a friendly card

Next: Game

[Siren]

from "Winner At A Losing Game" by Rascal Flatts

Have you ever had to love someone
That just don't feel the same
Trying to make somebody care for you the way I do
Is like tryin' to CATCH the rain
And if love is really forever
I'm a winner at a losing GAME

next: catch