Favorite Song Lyrics (Snippets)

[Argonne69]

11 hours ago, touch said:

 

Wicked fine Blues, and I don't mean music.

Georgous photo.

Is that your current view/hometown @Argonne69 ?

 

Yeah, currently in the Santa Barbara area. I'll be here until Saturday, and then move further north up the coast. The photo was taken at Sandpiper GC in Goleta.

 

[touch]

Ooh child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh child
Things'll get brighter

Ooh child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh child
Things'll get brighter

 

Some day, yeah
We'll put it together and we'll get it undone
Some day
When your head is much lighter
Some day, yeah
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter

 

Five Stairsteps

Songwriters: Stan Vincent

[Triple Lindy]

If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
Now, we'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more
 

- Barenaked Ladies

[Argonne69]

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watching the puddles gather rain
And all I can do
Is just pour some tea for two
And speak my point of view
But it's not sane
It's not sane

 

And I don't understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there's no rain
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape

 

- Blind Mellon, No Rain 

 

[touch]

😢

 

No use pretending things can still be right
There's really nothing more to say
I'll get along without your kiss tonight
Just close the door and walk away

 

Never gonna fall in love again
I don't want to start with someone new
‘Cause I couldn't bear to see it end
Just like me and you
No, I never want to feel the pain
Of remembering how it used to be
Never gonna fall in love again
Just like you and me

 

Eric Carmen

Songwriters: Eric Carmen / Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 

 

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And making love was just for fun
Those days are gone

 

Livin' alone
I think of all the friends I've known
When I dial the telephone
Nobody's home

 

All by myself
Don't wanna be all by myself anymore
All by myself, I don't wanna live
Don't wanna be all by myself anymore

 

Eric Carmen

Songwriters: Dave Bartholomew / Antoine Domino

[Argonne69]

You sheltered me from harm
Kept me warm, kept me warm
You gave my life to me
Set me free, set me free

The finest years I ever knew
Were all the years I had with you

And I would give anything I own
Would give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give everything I own
Just to have you back again

You taught me how to love
What it's of, what it's of
You never said too much
But still, you showed the way
And I knew from watching you

Is there someone you know
You're loving them so
But taking them all for granted?
You may lose them one day
Someone takes them away
And they don't hear the words you long to say

 

- Bread 

 

[Argonne69]

City girls just seem to find out early
How to open doors with just a smile
A rich old man and she won't have to worry
She'll dress up all in lace, go in style

Late at night, a big old house gets lonely
I guess every form of refuge has its price
And it breaks her heart to think her love is only
Given to a man with hands as cold as ice

You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes

She gets up and pours herself a strong one
And stares out at the stars up in the sky
Another night, it's gonna be a long one
She draws the shade and hangs her head to cry

She wonders how it ever got this crazy
She thinks about a boy she knew in school
Did she get tired, or did she just get lazy?
She's so far gone, she feels just like a fool

You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes

 

- Eagles 

 

[Hawkeye77]

Easy ---- "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die."

[Triple Lindy]

2 minutes ago, Hawkeye77 said:

Easy ---- "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die."

Same song, different verse

 

But those people keep a-movin’, and that’s what tortures me.

 

 - The Man in Black

[Argonne69]

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
With stars to fill my dreams
I am a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been
Sit with elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen
Talk of days for which they sit and wait
All will be revealed

 

Oh, all I see turns to brown
As the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand
As I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find, where I've been

 

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like thoughts inside a dream
Here is the path that led me to that place
Yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon
I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June
When moving through Kashmir

 

- Led Zeppelin 

 

[Triple Lindy]

Squeeze my lemons, ‘til the juice runs down my leg

 

- Led Zeppelin 

[TiScape]

To you I’m just a man, to me you’re all I am. 
 

-ZB

[Argonne69]

Love this classic song, but just can't hear it without seeing Tom Cruise prancing around in his tightly whiteys. Lol. 

 

Just take those old records off the shelf
I'll sit and listen to 'em by myself
Today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old time rock and roll

 

Don't try to take me to a disco 
You'll never even get me out on the floor
In ten minutes I'll be late for the door
I like that old time rock and roll

 

Still like that old time rock and roll
That kind of music just soothes the soul
I reminisce about the days of old
With that old time rock and roll

Call me a relic, call me what you will
Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill
Today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old time rock and roll

 

- Bob Seger 

 

Edited March 29 by Argonne69

[touch]

 

I say people (what?) What you gonna do?
You gotta get on the groove
If you want your body to move, tell me, baby

 

How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance
By standing on the wall?
(Get your back up off the wall) tell me
How you gonna do it if you really won't take a chance
By standing on the wall?
(Get your back up off the wall)
'Cause I heard all the people sayin'

 

Get down on it, get down on it, get down on it
Get down on it, when you're dancin'
Get down on it, get down on it
Get down on it

 

Get down on it, sha-baba-daba-do

 

What you gon' do? (Uh) do you wanna get down? (Ah)
What you gon' do? (Uh, ah)
Get your back up off the wall
Dance, come on, get your back up off the wall
Dance, come on

 

 

Kool & The Gang

Songwriters: Claydes Smith / Eumir Deodato / George Brown / James Taylor / Robert Bell / Robert Mickens / Ronald Bell

[touch]

Mystery achievement
Don't breathe down my neck no
I got no trophies on display
I sign them away
I mean what the heck
All of your promises
Don't fill me with pride no
I just wanna get out on the floor
And do the Cuban slide, slide, slide, slide

But every day, every nighttime I find
Mystery achievement
You're on my mind
And every day, every nighttime I feel
Mystery achievement you're so unreal

 

 

The Pretenders

Songwriters: Christine Hynde

[Argonne69]

Loving you
Isn't the right thing to do
How can I ever change things that I feel?

If I could
Baby I'd give you my world
How can I
When you won't take it from me?

You can go your own way
Go your own way
You can call it another lonely day
You can go your own way
Go your own way

Tell me why
Everything turned around
Packing up
Shacking up's all you wanna do

If I could
Baby I'd give you my world
Open up
Everything's waiting for you

You can go your own way
Go your own way
You can call it another lonely day
You can go your own way
Go your own way

 

- Fleetwood Mac 

 

[JungleJimbo]

44 minutes ago, Argonne69 said:

Loving you
Isn't the right thing to do
How can I ever change things that I feel?

If I could
Baby I'd give you my world
How can I
When you won't take it from me?

You can go your own way
Go your own way
You can call it another lonely day
You can go your own way
Go your own way

Tell me why
Everything turned around
Packing up
Shacking up's all you wanna do

If I could
Baby I'd give you my world
Open up
Everything's waiting for you

You can go your own way
Go your own way
You can call it another lonely day
You can go your own way
Go your own way

 

- Fleetwood Mac 

 

thanks for my "earworm of the day"

 

 

[mshills]

I was so ugly….

….the doctor slapped my Mama when I was born!

Then he took out his pocket knife and cut off my horns. 
Said lady if you ain’t already picked out a name,

go ahead on and call him Trouble Man.

 

-Waylon
 

That opening always makes me chuckle. 

[Argonne69]

All that you touch
And all that you see
All that you taste
All you feel

 

And all that you love
And all that you hate
All you distrust
All you save

 

And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal

 

And all you create
And all you destroy
And all that you do
And all that you say

 

And all that you eat
And everyone you meet (everyone you meet)
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight

 

And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune

 

But the sun is eclipsed by the moon

 

- Pink Floyd, Eclipse
 

[Triple Lindy]

Cheaper lovers make expensive wives
 

- The Wallflowers 

[touch]

Hey (hey) What's the matter with your head? yeah
Hey (hey) What's the matter with your mind and your sign?
And-a ooh-ohh
Hey (hey) Nothin's a matter with your head, baby, find it
Come on and find it
Hell, with it, baby, 'cause you're fine and you're mine
And you look so divine

Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love

 

 1974

 The Band Redbone

 Written by band members Pat and Lolly Vegas

 

[touch]

I was born from love, and my poor mother worked the mines
I was raised on the Good Book of Jesus
'Til I read between the lines
Now I don't believe I want to see the morning

 

Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, Mama, cradle me again

 

And I can still remember him with love light in his eyes
But the light flickered out and parted
As the sun began to rise
Now I don't believe I want to see the morning

 

Going down the stoney end
I never wanted to go down the stoney end
Mama, let me start all over
Cradle me, Mama, cradle me again

 

1971

Barbara Streisand

Songwriter: Laura Nyro

Edited April 11 by touch

[Argonne69]

And I would do anything for love

I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love
I'll never lie to you and that's a fact
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now

Oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
No, I won't do that

And some days it don't come easy
And some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all
And these are the days that never end

And some nights you're breathin' fire
And some nights you're carved in ice
Some nights you're like nothin' I've ever
Seen before or will again
 

- Meat Loaf 

 

[touch]

Rolled in from another town
Hit some gold, too hard to settle down
But a fool and his money soon go separate ways
And you found a fool lyin' in a daze
Ha, ha, woman, what you gonna do?
You destroyed all the virtues that the Lord gave you
It's so good that you're feelin' pain

But you better get your face on board the very next train (train)

Evil woman
Evil woman
Evil woman (you're an evil woman)
Evil woman
Evil woman
Evil woman
Evil woman (you're an evil woman)
Evil woman

 

 

ELO 1975 

Songwriter: Jeff Lynne

 

 

[BicknellCC]

Great Thread, I need to go back through and like every post. I don't think this has been posted

 

 

I remember standing on the corner at midnight

Tryin to get my courage up

There was was this long lovely dancer in a club downtown

loved to watch her do her stuff

through the long lonely nights 

she filled my sleep

body softly swaying to that smokey beat

down on Main Street.

 

Bob Seger

[BicknellCC]

I don't know why she's leaving, or where she's gonna go

I guess she's got a reason and I just don't wanna know

but for 24 years I've been livin next door to Alice

24 years just waiting for a chance

to tell her how I feel and maybe get a second chance

now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice

 

Smokey (I think. Guess Who also has their own version that I can't post the lyrics for)

 

[Triple Lindy]

13 hours ago, BicknellCC said:

I don't know why she's leaving, or where she's gonna go

I guess she's got a reason and I just don't wanna know

but for 24 years I've been livin next door to Alice

24 years just waiting for a chance

to tell her how I feel and maybe get a second chance

now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice

 

Smokey (I think. Guess Who also has their own version that I can't post the lyrics for)

 

Reminds me of an Elton John song…

 

Raised to be a lady by the golden rule
Alice was the spawn of a public school
With a double barrel name in the back of her brain
And a simple case of mummy-doesn't-love-me blues

 

[BicknellCC]

7 hours ago, Triple Lindy said:

Reminds me of an Elton John song…

 

Raised to be a lady by the golden rule
Alice was the spawn of a public school
With a double barrel name in the back of her brain
And a simple case of mummy-doesn't-love-me blues

 

All the girls love Alice or something close to that.

From the Yellow Brick Road album?

[Triple Lindy]

25 minutes ago, BicknellCC said:

All the girls love Alice or something close to that.

From the Yellow Brick Road album?

Yep.

[Triple Lindy]

In memory of the great Dickey Betts
 

When it’s time for leavin’

I hope you’ll understand 

That I was born a ramblin’ man

 

 - Allman Brothers Band