The Lyrics Thread

[Formerly Known as FKAJ]

One of my favourites:

Well every single time I see you I start to feel this way

It makes me wonder if I am ever gonna feel this way again.

Theres a picture tearin in the back of my head

I see it over and over

I wanna hold you and love you in my arms and then

I wanna need you, cuz I need to be with you till the end

Then I hear myself reply youve got to hold it in this time tonight

If only I had the guts to feel this way,

If only you'd look at me and want to stay,

If only I could take you in my arms and say,

I wont go, cuz i need you

Sit here waiting, wondering, hoping that Ill make this right

Cuz all I think about is your hands, your face and all these lonely nights

Theres a feeling screaming in the back of my head

Saying it over and over

I wanna hold you and love you in my arms and then

I wanna need you cuz I need to be with you till the end

Then I hear myself reply shell never let you in this time tonight

If only I had the guts to feel this way,

If only you'd look at me and wanna stay,

If only I could take you in my arms and say,

I wont go cuz I need you

I wanna hear you say itll always be this way

And well be hand in hand for everynight and everyday

I wanna scream and shout cuz rules are never doubt

And all I care about is you and me and us and now

If only I had the guts to feel this way,

If only you'd look at me and wanna stay,

If only I could take you in my arms and say,

I wont go cuz I need you

Please don't go cause I need you now

Yeah. cuz I need you

If only, yeah cuz I need you now

If only cuz I need you, I need you

If only , cuz I need you

If only cuz I need you

If only, yeah, if only...i need you now....yeah

[**amanda**]

Hey Formerly Known as Josh, whats the song called and who sings it. Thanx

[katie343]

The dawn is breaking

A light shining through

You're barely waking

And I'm tangled up in you

Yeah

I'm open, you're closed

Where I follow, you'll go

I worry I won't see your face

Light up again

Even the best fall down sometimes

Even the wrong words seem to rhyme

Out of the doubt that fills my mind

I somehow find

You and I collide

I'm quiet you know

You make a frist impression

I've found I'm scared to know I'm always on your mind

Even the best fall down sometimes

Even the stars refuse to shine

Out of the back you fall in time

I somehow find

You and I collide

Even the best fall down sometimes

Even the wrong words seem to ryhme

Out of the doubt that fills your mind

You finally find

You and I collide

You finally find

You and I collide

You finally find

You and I collide

[Formerly Known as FKAJ]

Hey Formerly Known as Josh, whats the song called and who sings it. Thanx

If Only, by the Hanson brothers. Here's a link to it on Youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=R14VRaaBFNM

[**amanda**]

Thanx.

[Formerly Known as FKAJ]

Here's another of my favourites, a song by Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen that was on "The Chaser's War on Everything:"

I really strongly vehemently wish, that I could write songs that had less lyrics in them.

But every time I sit down and try to write a song my head starts to overflow, I've got so very many things I want to say.

It becomes extremely difficult in terms of scansion and rhythm to put a musical framework around so very many words.

And every other songwriter I've ever met in this industry says that my over-wordy songs are utterly and totally absurd.

I'm a Prolix Songwriter, I have a very hard time,

Fitting such an extraordinary and unnecessarily large number of syllables into the highly limited confines of a line.

I'll be honest with you, I've been writing these overstuffed lyrics ever since I was 14 or 15 years old it's been really tough on me.

It means I have to work seven or eight or nine times as hard as any other songwriter to earn exactly the same goddamn royalty fee.

And I know I'm being an idiot and it's probably got something to do with my anxiety and I'm totally confused and I really don't know.

And all I can do is sit here and wish to high heaven I could simply go "la la la la, la la la la la" like Kylie Minogue.

But I'm a Prolix Songwriter, I have a very hard time.

Fitting such an extraordinary and unnecessarily large number of syllables into the highly limited confines of a line.

I'm a Prolix Songwriter, I have a very hard time.

Because sometimes my verbosity is so over the top that I have to try my absolute utmost and squeeze my eyes shut and think way way back into the past as far as I possibly can so that I can even hope to remember the word with which I was supposed to... rhyme!

One of his greatest. Better to hear than to read though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uauJUjPJwmg

[Guest [x]whacko[x]jen[x]]

Just me or does this sound a bit wrong:

'Push me and then just touch me until I can get my satisfaction'

Satisfaction by Benny Benassi

[valli]

This is kind of a song, it belongs to a game. I find it rather funny:

What’s the name of the game? How do you play it? Let’s play fast and dirty

And so it goes on. I think it’s funny and the game it belongs to is hilarious

EDIT: Sorry if this is in the wrong thread, but I just had to write it somewhere

[rennyren]

I'm obsessed with this song at the moment - I think it's got the most beautiful lyrics and is very different to most modern music: -

AUGIE MARCH

"One Crowded Hour"

Now should you expect to see something that you hadn't seen

In somebody you'd known since you were sixteen;

if love is a bolt from the blue, then what is that bolt but a glorified screw?

and that doesn't hold nothing together

Far from these nonsense bars and their nowhere music it's making me sick

And I know it's making you sick

There's nothing there, it's like eating air

It's like drinking gin with nothing else in

And that doesn't hold me together.

But for one crowded hour, you were the only one in the room

And I sailed around all those bumps in the night to your beacon in the gloom

I thought I had found my golden September in the middle of that purple June

But one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin

And I know you like your boys to take their medicine

From the bowl with a silver spoon

Who run away with the dish and scale the fish by the silvery light of the moon

Who were taught from the womb to believe till the tomb

That as far as their bleeding eyes see

Is a pleasure pen, meant for them, builded and rent for them

Not for the likes of me

Not for the like of you and me

And for one crowded hour, you were the only one in the room

And I sailed around all those bumps in the night to your beacon in the gloom

I thought I had found my golden September in the middle of that purple June

But one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin

Oh but the green-eyed harpy of the salt land

She takes into hers my hand

She says, "Boy I know you're lying

Oh but then, so am I,"

And to this I said "Oh well."

Well put me in a cage full of lions, I learned to speak lion

In fact I know the language well

I picked it up while I was versing myself in the languages they speak in hell

That night, the silence gave birth to a baby

They took it away to her silent dismay

And they raised it to be a lady

Now she can't keep her mouth shut

And for one crowded hour, you were the only one in the room

And I sailed around all those bumps in the night to your beacon in the gloom

I thought I had found my golden September in the middle of that purple June

But one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin

For one crowded hour, you were the only one in the room

Well I played a few songs for those bumps in the night

In fact I played this very tune

You said, "What is this six-stringed instrument but an adolescent loom?"

And one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin.

And this one as well: -

DAMIEN RICE

"The Animals Were Gone"

woke up and for the first time the animals were gone

it's left this house empty now, not sure if i belong

yesterday you asked me to write you a pleasant song

i'll do my best now but you've been gone for so long

the window's open now and the winter settles in

we'll call it christmas when the adverts begin

i love your depression and i love your double chin

i love most everything you bring to this offering

i know that i've left you

in places of despair

i know that i love you

so please throw down your hair

at night i trip without you

and hope i don't wake up

'cause waking up without you

is like drinking from an empty cup

woke up and for the first time the animals were gone

our clocks are ticking now so before our time is gone

we could get a house and some boxers and on the lawn

we could make babies and accidental songs

i know i've been a liar and i know i've been a fool

i hope we didn't break it but i'm glad we broke the rules

my cave is deep now yet your light is shining through

i cover my eyes still all i see is you

i know that i've left you

in places of despair

i know that i love you

so please throw down your hair

at night i trip without you

and hope i don't wake up

'cause waking up without you

is like drinking from an empty cup

[Si-Co]

A favourite song of mine:

Kate Nash - Foundations

Thursday night,

everything's fine,

Except you've got that look in your eyes,

when I'm telling a story

And you find it boring you're thinking of something to say.

You'll go along with and then drop it

And you humiliate me, in front of our friends.

Then I'll use that voice what you find annoyin'

And say something like

"intelligent input darlin' why don't you just have another beer then?"

Then you call me a bitch and everyone we're with will be embarrassed,

and I won't give a ****.

[Chorus:]

My fingertips are holding onto the

cracks in our foundations,

and I know that I should let go,

but I can't.

And everytime we fight I know it's not right,

everytime that you're upset and I smile

I know I should forget, but I can't.

You said I must eat so many lemons,

'cause I am so bitter.

I said "I'd rather be with your friends mate,

'cause they are much fitter"

Yes it was childish

and you got aggressive

and I must admit that I was a bit scared,

but it gives me thrills to wind you up.

[Chorus]

Your face is pasty,

'cause you've gone and got so wasted,

what a surprise,

don't want to look at your face,

'cause it's making me sick.

You've gone and got sick on my trainers,

I only got these yesterday.

Oh my gosh, I cannot be bothered with this.

Well I'll leave you there till the mornin',

and I purposely won't turn the heating on

and dear God, I hope I'm not stuck with this one.

[Chorus]

And every time we fight I know it's not right,

every time that you're upset and I smile.

I know I should forget, but I can't.

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