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Favorite lyricists?
mnimmny:
springsteen (of course)
Most Everything but especcially:
--- Quote ---
there's a dark cloud rising from
the desert floor
i packed my bags and I'm heading
straight into the storm
gonna be a twister to blow
everything down
that ain't got the faith to stand itsground
blow away the dreams that tear you apart
blow away the dreams that break your heart
blow away the lies
that leave you nothing but lost and broken hearted
--- End quote ---
tim buckley
(see "song to the siren")
mark knopfler
(see "romeo and juliet")
leonard cohen
--- Quote ---
i did my best, it wasn't much
i couldn't feel, so i tried to touch
i've told the truth, i didn't come to fool you
and even though
it all went wrong
i'll stand before the lord of song
with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah
--- End quote ---
paul simon
--- Quote ---
asking only workmen's wages
i come lookin' for a job
but i get no offers,
just a come on from the whores on seventh avenue
i do declare
there were times i was so lonesome
that i took some comfort there
--- End quote ---
this is simply for this one part of this one song
despite the fact that its perhaps the most emo thing ever,
but whoever in Brand new that wrote this:
--- Quote ---
every minute is a mile.
i've never felt so hollow.
i'm an old abandoned church with broken pews
and empty aisles.
--- End quote ---
dar williams
(see 'iowa')
harry chapin
also for a whole bunch, but
especially for
--- Quote ---
Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire
And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire,
For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.
Remember when the music
Brought us all together to stand inside the rain
And as we'd join our hands, we'd meet in the refrain,
For we had dreams to live, we had hopes to give.
Remember when the music
Was the best of what we dreamed of for our children's time
And as we sang we worked, for time was just a line,
It was a gift we saved, a gift the future gave.
Remember when the music
Was a rock that we could cling to so we'd not despair,
And as we sang we knew we'd hear an echo fill the air
We'd be smiling then, we would smile again.
Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard
All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words,
And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then,
How I'd love to find we had that kind of choice again.
Remember when the music
Was a glow on the horizon of every newborn day
And as we sang, the sun came up to chase the dark away,
And life was good, for we knew we could.
Remember when the music
Brought the night across the valley as the day went down
And as we'd hum the melody, we'd be safe inside the sound,
And so we'd sleep, we had dreams to keep.
And I feel that something's coming, and it's not just in the wind.
It's more than just tomorrow, it's more than where we've been,
It offers me a promise, it's telling me "Begin",
I know we're needing something worth believing in.
Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire
And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire,
For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.
--- End quote ---
...probably the most eloquent rendition of and a damn good dream of what music should be and music should do in a song
Night Rocker:
Bob Dylan and Pete Townsend. Enough Said.
The Eyeball Kid:
i love the usual guys- Bob Dylan is my poet-god, and Colin Meloy breaks my heart. but recently its all about Craig Finn of the Hold Steady. Everything he sings is just quotable and perfect. I showed some to a poet friend and she just went nuts
"Kids on the East Coast/about 20 years old/know the perfect ratio of warm beer to the summer smoke/Meatloaf to the Billy Joel" - 'Certain Songs
Thanks Craig. You just summed up alot of my Connecticut childhood in 4 pefect lines. And almost every single line in every single Hold Steady song is like that! And he'll have a lyric echo another song ("Tramps like us/and we like tramps") and then the band will play something that echos the song being quoted ('Thunder Road', in that case)
Just... wow.
The Eyeball Kid:
My love for Waits and Cave and Cohen and Dylan and Costello KNOWS NO LIMIT, but i'm not talking about them here because saying they're amazing lyricists and write incredible poetry and are gods that walk the Earth isn't saying anything that hasn't been said a million times before
But Craig Finn... there isn't enough Craig Finn love
lbarbs:
Also, whoever writes the lyrics for the Lucksmiths. http://www.thelucksmiths.com.au/
--- Quote --- We can wander round the football ground
As the sun sets on the grandstand
If it gets a little cold there
We can hold hands in the goal square
It’s getting dark and baby don’t the shops shine bright
I’ve been here for hours
I can’t see the florist for the flowers
And I can’t see the point in hanging around
I know we’ve done all this before
But once more won’t hurt
So let’s do it once more
Bereft of ideas
We live here but we’re sightseers
Somewhere over the railway line
There’s a light on in your loungeroom
Do you remember when I found you fast asleep?
You were so slow to your feet
I didn’t mean to yell
It’s just that I’m a little jealous
‘Cause you can do the Rubik’s Cube and I can’t
--- End quote ---
--- Quote --- Have you been drinking?
’Cause it’s not too late to start
There’s still a week
Before they come and pull the place apart
And I was thinking
I have sorrows to be drowned
Too complete to contemplate
Without a friend around
...
So act surprised
It’s been a while since I came calling
I know it’s late
But old times’ sake and all that junk
I’ll be alright
We’ll make tonight tomorrow morning
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows you’re drunk
--- End quote ---
And of course Dylan, Cohen and Simon[/quote]
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