Lyrics That Are Stuck in Your Head Right Now |
Post Reply | Page <1 1112131415 17> |
Author | |||
Cosmiclawnmower
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 09 2010 Location: West Country,UK Status: Offline Points: 3627 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Fair enough so actually it wasn't that long ago that most of the industrial cities and country areas of the UK didn't have toilets indoors (some still don't..) so that's another way in which the UK cons the rest of the world into thinking it leads the world but doesn't.. Actually taking a country cr*p, dropping a log off a log, communing with nature etc can be a very fine thing; its something I always make time to do.. giving something back to to the earth-mother
|
|||
|
|||
Cosmiclawnmower
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 09 2010 Location: West Country,UK Status: Offline Points: 3627 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
OK, i'll try and raise the tone a bit after my 'earthy' comments One of my all time favourite sings written by the much missed and fantastic Alan Hull 'The raindrops feel like liquid diamonds, falling from a cloud
Who has a silver lining made by passing time And I've not just had a smoke, I've not been struck by lightning stroke I'll let it thunder, let it whistle Let it blow like hell, I'm not really caring And my state of mind needs no repairing Yesterday was painted grey and I've found out no reliable way Of knowing what tomorrow's colours might say While heads around me turn and twist at situations that don't exist I'll let it thunder, let it whistle Let it blow like hell, I'm not really minding And my state of mind needs no defining I'm wandering through a fairy story, lost in love and seeking glory Listening to the music, children smile While others with more complex claims, protect themselves against the rain I'll let it thunder, let it whistle Let it blow like hell, I'm not really bothered And my state of mind has finally been discovered I'll let it thunder, let it whistle Let it blow like hell, I'm not really bothered And my state of mind has finally been discovered' |
|||
|
|||
Rednight
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 18 2014 Location: Mar Vista, CA Status: Offline Points: 4807 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Van der Graaf's Quiet Zone. A fine summer song.
|
|||
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
|
|||
Squonk19
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2015 Location: Darlington, UK Status: Offline Points: 4776 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Playing Sibelius 2 and 5 today between the football, and it reminded me of one of the few 80s synth-pop songs that actually had a bit of class about it, and strong lyrics too (about nuclear war, apparently)
Just close your eyes and then remember The thoughts you've locked away When tomorrow comes you'll wish You had today. And as we sit here alone Looking for a reason to go on It's so clear that all we have now Are our thoughts of yesterday If you're still there when it's all over I'm scared I'll have to say That a part of you has gone Since yesterday And as we sit here alone Looking for a reason to go on It's so clear that all we have now Are our thoughts of yesterday Well, maybe this could be the ending With nothing left of you A hundred wishes couldn't say I don't want to And as we sit here alone Looking for a reason to go on It's so clear that all we have now Are our thoughts of yesterday It's so clear that all we have now Are thoughts of yesterday |
|||
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
|
|||
philipemery
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 01 2018 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 165 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care Leave but don't leave me Look around, choose your own ground For long you live and high you fly And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry And all your touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be. -- Breathe (in the Air), Pink Floyd |
|||
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon. -- Pink Floyd
|
|||
BaldFriede
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 02 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10261 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Ahl wëhr ïss ün ëhr /ëM
Ahl wëhr ïss ün ëhr /ëM Ahl wëhr ïss ün ëhr /ëM Ahl wëhr ïss ün ëhr /ëM Wï wï wï dö wërïssï Wï wï wï dö wërïssï Wï wï wï dö wërïssï Wï wï wï dö wërïssï |
|||
BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
|||
Barbu
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30850 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Qu'importe la mort qu'elles promettent
Je goūterai å leurs caresses, Qu'importe le sort qu'elles me jettent Je veux qu'en mer on me laisse. |
|||
Barbu
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30850 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Magnu, horse with golden mane, I want your help yet once again...
|
|||
miamiscot
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 23 2014 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 3566 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Don't lose you temper
Cause I'd hate you to grow mild |
|||
Barbu
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30850 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
When the priest comes to read me the last rites
I take a look through the bars at the last sights Of a world that has gone very wrong for me Can it be that there's some sort of error Hard to stop the surmounting terror Is it really the end, not some crazy dream? Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming It's not easy to stop from screaming The words escape me when I try to speak Tears flow, but why am I crying After all am I not afraid of dying Don't I believe that there never is an end? |
|||
Barbu
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30850 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Take a look in the pool and what do you see
In the dark depths there faces beckoning me Can't you see them it's plain for all to see They were there oh I know you don't believe me Oh, I've never felt so strange But, I'm not going insane I've no doubt that you think I'm off my head You don't say but it's in your eyes instead Hours I spend out just gazing into that pool Something draws me there I don't know what to do Oh, they drain my strength away Oh, they're asking me to stay... |
|||
Squonk19
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2015 Location: Darlington, UK Status: Offline Points: 4776 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Mr Dickinson and the boys can be quite articulate when they want to be...
|
|||
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
|
|||
Barbu
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30850 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Excellently competent and convincing indeed.
|
|||
Evolver
Special Collaborator Crossover & JR/F/Canterbury Teams Joined: October 22 2005 Location: The Idiocracy Status: Offline Points: 5482 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
"Hollow" by Circuline
|
|||
Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
|
|||
Barbu
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30850 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
"There!" calls the mariner, "There comes a ship over the line
But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide?" Seeee...onward she comes Onward she nears, out of the sun See, she has no crew She has no life, wait but there's two... - Can you feel the salty breeze on your face and the deep chill down your spine? Masterful! |
|||
Squonk19
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2015 Location: Darlington, UK Status: Offline Points: 4776 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
"Demons are trapped all inside of my head,
My hopes of God, reach for heaven from hell, My sins are many, my guilt is too heavy, The question of knowing of how then what I know? I'm able to see things, things that I don't wanna see, The lies of a thousand souls weigh heavy down on me I know they're crying for help reaching out The burden of them will take me down as well The sin of a thousand souls knocked out in vain Reincarnation of me live again" |
|||
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
|
|||
Cosmiclawnmower
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 09 2010 Location: West Country,UK Status: Offline Points: 3627 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
The main part stuck in my head is the section in bold but had to put the whole thing cos, well, I can. One of those days in England parts 2-10 by Roy Harper Every Wednesday morning, at about the hour of ten I give the queen my autograph, she gives me the yen The man behind the counter smiles, the door man bows again Just another day down on the dole queue But the government must love me 'cause they keep me out of work They must be saving me for something special Maybe it's the job of rolling spliffs for Captain Kirk Or giving Miss Lovelace a pubic hairdo. One of those days in England with a sword in every pond And birds in every garden in the land One of those days in England when the passion never ends A slowly moving season by the fire of my friends. And though the time fast slips away, it's long enough to laugh and play Around the fireside making hay, dreaming of tomorrow, you know there's no today. One of those days in England with the willow hanging on I dreamt I met an old man down the road Whispering the mysteries of patterns up ahead And stirring past reflections with the sword of lightning said, Alfred had me made from Albion's everglade And I made him to lie with me whence all my troubles fade You may have read the signs, beware of strange designs For though the victors write the books, the loser speaks the lines So let's now both be gone, 'tis far to Avalon And though we go our different ways, I'll see you there anon. And so I got on board the bird of aeons and I rode But every time I met a prince, a fork came down the road I kept on thinking that I'd stop once everybody showed Gathered in the myths of our reflection. But stopping ain't that possible this far into control This far beyond the non imagination No more than I can shed the moving forces of my soul The time lords of the slowly revolution. You and me, mother, we're gonna raise a ship full of kids and slowly lose them Why does it matter where they've all gone, we don't even have the power to choose them You and me, father, we're gonna colonise all of the stars with lots of our madness Shooting through space with sons on our hips and guns on our lips to play snakes and ladders. Oh heavens above, I'm coming with love all over, over you. You and me, sister, we're gonna plant a bomb in a street to change law and order And when we've killed all who resisted the call, we'll discover a brand new wall at the border You and me, brother, wrapped up in silence, brooding for better breathing spaces Seeing ideals, we were one time a part of rip us apart in our holiest places. Oh heavens above, I'm coming with love all over, all over you. Sitting out there with this silvery hair and your thundery look when you really don't care, but I love you Dolly blue rivers, foreverness givers, I'll go without knowing and know without going above you Stood on the ship in a dream at third slip with Britannica's tallons on Albion's grip, do you need me? Looking for you when it's catch 22 and you've never been here but it's always been blue up above me, up above me. Oh Mrs. Space took her man to the human race And together they humped over the edge Nine months later, they were sharing a brand new face The latest thin end of the wedge. And baby grew, grew into a space cadet Legend lives, he screamed under his breath I'm in the queue, in the queue for the hell of it Some place inbetween life and death. Oh Mrs. Space, I love you, with your come home early eye Don't ever come between us 'cause times don't change, they fly. And it don't seem long since my life was an endless stream The future fled into time without trace I see the end now but I've fallen in love again With a girl who can travel in space. Oh Mrs. Space, you lead me a wild goose chase Inbetween, inbetween every line Well hell, girl, I don't even know your face 'Cause you see you've been sitting on mine. Oh Mrs. Space, I love you, with your come home early eye Don't ever come between us 'cause times don't change they fly. Slowly slipping into history feel us go With these times another age could never know See the photos black and white and quaintly dressed Stood in queues of people smiling, sorely pressed. Your silent room is the collection of your ways Every shelf is built of all those different days And those much younger cannot understand by half The wireless living room, the faces 'round the hearth. The ration books of Matthews out there on the wing The corner shop that sold us almost everything The farthing in the change, the sirens and the planes Puffing billies, shunting eras down the lane, down the lane. You know we'll soon be gone from here, year upon light year We'll take the stories with us there, the memories are dear. One of those days in England, mum was rustling up the grub And dad was off out propping up the pub One of those days in England that you just could not forget From the mists of secret morning to the golden red sunset. And though the time fast slips away, it's long enough to laugh and play Around the fireside making hay, dreaming of tomorrow, oh you know there's no today. Oh you know there's no today No, you know, today. |
|||
|
|||
Barbu
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30850 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
^ thanks for that.
Ages since my last bullin listen, looks like there'll be some Roy on rotation next week. Edited by Barbu - September 14 2018 at 18:54 |
|||
Squonk19
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2015 Location: Darlington, UK Status: Offline Points: 4776 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
^^ Your post also got me to listen to Roy's epic again after several years, along with the rest of the album. The second side is strong, but it never quite grabbed me as much as it should have done - although lyrically it is strong and getting to read them gives them more sense. I also like the evocative Englishness of the lyrics highlighted.
My personal album favourite remains Cherishing the Lonesome - which packs a lot in its sub-6 minute run time. |
|||
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
|
|||
Barbu
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30850 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||
Hey now now, hey now now
I'm driftin' back I'm driftin' back I'm driftin' back I'm driftin' back Gonna get me a hip hop haircut Gonna get a hip hop haircut Gonna get a hip hop haircut Hey now now, hey now now Gonna get me a hip hop haircut... |
|||
Post Reply | Page <1 1112131415 17> |
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |