What are the most beautiful lyrics you appreciate?

“Wish I knew what you were looking for, might have known what you would find.”

Damn, when I heard that, I thought that it would go perfectly at my funeral.

Never really heard the song when it came out back in the 80’s but they play it a lot on the 1st Wave station on Sirius and I truly listened to it once, and my goodness. 😢

Tomorrow never knows what it never knows to soon.

Well, there was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me, do ya? But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Halleluja

"Life's rushing by, like an old-movie backdrop...."

I believe the lyrics to Stardust, an old standard, are just exquisite. Pure Poetry.

"And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky the little stars climb Always reminding me that were apart You wander down the lane and far away Leaving me a song that will not die Love is now the stardust Of yesterday The music Of the years Gone by Sometimes I wonder why I spend The lonely nights Dreaming of a song. The melody haunts my reverie And I am once again with you. When our love was new, and each kiss an inspiration. But that was long ago, and now my consolation Is in the stardust of a song. Beside the garden wall, when stars are bright You are in my arms The nightingale tells his fairy tale Of paradise where roses grew. Though I dream in vain, in my heart you will remain My stardust melody The memory of loves refrain."

It's a translation of Brazilian Portuguese, but "Someone to Light up My Life" (Jobim):

Go on your way with the cloudless blue sky above

May all your days be a wonderful song of love

Open your arms and sing of all the hidden hopes you'll ever treasure

And live out your life in peace

Where shall I look for the love to replace you

Someone to light up my life

Someone with strange little ways

Eyes like a blue autumn haze

Someone with your laughing style

And a smile that I know will keep haunting me endlessly

Sometimes in stars or the swift flight of seabirds

I catch a moment of you

That's why I walk all alone

Searching for something unknown

Searching for something or someone to light up my life

"Summer Guest" by Ásgeir

You've made a shelter for my soul

If your language I could speak

I would weave a song for you of my own

Mairzy doats and dozy doats

And liddle lamzy divey

If you could read my mind love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old time movie About a ghost from a wishin' well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet You know that ghost is me And I will never be set free As long as I'm a ghost, you can see

If I could read your mind love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the drugstore sells When you reach the part where the heartaches Come the hero would be me Heroes often fail And you won't read that book again Because the ending's just too hard to take

I'd walk away like a movie star Who gets burned in a three way script Enter number two, a movie queen To play the scene of bringing All the good things out in me But for now love, let's be real

I never thought I could act this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back

If you could read my mind love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old time movie About a ghost from a wishing well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet, the story always ends If you read between the lines You'll know that I'm just trying to understand The feeling that you lack

I never thought I could feel this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back

When my life is through

And the angels ask me to recall

the thrill of them all

I shall tell them I remember you

Someone left a cake out in the rain

[quote]Someone left the cake out in the rain

Fixed it for you, r11.

Hello, you fool, I love you C'mon join the joyride

Pure poetry

Drowning

In a sea of love

Where everyone would love to drown

You move just a finger

Say the slightest word

Something's bound to linger

Be heard

R9, you might enjoy this.

I met you at JC Penney I think your name tag said "Jenny" I cold step to you with a fresh pack of gum Somehow I knew you were lookin' for some Like a fruit that's ripe for a pickin' I wouldn't do you like that Zankou Chicken Cause only you've got a thing That I just got to get with I just got to get with you And you know what we're gonna do I want to get with you And your sister I think her name's Debra I want to get with you And your sister I think her name's Debra I pick you up late at night after work I said "lady, step inside my Hyundai" I'm gonna take you up to Glendale Gonna take you for a real good meal Cause when our eyes did meet Girl you know I was packin' heat Ain't no use in wastin' no time gettin' to know each other You know the deal Cause only you got a thing That I just got to get with I want to get with you And your sister I think her name's Debra I want to get with you And your sister I think her name's Debra Lovely lady Girl you drive me crazy

I remember being in middle school and hearing the lyrics at the end of "Throwing It All Away" by Genesis and being haunted by them:

Someday you'll be sorry

Someday when you're free

Memories will remind you

That our love was meant to be

Late at night when you call my name

The only sound you'll hear

Is the sound of your voice calling

Calling out to me

So simple but so poignant; still gives me a twinge when I hear Phil Collins sing it

r18 when I was in fourth grade, I discovered the Invisible Touch album via cassette tape. I listened to it endlessly. It felt like my first exposure to "adult music." It's obviously not the greatest album of all time and certainly marks a decline in the quality of Genesis output; but it remains one of my favorite albums for nostalgia reasons.

A heeby deeby deeby deeby dee!

A heeby deeby deeby deeby doo!

The actress hasn't learned the lines, you'd like to hear / She's sad for her country / Sad to be defeated / By her own weak body /

Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west...

Overrated song and vague lyrics, but there is something about that particular lyric and the guitar in the background that just sends me to another place.

I'm the one I should love in this world

Shining me, precious soul of mine

I finally realized, so I love me

Not so perfect but so beautiful

I'm the one I should love

(It would be great if we listed the name of song & artist along with these lyrics)

She was always young at heart

Kinda dumb, and kinda smart

And I loved her so

And I surprised her with a puppy

Kept me up all Christmas Eve

Two years ago

And I'd give up forever to touch you

'Cause I know that you feel me somehow

You're the closest to Heaven that I'll ever be

And I don't wanna go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment

And all I can breathe is your life

And sooner or later, it's over

I just don't wanna miss you tonight

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming

Or the moment of truth in your lies

When everything feels like the movies

Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive

And I don't want the world to see me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

Or:

You scumbag, you maggot

You cheap lousy faggot

Happy Christmas your arse

I pray God it's our last

The boys of the NYPD choir

Still singing Galway Bay

And the bells are ringing out

For Christmas day

“And the license said

You had to stick around

Until I was dead

But if you’re tired

Of looking at my face

I guess I already am”

Water, fire, air and dirt

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

I like big butts and I cannot lie You other brothers can't deny That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist And a round thing in your face, you get sprung Wanna pull up tough 'cause you notice that butt was stuffed Deep in the jeans she's wearin' I'm hooked and I can't stop starin' Oh, baby, I wanna get with ya And take your picture My homeboys tried to warn me But that butt you got makes (Me-me so horny) Oh, Rump-o'-smooth-skin You say you wanna get in my Benz? Well, use me, use me 'cause you ain't that average groupie I've seen 'em dancin', to hell with romancin' She sweat, wet, got it goin' like a turbo 'Vette I'm tired of magazines sayin' flat butts are the thing Take the average black man and ask him that She gotta pack much back

When an early autumn walks the land and chills the breeze

And touches with her hand the summer trees,

Perhaps you'll understand what memories I own.

There's a dance pavilion in the rain, all shuttered down,

A winding country lane, all russet brown,

A frosty window pane shows me a town grown lonely.

That spring of ours that started so April-hearted

Seemed made for just a boy and girl.

I never dreamed, did you, any fall could come in view?

So early, early....

Darling, if you care, please, let me know--

I'll meet you anywhere, I miss you so.

Let's never have to share another early autumn.

Where did all those yesterdays go?

When you still believed love could really be like a Broadway show.

You were the star....

When did it close?

I don't know if I'd say they're the most beautiful, but I do find them poignant.

I hurt myself today

To see if I still feel

I focus on the pain

The only thing that's real

The needle tears a hole

The old familiar sting

Try to kill it all away

But I remember everything

What have I become?

My sweetest friend

Everyone I know goes away

In the end

And you could have it all

My empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

[quote](It would be great if we listed the name of song & artist along with these lyrics)

R24 - " Epiphany" by Jin.

The storm is breaking / Or so it seems / We're too young to reason / Too grown up to dream / Now spring is turning / Your face to mine / I can hear your laughter / I can see your smile

Mine, immaculate dream made breath and skin / I've been waiting for you / Signed with a home tattoo / "Happy birthday to you" was created for you

Marcie dresses warm its snowing

Takes a yellow cab uptown

Red is stop and green's for going

Sees a show and rides back down

Down along the Hudson River

Past the shipyards in the cold

Still no letter's been delivered

Still the winter days unfold

Like magazines

Fading in dusty grey attics and cellars

Make a dream

Dream back to summer and hear how

He tells her

Wait for me.

[quote](It would be great if we listed the name of song & artist along with these lyrics)

Must be new here.

Just posting the lyrics without song name or artists is the DL way.

Guess I wasn't the best one to ask Me myself with my face pressed Up against love's glass To see the shiny toy I've been hoping for The one I never can afford The wide world spins and spits turmoil And the nations toil for peace But the paws of fear upon your chest Only love can soothe that beast And my words are paper tigers No match for the predators of pain inside her I say love will come to you Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through Where there's now one there will be two I was born under the sign of cancer (love will come to you) Like brushing cloth I smooth the wrinkles for an answer (love will come) And I'm always closing my eyes and wishing I'm fine (I close my eyes and wish you fine) Even though I know I'm not this time (even though I know your not this time) And I say love will come to you Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through Where there's now one there will be two Dodging your memories a field of knives Always on the outside looking in on other's lives I say love will come to you Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through (I have offered up to you) Where there's now one there will be two And I wish her insight to battle love's blindness Strength from the milk of human kindness A safe place for all the pieces that scattered Learn to pretend there's more than love that matters

If you'll let me/I will keep you here inside the stars/I will love the sound of my sheets/For you have moved beneath them

Rickie Lee Jones

Days may not be fair, always

That’s when I’ll be there, always

Not for just a moment

Not for just a day

Not for just a year

But always

Some day, when I'm awfully low,

When the world is cold,

I will feel a glow just thinking of you,

And the way you look tonight.

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And it would be great if I were to marry a billionaire, but that won't happen either.

Oh, what's going on inside my pants, I can't explain (I) So bring your body over here, baby (come on) And let the freak daddy drive ya crazy (I like, yeah) I've got what you want so, baby, come and get it (I, come on) Come on, babe, I like you, yeah (I, I, I, I like)

Is OP ESL?

R36 - I just heard that song TODAY while I was cleaning my place. I've loved it since high school.

Laura Nyro should have written Broadway musicals. Lovely concise lyrics that convey their point.

Apparently she wrote this for her best friend's mother...

Fine:

“Under The Milky Way” The Church

R1.

Thank you, those who are telling us who sang/wrote 'em!

Love tried to welcome me

But my soul drew back

Guilty of lust and sin

Love tried to take me in

~Madonna, Love Tried to Welcome Me